How to mod Sygic

[zehjotkah]

Hi!
I've posted a second video about Sygic, where you can see fullscreen-mode, portrait-mode and no warnings at the start.

http://www.youtube.com/zehjotkah#p/u/0/Ap68fgJmCmo

Also I've posted this How-To on my blog in german, too.

http://zehjotkah.blogspot.com/2010/03/sygic-modden.html


Fullscreen-mode:
open X-Terminal and type in the following:
root
vi /usr/share/applications/hildon/sygic.desktop

move cursor with arrow buttons.
click button "a" for editing mode.
change
Exec=/opt/sygic/Drive/Maemo/drive -cwd=/home/user/MyDocs/Drive/Maemo
to
Exec=/opt/sygic/Drive/Maemo/drive -cwd=/home/user/MyDocs/Drive/Maemo -rfull
click Esc on screen for quit editing mode
type in
:w
and hit enter to save

Next enable all menu entries (and therefore the portrait mode) and disable the warning.

Connect your N900 with PC.
Open the 32GB memory (for example G: )
Change to this directory:G:\Drive\Maemo
rename menu.ini for example to menuold.ini.
save and close

open settings.ini.
search for showSafetyMsg=true and change it to showSafetyMsg=falseAttention! There are two lines, both have to end with =false.
save end close


If you have problems with lags read the post from D-Iivil:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=574624&postcount=16

If you want to rearrange your menu (for example the quit button on the first page) check out the post from dread123:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=575021&postcount=42

If you want to change the colors of the menu as well as the map colors, check out another post from dread123:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=575224&postcount=55

If you want to remove the zoom-in and zoom-out buttons on the top check out another post from dread123:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=576216&postcount=79

If you need to replace the sygic.desktop file (if you've made a mistake) and you know how to replace it: here is a clean, fullscreen-enabled one:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=574626&postcount=30

If you want to change the color of the line assistant, check out the post from basp:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=601224&postcount=173

If you want to change the splashscreen, check out the post from YoDude:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=612844&postcount=198

Have fun with Sygic!

[rolan900d]

You are my hero over here

[Tomaszd]

Why do you need to connect the phone to a PC to edit the settings.ini file?
It's right there in /home/user/MyDocs/Drive/Maemo, you can edit it using leafpad or vi, you can also easily make a backup of it using the cp command. Why this craziness?

[R-R]

Hopefully they'll release north american maps in no time ...

[zehjotkah]

Why do you need to connect the phone to a PC to edit the settings.ini file?
It's right there in /home/user/MyDocs/Drive/Maemo, you can edit it using leafpad or vi, you can also easily make a backup of it using the cp command. Why this craziness?

because it's easier for the average user.
Users who know how to edit it with vi don't need my how-to...
The first thing I'm editing with vi, because it's more difficult to get access to these file with your PC than editing with vi.

[zehjotkah]

Hopefully they'll release north american maps in no time ...

you can use the maps from the symbian version, but please discuss here only the Sygic mods (there are far more things to mod, like map-color and so on) and use the other thread for non-mod related questions.

[dread123]

here we go if you fancy playing about with your settings etc..been playing with this for last few hrs to see what i can do :p

might be of help to some?

http://www.sygic.com/partners/Settings7_72.pdf

[*Sonic*]

How do you change the voices with different one (like TomTom can change to 'celebrity' voices) I prefer a female english speaking voice to the male speaking voice

[zehjotkah]

There is a Sygic Voice Packager, which can be used to record own voices.

[tuXer]

Has anyone been able to set higher volume? The device can do better... Maybe sygic cannot use highest volume somehow... And fm transmitter isn't the answer for this.

[*Sonic*]

I dotn want to record my own voice, what I would like to do is maybe use the TomTom female voice, or even use the John Cleese one I have :)

[zehjotkah]

I dotn want to record my own voice, what I would like to do is maybe use the TomTom female voice, or even use the John Cleese one I have :)

yes, I just was thinking loud ;-)
maybe it would be possible to rerecord the voices with this voice packager..

