Route 66 Chicago 6000 Questions

mj74 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 7

Hi there,

I've recently bought a Chicago 6000 and think it's great overall but have a few questions:
1: Is it possible to browse your planned route ?
2: I've run the speed cam update from the R66 website but am unsure if it's worked as I've not had chance to drive anywhere since - are the speed cams referred to as 'Section speed control' POI's?
3: Is there a postcode search add-on available?
4: Has anyone changed the alerts to voices/new sounds successfully?
5: Apparently the unit will navigate to contacts - do I have to enter them into the unit or should it sync from Outlook?

Any helpgreatly appreciated.
Thanks, Matt.

mj74 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 7

Sorry, also forgot to ask if there is a newer Navteq map available than the Q2 2006 that's pre-installed.

BTW, I have emailed cust services with these questions but not had a reply.

Thanks
Matt.

jonesy_ni · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 14

jonesy_ni · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 14

Oh, and Q2 2006 as far as i know is most recent for this device, if you ever plan to travel to Northern Ireland/Ireland it works brilliantly.

jonesy_ni · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 14

Speed camera instructions Here

mikealder · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:57 pm Post subject:

One other thing to add is the downloads page for voice warnings which the site recently introduced (thanks Andy P2002).

It contains a collection of spoken alerts in the required ogg file format, whilst it says it is for TomTom products these files can also be used on the Route 66 devices - see Here for more details - Mike

mj74 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 7

Thankyou both for your replies.
I have now added some voices to my camera POI's.
I have downloaded the speed camera updater from the Route 66 website and run it whilst the Chicago is connected to my pc via activesync. According to the instructions it is that simple so I'll try it today and see. The only confusing part is that in my POI list, there is a 'Section Speed Control, speed xx' list - I'm assuming these are speed cameras??

Also, has anyone had problems registering their PND on the website. I'm asked for a product key but only have a device ID.

Many thanks

Matt.

mj74 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 7

Oh yeah, great news about the postcode search too! The only problem is, it doesn't seem to confirm the address once the postcode is entered. I found this feature really useful on my TomTom as sometimes the postcode may not match the street according to ther Royal Mail database, which I believe is what most use..

mikealder · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:43 pm Post subject:

Matt - I don't know what the Route 66 cameras appear as in the software as I only use the database from this site on my units - and the Route 66 I use is PDA based, perhaps one of the other site members with the same hardware could assist - Mike

mj74 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 7

Thanks for your reply Mike. I've found out that speed cameras are referred to as spped control, speed xx. Updated the camera database from route 66 website but after 1 planned route the PND seems to have deleted all my alarms and no longer alerts me to cameras!

Very annoying thing happened today as well - I planned my route by postcode but the chicago took me to completely the wrong place (the pnd postcode database must have errors in it as the postcode was correct). This re-iterates the importance of showing the address of the postcode you navigate to, which the chicago doesn't..

I've also found thay the routes planned by the chicago are not as good as those planned by tomtom 5 on my pocket pc. I'll give it one more chance and then it may be back to halfords to exchange for a tomtom!

Regards
Matt.

mikealder · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:42 am Post subject:

Matt, Please have a quick read of This Page which shows how to get the Route 66 software to display the planned route - note it was on the PDA version of the software, try it on your hardware though and let us know. - Mike

mj74 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 7

Thanks Mike, that's the way I'm browsing the route now. Still not as clear as the TT browse by text etc though.

Another thing I noticed today and yesterday is that the chicago was constantly losing the GPS signal and took around half an hour each time to lock again. Clear skies yesterday as well. I don't think I have a heat reflective windscreen but I am going to check with Saab. So many problems in so little time!!

sk8funk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 09, 2006 Posts: 6

mj74 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 18, 2007 Posts: 7

Had so many problems with signal & software updates not working that I took it back and exchanged it for new TT1. No such problems now.

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