Garmin XT

[topdawgn8]

ick question I hope someone can help me with. I read on a thread you can have the turn by turn directions come in through a BT headset, but i can't get mine to do it. Can anyone help me out with how to do this?

[rperfetti]

I have both Garmin XT and Igo. I like Garmin (and paid a fortune for it) but the position update lag makes it unusable. Igo provides a much smoother update with almost no lag and with great looking 3D maps. I dont know how the Igo folks get that performance running in the touch pro. Igo seems like it should be more cpu intensive but it performs much better, Don't know why. By the way, both these apps performed much better on my old HTC Touch. I hope the gps lag gets fixed on the touch pro.

[KcLive]

Originally Posted by topdawgn8

ick question I hope someone can help me with. I read on a thread you can have the turn by turn directions come in through a BT headset, but i can't get mine to do it. Can anyone help me out with how to do this?

Use bluetooth audio. It will work, but the volume isn't the best. I will try to attach a cab of it for you.

Hope this works for you.

[topdawgn8]

Originally Posted by KcLive

Use bluetooth audio. It will work, but the volume isn't the best. I will try to attach a cab of it for you.

Hope this works for you.

Thanks KcLive, this will be a good temporary fix.

Is there somethine else that will only activate the headset when garmin is sending the notification? That program works, but it seems like it would drain my battery on my phone and headset within a matter of a couple hours.

I read somewhere that Garmin XT will do this; however, my searches on here and google have been fruitless. My big thing is when I have people riding with me, I don't want the Garmin chick interupting discussions and just being annoying for who's riding...but if I'm not really paying attention to the screen, I'd like to hear a heads up.

Thanks in advance if anyone can shed anymore light on this. Until then, I'll use this BTAudio.

[KcLive]

Glad that was at least a short term fix for ya. If you can find another solution for this I would love to know what it is myself.

[topdawgn8]

Originally Posted by KcLive

Glad that was at least a short term fix for ya. If you can find another solution for this I would love to know what it is myself.

I'm on a manhunt for it, so I'll let ya know if I find anything. Right now if I'm not doing homework or studying, I'm looking for a definite answer. Give me a PM if you don't hear from me in a week or so. I'm pretty absent minded.

[kyle4269]

Garmin i feel is by far better than TomTom for the simple facts that it doesnt lag as much and it locks onto sats quicker.

[lexluthor]

No problems with either Garmin or TomTom on my VZW TP.

I mean maybe it lags by a second or 2, but nothing close to rendering it useless.

You guys who complain about lag, can you better define what you mean by lag?

Also, I find Garmin easier to use than TT. I think it also looks better. Can't really compare the maps though and that is really what's important.

[demonsnake]

I have iGuidance v4 on my PPC. It has TTS and overall a very good program. However it lags really bad when used with the built-in GPS chip in the phone. I use bluetooth HOLUX GPSlim 240 chip and that works great, love it. As for having directions read to you through the bluetooth headset, you can do it 2 ways. 1) get software that allows audio to go through to headset or 2) get a headset that supports A2DP bluetooth profile. I have Plantronics Voyager 855 and it works great with my GPS and my mp3s.

[kyle4269]

The lag i noticed with TomTom was while driving it was always a street behind and my speed would be about 5 mph off.