[torres76]

I dotn want to record my own voice, what I would like to do is maybe use the TomTom female voice, or even use the John Cleese one I have :)

yeah i asked that before i have 12 different celebrity voices.that i would lovr to use need to some how change the format from .VIF

[Rob1n]

yeah i asked that before i have 12 different celebrity voices.that i would lovr to use need to some how change the format from .VIF

You can do it (there's unpackers for TomTom and packers for Sygic) but apparently there's not a match up on sound files between the two (Sygic uses more sounds). Not sure this means in practice though.

[jakiman]

The lag/delay disappeared completely after changing following in settings.ini

PositionFiltering=false (default is true)

The movement of the arrow isn't as smooth but it is definitely more accurate. (accurate to within 5m)

[buxz777]

good thread just wanted to say thanks appreciated muchly

:-)

[seva.lapsha]

Anyone managed to switch keyboard layout in Sygic? In the settings I can select Russian/Greek keyboards, but cannot choose them when I go to typing the address. There is a button seemingly mentioned to switch layouts, but it disabled.

[matar]

hi
i got it working, but it always go back to the original settings and lose the ones i changed (e.g home location, enable radar etc) any idea why
thanks

[jesuska]

hi
i got it working, but it always go back to the original settings and lose the ones i changed (e.g home location, enable radar etc) any idea why
thanks
same issue, discussed here
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=47786&goto=newpost

[jakiman]

I would really like it to start at Portrait orientation. But it always launches as landscape so you have to manually change it to portrait everytime. Is there no way to change this?

[zehjotkah]

I would really like it to start at Portrait orientation. But it always launches as landscape so you have to manually change it to portrait everytime. Is there no way to change this?

I haven't found out how to change this yet.
But it's on my list the 1st priority..

[lma]

Anyone managed to switch keyboard layout in Sygic? In the settings I can select Russian/Greek keyboards, but cannot choose them when I go to typing the address. There is a button seemingly mentioned to switch layouts, but it disabled.

Works for me (it's the globe button on the bottom right of the keyboard).

[willem43]

Thanks ! changing menu and loosing warning site worked fine for me.
I have another problem:
Sygic uses lots of power. In found it necessary to continuously connect the device to the charger while driving.
In portrait mode the connection for charging is on top of the device - which causes the charging cable hanging around stupidly, and possible damage to the connector.
Is it possible to flip over portrait mode 180 degrees ?

[dimkit]

thanks a lot this is a very good mod , but i would like to make a silly connection .
How can i return back to desktop (for opening another application) if i have fullscreen (i know the way with the backspace) but lets say that i have the phone on the navigattion case in my car , where i can not open the keyboard or press the shut down button.

[zehjotkah]

thanks a lot this is a very good mod , but i would like to make a silly connection .
How can i return back to desktop (for opening another application) if i have fullscreen (i know the way with the backspace) but lets say that i have the phone on the navigattion case in my car , where i can not open the keyboard or press the shut down button.

you can install camkeyd, which enables pressing the cam-button half the way (if the camera-slider is closed) to open the taskswitcher.

[zehjotkah]

Thanks ! changing menu and loosing warning site worked fine for me.
I have another problem:
Sygic uses lots of power. In found it necessary to continuously connect the device to the charger while driving.
In portrait mode the connection for charging is on top of the device - which causes the charging cable hanging around stupidly, and possible damage to the connector.
Is it possible to flip over portrait mode 180 degrees ?

also it would be nice to change the orientation based on the accelerometer.
Sygic, are you reading this? ;)

[borghal]

There's an app in extras-devel called camkeyd (or the like) which lets you use the camera button as task-switcher.

[EDIT] beat by a minute...

[Strutten]

Is there anyone who could be kind enough to upload their sygic.desktop from /usr/share/applications/hildon? It would be very much appriciated... I was to eager to play that I didn't make a copy...

[zehjotkah]

Is there anyone who could be kind enough to upload their sygic.desktop from /usr/share/applications/hildon? It would be very much appriciated... I was to eager to play that I didn't make a copy...

here you are...
this is the fullscreen enabled file.

[Strutten]

here you are...
this is the fullscreen enabled file.

You saved my weekend!! Thank you!!

