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LBOCEAN
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 Posted - 28 févr. 2004 : 09:40:23
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LBOCEAN
USA
134 Posts |
Posted - 28 févr. 2004 : 10:24:13
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AUTO BRIGHT/DIM - SETTINGS
The following will help you set the display of the Magellan to automatically adjust to day/night lighting levels automatically. It is best to peform these initial settings when or where it is dark.
Note - The Brightness & Contrast adjustments are for evening settings. The unit will automatically adjust to the brightest setting during daylight as needed.
- Press the Options Button
> Highlight & Select <
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* The Contrast adjustment is suggested, and may be set to your own preference
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* The Brightness adjustment is suggested, and may be set to your own preference
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* Make sure both options are selected, the press "Save"
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ekaxel
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Posted - 29 févr. 2004 : 00:20:48
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| THIS is the LB I remember from the 6035 days! Good work! |
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LoneStar
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Posted - 16 mars 2004 : 22:08:46
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How to use the "circle cursor":
There's an undocumented feature in the RoadMates that I think is really neat: when a map is displayed, you can press on the 8-way cursor button, and a "circle cursor" appears. You can drive that cursor anywhere you want. When you do, it displays, just above the circle, the name of the street nearest the center of the circle. It also displays a small triangular arrow in the circle that points to your current location, so if you want to drive the cursor back to where you are, all you have to do is press the corresponding segment of the 8-way button. But the neatest feature is that whenever you stop the cursor, the software displays a "route to this location" prompt at the bottom of the screen, and if you touch the screen at that area (or press ENTER), the unit computes a route to the point under the cursor! I think it's faster than typing in the city/state and two street names to route to an intersection. I also use it to have the unit route me to my driveway, rather than to my front door (which is accessed via my street address.) To exit this mode without generating a routing, just press the CANCEL key.
[added by akahan] Incidentally, if you then go to Address Book and to "Recent Destinations," or whatever it is, that destination will be at the top of the list. You can then put a name on it and save it in your permanent address book.
This gives you a (sort of roundabout) way to save your current location in your address book. That is: Sometimes you'd like to mark your current location, so you can return to it in the future, but you don't know the address where you are. You would just move the cursor a little bit, then move it back to exactly where you're positioned at the moment. Hit ENTER, and a (very very short) route will be navigated, putting your current location in your address book as a recent destination. You then save that, give it a name, and voila, you've put your present location in your address book.
[added by LoneStar] You know you can change the map resolution by using the "+" and "-" keys, and the scale is momentarily reported in the lower-left portion of the screen. The available scales appear to be 350 feet, 700 feet, 1/4 mile, 1/2 mile, 1 mile, 2 miles, 4 miles, 10, 20, 50, 100, 150, 350, and 700 miles. If you activate the "circle cursor" via the arrow keypad when the map scale is 1 mile or less, you get the "Press ENTER for Route" prompt at the bottom of the screen, and the feature is active. At scales of 2 miles and above, the prompt is "Use Arrow Keys to Pan Map", and the feature isn't active (pressing Enter doesn't initiate a routing.) I did discover a minor software bug, though -- if you move the circle cursor with the scale at 1 mile or less, and then change the scale to 2 miles or more, the "Press ENTER for Route" prompt remains at the bottom of the screen, but the feature isn't active.
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LoneStar
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Posted - 16 mars 2004 : 22:36:31
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How to connect an external antenna to the RoadMates:
The RoadMate uses the same external antenna as does the Magellan Meridian Color (see http://www.magellangps.com/en/products/product.asp?PRODID=909). There are now a couple of third-party vendors who supply external antennae compatible with the RoadMates (search this forum area for "antenna" for examples.) To hook up an external antenna, just grab the RoadMate's "flip-up" antenna, and gently pull it away from the back of the unit -- it unplugs, revealing a socket that matches the plug on the external antenna's wire.
Remember, the GPS signal has a hard time penetrating solid objects (other than un-treated glass), so to get the best performance from your RoadMate, locate it so that it has the fewest obstructions between the antenna and the sky. If you use the attached antenna, keep it rotated up so it can "see" in all directions. If you use an external antenna, the best placement is on top of the vehicle passenger compartment. You can, however, place the external antenna on the dashboard or the rear deck of a passenger vehicle, or with a mount on the inside of the windshield or rear glass, if the mounting location you've chosen for the RoadMate itself doesn't allow good performance from the built-in antenna.
