Getting CoPilot to CoOperate!!

[nikpro]

I have had lots of problems with CoPilot since I purchased it 2 weeks ago but with the help of several members here I have now managed to get it working well on my XDAII - so here is what I did:

(1)The version I purchased was ...30 which by the postings on here is very 'buggy' and does not work well at all! Constant Lock-Ups and No POI's being announced. It appeared that rerouting or changing an option whilst CoPilot was running caused the programme to crash?

(2) I uninstalled everything and started from scratch

(3) Loaded software onto PC Only from CD-Roms and left Pocket PC out of Cradle whilst doing this.

(4) Installed speed camera database exactly as described on here and exported the Data to the C Drive of the PC (The only difference I made was I imported the cameras into the safety camera section rather than the custom section and used WAV FILES rather than Text to Speach)

(5) Connected the SD Card (256MB Toshiba) with no other apps on it via a card reader and transferred the files for CoPilot to the SD card and NOT VIA ACTIVESYNC. (Do not use SanDisk as they are sloooow!)

(6) Inserted SD card into XDAII and CoPilot install starts automatically. This made improvements to POI's but more importantly it stopped all Lock_ups......... IMHO Text to speach does not seem to be able to respond to numerous reroutes and causes the programme to crash.

(7) I noticed that POI's would be announced on an outbound journey but if you turned round and came back the same way it didn't re-announce the POI's - probably expected you to remember them and a probable bug??

(8) THE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL - snowy stated that he had just received some new discs and they were version ...48; he had version 30 before at had loads of hassle. I also read that someone had downloaded version 48 from the American Website so I tried it and BINGO - it works really well. The only slight problem being that it can't recognise roundabouts and in the driver saftey screen says 'At Circle Take second exit' it still shows the symbol of the roundabout perfectly.
If you have Text to Speech it will also say circle as it 'reads' whats being displayed but the WAV files still refer to it as a roundabout.


Obviously there is a UK version of this version on the way (Snowy has version 48 on CD-R ) we just need to get on ALK's case to post it on the Website

[gripp]

[nikpro]

Now the Bad News!!

Spent the day testing the American version of ...48 and it is worse than the very poor version 30 (Thought that was impossible).

The Options settings have a mind of their own and change frequently without any imput from user??

BY GOD COPILOT IS AWFULL - If you have version 3.5 don't upgrade it's miles (sorry about the pun) than version 5

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