[torsen]

Mine keeps defaulting to km's instead of miles on start up, even if I have previously changed the distance units in the regional settings.

I have changed the default unit setting from kilometers to miles by changing the unit value in the settings ini but this doesn't seem to have made an difference and it still starts up again in km's.

Is there anything I can do to change this?

Thanks

[zehjotkah]

Mine keeps defaulting to km's instead of miles on start up, even if I have previously changed the distance units in the regional settings.

I have changed the default unit setting from kilometers to miles by changing the unit value in the settings ini but this doesn't seem to have made an difference and it still starts up again in km's.

Is there anything I can do to change this?

Thanks

you have to close Sygic via the menu. Not via the X. Then it saves every preferences you've made.

[torsen]

you have to close Sygic via the menu. Not via the X. Then it saves every preferences you've made.

Doh! Thanks :)

[Dave999]

The lag/delay disappeared completely after changing following in settings.ini

PositionFiltering=false

The movement of the arrow isn't as smooth but it is definitely more accurate. (accurate to within 5m)

Sounds great, so is it usable in this state or is the arrow to jumpy?

[bockersjv]

Just spotted this, my thread can be deleted or merged. Great work zehjotkah. I did search last night when i started writing but probably before you posted :D

[Strutten]

Does anyone know how to remove the "are you sure you want to quit"-message while quiting?

[Hardknox]

I Think Sygic not implemented auto rotate

[TA-t3]

you have to close Sygic via the menu. Not via the X. Then it saves every preferences you've made.
Hm. That's actually a bug in Sygic. An X11 application closed via the 'x' in the window manager should behave as when closed with 'Close' in the menu. The 'x' isn't a kill -9.

[Jaco2k]

What is the max or ideal value to set FPS to?

[Strutten]

What is the max or ideal value to set FPS to?

16 is what i've read on this forum.

[dread123]

Want to re-arrange the buttons on sygic- i moved my "exit"button so it was one front page??

...just navigate to res,skins. then open application file with note pad or a text editor.

Then control and F = find and type in menu.main.exit

it will then search and should come up with 2 instances of the above text. all i did was then copy the first instance and paste further up in the "menu" section and swapped one over to its old place-if that makes sense and then save.

Under the Menu section -you will see this

menu.main.navigateTo
menu.main.browseMap
menu.main.alternative
menu.main.memorize
menu.main.extras
menu.main.exit
menu.main.viewRoute

menu.main.itinerary
menu.main.managePoi
menu.main.gpsStatus
menu.main.settings
menu.main.exitmenu.main.extras
menu.main.traffic"

Just copy menu.main.exit and paste within the first 6
---
menu.main.navigateTo
menu.main.browseMap
menu.main.alternative
menu.main.memorize
menu.main.exit
menu.main.viewRoute

menu.main.itinerary
menu.main.managePoi
menu.main.gpsStatus
menu.main.settings
menu.main.extras
menu.main.traffic"

like that and then save

restarted sygic and now have exit button on front page!


works with editing the whole menu..move whatever where you want to.

[Dave999]

16 is what i've read on this forum.

Where is this flag?

[dread123]

its in settings.ini -right at top -FPS=

set to wahtever you want -the more the smooher- but obviously more resource drain. 16-20 is a good compromise

[torsen]

its in settings.ini -right at top -FPS=

set to wahtever you want -the more the smooher- but obviously more resource drain. 16-20 is a good compromise

Yep 16 has worked well for me

[Mukiker]

also it would be nice to change the orientation based on the accelerometer.
Sygic, are you reading this? ;)

A friend of mine has Sygic on iPhone and he says they keep delivering on their brand claim... which is like 'we care' or similar. Let's see if they are going to be that much passionate about Maemo.

[zehjotkah]

@dme4ils please can you remove that link. It's a forum, where warez is offered. Since the t.m.o servers are paid by nokia, we can't link to such sites.
Instead you could check, if theses voices don't violate copyrights and if not you can upload them here.

edit: updated first post, so there are now links to some useful posts.
Thanks to Jakiman and dread123!

[les_garten]

Betty? No Veronica?

