Two questions about Mio C510/710

rondun · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 17, 2006 Posts: 42

Dunno - it did it in the house and in the car.
It seems to do always do it when it has a gps signal. I have skylights throughout the house so once its locked on its pretty impossible to have no signal. I had to hide in a cupboard with tinfoil over it to try and make it work, and thats not exactly what i want
Is there no way to review a route from "B" to "C" when you have a gps signal at "A"?

tegel · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 16, 2006 Posts: 24

True, my way of doing it only seems to work when there is no GPS signal. If there is a signal, the mio first calculates the "b-c route", then calculates a new route taking your current position into consideration, deleting "b".

Strange. Must be a software bug. Will investigate more......

/M

evian02 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 12, 2006 Posts: 24

Hi all,

Yes, I think there is a software bug, and if I remember correctly it's already been reported to Mitac...

It works if you turn off autorouting from Settings-General Settings-Off-route Recalculation(Disabled).

Take care.

ravi · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 24, 2004 Posts: 119

OK guys, I ran across this about a 6 weeks ago and this is what you do do get rid of this "routing from B to C when you are at A" problem.

Just set 'Off Route Recalculation' (general settings - bottom line), to "ask first"!

This might seem like a strange thing to do but it actuall works well with it off.

Now when you deviate from a route, now it will ask you if you want to 'recalculate' or 'delete' the route or 'cancel' (here it will patiently wait for you to get back to the original route and just pick up with the navigation whenever and wherever you re-join the route. This is kinda cool as if you just dart over to a prtrol station or something, it doesn't go nuts and do a whole new route!

Now you should be able to do a route from B to C. Just make sure that you click 'cancel' when it asks you to recalculate though!!

Ravi

tegel · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 16, 2006 Posts: 24

Thanks, this works. Only thing that does not seem to work is the fast fly over, despite using the "hold menu button - trick".

/M

/M

ravi · Regular Visitor Joined: Aug 24, 2004 Posts: 119

Yeah, it does work!
Just press and hold the menu button BUT almost immediately press the flyover button and then let go of the menu button.
It's a little tricky but the timespace between pressing the menu button and pressing the flyover button is critical.

Try it, you'll get it!!

Ravi

tegel · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 16, 2006 Posts: 24

Tried it so many times, cannot get it to work.....hold menu button, press map, press route, press fly over, release menu button....slow fly over.

/M

evian02 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 12, 2006 Posts: 24

Hi all,

I think flyover best works when the auto re-route is disabled completely. You can disable it temporarily when you want to calculate between remote A and B locations... but remember to turn it back on when you're about to start your trip.

Take care.

rondun · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 17, 2006 Posts: 42

Thanks guys!
That was driving me crazy - but you can see it kinda makes sense when you think about it, but its still a PITA.
If you've planned a route from B to C and you're at A, with auto- route calculation on it thinks you've left B on your way to C and got lost at A. (even if thats 900 miles off a 25 mile route!)
So it does what it thinks is the right thing, and re-plans from A to C, which deletes point B. (phew! if any of that makes sense)
Maybe they should have a "route planning" option in the map section, which temporarily disables the auto route calculation (which I like).

About the fast fly over, though I'm with tegel on this one.
Tried it many many times, pressing & holdiing the hard menu button, going via map-route- flyover, all i get is the slow flyover
Also tried holding menu button with cockpit-menu-route icon thing- flyover, same result.
I can't physically do it any faster than I am currently either.

IanCurtis · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 17, 2006 Posts: 15

The menu button is the button on the right side of the device, not on the display. I took me some time to find that out and when I did "fast fly" worked just fine.
Ian

rronaldson · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 25, 2006 Posts: 102

Me neither Sad

Also quite often during a flyover I am finding it suddenly does a route recalculation, goes back to the beginning and the starts what looks like an actual trip rather than a simulation.

rondun · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 17, 2006 Posts: 42

Thanks Ian-

but that is the button I'm holding down - the one below the power button
just can't figure it out - unless I'm being really thick (which is very likely!)

Unless its something to do with firmware/software updates - I haven't connected up to the Mio system yet - have you done that? Also I have a C710, but I don't see that it should make any difference.

rronaldson · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 25, 2006 Posts: 102

Oops I picked the wrong Menu button as well.

rronaldson · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 25, 2006 Posts: 102

Got the Fast Flyover working now. Thanks.

rondun · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 17, 2006 Posts: 42

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