Anyone using iGO 8

[andrewpmoore]

Originally Posted by bedoig

Wow, now that is a good tip. How low can you go while maintaining performance? I'll have to do some experimenting.

Did you have any luck with your experimentation.
I run into problems on my trinity and wondered what you'd tried.
I'm not sure what format the memory settings are in. Is it bytes, MB etc, and it it just a number, or something like 20MB?

[Balkar]

Anyone can pm me the link to download the canadian maps... I got the terrain already lol, just missing maps and i am about to go crazy looking for them...

THanks in advance!

[bedoig]

Originally Posted by andrewpmoore

Did you have any luck with your experimentation.
I run into problems on my trinity and wondered what you'd tried.
I'm not sure what format the memory settings are in. Is it bytes, MB etc, and it it just a number, or something like 20MB?

Haven't had much of a chance to play with it yet unfortunately. If I find anything useful, I'll post back.

[ckl_88]

I've been experimenting with IGO8 for a couple of weeks now. I'm planning to go on a road trip soon and I decided to try a few things. What I want to do is hook up the Touch to the car stereo and listen to music while navigating.

First thing I did was launch Audio Manager and started playing music. Sounded great through the car speakers. Then I launched IGO8 and chose a destination. It took about a minute and a half for a lock and then Susan TTS notified me over the music of my next turn. Working great so far. The song was playing fine and the 3D map view was smooth and accurate.

Then the next song started to play. About 10 seconds in, it started to skip. It's like somebody was repeatedly pressing the pause/play button every second or so. Then I put IGO8 to the background and the music started to play fine again. As soon as I restored IGO to the foreground, the skipping started again. It only seems to skip when the map is displayed. If I go into the settings, the song plays fine, but when I exit and go back to the map display, it skips.

It appears that IGO8 takes a lot of CPU power to run in map display... Enough to affect the performance of background apps.

I know for a fact that the song is a 192kbps mp3 whereas the previous song was only 128kbps.

So my question is whether there is anything I can do to IGO8 to reduce the amount of CPU usage (something in sys.txt?) or if anyone knows how to adjust the priority of background running apps?

Thanks.

[aspalaasn]

Originally Posted by ckl_88

I've been experimenting with IGO8 for a couple of weeks now. I'm planning to go on a road trip soon and I decided to try a few things. What I want to do is hook up the Touch to the car stereo and listen to music while navigating.

First thing I did was launch Audio Manager and started playing music. Sounded great through the car speakers. Then I launched IGO8 and chose a destination. It took about a minute and a half for a lock and then Susan TTS notified me over the music of my next turn. Working great so far. The song was playing fine and the 3D map view was smooth and accurate.

How did you connect it to your car speakers?

[bedoig]

Line in on your head unit, bluetooth (A2DP), FM transmitter, etc. Lots of options, some cheaper than others.

[ckl_88]

Originally Posted by aspalaasn

How did you connect it to your car speakers?

My car has both a cassette deck and an aux input jack. I used the usb headphone adaptor that came with the Touch and got a male-male headphone cable and plugged one end into the Touch adaptor and the other into the aux jack. That's one way. The other way is through the cassette deck. I got a cassette "thing" that has a headphone cable coming out of it so all you need to do is insert the fake cassette and the plug the cable into the touch headphone adaptor.

both work fine for me but I primarily use the aux jack.

I've used the FM Transmitter, but the audio quality sucks and there is too much interference... one time I was listening to music with it and then all of a sudden, some indian music started playing... I was like WTF? Turns out the car next to me was also transmitting using an FM Transmitter and coincidentally was using the same frequency. I guess his transmitter was more powerful than my cheapo belkin.

My next car will have bluetooth capability so I will probably use bluetooth when the time comes.

[Xyz]

Anyone have any problems with sound stutter?

At first I thought it was just the voice guidance. However it even happens on the button clicks in the menus. (sound will click 2 times when pressing a button once)
This only happens after the first 5 mins or so into the trip. and does not happen if I just sit there in iGo playing with buttons for 30mins. it doesn't even happen when I perform full route simulation with voice commands on.

This is a new problem for me . I had iGo8 running with zero sound stutter for about a week and a half. Then I did a hard reset, re-installed all my apps along with iGo8and on the first time running the iGo it did this stuttering and hasn't stopped .

im using the altell radio , ghettofreeryder .700 rom. im running iGo off a 8gb sandisc minisd. that still has 7gb free.

any suggestions ? any help would be greatly appreciated .

[cortez]

Originally Posted by yhli17

I got the same problem. It seems that the POI file of Michigan does not contain any in the the southern part (120mile from Ohio).

have you been able to find the airport? it's not even listed in the POI's. Or I'm not following the right steps to locate it....

[xencloud]

would really like to try this out but can't find it, even on the dist's website! How much? Or can it be dl'd somewhere?