nav is so complicated to use
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nav is so complicated to use
is there a way to have the nav shows you the street name instead of the longitude/latitude of the road you are on. i am not talking about in guide mode. sometime i would like to know what the name of the street i am on especially those small streets. thanks
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On your steering wheel hit the menu button on the left until it changes to NAV screen it will display the street along with direction of travel. Other than that zoom in more on the map. Yea I agree the NAV sucks compared to BMW's I drive NAV.
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See it on the MFD as above. Also you can move the crosshairs to any street & the name of the street will appear. If you keep the zoom level all the way "IN" more streets will be named on COMAND.
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.... you can only turn COMAND on/off and that will include the navigation. Wierd design, Car and Driver complained about that in one of their latest articles....Cheers
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Can anyone suggest a better redesign of this? Not that easy to think of what the button would read
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Well since I dont have anything plugged for the AUX button in the COMAND system i just press on that (aux) which is silent but the navigation isnt...
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Hecdog_2:
AUX is a soft key, you get to it by pressing the [AUDIO] button until you see the soft key options for [Radio], [CD], [CDC], and [AUX] (top right of COMAND).
While the NAV is speaking, press and hold the [MUTE] button until you get a confirmation that NAV "something something something" has been disabled. That will silence the NAV until you power down and restart your vehicle, or press the [EAR] button again to reactivate it.
This stuff is in your manuals guys...
AUX is a soft key, you get to it by pressing the [AUDIO] button until you see the soft key options for [Radio], [CD], [CDC], and [AUX] (top right of COMAND).
This stuff is in your manuals guys...
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My buddy an I sat in the car and played with this for like 20 minutes. At the end we figured out that if you adjust the volume WHILE the Nav chick is talking then you adjust her volume. Not very intuitive, but certainly the easiest way to do it.
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Press the nav Repeat Instruction button & when she's talking lower the volume to zero. If you do this only while the NAV voice is speaking, you will only be adjusting the NAV voice, not the radio/cd volume.
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Also, they give you ways to personalize things that you might never even had thought needed personalization, and prohibit you from doing some things that they intentionally lock you out of.
Waaaaaaay overthought!
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Actually the correct way to mute nav voice is not to turn volume on her down.. because it will still dip the volume of the music even tho she doesnt appear to say anything. hit repeat, then hit MUTE as she is talking. hold it down and then you will get a display that says nav announcements have been cancelled or something. Then it wont lower your music for no reason.
Took me a year to figure that one out.
Took me a year to figure that one out.
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Maybe you should reevaluate your ability to 'figure it out'?
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If you read properly you will note that I didn't say I'm too good to read it. That was your insecurity trying to demean others. I simply said I don't have the patience to read it. Big difference there buddy.
RTFP (Read the F-ing post) before you tell others to RTFM. Then again, maybe you're too good to read the post
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Want to critique? Figuring the whole damn thing out, while asking just ONE freakin question is pretty good eh?
If you read properly you will note that I didn't say I'm too good to read it. That was your insecurity trying to demean others. I simply said I don't have the patience to read it. Big difference there buddy.
RTFP (Read the F-ing post) before you tell others to RTFM. Then again, maybe you're too good to read the post
If you read properly you will note that I didn't say I'm too good to read it. That was your insecurity trying to demean others. I simply said I don't have the patience to read it. Big difference there buddy.
RTFP (Read the F-ing post) before you tell others to RTFM. Then again, maybe you're too good to read the post
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The man asked a simple question that deserves an answer. What's so complicated about answering a question? If it is beneath someone to answer a question because the answer might be somewhere on the manual just move along, there's no need to demean someone for asking a question. What percentage of posts out here do you think can be answered by reading the manual? That's why were are all here. To share ideas and help each other.
Why put people down for asking questions on a forum devoted to asking questions?
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Why put people down for asking questions on a forum devoted to asking questions?
If you are not a part of the solution, then you are...
