New Navman 530 Questions

ahoy999 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2006 Posts: 3

Thanks Simon - I'll give it a try.

ahoy999 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 14, 2006 Posts: 3

Yep, I found my local ones by doing as you said. Presumably I will now get an alert when approaching one (I have set visible and audio alerts to on). However, I thought that an Icon might appear, as with the standard POI icons for Garages etc. Is it possible to download something appropriate or should this have already happened?

Simon300 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 07, 2006 Posts: 12

Tim Buxton · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 5:36 pm Post subject:

Have you checked the 'Visibility' of the Custom POIs? You can set it, although I'm not sure if you can have different visibility settings for different categories.
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Stanley_Tweedle · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 207

I've just been playing with one of these in Halfords, running demo routes etc.
Generally I liked it, menus are a bit more fiddly than TT but with practice I think they would become easy enough.

Road numbers (A roads) seem to be announced as and when it feels like it but most of the time not. Motorways seemed to be always announced (with Junction numbers when exiting). It's a pitty they didn't improve on this feature, maybe we can hope for an update.

I would have liked to see an avoid road block type feature or an easy way to re-route via another road; these days it's so common to come up on a 12 mile tail back on a motorway.

Anyhow given the generally positive reports on here I think I'll buy one and hopefully be able to re-sell it for £200 or so if anything more suitable comes out. The selling points for me are: Headphone socket (walking/cycling use), easily pocketable, good battery life, full European maps.

Simon300 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 07, 2006 Posts: 12

I've had my iCN530 for a couple of weeks now. For a long time I've used the AA website and have not had a SatNav before so I can't say how it compares to other brands, but here are my observations:

* Junction announcements: when going straightahead you get announcements every 10 miles, possibly when 3-5 miles to go too. Then you get one announcement about a 30 seconds before you reach a junction (~1/2 mile on motorways, I suppose about 200m on smaller roads) and another announcement just as you approach the turn. I haven't noticed when it does/doesn't announce road numbers - not very often probably - but haven't missed them as the accuracy is (in my experience so far) very good.

* Screen: I don't think you'd want the screen any smaller than this, ideally it would be larger. It's bright but if you're wearing sunglasses you have to squint a bit.

* Volume: not bad. I tend to have it on full since I've usually got the radio on too. In a convertible you'd probably need an amplifier if you were on fast roads.

* I haven't missed the AC charger at all - you can charge via a USB lead from your PC if necessary although I've mainly charged it in the car.

* GPS fix: I can't get a GPS fix indoors (but have thick stone walls - Wifi is bad too). I've not had a problem in the car (which has a Ford heated front windscreen).

* 2D/3D views: interestingly I prefer the 2D view since it seems to show more information and it was closer to a map book, whereas my wife prefers 3D since it's always showing the "forward" direction. Make of that what you will! Wink

* I'd like to have long distances in miles, but then everything else in metres but you can't choose that.

* Full postcode search is great - you can't narrow down to individual houses within a postcode, which might have been nice, but this hasn't been a problem so far. Expected journey time seems a little less than the AA website and, in clear traffic was still a bit longer than actual (15mins in 2h). My father has a Garmin which apparently works out out your actual average speeds so is a bit more accurate. However the ETA on the Navman will adjust as you go along and seems near enough for non-professional use.

* Parking button: I live in a smallish town in Dorset and it didn't have any car parks shown (even though there are 4). I assume this is a limitation with the Tele Atlas data.

* Petrol stations: the button shows you all the close ones but if you're on a main road you don't necessarily know if they are ahead or behind you (at least I don't think so). Ideally you'd want to know the next petrol stations on your route in the direction that you're travelling. All my local ones are shown though (but it doesn't show the oil company name unlike the Garmin).

Overall I'm very pleased with it and I can't see going back to a map book for most journeys. :P

italiastar · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 31, 2005 Posts: 11

robertn · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 06, 2005 Posts: 564

Its the same as the iCN520 etc. the 99 is a limit of the search display. It can store thousands, but can only display 99 results at a time. Uless you type in something, the first 99 are displayed. All you need to do is start typing names, and the displayed search results will eventually drop to less than 99, the the number at the top will say something different. The same happens for all serached - roads, cities etc.

Really what they mean to display is More than 99, but they only have room for 99 in the box.

Because of this, it is not wise to name POIs with the same first few characetrs -i.e. "Speed Camera : abc123". Best to do something like "abd123:Speed camera"

Hope this helps eqase some confusion.

mikewall · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject:

it is showing the 99 closest camera's camera's thats enough they are all on theere, the m40 is a bit out of date but seeeing as they only changed about three weeks ago i can see why. very good gps system evan better not the TMC module is out! mine should arrive any day now, keep you all informed! Laughing

Mojo · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:37 am Post subject:

I got my icn 530 yesterday. Played with it all day, loaded it up with speed camera db and other POIs. My observations are:

Good points:

* Sound is better than on the icn 550 (louder), but UK female voice is a bit too bassy and deep for my liking (less feminine).

* Bright screen

* quick sat lock after long initial first startup

* can get signal inside house

Bad points:

* No left/right/up/down,OK buttons on unit - I found this quite useful on the icn 550.

* in 2D mode the OK button etc was useful to add a location as a favourite. It's now a bit more fiddly to do as you need to touch the screen etc? more hassle when driving. Is there an easier way?

BUG?

Also something strange. A possible BUG? I set the speed limit warning to 85 MPH, but when I was driving it kept bleeping at 55 MPH. Now 85 KPH is approx 55 MPH? When I tried saving the speed limit at 80 MPH and exited and went back into the menu it said the speed limit was set to 75 MPH?

Anyone have any ideas?
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Stanley_Tweedle · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 207

On the subject of 2D maps; is everyone else having the same problem as me?
When navigating a route the 2D map shows the current position until it finally disappears off the edge of the screen - then nothing; the map just freezes without scrolling to a new position.
Is this normal??

Tim Buxton · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:04 pm Post subject:

Try pressing the Esc key.
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Mojo · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:00 am Post subject:

It's in manual mode. As Tim says, pressing ESC sets it back to automatic mode.
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Stanley_Tweedle · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 207

Thanks Tim Buxton and Mojo; that worked ! :D

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