CoPilot for iPhone hits the UK Appstore

twotonemark · Regular Visitor Joined: Jun 10, 2004 Posts: 85

Real world test today 186 miles from west midlands to gatwick. Recalculated while on motorway a few times and was going well until near M25 junction fr M40 and lost signal for rest of the trip.

I also was running my GO720 and strangely they both show same number of miles to destination but Copilot arrival time was 25 mins later.

I'll put my hands up and say my iPhone was in the cup holder slightly under the stereo/dash. But it was fine for most of the journey. Any thoughts ?

Brodit passive (adjustable sides) in the post but I don't think I can retire the GO720 based on this mornings bad ending. Reminded me of my dell Axim and BT gps receiver losing signal.....that's going back a few years!
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sooteee · Lifetime Member Joined: Nov 29, 2006 Posts: 83

Anyone tried using the Live services yet? Specifically to reply to a received message?

I can log in to the site, track myself, send a message (with response options)to my iPhone, receive the message on said iPhone and reply by pressing one of the pre defined options and all works well.

If however I chose to ignore one of the pre defined options and just want to 'Reply' (with some words for instance) a screen appears with a keyboard but no text appears when typing and I can't get back out of the screen without closing the app.

Will someone else try it and see if it works for them please?

Log in using your CoPilot ID here: https://live.alk.com/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fDefault.aspx and see if it works.

Thanx

S

zebsogo · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:37 pm Post subject:

I Have tried this before but thought i would give it a second try as requested.

I Still get the message "Log in with your existing CoPilot Live account
Invalid CoPilot ID or Password" I entered the email address and password that i used when i installed CP for the first time on my iphone but it does not recognize theses details at the website
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epic_monkey · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 10, 2009 Posts: 9

xpower180 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 13, 2006 Posts: 1

Hi all,

I have been using Navigon since it was first released, and bought CoPilot recently, due to good reviews and a low,low price.

My experiences with both apps in live situations have shown that, although CoPilot does load much faster than Navigon, it does so at cost of reliable GPS Lock.
I can load CoPilot quickly and start a route, but find the speed is way off, and the maps aren't syncing with passing the actual road junctions.
After a couple of minutes CoPilot seems to 'catch up' with itself and is much more accurate.

I am using my iphone in a new Fiesta, with a Ford sync/charge cable. I have found that with regard to the screen-dimming that others have mentioned, this can happen if you use the vehicle's controls to control the music ie change tracks. The dimming (in my case) is caused by slight incompatibility with the dock cable.
If I start my iphone music before I launch either Nav app, the screen will stay bright (tested with both apps). An easy compromise is to select shuffle for your music first off.

Having used both apps mentioned here on several journeys, I have to say both do the job well, but my preference still lies with Navigon - just my personal opinion...

Darren · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject:

No such issues witnessed here. Still ironing out some routing oddities but lock has been quick, reliable and faultless on CP with my 3GS.
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Redtel · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 09, 2009 Posts: 21

mikealder · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject:

I have had some issues with poor GPS accuracy when I had the iPhone (3G) located low down on the dash next to the stereo unit, once I moved it up to the top of the dash its been fine although if your car has heat refletive glass (Athermic coating) then it will struggle with reception - Mike

Redtel · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 09, 2009 Posts: 21

Thanks Mike

I did try that but I'm fairly sure it's an iPhone GPS problem because I've had issues with it not getting a lock even when I've been out in the open.

Thinking of doing an iPhone restore to see if it helps.

mikealder · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:11 pm Post subject:

The other rather basic thing I should have mentioned earlier though, make sure you have a valid GPS position fix BEFORE you move off, otherwise the device will struggle to catch up - Mike

Redtel · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 09, 2009 Posts: 21

twotonemark · Regular Visitor Joined: Jun 10, 2004 Posts: 85

Drove back from Gatwick today to West Midlands and noticed it jumped on to a side road while I was on a motorway and eventually jumped back.

Also everytime I stopped in traffic my position on the map changed from the red triangle to the red circle and when I moved again it took a little while for it to realise and change back to the triangle and start to move on the map.

My brodit mount has arrived so I'll get that fitted tomorrow and try it out in that position....high on dashboard to the left of steering wheel. Although don't have any long journeys planned for remainder of week.

Hopefully Copilot can make some noticeable improvement in GPS performance in their first update.
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gloaming · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 27, 2004 Posts: 2

It could be weeks before TomTom sort their act out so I couldn't resist any longer and have now purchased this.

However I am having problems installing it. I downloaded it on my PC and can see it sitting in my Applications section of my itunes library. However when I attempt to sync it to my iphone it attempts to install and then I get the error message "unknown error occurred (0xE8000050)".

Does anyone have any idea what is wrong and how I can get round this please?

If I download it again via the phone will I get charged a second time for it?

Thanks in advance

TELREA · Lifetime Member Joined: Feb 24, 2007 Posts: 24

epic_monkey · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 10, 2009 Posts: 9

Hey,
I sat all weekend trying to get the app to install and run successfully. Must have downloaded it atleast 12 times.
Eventually after deleting it from iTunes & phone then did a restore & then downloaded it again over wifi it eventually worked.

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