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tedkay
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 Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:57 pm Post subject: TomTom 950 LIVE - WHERE'S MY GPS STATUS INDICATOR GONE? |
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| Just got my 950 LIVE (ordered 4pm yesterday from Amazon - arrived at 8am today !) I've been having a little play with it and the GPS status indicator is missing from the status bar. I haven't been able to find any option in the settings to get it back - please don't tell me that they have removed this very important info from the options on the 950 !!! |
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tedkay
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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UH OH - just got off the phone from TT tech - they have removed this option for all the x50's (even though the TT website product page for the 950 shows a pic of the 950 with the satellites staus showing in the status bar !)
So now you can't see at a glance how good a satellite fix you have - and it takes 5 stabs at the screen to get that info from the Status & Information page ! For Gods sake what's the matter with those idiots at TT - have they completely lost sight of the basics ? I reckon the most important bit of info for any SatNav is how good a signal it's getting....
Now I have to decide whether to keep it or send it back - shouldn't have any prob getting a refund when the pic on the TT website is clearly misleading !! |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Can't wait until Navcore 9 is rolled out to the other devices 
What else have they removed/hidden/forgotten about/decided is no longer useful??? |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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| tedkay wrote: | | I reckon the most important bit of info for any SatNav is how good a signal it's getting.... |
The average user, however, would be happy to know if they have a signal or not - how strong it is doesn't really matter as it will snap to the nearest road anyway. Does the screen still go grey-scale when the signal is lost?
The most important thing for me (and which they are still lacking) is having an up-to-date map. They could even get the users to send in corrections for them to incorporate into new maps. Oh!  
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tedkay
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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| GerryC wrote: |
The average user, however, would be happy to know if they have a signal or not - how strong it is doesn't really matter as it will snap to the nearest road anyway. Does the screen still go grey-scale when the signal is lost?
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I think you may be making assumptions there - the reaction of the people in my office who all use TT's (because we provide 'em!) was dismay that the status bar indicator has gone. I always like to be able to see at a glance how good a signal I am getting.... it's kinda reassuring.
I don't know if the screen goes grey - I've been hiding the damn thing under my desk and wrapping it up in a jacket but it still gets a signal !! |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| tedkay wrote: | | I don't know if the screen goes grey - I've been hiding the damn thing under my desk and wrapping it up in a jacket but it still gets a signal !! |
The screen does indeed go grey if you lose the GPS signal, the remainder of your post I quoted kind of tells you why the GPS status indicator isn't really needed. De-cluttering the display has allowed some of the other items to be easier to pick out by making larger font size - Mike |
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tedkay
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | The screen does indeed go grey if you lose the GPS signal, the remainder of your post I quoted kind of tells you why the GPS status indicator isn't really needed. De-cluttering the display has allowed some of the other items to be easier to pick out by making larger font size - Mike |
..... in your opinion !
No doubt time will tell if others will miss the indicator in the status bar or not...
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| tedkay wrote: | | Quote: | | The screen does indeed go grey if you lose the GPS signal, the remainder of your post I quoted kind of tells you why the GPS status indicator isn't really needed. De-cluttering the display has allowed some of the other items to be easier to pick out by making larger font size - Mike |
..... in your opinion !
No doubt time will tell if others will miss the indicator in the status bar or not... |
It's a bit like having a red LED on the front of the telly, so that you know that it's getting power, while you're watching it!!
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GerryC
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| tedkay wrote: | | No doubt time will tell if others will miss the indicator in the status bar or not... |
My opinion is that I don't think there will be as much backlash against this as there was against the smaller compass / loss of "direction indicator" function. 
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| GerryC wrote: | | They could even get the users to send in corrections for them to incorporate into new maps. |
Omigod what a brill idea - I wish I'd thought of that!! Just imagine, millions of TT users all sending in map corrections. A real winner. And they'd get their roads surveyed for free. No brainer. Just need to think of some way to do it - maybe a button on screen? Then an upload facility? I'm off to get my programming hat on.
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Don't bother Dennis. TT have half done it already (it appears), they just need to get it fully working now  |
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| Posted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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| M8TJT wrote: | | Don't bother Dennis. TT have half done it already (it appears), they just need to get it fully working now |
Damn! I'll just have to go back to my previous hair-brained idea of setting up some sort of system for real time warnings of traffic jams - rather more ambitious than my half-brained ideas of setting up the TT as a hands free bluetooth phone or with computer voices doing Text to Speech instructions and stuff. I suppose somebody's already come up with a database of speed camera locations? 
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 8:10 am Post subject: |
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What happened to the EPS indicator then, the satellite bars used to turn into the EPS symbol when signal was lost?
I must admit that I no longer use the satellite bars, I used to when I had the pre SIRF chipsets, but nowdays I no longer need to no if the signal strength as there is always sufficient (except when underground).
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:04 am Post subject: |
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| MrT wrote: | | What happened to the EPS indicator then, the satellite bars used to turn into the EPS symbol when signal was lost? |
Look to the lower left and you can see the EPT symbol:
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| Posted: Wed Nov 11, 2009 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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Mike,
I think that screenshot is fake done in Photoshop. It must be, it is showing LIVE traffic incidents!
Anyway, if you use the Greys map colour scheme how do you know you have lost a satellite signal?????
It would be nice to have the option of turning it on or off in the status bar options??
Having never seen Navcore 9 running I can't comment if that option is present or not. |
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