Navman Gatso Warning sound

Sunnygjg · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject:

Bandit,
How about posting the "name & address" you were given, then a few more of us could add our weight to the argument and then.....

Other than the warning noise though I'm still really happy with my 530 :D

bandit13 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 23, 2006 Posts: 4

As I have never met or spoken to this person at Navman I cannot publish his name and addess in a public forum.

I am happy to send a message containing their name and address to anyone who requests it.

Sunnygjg you have a message.

robertn · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 06, 2005 Posts: 564

have a look at the following forums
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=18370&highlight= and
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=16257&highlight=

- The same should work for the iCN530 - I don't have one so cant test it.
As for testing - turn the simualtor on and use "set start location" to make a route run past a GATSO

bandit13 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 23, 2006 Posts: 4

nortonbeak · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 11:01 am Post subject:

There are a number of threads in this forum regarding sounds/voices to replace the dreadful "ping".

As far as my limited experience has shown, those with ICN510's have successfully replaced the default.wav with something better, but those with ICN520's have not had the same fortune.

On a 520, once the new default.wav has sounded, all voice directions cease.

I hope that you can find success with the ICN530.

If anyone has a different experience with the 520 I would love to hear.
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geedee · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 23, 2005 Posts: 137

Returned my Navman 530 to Handtec and they gave me a full refund.

No quibble, they even gave the refund despite my forgetting to include the power cord (which I posted later)

Have reverted to my trusty ipaq 4700 until I find the right piece of kit.

Sunnygjg · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:30 pm Post subject:

In defence of the the rather pathetic ping re the Gatso warnings, I have to say that I have just returned from a week down in Somerset and I didn't miss a single camera, even when blasting round the M25 and down the M4. So I guess it does actually work ! Wink

chrisjm · Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:54 am Post subject:

Got a reply from Navman support (after 2 weeks). It says literally this:- "Unfourturntely we can not change the sound.".
Nuff said Sad

zzf00l · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 17, 2006 Posts: 84

I'm really pleased with my 530 but like others would like to add different comical voices/sounds/warnings/flashes etc. But it certainly wouldn't make me want to return it for a refund... just the kid in me wanting to play I guess..

Stanley_Tweedle · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 207

Warning don't try this unless you are happy to take the risk and you know what you are doing - it's more of a request for a developer than a confirmed solution at this stage

I'm looking into this and having had some success at changing the sound with the taskbar application some are installing to unlock the ICN5x0 series and I'm now wondering if it is simply possible to edit the registry on the 530 to point the default sound to another file.
If somebody with registry workshop could look if they have a key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
snd
Event
curr0

For example if I change the 4th item in that key to startup (instead of default) I get the much better warning sound, I can also change it to a custom created file.
I'm not sure if everyone will have the curr0 key (since I have already edited my sound configuration using the control panel on the 530) so I'm looking for confirmation; there are some other keys which hold defaults but I dare not edit them yet.
Also I'm unsure if any changes would just be overwritten by an unhacked 530.

Unhban · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 07, 2006 Posts: 33

No. On my 530, under:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
snd
Event

I don't have Curr0 key.

I have:

(Default)
.AllSounds
.DefaultSounds
.NoSounds
Scheme
EventCache
EventMask

I've modded my 530 so I can use the Windows CE side of it. So I wonder if I use CONTROL app. if I can make Curr0 key appear?

Stanley_Tweedle · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 207

Hi Unhban,
I just found that a cold reset does wipe overwrite the registry so I recreated the Curr0 key by editing the sounds in Control Panel first. I did try to edit the .DefaultSounds key but registry workshop complains that the file isn't allowed to contain blank lines and screws up the key, needing a cold reset to sort it out.
It seems that the taskbar - control panel route is the best option for people at the moment as it makes editing the sounds quite easy.

Unhban · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 07, 2006 Posts: 33

Just been into CE's CONTROL and edited the DEFAULT sound to EXCLAM. Indeed I do now have Curr0 key.

Opening that key by right-clicking and selecting MODIFY I see:

Asterisk

critical
exclam

exclam
infbeg
infend
infintr

question
Infbeg
Infend
Infintr
startup

So I'm just wondering what exactly I now edit to use a custom .wav, say SpeedCam.wav... is it just the EXCLAM lines?

Stanley_Tweedle · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 207

Hi, just the 3rd entry of text down (actually on the 4th line allowing for the blank) that is the pointer to the "Default" sound and in your case now reads exlam.

But there is no need to edit the registry, my purpose was to try and find a hack for those who didn't have access to Control Panel. Now I'm not sure there is any point because the registry key isn't there for these people.

If you simply copy your custom.wav into the windows folder and go back into control panel to reassign the default sound you should see you can now select your custom sound in the menu. So far I've only used wav files that were 11.026kHz mono, windows sound recorder can be used to convert if required, not sure if other bitrates will work or not

Even with all the usual hacks the sound returns to default on a cold restart and the custom file seems to be deleted also but this could be backed up to the storage card and restoring it manually will be easy enough for the odd time this happens.

Stanley_Tweedle · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 207

Correction 11.026 should read 11.025 !

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