BMW Nav 4

[drinkingparrot]

I'm struggling to get to grips with the Nav 4 after using the Tom Tom rider, with the rider I would get a proximity alert that I would set myself, I used a bugle and so I knew without looking if I heard the bugle it was a speed camera.It would also emit a different sound for average speed cameras, so again I didb't have to look at the screen I knew what I was being warned about. The same would go when I entered a lower speed limit, again it was a different sound from the safety cameras. I don't seem to be able to set the Nav 4 up in a similar way. All the alerts are the same sound, chimes that are higher or lower pitched that don't seem to make much sense, and also the speed limit alerts are spuriouse, some times I get them but mostly it misses them. I did think at one point it was the Scala Bluetooth connection but I've checked that and when I drive a route the instructions never miss a beat. Any idiots guides out there, I don't seem to be able to find answers in the instructions

 

[Wapping]

I have all the sounds turned off, the auto-recalculate turned off, too.

If you start to use the device as a map (and as a much simpler aid to just being on the correct road) you may well find it much easier. Use your eyes, not your ears, to tell you what the speed limits are or are likely to be. If, on say a dual carriageway, you see the vehicles up ahead applying their brakes for no apparently good reason, ponder if it might be because there is a speed camera or some other problem that will (when you arrive there, too) will require you to maybe slow down as well...... And adjust your speed accordingly BEFORE you arrive at the same spot.

As you use the device more and / or go further afield, you may well find it becomes increasingly annoying that you are told every three seconds that you are in a speed restricted area, when all you really want to be doing is concentrating on busy traffic in a complicated road system. When you get to that point in your life you will turn the sounds off and never turn them on again.

If you are running a route, as apposed to just having the device running, you will notice that the local speed limit is displayed in the bottom right hand corner. If you are running a route, you will notice that the display changes reasonably accurately with the change in signed limits. For instance, cross the boundary from a national 60 mph limit into a village and the display drops from 60 to 30. But you probably knew (as you passed a driving test at some point) that the limit in the village is probably 30 anyway. Does the device 'know' all the speed limits? No but it 'knows' most of them and can display them when it does.

In short, stop using the device as some sort of super driver, sitting on your shoulder whispering in your ear every 10 seconds. Take control of your own life, by employing some common sense. You'll know ( or at least you should) what the speed limits are likely to be and / or when you have arrived at a destination. You have noticed that the device is apparently missing warnings, so you are probably using your eyes anyway and don't need to be told. You are halfway there already, prepare to make the next step forward.

 

[drinkingparrot]

I have all the sounds turned off, the auto-recalculate turned off, too.

If you start to use the device as a map (and as a much simpler aid to just being on the correct road) you may well find it much easier. Use your eyes, not your ears, to tell you what the speed limits are or are likely to be. If, on say a dual carriageway, you see the vehicles up ahead applying their brakes for no apparently good reason, ponder if it might be because there is a speed camera or some other problem that will (when you arrive there, too) will require you to maybe slow down as well...... And adjust your speed accordingly BEFORE you arrive at the same spot.

As you use the device more and / or go further afield, you may well find it becomes increasingly annoying that you are told every three seconds that you are in a speed restricted area, when all you really want to be doing is concentrating on busy traffic in a complicated road system. When you get to that point in your life you will turn the sounds off and never turn them on again.

If you are running a route, as apposed to just having the device running, you will notice that the local speed limit is displayed in the bottom right hand corner. If you are running a route, you will notice that the display changes reasonably accurately with the change in signed limits. For instance, cross the boundary from a national 60 mph limit into a village and the display drops from 60 to 30. But you probably knew (as you passed a driving test at some point) that the limit in the village is probably 30 anyway. Does the device 'know' all the speed limits? No but it 'knows' most of them and can display them when it does.

In short, stop using the device as some sort of super driver, sitting on your shoulder whispering in your ear every 10 seconds. Take control of your own life, by employing some common sense. You'll know ( or at least you should) what the speed limits are likely to be and / or when you have arrived at a destination. You have noticed that the device is apparently missing warnings, so you are probably using your eyes anyway and don't need to be told. You are halfway there already, prepare to make the next step forward.

Do you practice at being a complete and utter twat, or is it something that comes naturally. I didn't ask how you think I should use it, I asked if it could be set up in a similar way to a Tom Tom rider. As it happens I visited the dealer today and it may well be that my machine may have issues. But hey you carry on preaching the way of life according to Wapping

 

[Wapping]

...and the news / views about the OP's 'issues' from anyone else is....

 

[The Grey One]

He certainly has "Issues" Someone suggests a different way of looking at the problem and his response is to become abusive. Maybe he can talk to someone about that. Would he use the same sort of answer to another person say in a pub? Probably not I suspect. Becoming abusive is usually a sign of having no reasonable counter argument or of not having the wit to devise one.

Personally I agree , at least partly, with Wapping. Using your eyes to look out for speed cameras, bends in the road and other traffic hazards is in my opinion a much better option than using a Sat Nav for this purpose. I think the fact that so many drivers put the bloody things right in front of them in the windscreen shows that people regard the Sat Nav info as more important at a clear view of the road-we have to share the roads with these idiots.

If you can't spot UK speed cameras without an electronic aid then new glasses might be higher up the list than a modification to the Sat Nav.

John

 

[Micky]

Do you practice at being a complete and utter twat, or is it something that comes naturally.

There's only one twat here, Twat

 

[iand46]

There's only one twat here, Twat

I Agree