Slow voice commands with navigator 5

[deckard2006]

Dear All

Forgive a newbie question please, but I have recently purchased my first GPS system and its the TomTom navigator 5 running on an iPaq 1710.

Maybe its a limitation in performance on my ipaq but sometimes when approaching road features (particualrly roundabouts) I find the voice synthesis is particularly slow in giving me directions -

in


300



yards



take the 2nd exit


You're almost on the roundabout before you know where you're supposed to be going! Anyone have similar experiences?


Cheers


Andrew

[Oldboy]

Is the map redraw jerky?

If so, have you enabled a lot of POI's?

Are you using V5 or V5.1?
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Richard

TT 910 V7.903: Europe Map v1045
TT Via 135 App 12.075: Europe Map v1120

[julianbarker]

Are you running any other applicatons? PPC does not by default close applications when you "close them" it just hides them and they can end up using a lot of memory. With the 1710 you really need to dedicate the whole processor to TT to get the best out of it.

Other things to try that made a big difference to me - limit the number of categories of POI warnings you have set. As well as the number of visible POIs, the number of POI categories that trigger warnings makes a difference. For example, my 1710 is fine with all the UK speed cameras set up as categories for Gatso, MObile, Temporary etc - if I use more POI categories to get the different speeds, the thing slows to a crawl even though the number of POIs is the same.

Lastly, defragmenting your memory card will make TT run much smoother - using a card reader, copy the files fro mthe card to a folder on a computer, then reform the card, and then copy the files back again.

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