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Redhotorange
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 4:18 pm    Post subject: POI Warning - Timeout Reply with quote

You may have already known this - When CP6 sends out a POI warning it takes 30 seconds to return to the navigation screen and this can be really annoying. I contacted ALK and they said this was how the cp6 was set up. But I found out a couple of days ago, this can be adjusted by modify the "preferences" file. This is how you do it. Locate the "preferences" file under programs/copilot. Copy the file to the desktop and open it with notepad. Under "Messenger/msgtimeout" change the default time (30) to whatever you like. Save the file and copy it back to your PDA.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Has this actually worked on your PDA?

I've just tried it and CP6 no longer runs at all
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nigel says "I've just tried it and CP6 no longer runs at all"

When you edited Preferences.cfg were you careful to use a simple text editor like Notepad? You may have introduced some ugly control characters if you used WordPad or MSWord. That would confuse CP on startup.

If so, you can probably find a clean copy of Preferences.cfg on the desktop, so you can start over. I doubt you have done any permanent harm except to corrupt this one file for the moment.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 12:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Editing with either notepad or wordpad often causes all the line breaks to disappear from the config files. If you re-edit the file you will see this. Either add in all the line breaks manually or use Word to do the editing. Either way the problem wont come back.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 8:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I tried this before seeing Nigels comments.

I did notice that the file size shrunk slightly but thought nothing of it.

When I tried to run CoPilot my a701 locked up and I ended up performing a hard reset Crying or Very sad

Be warned.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is good work by Redhotorange. I had raked through the very same file and come to the conclusion there was nothing there to be found. As suggested by KenS, I've edited the file with MS Word and it has done the trick.

Where Copilot is concerned, it is seldom possible to welcome good news such as this without some qualifying thoughts, and this is no exception. This topic was raised a long time ago, and a patch has since appeared that does not include a fix - which, as we now learn, would have taken all of 30 seconds (the equivalent of one speed camera's worth of delay). Yet, apparently, ALK are now advising, more or less, that that's the way it is and that's that.

It doesn't bode well for the other problems ever being fixed.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Further to the above, I did a detour to go past some speed cameras this morning (yes, I know, it's sad). This confirmed that Redhotorange's time-lag tweak works fine.

The other thing that it showed was that ALK have altered the speed camera display- assuming that the North American version wasn't like it in the first place. In v.6.0.1.22., the display shows a little picture of a car and a motor bike within a camera detector beam. This makes the story even more curious given that they appear completely to have to disregarded the time lag problem and other functional issues.

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had exactly the same problem as Nigel0 - I edited in Notepad and the file was reduced in size. When I replaced the original Preferences file with the modified one CoPilot wouldn't open. Fortunately I had kept a copy of the original, which I pasted into the folder and all was well again
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A hex dump of Preferences.cfg shows that it has an unusual 'end-of-line' sequence, geeks can see details below. Some editors may remove one control character per line since the extra character looks spurious. This would reduce file size by 135 bytes (typical file has 135 lines), and result in a CFG file that CP refuses to read.

If there are editors that use this end-of-line sequence, I don't know about them.

It is also possible that ActiveSync transforms the file during transfer, tyring to 'clean it up'. I don't know.

But still it should be harmless to replace "MsgTimeout"=30 with "MsgTimeout"=5 (or any desired number of seconds to display a camera warning), as long as you don't change anything else, and this should be safe to do using Notepad.exe. Of course it's best to keep a backup copy of Preferences.cfg in case CP won't start for any reason.

The other 13 .CFG files shipped with CP use the standard end-of-line sequence, easy to edit in any simple editor.

If your Preferences.cfg on the PPC is bad, you can replace it with the one on the desktop in:
C:\Program Files\CoPilot\PocketPC6\App


Reference:
Preferences.cfg 'end-of-line' sequence = CR,CR,LF (0x0d0d0a)
Normal, or 'Notepad' sequence = CR,LF (0x0d0a)
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 2:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The reduction in file size took place on my desktop, before I pasted it back inside CoPilot using ActiveSync.
I managed to edit it successfully using Word. (Wordpad also changed it in some way so that CoPilot would not start)
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

BMWBiker wrote:
Preferences.cfg 'end-of-line' sequence = CR,CR,LF (0x0d0d0a)
Normal, or 'Notepad' sequence = CR,LF (0x0d0a)

Linux systems use just a LF for line-end, and some Windows-based editors will automatically convert that to CR/LF. It looks like some editor or file conversion program has taken the LF of a CR/LF combination, and replaced that with CR/LF, ignoring the fact that a CR is already present.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Good work by Redhotorange. This has been a real pain where there are cameras close together. I contacted ALK when CP6 came out and they said it would be fixed in the first patch! Just looked at the corresponding CP5 file and I can't see a "msgtimeout" line there so it must have defaulted somehow to 5 seconds.

I wonder if this was going to be a menu-driven configurable POI display time in CP6 that somehow got "overlooked" in the release?

They wouldn't do that would they? Wink
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

When I used Word 2003, it ADDED lines - everything was double spaced! However I dont know if this will cause any problems.

Of all the editors I have tried (Notepad, Wordpad, Word 2003, and OpenOffice), only OpenOffice seemed to leave the file structure unaltered.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

PONDEROUS wrote:
The other thing that it showed was that ALK have altered the speed camera display- assuming that the North American version wasn't like it in the first place. In v.6.0.1.22., the display shows a little picture of a car and a motor bike within a camera detector beam. This makes the story even more curious given that they appear completely to have to disregarded the time lag problem and other functional issues.

Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes Rolling Eyes


Great work by redhotorange. I've noticed the revised display, but the camera description has turned to gobbledeegook, like this, or a complete blank where the description was before. It used to show something like "Gatso #1234@50".
The Demo has also changed from a trip near Wisbech to one around Brixton.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 9:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Update

Having rescued my preferences file from the original CP6 Mini SD card, I started to play around again.

This time, after copying the file to the desktop, I opened it in Word it prompted me to open in RTF format, which i did. Changed the warning to 10 seconds, copied it back, ran the CP6 demo and IT WORKS!

I reckon I can get it down to seven seconds in order for the TTS to recite my lengthened message (I replaced the " AT " bit with " in speed limit " - works fine, as the TTS now tells me something like "approaching GATSO1234 in speed limit 40" - much nicer)

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