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Nav issue

By dago0312 · Apr 29, 2008in General💬 14 posts👁️ 1,822 views
Posted Apr 29, 2008 · 23:09 UTC#1

Hello all, I believe this is probably a setting somewhere in the unit, but whenever I type in a POI, or destination...it calculates a route that is anywhere between 200-400 miles away, rather than what may be a block away. It always seems to want to take me to Ohio, from Chicago. No thanks, not for a Taco Bell! It is a copy of the Nav disc I burned last week, so maybe that could be a problem somehow, although everything else seems correct. Last question, what happens if I take the unit back to factory settings in the nav settings menu? What does that do? Thanks!

 

Ciao

Posted Apr 30, 2008 · 02:03 UTC#2

When you go to enter an address make sure that the disc is set to the region that your in. Its that little number in the upper left corner. Touch it and set it to your state/region.

Posted Apr 30, 2008 · 02:36 UTC#3

Its not the copy.The copy will either play,freeze at times or not play at all.

Posted May 01, 2008 · 00:50 UTC#4

Thanks for the replies. I checked the region and I am set correctly to Region 6 which includes Chicago. I typed in Menards today which is a mile from my house and it wanted me to drive all the way to Eastern Indiana. WTF?? Other suggestions?

 

Thanks

Posted May 01, 2008 · 01:12 UTC#5

There are some known issues at times with the routing of the nav.You might want to have the unit calculate multiple routes and pick one that works best for you.There's not alot you can do except hope they fix it with the next update whenever they release it for the D3.

Posted May 01, 2008 · 07:53 UTC#6

Funny thing is it was working correctly for a month, then stopped. Maybe I'll call tech support!

Posted May 01, 2008 · 08:07 UTC#7

Good Luck with that one !!!

Posted May 02, 2008 · 03:24 UTC#8

Having the very same problem as you are!!!

Posted May 02, 2008 · 09:53 UTC#9

I've always had this problem with AVICs POI. I have to enter the City, why can't it default to my home or last typed city? Then I get results but those are not sorted by distance at all so I have to click on the map icon to see how far they are until I find the right one. Maybe I am missing some setting? I'd really love to have POI place the closest matches first.

Posted May 02, 2008 · 19:38 UTC#10
Having the very same problem as you are!!!

 

Had the same issue with a N1 I had. Always wanted to route me through a town that was 90 miles away. Even if I wanted to go one block away, it would have me route through that town. This was only if I was in the lower part of the state though... The rest of the state was fine.

 

I ended up adding that town to areas to avoid and my routing was OK.

Posted May 07, 2008 · 04:14 UTC#11

Just bumping to see if any more readers experienced this. I called support and they knew nothing! So frustrating as it worked fine for a while and now this.

Posted May 07, 2008 · 04:51 UTC#12

I warned you about non-support. At the risk of repeating myself,the Avic's are known for their shortcomings when it comes to navigation and I'm sorry but there's not alot you can do about it.

Posted May 07, 2008 · 08:00 UTC#13

I know you warned me before I called support and believe me, prior to calling them, I went with the fully aware attitude that they would most likely know 99.9 percent less than me, but it was still worth a shot. And don't worry about your risk of repeating yourself because I have been doing it over and over in this thread. The most repetitive being that if the disc worked wrong like this from the beginning, I'd have given up by now. But with the risk of repeating myself as you say....The disc worked fine for almost 2 months so I know it CAN work correctly but for some reason is now not. And that is the answer I am hoping to achieve through my original post. Hope that clarify's a bit!

Posted May 07, 2008 · 12:19 UTC#14

Gotcha ! If I run across anything new I forward it to you.Good Luck !