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LoneStar
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Posted - 16 mars 2004 : 22:47:03
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How to use the RoadMates' Trip Computer:
It's a three-click operation to get to the RoadMate 700's trip computer (Options button, then "Trip Computer", then "Current"). The stats tracked are Average MPH, Trip Time, Driving Time, and Distance Traveled. There are three buttons at the bottom of the screen: Stop/Start, Reset, and Save. If the TC is running, the left button says "Stop"; if it's stopped, the button says "Start". That gives you a pause capability. Reset clears all the data fields back to zero and starts the TC if it was stopped. Save takes you to a typewriter screen that asks you to name the trip or segment you're saving. Once you've saved a trip, the name you gave it appears on the Options/Trip Computer menu below "Current" (although the system lets you type in a name of over 10 characters, only the first 7 show up on the menu.) Selecting a saved trip shows the data that were saved, and gives you the option of deleting the saved trip, or backing out with it still saved.
The Trip Time stat is the time from when the TC was last reset to the current time (it runs even when the TC status shows "stopped".) The counter (in hours and minutes) increments whether you're moving or not, and doesn't care if power was off or on (I suspect that every time you hit "reset", the time is saved somewhere, and what gets displayed as "Trip Time" is the change between the current time and that saved time.) On my recent cross-country trip, for example, I started the TC when I left Dallas, and stopped and saved it when I got to Portland. Even though I took the unit out of the car every night, and even though it was powered down several times each day, the Trip Time gave me the correct overall duration of that trip. The Drive Time stat, however, appears to increment only when there is power on the unit and the TC status is "running", whether you are moving or not (I sat still with the TC running and verified that the Drive Time stat increased.) The Average MPH appears to be calculated off Distance Traveled and Drive Time.
When the unit powers on, the default setting is for the TC to be running, so before a trip you want to keep stats on, you have to remember to access the TC and reset it.
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LoneStar
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Posted - 17 mars 2004 : 00:31:37
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Access the hidden menu by going to "options" and then hitting "++--+-". You see:
I don't know why the icon on the menu's title bar is the same as the one for Points of Interest.
Info on "Record/Playback Vehicle Position" is on this forum under the FAQ thread.
Set Vehicle Position is useful if you've moved the unit quite some distance from where it was when it was last powered on, or you've used the "Playback Vehicle Position" function (more info under the FAQ thread.) This item duplicates "Set GPS Position" under the Diagnostics Menu. Info on how/why to set position is in another post to this "How To" thread.
Setup Miscellaneous System Flags allows you to activate/deactivate certain software features -- don't change anything on this screen unless you really know what you're doing, and can live with the consequences!
Clear A12 Memory zeroes the satellite almanac stored in memory. This item duplicates "Initialize GPS" under the Diagnostics Menu, except that using the feature from this menu first gives you a warning that you're about to do something very serious. There's more on how/why to clear out the almanac in another post to this "How To" thread.
Task Profiler takes you to a multi-screen presentation of the software subtasks running in the multi-tasking RoadMate system -- don't change anything on these screens unless you really know what you're doing, and can live with the consequences!
I haven't been able to get "Dump File System Info" to work like I think it should. The title implies that you should be able to copy off ("dump" in software parlance) certain information about the files stored in internal non-volatile RAM (not the RM700's hard drive, or a CF card installed in either RM.)
To exit the Hidden Menu, just hit the CANCEL key or touch the "X" in the upper right screen box.
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LoneStar
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Posted - 17 mars 2004 : 00:36:30
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How/why to Initialize GPS and Set Position:
Magellan documentation (probably the worst I've seen for a consumer electronic item of this price) is missing an important step in the use of the RoadMates -- the first time you turn one on, the unit needs to be outside, with a clear view of the sky, and left stationary for 5 minutes or so. That allows the software to change its assumed position from that of the factory (near San Francisco, CA) to where it is now. After that, the unit should begin to navigate quickly each time you turn it on, with a couple of exceptions. If you want to speed up this process, you can access "Set GPS Position" from the "Diagnostic" menu -- that takes you to a "Type-O-Matic" screen where you can input a street address.
