REVIEW COMMENTS: CoPilot Live | Pocket PC 5 Europe

topgazza · Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2004 11:25 pm Post subject:

Thanks Dave. The other half has just read your response and gone "Oh......"
Half the battle to buy the Mitac Mio 168 & Co Pilot won!

I assume that software of this time would realise that going straight through London is the shortest but in no way the quickest. I know London but if I was travelling "up North" I would probably select shortest which could route me through the centre of some "nasty" citys. If in doubt go quickest would be the rule. Interested to see what the traffic option costs and if its better than my Traffic Master Freeway. Wife makes new point

Why don't they integrate Trafficmaster with Nav software?

Cost I tells her. Trafficmaster is expensive if you want more than Freeway. CoPilots offering should be a good compromise ...I hope.

Dave · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:47 am Post subject:

topgazza · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 11:39 am Post subject:

The idea of a totally integrated system with seamless traffic/Nav and nappy changing facilities is never going to happen in my view. Too mnay differing interests and commercial drivers. We might get close and the thought of Trafficmaster & say Co pilot in a fully integrated system is of course technically possible but with RDS providing some alternative if flaky help the cost, in my view, would be prohibative over its worth. After all no one really like subscription based charging. You want to pays your money and be done with it. At least I do with products like this.

No, the Co Pilot/AA approach might well be a decent compromise and I will be placing my order with Evesham today.

Thanks again Dave for a great review.

gmusser · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 29, 2004 Posts: 2

Has anyone else had trouble installing CoPilot Live 5? I've run into problems with both the PocketPC and desktop install.

For the former, I kept getting an out-of-memory error even though the SD card to which I was installing had well over 200MB of free space. I was able to solve this by installing first to main memory, then re-installing to the card. Goodness knows why that worked.

But I still haven't been able to get the desktop install to work. The problem occurs right at the very end of the process, where I get a "vcf132.ocx failed to register" error. I'm running Win98 second edition.

George

Dave · Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 7:37 am Post subject:

I would give ALK a call because for some reason it's not registering the OCX. I don't know why it's doing this, but you may already have this OCX installed from another program and that's locking it open.

In theory you could throw open a dos box and type "regsvr32 vcf132.ocx /u"

If it unregisters successfully, then try re-installing again. However like I said I'm not sure what vcf132.ocx is and this might cause you other problems by doing so and overwriting it. If you do a search on Google you're not alone, a lot of people seem to have the same problem registering vcf132.ocx in many different applications.

gmusser · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 29, 2004 Posts: 2

Alas, when I run regsvr32 manually, I get a LoadLibrary ("vcf132.ocx") failed error. I tried downloading other copies of vcf132.ocx off the net; regsvr32 registers them, but then when I run CoPilot, it gives me a TF1Book license invalid message.

George

Dave · Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2004 8:08 pm Post subject:

Ok, if you're getting that error it's because some program is using that OCX file and you need to exit the application first. unfortunately I haven't looked at any developer DLL tools since Win31 days, but there should be some out there that tell you which programs are using which OCX files.

Personally I would give ALK a call come Tuesday and they may have a quick fix.

johnbarnes

Just a quibble with the review. Only two voice options are available in the UK/Europe software as released. These are:

Male TTS
Female WAV

I have now been using CoPilot Live for just over a week and find it a step up in ease of use and functionality compared to Navman SmartST version 2.

I was a little surprised to find that CoPilot does not give "take the nth exit" instructions at all full-size roundabouts, indeed I have come across cases where there is no voice guidance at all given at a roundabout. Has anyone else had the same problem? I have reported a case to ALK but until I see their reply I am not sure whether this is a bug or a feature.

John

xantia · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:02 pm Post subject:

Have just been looking at CoPilot again with a view to using it for a trip to Holland, unless I am missing something CoPilot does not know about Eurotunnel. ??

Mike

xantia · Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 4:15 pm Post subject:

Sorry about that, its listed under Channel Tunnel.

Dave

Ted, I have created a special topic for your posts as this is cluttering up the review thread and really is best to be suited and addressed in it's own thread for others to read.

Problems with CoPilot Live - Returning for refund

The thread can be read here.

redrocket · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 18, 2005 Posts: 1

:D Just discovered Pocket GPS World today and as a PDA GOS novice it's just what I've been looking for. I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post this question but it's as near as I can get without spending days looking through the whole site !!!

I've been contemplating CoPilot 5 on a Fujitsu Loox 720 after I doscovered Navman said that they don't support the 720.

My options are either finding another Bluetooth GPS receiver or using a CF receiver.

So, the main question, If you use a CF receiver what does it typically do to the PDA battery life ?

Some, but not all of the use I plan for the PDA will be walking or cycling and I still need a GPS receiver for Memory Map. A CF receiver is a nice compact solution but if it kills the PDA battery life then that's a problem.

The other option is a Bluetooth receiver with eg. AAA batteries like the Navman 4420 but I've not seen anyone other than Navman doing one yet and I am not inclined to go with Navman when their web site registers the incompatibility mentioned earlier.

Any comments welcome

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