Advanced Routing options

KenS · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 73

Some things to be careful of when creating your own profiles on PPC using the Advanced option.
Unlike the desktop version the PPC does not differentiate between urban and non-urban roads. When you change settings on the PPC they new speeds are applied to both urban and non-urban equally. This will lead to strange journey time estimates.
Secondly, there is a bug which causes the "local roads" speed setting to be set to 15mph even if you nominate 10mph on the screen.
Thirdly. a reminder that even though the road type says "dual carriageway" it is really "A roads" whether dual or single carriageway. So set sets accordingly.
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alix776 · Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 5:24 pm Post subject:

using a custom routing set on smartphone seams to work ok it holds the speeds and settings fine for me seams strange that the ppc version should behave that way when smart phone holds the settings when youve set the speeds and set up the profile try exiting and then restarting cp6
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KenS · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 73

I'm going by what I see in the file that holds the custom settings and it does not change after restarting. On screen it says 10mph but the value in the file says 0F (hex) which even without a hex calculator I know is 15 mph. All the other road types have the correct hex value according to what is displayed on the screen.
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Copilot Live 6.0.0.68

H_O_D · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 13, 2006 Posts: 12

I'm running CoPilot 6 on an i-mate K-JAM (AKA MDA-Vario) and am having problems with advanced routing.

Basically I've managed to create 4 separate profiles but ALL of them still show as the default settings. Even changing just one item (like avoid toll roads) and pressing OK, simply goes back to the main page with the setting unchanged. What am I doing wrong? All I really want to do is tailor a setting to give more bias towards motorways and dual carriageways than A roads.

H E L P ! Embarassed

TrevorFowler · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject:

H_O_D

I used to have a similar problem. I run CP6 on an iPAQ H3970 and Windows 2003.

I also had the ETA problem described elsewhere on this forum where the ETA was calculated assuming a road speed of 1mph for all road types.
Fixing that problem involved deleting files and letting the CP6 re-create them. It also seemed to fix the problem where advanced preferences were not retained. So, I would give that a try (see other threads for details).

However, I am failing to find that defining and invoking different profiles is making any difference to the calculated route and the estimated journey times. In addition to my two realistic profiles (car and truck), I have also experimented with profiles that use the top and bottom speeds and one that strongly avoids fast roads. All give the same result, both in journey time and the selection of roads to use.

BTW, I have noticed that the horrible ABC "fat finger" keyboard has now been added to to the list of input options for the PPC. I would like CP6 to use the standard one, and have got hold of a pocket PC registry editor in the hope that I can find out whether there is any way to "disable" the ABC keyboard - even if it means deleting (or renaming) a .DLL file or something.

Trevor

H_O_D · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 13, 2006 Posts: 12

I've been told today that there is a known issue with Copilot 6 and the saving of advanced routing profiles. However there is a patch due to fix this.

The fact that I'm probably taking my whole setup (handset/GPS etc) BACK to T-mobile after they have CONTINUOUSLY failed to get me a working SIM/contract/handset over the past week and a half is another story!

Exasperated? ME? ;)

A636 · Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2006 6:31 am Post subject:

There is a bug with CP6, just my luck, and KenS gives a work around in his post, that deletes 2 files in the save folder and fixes it, see
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=33183&start=0

But the Copilot help line told me to delete the whole SAVE folder on the SD card. /copilot/save
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