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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] WizeMan:
Destinator 6 / 7 Because there are great maps for my country :p
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] rjefferis:
Tom Tom is always a classic, nice and easy to use, and does the job well.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] elrooster:
Tom Tom da BEST
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] walkerkd:
I guidance
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] belmarduk:
I generally use I-GO 2006 Plus.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thomassster:
I feel like this topic was asked many times already and should be moved to Kaiser category forum, but I'll answer anyways. TOMTOM. Very simple and works great.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] fb401:
Same here. Easy to use for me, especially while driving. I also use Live Search to find restaurants, movie times, stores, etc around where I am at the time.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] wireless_one:
I thought I-Go was for Europe only. Do you have a link to any info. for a North America version?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mean-machine:
I've been testing a lot of programmes on Kaiser:

- TomTom 6.032

- Navigon 6.2

- Garmin Mobile XT

- Copilot Live 6

- Automapa 4.1.2

TomTom:

Seems to be an automatic choice for many. It is good as always, but I noticed a few glitches comparing to its operation on Hermes with BT GPS SirfStar III receiver. Namely, it runs fine and suddenly it freezes. After some 3 kilometres it starts operating again. It also goes crazy on roundabouts. If you know the area it's ok, but imagine driving on a motorway in a foreign country. Wrong exit on estacade and you face 50km+ of extra road.

Navigon:

On Hermes with Schaps ROM it wasn't even usable, runs a few seconds and then freezes for a couple of minutes in menu! I didn't get to checking the navigation aspect. On Kaiser it seems to run more smoothly than TomTom, however it takes about 30-40 seconds to start. Some post codes in the UK are missing and when typing in the postcode you don't see the street name as in TT and when you decide to navigate there you cannot add a number.

For me it's the best looking navigation software on the market at the moment with nicely rendered POI Icons. If you drive by BP, Texaco etc. you can see the proper icon with symbol of the petrol station. The same with car dealers. At the moment for me personally is the default software. Routes are very similar to those from Garmin.

Garmin Mobile XT:

Not as smooth as Navigon, about the same as TomTom, however I noticed that it seems as if it tried to catch up the actual position for most of the time. Sometimes when you have to turn left and almost immediately right, you do it, but it still shows your position before. And that sucks. However it's got a brilliant feature no other software has. Namely, Mapsource. You install software with maps on your PC. Then let's say you drive from London to Rimini in Italy. You don't need all Europe countries (as usually in Western Europe packs from other companies). You can ask the program to find a route (just as on the ppc) and then choose just those pieces of map that run along the route. They are not square, the maps are divided in some puzzle like pieces.

Copilot Live 6:

Software provided with Kaisers from e.g. T-Mobile UK. You can choose 1 region like UK and Ireland or the Alps for free. It works fine. Free camera updates. It runs pretty ok, but it looks so uncool. Graphics is no match for TT or Navigon. However it can really satisfy the needs of an average user.

Automapa:

Polish software available in two packs. Only Poland and Western/Central Europe. It seems to be the fastest of them all. Graphics is good. In Poland you don't have just numbers, if it's a housing estate or an area with blocks of flats you can see separate blocks with numbers on them. The small problem is that you cannot find addresses using post codes in the UK.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Mafuto007:
Tom Tom 6 - the best and easiest.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] belmarduk:
They do have up to date Canada & US maps. I do not have the link handy, but if your do a google seach, you will find the info.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jmckell:
Was using Tomtom 6

Just switched to iGO and happy with it.

Waiting for iGO 2008 to be released.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cbailey:
Garmin XT. Mans brand GPS.

Tom Tom not for men.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] plfinch:
I would be using Garmins XT if only they packaged it so I can use it on my SD card rather than theirs (yes, I am aware of the workarounds for this). Preference for Garmin is because I already own many Garmin devices and maps. I went to Newark last week and, rather than take one of my Garmins, I decided to give Nav4All a try. The interface is somewhat confusing until you get the hang of it but it did a respectable job of getting me around town. I will probably continue to use it when navigating at a flown-to destination and use my Garmins in my own vehicles.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] kevinniven:
IGO

I've playing around with Igo 2006 but i cant find the USA map. Seems like a great program! Please pm me with any info on usa maps.

Thanks!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] kevinniven:
link

http://www.i-go.com/en/products/iGO_2006_SD/screenshots.php
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] stmasi:
How 'bout this...

I am looking for a mapping software to install on my notebook and, with the help of GPSGate, use my TYTNII as the GPS receiver.

What would be the best recommendation for the mapping software for the notebook?

