Confused beginner 300T

[wildduck]

I've been using an old Aldi PDA satnav in the car with the safety camera database, and it's fine. Having got a second vehicle that is good enough to need navigation, I've bought a 300T, and installed the trial Garmin Cyclops (?) thing.
It shows speed cameras on the display, but seems to give no audible warnings. Switching on the bongs before direction announcements seems to make no difference, except make it even more annoying. I've updated everything I can, but it still seems pretty useless. Is there something basic I've missed, or simple instructions somewhere about setting it up?

Sorry if this is a really stupid question!

[wildduck]

Update, have just managed a trip out with my 300T and my son with his slightly older 360T, which has the GPSWorld database loaded alongside the Garmin one. When we have audio alerts enabled there are bongs before every announcement and buried in these are some double quieter bongs for the cameras. Turning off audible alerts seems to turn off all the bongs.

His seems more alert than mine. perhaps because of the 2 databases loaded, but we are both pretty depressed by the whole thing. To be warned about a camera, I'd have to be looking at the Garmin rather than the road. I can't believe these are that awful compared with my old Mio Aldi device, so we must surely not have something set correctly.

Any help or advice gratefully received.

[wildduck]

Continuing the sorry tale, we are just back from a 180 mile round trip to somewhere across Wales that didn't feature on the Garmin's maps, and involved in the last roads being called "road" on the screen, followed by some travel over non-existant-to-Garmin roads. So, unable to set a destination, we went with the Nuvi 300T set to just show us where we were. In this mode, it appeared to bong for fixed and mobile cameras.
For the return trip, we could enter a destination, and did this with the announcement (but not camera) bongs turned off. In this mode, it seemed to bong for mobile cameras, but not fixed ones. While driving, I couldn't read the warning messages at the top of the screen, and didn't think it safe to try.

I've read the stickies and seen the list of numbers and related bongs, and also downloaded Ash's software, and proved to myself that I can replace a bong with a highly compressed quote from Startrek or whatever. However, I haven't yet sussed out what bong is triggered by what camera/speed/event. I could, of course, replace every noise with the relevant audio file saying the number, and then drive through as many safety tax cameras as I could find. Is this necessary?

I'm still on the Garmin camera POI system rather than the GPSWorld one.

[PhilHornby]

[wildduck]

Thanks Phil, that's very helpful, along with the replies to the "Paid my £19" thread.

Having played with the Garmin Cyclops trial for another couple of days, I've given up on it, and subscribed to the PGPSW system, which in default mode seems streets ahead

I wonder whether the audio volume I have to run at - it's in an oldish diesel Discovery - was the reason that the Cyclops alerts seemed so erratic and inaudible? At least now I seem to be back to a sensible starting point.

Thanks again.

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