Anyone using iGO 8

[tatnai]

If anyone can PM me, I'm looking for US and Canadian maps, buildings, POIs, etc. Especially maps, my US of A is looking really bare without any roads.

Thanks will be given.

EDIT: finally found them, thanks for the help guys

[Kinjo]

Can u pm me 2 with the same info. Thanx

[tatnai]

Originally Posted by sean222

If anyone who has TTS working, can you please post your iGO version number and any info on how you got TTS working?! Thanks

Originally Posted by joemike60

I would appreciate the pointer as well. I had the Susan voice working in the March release, but cannot get it to work in the June 24 release.

Originally Posted by elmariachi

yup, thats the one. I got mine somewere else but the zip is named the same. works for me.

Originally Posted by sean222

Even though those links are dead, I googled working links...TTS works now!

THANK YOU!

OK, I have 8.0.0.44344 (June 24) on my vogue. Had it installed, try to get TTS working using the XDA site instructions including the volume mod later on in that post, could see the voices in iGo but wouldn't get the confirming "Drive safely" when selecting any of the TTS voices.

So I re-ran the autorun.exe file (without first uninstalling iGo) from the 2577 folder on my storage card, and then voila!, Susan TTS began to work just fine. The other TTS voices that I plugged in don't work, however, and I'm not quite sure why; ones good enough for me anyways. I may muck around and fix that later when I'm bored. Susan tts is a little more garbled and stuttery as in previous reports; not that significantly, wouldn't really have noticed all that much except when comparing with the default Amy US ENG voice I was using.

Re-running the installer does not mess with anything that is stored on the storage card - all maps, POIs, voices, skins, etc will still be there. Will have to replace sys.txt if you changed it in your \Programs\iGo\ foler, and the bluetoothOnOff if you had added that for the iGo Ultra skins, but that's it; so go ahead, re-run the installer, and enjoy TTS!

[aspalaasn]

the new iGO 8 is up with new maps to NA.

see this new thread I started.

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread...571#post381571

[ugabuga]

Guys I installed IGO8 with the US maps pretty easily on my Touch but ran into a major problem. When i go to select a route, it only shows city. The keyboard is greyed out so i can't type anything! I un-installed and re-installed and got the same thing. Any ideas?

[tatnai]

By the way, I couldn't see any POIs after using the enable POI string, found out that I was needing to add an "s" to POI in the string. Should look like this:

[poi]
enable_pois_before_080217=1

Not many POIs in Michigan, but at least now I can see what is there.

[domwin]

i cant find the us maps anywhere

[tatnai]

Originally Posted by domwin

i cant find the us maps anywhere

I'll pm you when I get back to my desktop

[tatnai]

Originally Posted by unr

I had it installed for a few days but every time I ran the program it would reset my clock. Also, I always use Google Maps to prime and after a reboot it always connects in < min. However, after installing iGO8 it would take several minutes or never connect to a satellite at all. Then, while using iGO8 it would drop satellites and says "gps lost" and normally it would reconnect in a couple secs but not always.

The program is really nice but after dropping satellites (tomtom *never* had) and the extra time to find a signal to begin with plus resetting my clock... I had to restore a backup before the installation. Everything seems back to normal now for me.

Thats too bad because it seemed much nicer than tomtom.

I only have problems with dropped satellites when I turn off AGPS, and usually it picks them back up within 20 secs (I am a sprint, USA user, I turn off AGPS when using iGO8 in Canada where I don't want to use data - TomTom won't get a lock for me in Canada with AGPS turned off). With AGPS turned on, I get a lock in 5 seconds or less, and rarely if ever lose GPS. AstroGPSLauncher is what I use, it is great.

The clock resetting issue is fixed if you simply turn of the settings in iGo that automatically update your phone clock to the GPS time server; also set the right time zone in iGO8.

For me, TomTom7 is only better for POIs, that's it. iGO8 has better graphics, UI, options, skins, and routes (for me). And I can use iGO8 out of the country, which is a plus.

[aspalaasn]

Originally Posted by tatnai

I only have problems with dropped satellites when I turn off AGPS, and usually it picks them back up within 20 secs (I am a sprint, USA user, I turn off AGPS when using iGO8 in Canada where I don't want to use data - TomTom won't get a lock for me in Canada with AGPS turned off). With AGPS turned on, I get a lock in 5 seconds or less, and rarely if ever lose GPS. AstroGPSLauncher is what I use, it is great.

The clock resetting issue is fixed if you simply turn of the settings in iGo that automatically update your phone clock to the GPS time server; also set the right time zone in iGO8.

For me, TomTom7 is only better for POIs, that's it. iGO8 has better graphics, UI, options, skins, and routes (for me). And I can use iGO8 out of the country, which is a plus.

I was under the impression that AGPS is does not use data although some say it does...how did you turn AGPS off? Like do you mean in the registry and then soft resetted? or do you mean you just turn of data thereby disabling AGPS?

For me, I have faster locks, see more sats and more locks with data on than when it is off. Whether that's due to AGPS or not, I know there's a difference. I'm in Vancouver, Canada if that makes any difference, on Bell as well using 20273 rom made from the kitchen. I tested pretty much with iGO8/OCN8 only and look at the sat viewer. With data on, I'd be getting 6-9 sats locked and they were of strong strength but with data off (blocked by no data) the most I would get after a cold start is only 4-5 locks, avg is closer to 2-3 locks only. It would also take forever to get a lock but it does lock. That's why I think data is needed for better GPS signal. Whether that's AGPS or not I'm not sure, if it is, then I guess AGPS needs data, if not then like I said in other posts, there's something else that affects the signal we get.