Thanx.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] RemE:
iGuidance come standard with PPC, PC and UMPC software versions in the box. I think this is the only company doing this. I still prefer this software over all others for my PPC's and Kaiser. The PC and UMPC versions work even better, I use the UMPC version on a small Fujitsu convertable tablet PC, excellent UI. The additional Plus is the user interface is the same on all three versions, just scaled for best viewing on each.

http://www.inavcorp.com/product/navigation/iguidance_software.php
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hslayer:
man all the gps programs are really expensive... what will be the best freeware gps program?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cproaudio:
Is there a free program that only shows the altatude, speed, heading, warns if you pass certain speed and distance/time log? I dont need the maps, just those information. I use tomtom for maps. iGuidance does all of it but it takes forever to load sometimes and it doesnt play well with other programs like TomTom or Google Maps.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] duncstar:
Dude try GPS Speed Sentry http://www.tchartdev.com/gps_ss.htm

GPS Tuner http://www.gpstuner.com

GPS Utilities http://www.efficasoft.com/gpsutilitiesppc.html

Im not sure which is best.. Still trying them out..
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] electricman:
How garmin mobile wm6 can add poi points? I have garmin poi loader but when i try load poi htc coming error message.

I chech memory card and there is not poi directory under garmin directory like symbian version have.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] reihen:
what about miomap does nobody use that program?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Jay2TheRescue:
TomTom's the best!

I'm running TomTom navigator 6 on my Tilt. Its very intuitive and easy to use. TomTom saved me last year. I was driving a friend's van up to Georgetown. Before leaving for town I stopped at a gas station, filled the tank and did a quick checkoff (Lights, oil, transmission, etc. I'm really paranoid about vehicles breaking down on me in DC.) I actually noted that it was amazing that the van was 7 years old and still had the original battery. I jinxed it right there. 8:00 pm we want to leave and guess what? The van won't start. We tried jump starting it and it didn't work. I whipped out my iPAQ and opened TomTom. I called several garages within a few miles. All were closed. I looked for other outlets to buy a battery. I said "Hey, there's a Kmart 3 miles from here!" I was told "Oh, its almost 10, they're probably closed." One push of a button and I was talking to them. You sell car batteries? Yes. How late are you open? 11:00. We quickly jumped in the other car (Luckily we took 2 cars) and had turn by turn directions through the city to Kmart. We bought the battery and were able to drive the van home. Without Tom Tom we would not have known where that Kmart was, or had to maybe rely on spotty directions from someone else.

I also play with Windows Live search and Google maps on occasion, but TomTom is my favorite.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jmckell:
I use iGO

I tried Tomtom but I find that the maps for where I live are out dated where the iGO maps are up to date.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] hrb:
GPS Favs

My favourites:

1. Destinator 7

2. iGo

Cheers

hrb
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jamesc77:
No directional result :(

I've just downloaded all three of these to try them out too... Not made up my mind which one's best yet, but all seem to be suffering from the same problem... The Longditude/Latitude coordinates seem to be working, as does the altimeter, but in terms of the 'compass' functionality, none of them seem to be playing :( Any ideas? I'm using the built in GPS device on my Vodafone v1615 and signal strength is good, picking up at least 8 satellites...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ronfin44:
1. Mio Maps

2. TomTom Navigator
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] laakness:
I find that TomTom gives me better directions but MioMap/iGo looks a ton better.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ronfin44:
I find they give equal directions, but Mio Maps is WAY better looking.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] laakness:
I guess it depends on where you are. MioMaps wanted me one time to get on the highway and go 2 miles to the next exit, u turn, and come back to take the same exit and get on a side street.

Tom Tom knew that was ridiculous and had me take the side street right from where I was.

I did that all from the same spot too which was even more troubling.

To each their own I guess.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ronfin44:
Oh, I know what ya mean. I've had both programs make some crazy choices. TomTom told me to make a U-Turn where it was illegal, and then get off at an exit that wasn't there yet. haha
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ewingr:
I have Tomtom, and like it pretty well so far. It too is pretty screwy sometimes. the other day, instead of saying to go straight, it said take a right turn, make a U turn, turn right. :eek:

I Googled and didn't find anything other than MIO Units, so I went to the Mio site, and I do not see anything about software that I can put on my tilt. Thier PDA stuff includes their own PDA.

Where do I need to go to find this?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ronfin44:
Look for it in those "certain" sites. :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Jay2TheRescue:
That's why you need to glance at the screen once in a while. The data they had on that road must have been that there was a median blocking straight travel. It can't be right 100% of the time...

-Jay
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] darrelld:
I'm still using the built in Telenav on my Tilt.

What I like:

The voice directions by street name, rarely do I have to take my eyes off the road to look at the GPS.

The search works well and integrates with the phone.

I can speak an address to get directions.

3D and 2D maps

Traffic updates

What I don't like:

$10.00 a month

I'm always ahead of where it says I am

No speed indicator

I want to get away from Telenav. Do any of these others have the features above that I like?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] SatScan:
Aloha

I use TomTom 6.xx it´s great with POIedit tool...

