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alan_sh
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 Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:25 pm Post subject: Motorways are a white line sometimes? |
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Whats the deal with the map view where a motorway will be a white line (with a very thin black or red surround) rather than a red line (if I have a planned route along it?)
This has happened twice to me now and I cannot work out why.
I have all the latest maps & software.
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Daggers
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| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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It could be an indication of a Traffic hold-up (delay or roadworks,etc).
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alan_sh
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| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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Possibly, but I didn't have my TMC cable plugged in today and I got that.
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mikealder
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| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Are you seeing this for a long period of time or does the device soon revert back to a normal display? The reason I ask is since 8,300 on the x20/ x30 and x40 devices we have seen brief occasions where the screen has either blanked or displayed inverted colours for some of the display. This usually only lasts for a few seconds at a time though - Mike |
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alan_sh
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| Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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It seems to remain there. It's just the motorway road colour. The rest of the display seems OK.
Let me play some more over the next few days and see if I can find out why.
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:17 am Post subject: |
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I've had this once.
From THIS POST...
| Quote: | While driving home , I realised the normal navigation screen was showing the road I was on in white rather then the normal red, so my first thought was that it had somehow swapped to an odd colour scheme.
But looking more closely, I realised it had the "crawling arrows" of TRAFFIC delays, and eventually I got to the end and it was showing the "Roadworks" symbol for an incident on the road.
OK... I'm used to this on other TomToms... BUT - this was on a ordinary Go720 with NO phone paired, it has never had a GPRS Traffic subscription and I've never owned an RDS-TMC aerial for it!
So where did my roadworks information come from! |
Looks like an odd bug..... |
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MrT
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:46 am Post subject: |
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I have seen traffic information on the Go530 that was not paired to a phone and did not have the TMC in at the time. I came down to it being two possibilites, it remembered the last traffic download or it downloaded the information when being used in "operate my go" in Home.
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AndyVaughan
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| Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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And I have seen a 920 with the traffic sidebar on it and it quite happily trying to download traffic info even though the only mobile phone it had been paired with was in Holland and the device was in the UK.
Not sure Bluetooth works very well over that range.
Only a hard reset would get rid of it. |
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