765t - Leaving a motorway and joining a roundabout

mediaguycouk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 04, 2009 Posts: 34

I've swapped a TomTom One for a Garmin 765t. At first I thought that the routing was terrible but I have since found the magnificent map source program that lets me plan routes in immaculate detail beforehand.

My question is this...

On the tomtom I could leave a motorway with the words

"in 100 yards leave the motorway and then turn right on the roundabout"

even when the roundabout was some distance away. This would allow me to choose the far side lane when taking the exit.

The Garmin will say, however

"in 100 yards leave the motorway and then enter roundabout..."

and will not tell me where I need to go on the roundabout until I am 300 yards from it. This is obviously quite annoying.

Any idea if I can change this without begging Garmin to update the firmware?

Thanks

Graham

PaulB2005 · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:40 pm Post subject:

I'm afraid not. The screen should give you a clue but the audio promts are poor...

alan_sh · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 4:44 pm Post subject:

The lates version of the firmware on my Zumo does do this. So, I think Garmin are aware of this and may be sorting it out for the Nuvis as well (if someone would give me a Nuvi, I'd let you know...)

Alan

PhilHornby · Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:51 pm Post subject:

mediaguycouk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 04, 2009 Posts: 34

So is that loading web updater and forcing a download of the TTS british voices?

PaulB2005 · Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:03 am Post subject:

Yes.

I'll admit whilst i have downloaded them an installed them i haven't tested them yet, but i have no reason to doubt PhilHornby is correct.

mediaguycouk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 04, 2009 Posts: 34

Well I re-downloaded the voices and it didn't change it. I've put a support ticket in as well so we'll see if it works itself out.

hgm · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 25, 2005 Posts: 50

I have only had a Garmin about a month (765T) and thought that the directions had changed - so it's nice to have it confirmed. However it doesn't do it for every roundabout. I just tried in Simulation mode from my house and on the first direction it says "exit on slip road to roundabout and then enter roundabout" - no exit road. After having exited however it then says "continue 2 miles then enter roundabout and take 2nd exit". In general I think the instructions are better than TomTom.
I don't know if it's due to a voice update or not. But last week, I connected via Dashboard. Said there was an update available which I performed. It turned into quite a long one and appeared to download voices in every possible language. (It wasn't the 3.6 firmware update because I had already done that.)
(It's a pity that it doesn't restrict speed camera warnings to correct side of road though. We have about 4 cameras in a mile and that gives 8 warnings.)

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