Before i get driving just update all speedcontrol ... "shut up and drive"....

http://www.poiedit.com/downloads.htm

Download PoiEdit for PC

Download PoiEdit for PPC

Just instal Poi for PC and make your setup poi's

Instal Poi for PPC, send config file to your PPC and start PoiEdit on your ppc and do a update.... when all is ok... it save you a lot off tickets...

One con point you can't update when Tomtom is running... so no background updates!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ofiaich:
Hi!

I use Tom Tom too! I have been searching for maps for Japan to use with my Kaiser.

Any ideas? I have searched but could not find programs like Garmin, Tom Tom etc

Ofiaich :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] str8spd2001:
iGuidance 4.0 is probably what your looking for. It says all street names and freeway so you never have to take eyes off the road. The only thing that's missing from your list is the speak an address but has all other function you request.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Nakel:
For Garmin...

http://uud.info/en/navi/

I've been using these maps near Tokyo and Osaka and they're very good. They are NOT good at Narita airport...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Nakel:
I have a question about voice prompts... I have Garmin XT and a Tilt. (Stock AT&T Rom.) Garmin used to give voice prompts during phone calls, but it no longer does. I've tried everything I could think of to get back the voice prompts during calls, even hard resetting and re-installing Garmin xt. I've googled and nothing.

Does anyone have any idea how to get the voice prompts on during calls? I suspect it's a setting in WM 6, only because I can't find any setting in Garmin xt that controls this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] unwired4:
I am a huge fan of copilot live 6... so much so that I have resisted upgrading to live 7, which is supposed to be visually better.

I have the program and the whole of the UK taking up 135mb on my 4gb sdhc card. I get free speed cam updates covering the whole of europe, it does all the usual nav things like postcode, address, pick on map, save tracks, live location updates to a website, free traffic alerts on route, it can do messaging etc but who needs that these days (although it would be perfect if you ran a fleet of delivery trucks).
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ofiaich:
Thanks Nakel very much!

I travel throughout Japan so Tokyo and Osaka are of limited use for me!

But thanks for your reply

Ofiaich
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Nakel:
No Worries!

The maps cover all of Japan, I've only used them near Tokyo and Osaka... Good luck!

You don't know how to turn on voice prompts during a call, do you? :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ofiaich:
Hi Nakel!

thanks for your reply !

I have not bought Garmin XT yet ! I will do some reading and searching, but is it easy to install to the Kaiser? I saw a comment on http://uud.info/en/navi/ about a Garmin Bluetooth GPS unit being necessary!

Sorry, I don't because have not installed anything as yet !

Ofiaich
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] NuShrike:
The maps at upupdown don't care what GPS you're using. It's only you need the latest (10/2007) Garmin Mobile XT that supports the internal GPS. Having the desktop counter-part MapSource pretty much kills my interest in any other map system; if only GMXT mapped routes as fast as TomTom.

I've used the uud maps to cover Tokyo and all of Hokkaido with much success, although it's mostly driving maps, or just geography maps. Either but not "and" because of some limitations, and is a bit out of date in some of the more remote areas such as Kushiro and such. Was not bad around Otaru, and not that important in the Tokyo area with the extensive train systems.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ofiaich:
NuShrike!

thanks ! I will mainly be in Gunma ken and Nagano ken!

I was wondering too about the stand alone units like the Nuvi, or a Tom Tom range. I guess there not popular in Japan because. most cards that I drive there, have great inbuilt systems.

I have heard about Sanyo Gorilla's so off to do a search now.

Thanks again!

Ofiaich
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mands1a:
So I have looked at all the recommended GPS progs but 97% include real time directions with maps. Can someone recommend a programme that will simply let me record routes as I travel them, and plot a route on google earth, upload it to my TyTN II then follow it? I live in Uganda so there aren't going to be any map databases of here.

Any recommendations appreciated,
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] its me:
I use Garmin

it looks nice
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] robertocarlo2oo7:
hello... for those who have tom tom.... can you tell me how you made it work.. cose i cant figure it out... i have an external antena but i want tu conect it to its own phone antena... can you tell guyz how you have done that... cheers.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ofiaich:
Hi robertocarlo2oo7,

a search revealed this

here

Loads of threads on T-T here in the Kaiser section.

Ofiaich
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] neok:
i live in the netherlands and found a tomtom map of only 50mb (or something) tomtom + the map + only one voice fittet on my tytnII before i got my 2gb micro sd card. i still have to put an all europe map on the card but tomtom just works for me
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Jay2TheRescue:
Most often it will discover the settings all on its own. If you must setup a Kaiser manually to use the built in GPS antenna for TomTom, open TomTom and tap the screen. Select "Change Preferences". Scroll through the pages of menus until you see "Show GPS Status" and click it. Click "Configure". Scroll through the options until you see "Other NMEA GPS Receiver", and select it. I always max out the baudrate, that way it will operate at the maximum the hardware will allow, and click done. Select "COM4:".