To speed up the unit's ability to navigate after power is turned on, the software has two features: a built-in satellite almanac that tells it which satellites ought to be in view, and where to start looking for them; and an assumed position. The assumed position is almost always the place where the unit was when it was turned off (or when power was removed.) If the actual position isn't very close to the assumed position, it can take the unit 5 minutes or so to re-establish itself when turned on (or over 10 minutes if the unit has to do this while it's in motion.) In unusual cases, the almanac may have very old or corrupted data, which will keep the unit from "knowing" which satellites to try to acquire, and where they currently are. To solve this problem, you can access "Initialize GPS" from the "Diagnostics" menu -- that clears out the stored almanac. You won't see any indication on the screen that this has been accomplished. If you do this, however, it is imperitive that you have the unit outside with a clear view of the sky, and let it remain stationary for at least 5 minutes while it cycles through all the possible satellite IDs, acquires one, and downloads a fresh almanac. You can tell this process is complete by watching the GPS Status screen, or simply by waiting for the heading indicator on the map screen to turn green.
In normal use, you shouldn't ever have to access "Initialize GPS" -- I've been using my RM700 for over 4 months now, have *never* done so, and consistently get very accurate navigation from the unit. That includes a 5,000-mile automobile round trip.
Bottom line: if you take the unit on an airline trip and turn it on quite some distance from where it was when it was turned off (or powered down,) you either need to "Set GPS Position," or let the unit sit still, outside, with a clear view of the sky for 5 minutes or so while it updates its assumed position. If you've tried that, and the unit still doesn't know where it is, then, and only then, should you "Initialize GPS".
[added by LBOCEAN] The Initialize GPS function forces the unit to re-aquire current posistioning for better accuracy when using the unit. If you begin to experience that your unit is not following the path correctly, or is off course (behind, etc) alittle, then thats when using I-GPS comes in.
Guidelines to follow when Initializing GPS
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- Be in a wide open area (free from obstructions)
- Aquire the best signal possible. (perferably blue, green is acceptable)
- Perform the task in the Early Morning, Sunset or Midnight. (Never at high noon)
- Allow the unit 3-5 minutes to complete the initialization
- Do not move the unit or the vehicle during initialization
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Edited by - LoneStar on 17 mars 2004 15:30:53 |
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chboodts
Belgium
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Posted - 16 févr. 2005 : 11:15:31
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I just bought a RM700 with version 4.25 installed and I discovered an undocumented feature.
When you are in the map view and would like to explore the region where you are (I started with the location of where I live), you can just drag the map with your finger.
For instance, if you would like to know what is in front of you, you put your finger at the top of the screen and drag the map downwards. Result is that the map will scroll downwards.
In combination with the visible POI's (on which you can click to see the details such as what it is and telephone number), it is a neat feature ...
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LoneStar
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Posted - 16 févr. 2005 : 17:34:59
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quote:
Originally posted by chboodts
I just bought a RM700 with version 4.25 installed and I discovered an undocumented feature.
Welcome to the ranks of RoadMate owners!quote:
When you are in the map view and would like to explore the region where you are (I started with the location of where I live), you can just drag the map with your finger.
Glad you figured this out (the Magellan documentation is worse than useless!), but it's been a feature of the unit since "day one". I think the first mention on this forum was back in January of 2004 (see http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6234&SearchTerms=touch,screen )
In general, there's a ton of info on the RoadMates here -- I'd recommend using the Search function of this forum software liberally before deciding that you've found something new...
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mrfixit
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Posted - 01 mai 2010 : 08:55:12
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I want to warn all 1200 owners about how easy it it so brick your gps,I did what "joel32137 did
joel32137: "I bricked my Magellan Roadmate 1200 by going to the
boot loader and running the Initialise NVS / Initialize NVS
option."
Later, it died completely, in the process of working to get it back to original maps no boot, no hard reset, no boot loader, full charge, connected to usb on laptop then disconnected and, I have no idea what happened, just the basic reboot after restoring the plain winCE this had worked several times, but this time unit is dead. ANY help would be greatly welcomed as it is no longer a brick but a dead brick
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Bricked Magellan 1200 |
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wsuggs
USA
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Posted - 29 mai 2010 : 04:22:29
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| Dummy me reformatted my HD to get past password request screen. Now my unit doesn't work. Is there a way to get the software reloaded via the removable media card?? If so where do I get the software programs?? Magellan was no helpwith password removal. Had I backed up my software before reformatting. I could restore. Any help or advice would be helpful. Have a Roadmate 800 eur/english version. Are Garmin units the best?? Don't think I'll ever buy another Magellan! |
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bigeddy
USA
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Posted - 14 nov. 2011 : 18:20:35
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| I updated firmware and os and bricked my 6000t ... is there anything I can do except throw it in the trash? I have taken the back off. I didn't even know you could backup the software and even tho it is bricked and I couldn't load the old software if I had it anyway. |
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