Messin with iGO

Tony1970 · February 23, 2012

Hey guys.....your all pros by now.....

So was wondering if anyones encountered this.....

Its about the map always starting up in night mode

And yes I did this on my backup sd card

I removed what Walt said to in the branding zip file....

Thing still starts up the same way....its weird

if you look at the startup of the primo....its in day mode

when you open the map screen the info boxes are white, thats day mode

but the map is black????

anyone see this problem?

T

CPD1670 · February 23, 2012

You can change the default night mode in the Sys.txt file in the root directory to:

auto_nightmode=0. As to the info boxes my experience is that they are tied into the day/night sensor of the OGM-1 . The map is tied into the GPS signal and the time is calculated from that. I have seen where it can take up to 15 minutes for the map to change color when in auto mode yet the info boxes seem to follow the OGM. I have noticed the GPS side of iGO seems to be it's weakness, the altitude seldom works, the GPS screen seldom shows info and the tracking seems to be off by as much as 20 ft at times. I have even relocated my antenna in an effort to improve the signal with no avail. In reading some of the Forums this seems to be a common complaint.

MikeNH · February 24, 2012

Mine must be the only one that doesn't do that. If it's daytime it starts in day mode and at night it starts in night mode. It's been pretty flawless up until this morning. It suddenly got very laggy- delayed volume changes, station changes, the "volume" text would stay up and not fade away like normal and so on. Turned the truck off and back on to make it reboot and all is well now.

Does anyone know how to make it reboot without turning the truck off?

Tony1970 · February 24, 2012

Mine must be the only one that doesn't do that. If it's daytime it starts in day mode and at night it starts in night mode. It's been pretty flawless up until this morning. It suddenly got very laggy- delayed volume changes, station changes, the "volume" text would stay up and not fade away like normal and so on. Turned the truck off and back on to make it reboot and all is well now.

Does anyone know how to make it reboot without turning the truck off?

hey mike........theres a little button by the map slot...reset with a paper clip

yea i know what u mean.....took the enclave 4 a spin tonight......wanted to test the igo

even though i still love my ogm1....tonight it surprised me

i dont know if its because the unit mabe dosnt have enough ram 4 the primo

but ,, i plugged in a route right across the city of toronto

and i had my ipod plugged in and was listening to it.....i was on the map screen...and every time i tracked \\

up or down......i had major lags same with volume....had to push the steering wheel controls.several times b4 it would respond....

somehow i dont think igo and ipod mesh well together

it never did that with the navmate should i put the navmate back in??? ahhhhhhhh

cpd 1670.....im gonna read your post better later.........

but i had some issues with the gps diagnostics.....sometimes it says 0 satalites buy shows accuracy high???

whats up with that??

and yes ...on my test run....while ipod was playing....the directions....were some times muffled sometimes in audable and sometimes the volume went up and down while amy was talking ( gee i wonder what she looks like )

and no speed limit info showed....im in canada...so mabe the mapping data isnt there for that info

guess ill keep tryin !!!

please guys tell me your thoughts.....

Tony

MikeNH · February 24, 2012

Won't that reset be a hard reset where I lose all my settings?

I have not noticed any speed limit indicators on mine yet. I have no use for them though, I have a lead foot. My work-issued TomTom has them and I didn't know the speed box wasn't supposed to be red till I got stuck in traffic once.

Mine will lag like yours does sometimes. This morning was worse than ever but mine will do what you experienced sometimes. Normally it's fine though. It does flake out on occasion- sometimes it won't see my iPhone.

I need to find out how to search for a POI in another state still. I tried to do this and couldn't make it search anything but NH. Time to dig out the manual again I guess.

Tony1970 · February 24, 2012

well mike ....these things we can try ...until we work the bugs out

i think i tryed it back last summer ...i dont remember losing my settings....but i dont think its like a system reset in the settings menu

give it a shot.....but i hope this igo dosnt turn out to be a white elephant !!!!!

kfcflores · February 24, 2012

Quick question on navi. Is there a way for the turn by turn to verbalize street name. For example. Make next. Right at main street. Rather than just make next right

Coolmaker · February 24, 2012

well mike ....these things we can try ...until we work the bugs out

i think i tryed it back last summer ...i dont remember losing my settings....but i dont think its like a system reset in the settings menu

give it a shot.....but i hope this igo dosnt turn out to be a white elephant !!!!!

Yes me too, this whole OGM-1 and IGO software messups are getting out of hand...

CPD1670 · February 24, 2012

Quick question on navi. Is there a way for the turn by turn to verbalize street name. For example. Make next. Right at main street. Rather than just make next right

Yes, in SysConfigutor under TTS is a box you can check "say name of Street".

kfcflores · February 25, 2012

How do I get to the system configuration. I have the link Walt provided but I don't know how to download the widgets. Am I making sense

CPD1670 · February 25, 2012

You need to download the SysConfiguator from ADC's website, open the program and select the options you want, create the new Sys.txt file, copy and replace the old sys file in the root directory of iGo with the new file.

BACKUP iGO FIRST!

Tony1970 · February 25, 2012

ok...cpd

when i try to get that program...from the bottom of adcs web site....it always says its down....

is that link to file factory the right place to get it?

i tried that ...auto_nightmode="0"....i found it under the save folder on the sd card

is this correct......cuz when i put the sd card back in......it was still the same...

Help !

T

kfcflores · February 25, 2012

You need to download the SysConfiguator from ADC's website, open the program and select the options you want, create the new Sys.txt file, copy and replace the old sys file in the root directory of iGo with the new file.

BACKUP iGO FIRST!

Ok thanks. Got it backed up and new stuff in root. Now when I put card back in do I go thru same steps that advent recommends for installing new firmware

kfcflores · February 25, 2012

Also I had to get a bigger sd card because with the 4gb it said not enough room. Is that normal. I didn't really add anything except red light cameras, street announce and 3 second start up

CPD1670 · February 25, 2012

Also I had to get a bigger sd card because with the 4gb it said not enough room. Is that normal. I didn't really add anything except red light cameras, street announce and 3 second start up

DO NOT go through the firmware update steps, iGo should read the changes on the sd card. I'm using a 16gb card so I haven't seen any memory issues.

ok...cpd when i try to get that program...from the bottom of adcs web site....it always says its down.... is that link to file factory the right place to get it? i tried that ...auto_nightmode="0"....i found it under the save folder on the sd card is this correct......cuz when i put the sd card back in......it was still the same... Help ! T

You want to add the "auto_nightmode=0" to the sys file in the root directory, not the save folder.