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sc26
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On 2006-12-06 00:00:43, Mankeymonkey wrote:
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On 2006-12-05 15:03:50, sc26 wrote:
ok i am a noob with all this navi software etc. i have a p900 and just got a bluenext gps thing.
Using nav4all, are there any sort of charges? ie does it connect to the internet or anything?
i ask because on the nav4all site it says:
6. What are the telecom costs involved?
In comparison with other forms of telecom traffic, the Nav4All telecom costs are negligible.
Significantly lower than the prices offered by other navigation service providers.
how does it cost?
also what settings do i need to have on my phone b4 installation - is it just an internet connection to download the software?
i am a bit puzzled!
hope someone can help - cheers 
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Well then.
Nav4all requires an internet connection to connect to their servers and download the map for the journey. It costs about 4p per hour of driving going by o2 prices on average(by my calculations anyway heh, so no guarentees )
For this you need an internet connection set up on your phone. This is most likely going to be a GPRS/3G connection from your network. You can get these details from the se website here: http://www.sonyericsson.com/s[....]1_1&zone=ps&lm=ps1_1&pid=10336
But if you have a wireless network at home or something, you can use that which wont cost you anything! (as long as you always start from and download your rout at home )
In comparison to tomtom, wayfinder etc its a hell of alot cheaper if your not going to use it that much, but if your driving around daily you need something like tomtom where it doesnt cost to download maps(coz you have them on the memory stick).
Dom
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your a legend!
im sitting here playing with it now, connecting to my wi-fi and planning a route to wales im going to make on thursday. So all i need to do is thirsday morning turn on phone/gps, open nav4all where it will connect to wi-fi and donwload the route. then i leave my house, disconnect wi-fi and the route will still be there?!
is there anyway to store the route so i dont have to donwload it again if i was to make the route again next week?
by the look of it it is cheap anyways even if i didnt use wi-fi?
you say it costs 4p per hour of driving? why does it cost when u are going along when you have already downloaded the map? does the internet come on whilst your driving? Im just paranoid about a massive data bill at the end of the month!
cheers for your help mate - v much appreciated! |
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pachy
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Connections to web on route are needed for when you go off route, maybe you do a wrong turn or roadworks cause a diversion, traffic updates ETC, either way i fiind Nav4all a cheap nasty product, on P990 it doesnt impress me, even to zoom it requiires a download, my view on this is get a big memorycard & get Tomtom on your P990. because at end of day......
If u loose Wifi (or GPRS)
or phone signal
or GPS
or Bluetooth
or your GPS battery goes flat, you can STILL look at the maps that are stoored on your memory card. |
sc26
Joined: Jul 13, 2004
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yup very true - well i will test out nav4all and see if i like - if not then tomtom will be ordered |
dannycol
Joined: May 25, 2003
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From: Lancashire UK
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I used wayfinder with P910 (trouble free almost for over a year) and M600 but found alot of issues with M600 so i dicided to switch to Tom Tom. Incidently the price of wayfinder has come down alot you can pay only 99 euroes for life.. where as previously it was 99 euros every year. I used it 5 days a week for around 3 hours a day and hardly noticed the GPRS charges on my o2 bill.
I think however for some reason i'm not destined to use TomTom, for the past 4 weeks i've been trying but still not up and running, i first had problems installing the files into the root memory, then i had the same problem with getting voices on, then found it awkward getting the code to activate, then once i sorted all that out the thing would not connect to my Parrot gps, so i ordered a new gps (tom tom gps) with overnight delivery then the parcel was lost, 8 days later it finally arrived, then before trying to use it, my M600 touch screen no longer works, tried to upgrade firmware but with no touch screen i cant even go through the set up process, so i can't use the phone at all at the moment, I also have a P990 but first i need a memory card then i can start again. As for the M600 it seems it has to go back under the warranty! |
PeterKay
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Any way of getting TomTom in full screen mode on the P990i?
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scroitoru
Joined: Jul 11, 2003
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u mean w/o the bottom section where the info bout speed, direction, GPS status and others is displayed?
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PeterKay
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no i mean widescreen totally.
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MARViN2003
Joined: Aug 16, 2005
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OK, Here's the tip everyone is after
You can trick TT6 into widescreen on a P990i
1) Open Tomtom 6 and then close it so it appears in your rescent programs list.
2) Open Quickoffice, go to the drop down menu and select Landscape.
3) You should now have the view with the keyboard on the right hand side... Select the dropdown menu again and choose the task manager (which now comes up in landscape mode)
4) Open Tomtom the initial screen will look cut in half, but it will open in WIDESCREEN
5) Jump up and down and shout "THANK YOU MARViN!" |
Johnex
Joined: Nov 26, 2002
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thank you starvin marvin  |
LaurieCad
Joined: Dec 20, 2004
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From: United Kingdm
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Hi Guys
Have tomtom running on my emasculated Orange 990i and it mostly seems to work well – with Swiss Pro helping things along.
A couple of queries.
I can't get my Apple Mac to see the phone when linked up by USB cable to tt Home.
Also, I can only program in the first part of the UK postcodes.
Any ideas?
Thanks
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einst
Joined: Oct 17, 2006
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From: South Yorkshire UK
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As to the postcodes... you need to install the full postcode database.
John |
Dogmann
Joined: Jan 29, 2006
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From: London England
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@LaurieCad,
I hate to have to tell you this but my understanding is that Mac's don't see SE phones even in mass storage device mode well in fact in any mode. So it is not Tom Tom that is the problem it is your SE P990 and although in the white paper it said something about Mac compatibility Sapporababy has had it confirmed by SE that they have no intention of implementing Mac support anytime soon if ever.
Marc
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PeterKay
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"THANK YOU MARViN!"
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TheGuru
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@MARViN2003
That's awesome! Yep, it works. "THANK YOU MARVINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!"
btw, how the hell did you find this feature?
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OfficeMaven
Joined: Jul 26, 2005
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Great job Marvin!
I just tried this on my W950 using DocumentsToGo (since the W950 doesn't include QuickOffice like the P990 does) and it worked great. I now have TomTom running in landscape mode on my W950. Amazing!
The only thing to note is that in DocumentsToGo, you have to open up an actual document before you can rotate the screen into landscape mode. Thus, I simply opened up a small Word document and proceeded from there just as Marvin listed. |
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