You should now be properly setup.

-Jay
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] millercentral:
I'm using CoPilot Live 7, and in general I like it. The UI / Map visuals are very nice, works very well with the internal GPS, but the three problems I have with it are that (a) the directions are often not very good, (b) you often can not enter a known good address (its filter system doesn't find it), and (c) there is no way to get the Turn By Turn announcements to go over the Bluetooth headset.

I thinking about Garmin Mobile XT, but are there any they that can give route instructions through a BT headset?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Nakel:
For any program you can route your prompts to bluetooth using the programs attached to the first post in this thread:

http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/sams...luetooth-headset.html?perpage=20&pagenumber=1

Enjoy!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] vwauditech:
Navigon MN6.2

Just installed Navigon 6.2 tonight and I love it. I have a Navigon 2100 in my wifes car and I loved the reality view and the beauty of the mapping. So I installed the software and just copied the .map file from the GPS unit and whoala. Now I have iNAV V4 and MN6. Everyting fits with my other stuff I already had on my card. I guess it's time for an 8GB card next. I guess I'll look online for one of those this week. If anyone needs help with Navigon

MN6 or iNAV let me know.

Kevin
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Pars65:
I use Ostia, usually pretty good, just like the others, I have seen it ask me to get off and then back on the highway.

You can link your destinations to your outlook contacts or save your own favorites.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] millercentral:
Yeah, but that is a hack.. You have to enable/disable it manually, and it doesn't interact well with Voice Command & Phone Calls. I'd like to see built-in support for BT redirection in a GPS client.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] rwcozens:
GPS - South Africa

I find that Navigon (not free) is excellent in SA. Have tried a few free programs but then again you get what you pay for.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] wilsonzone:
I use I-GO and am luvin it. The UI is good and easy to use, also the maps so far have be up to date.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] sdlopez83:
Has anyone used various GPS programs?

Has anyone tried various GPS software such as I-go. garmen. TOMTOM--That can give an opinion which is the best and why?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] NuShrike:
Garmin lets you record "tracks" and then upload them to MapSource on the PC. MapSource is sorta like Google Earth, and will let you map the track to Google Earth too. You can then make GPS POIs out of it and download the new "route" back to your TyTN II, and Garmin MXT, to use as a route.

Also, this place looks like it has Garmin maps for Uganda: http://www.garmap.co.za/Africa_Road_Atlas_Info_V2.asp

The nice thing about Garmin and being the top-dog is it's not impossible to make a free map for Garmin GPS unlike all the other mapping systems. This is how we have English maps of Japan, and Thailand, for instance.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] bapssystupr3m3:
does navigon have maps for canada?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dirlan2001:
Take a look here : http://www.visualgps.net/visualgpsce/default.htm

Cheers,

Dirk
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mmoonsamy:
Navigon 6 is excellent here in South Africa. the navigation is extremely accurate. I can get a GPS fix indoors in less than 30 secs and almost immediately outdoors. The GUI is also easy to use and looks great.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2 Real Life Review] XDA_RealLifeReview:
It's amazing how much we actually use our phones in a given day, especially when we watch "videos"! Rate this thread to express how many hours of screen-on time you can get on the Xiaomi Mi Max 2 before depleting the battery.

Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2 Real Life Review] yosef019:
Getting about 10:30 sot will update later
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2 Real Life Review] Richestricher:
I use the chinese version since it came out ~ 2 Months.

I mostly have been using the stable chinese MIUI rom with no tweaks whatsoever. With that I usually (I dont play any games) get a consistent 10h screen on, even with longer GPS usage (Didi, Ofo). With only wifi it goes up to 12-15 hours depending on usage.

I also tried MIUI9, but was let down. Like with my previous Max 1, for some reason the "call standby" uses quite some energy. This is usually not the case for stable ROMs.
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2 Real Life Review] razjaren:
Global Stable rom V8.5.6.0.(NDDMIED)

(I dont play any games )

[IMG="screen"]http://i.imgur.com/MVkIOI1.jpg[/IMG] [IMG="The device in idle state"]http://i.imgur.com/qlaU4GS.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG="Battery history"]http://i.imgur.com/Qqnophy.png[/IMG]
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2 Real Life Review] Explorer:
No heavy usage..on 4G all the time.. stock MIUI..
[Xiaomi Mi Max 2 Real Life Review] hektor2hektor2:
No gaming, 10-11h for 3 full days of usage (Wi-fi, Gps, 4g)

With gaming 6-7h for 3 full days of usage (Wi-fi, Gps, 4g)