Hi,

I have an SPV C600 and thinking about getting Route 66. I do alot of hike and general need to go to locatons in the middle of nowhere, is there a way of input National Grid ref's or Long and Lat? If not are there any driving applications that would allow me to do this?

Any advise appreicated,

Cheers

Well im not entirely sure if it is the actual text messages that are doing it or some sort of general memory problem, but then again i have very little stored in the phones memory.

I today was expeimenting with the house numbers, which seemed to work but whilst i was in the student union, 66 failed to start, ie crashed on the GPS screen (no gps paired) and aborted, I tried it later in quieter area and it worked.

I got the WILD GUESS that it could have possibly been to do with the phone trying to pair with other Bluetooth devices in the union and hence crashing, so you could be right in making sure the GPS is on 1st (which I generally do)

A list of things to Route 66 would be good, seems to work well on this forum.

I'm not sure why the number of text messages should matter to it. I usually close all apps using Task Manager before powering up Route66 so maybe that's enough. I've cleared out my old texts so will report it it's made a difference.

I don't think you can cancel the current navigation as such, but you may be able to just go to the 'plan a route' and just quickly put in home and office as source and destination and it may cancel the existing on.
One solution may be to just switch off your GPS receiver so it doesn't receive a signal. Although i've not tested switching the GPS receiver on and off when running the program, as i've always made sure the gps receiver is on and paired before running the program.

Maybe we should create a list of things and give Route66 some feedback,

Yes you can put house numbers in. I don't think it works if you put a house number and a postcode, but it does if you put the house number with the street name.

I have a few issues with my Route 66 on a C600 sometimes too. Namely it sometimes locks up on startup if I don't have my phone paired with the receiver. It also crashed out when choosing the departure location as "work", but the update seems to have sorted it.

I also have a strange issue whereby speed cameras are not shown on the map, but red light cameras are. I've checked the CSV files that come with it in the "POI/BRITAIN" folder by importing them into Autoroute, and the cameras are shown. The file format is the same as the redlight camera csv file so I don't know what is up with it.

It also doesn't seem to pull addresses out of Contacts in the right format too.

The main BIGGEST annoyance with Route66 is the fact it doesn't show up in Task Manager, so if it crashes when only the home button works, you can't kill it off without restarting the phone.

However, on the whole, when it works it seems to function fine. I don't how it will cope if I receive a call at the same time however.

I have route 66 mobile 7 WMS, i installed it on my Qtek 8500 without problem, works perfectly. I would get back onto route 66 support, simply because they list your phone as being fully compatible and tested with the software, mine isn't even listed and works perfectly.

You shouldn't need a reg hack with the last couple of C600 ROM's. My phone regularly picked up E instead of G without the hack, in my last ROM and the latest one i'm running.

There's a reg tweak somewhere that allows you to set your device to show an E instead of the G when it connects to an EDGE enabled cell.

About six months ago, I found EDGE intermittent around London and generally it was best where their 3g was poor.

T-Mobile seem to offer the best data rates at the moment, with good prices on the Vario II if you want a Pocket PC, but only limited Smartphones (and the tarrif's aren't bad) but check coverage!

T-Mobile seem to offer the best data rates at the moment, with good prices on the Vario II if you want a Pocket PC, but only limited Smartphones (and the tarrif's aren't bad) but check coverage!

What about the M3100? it's the latest device as such just depends if you prefer a Smartphone or a PocketPC.
And the price difference.

Sometime in Q3 is what I hear ....

Take the front off and clean the rubber keys and fascia with soapy water well away from the phone - hopefully the goo won't have actually reached the circuitboard. See pinned topics in the hurricane section for instructions. Dry thouroughly before re-assembly....

Richard

Does anybody know how to change the C550 media buttons assignment to some other media player then Orange or WMP10 ?