[cardiff-blues]

Want to re-arrange the buttons on sygic- i moved my "exit"button so it was one front page??

...just navigate to res,skins. then open application file with note pad or a text editor.

Then control and F = find and type in menu.main.exit

it will then search and should come up with 2 instances of the above text. all i did was then copy the first instance and paste further up in the "menu" section and swapped one over to its old place-if that makes sense and then save.

restarted sygic and now have exit button on front page!


works with editing the whole menu..move whatever where you want to.

When you say "copy the first instance". Can you post the full line of code as I seem to have several lines that could be part of that section.

[msa]

where exactly is this settings.ini (the file you change the fps in) -.-

[dread123]

Under the Menu section -you will see this

menu.main.navigateTo
menu.main.browseMap
menu.main.alternative
menu.main.memorize
menu.main.extras
menu.main.exit
menu.main.viewRoute

menu.main.itinerary
menu.main.managePoi
menu.main.gpsStatus
menu.main.settings
menu.main.exitmenu.main.extras
menu.main.traffic"

Just copy menu.main.exit and paste within the first 6
---
menu.main.navigateTo
menu.main.browseMap
menu.main.alternative
menu.main.memorize
menu.main.exit
menu.main.viewRoute

menu.main.itinerary
menu.main.managePoi
menu.main.gpsStatus
menu.main.settings
menu.main.extras
menu.main.traffic"

like that and then save

[Dave999]

where exactly is this settings.ini (the file you change the fps in) -.-

Drive-->Maemo-->settings.ini

[zehjotkah]

When you say "copy the first instance". Can you post the full line of code as I seem to have several lines that could be part of that section.

and if you do, dread123, could you please edit your original post, too (because I've linked it on the first post...)

Thanks!!

[puiradu]

hi! could someone help me to make the romania map who is working in 7.60 version of sygic to work on this one, 7.71.

please help me because the lastest map provided by sygic is only for mainroads.

any ideeas?

[dread123]

Sygic color

Sygic Colors is the ultimate Sygic Drive customization Tool.



- Change Colors, Font Types and Sizes,

- Extract and change icons and bitmaps


- Change roads visibility and draw style.

- Import Color & Font configuration from another sygic folder.

http://w13.easy-share.com/1701313535.html

small help file uploaded for some options :p

no idea how to use it so try google- i am trying to play with at moment though

[puiradu]

Sygic color

Sygic Colors is the ultimate Sygic Drive customization Tool.


And that should help me?

[les_garten]

Sygic color

Sygic Colors is the ultimate Sygic Drive customization Tool.



- Change Colors, Font Types and Sizes,

- Extract and change icons and bitmaps


- Change roads visibility and draw style.

- Import Color & Font configuration from another sygic folder.

http://w13.easy-share.com/1701313535.html

Ohh Boy! Here we go now!!

:cool:

[zehjotkah]

And that should help me?

he has not answered to your post...
this is the Sygic mods thread... not the Sygic problems thread..

btw. updated first post (included last post from dread123... Thanks! keep it coming!)

[puiradu]

he doesn't replied to you...


Great! Just thinking... Could anyone give me an answer? Or you are just passing-by? Could, Should, Didn't, Can't, .... WTF!

To Summarize: Sygic 7.60 working maps! How to make them work with 7.71? I think it is about customizing Sygic!

[zehjotkah]

Great! Just thinking... Could anyone give me an answer? Or you are just passing-by? Could, Should, Didn't, Can't, .... WTF!

To Summarize: Sygic 7.60 working maps! How to make them work with 7.71? I think it is about customizing Sygic!

This thread is about modding Sygic. Modding is not adding maps.
Please post your question in this (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=47786) oder this (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=34409) thread (first is preferred).
Just some quick info. adding other maps is possible!
Please keep this thread as clean as possible.
Thanks!

[eikido]

How can i stay in portrait mode when i fire up sygic. It always goes back to landscape mode after a restart of the program.

Edit:
Saw someone else asked this question. No solution yet.

[Desmodromic]

Any mod available for auto-rotating the maps?

[dread123]

auto-rotation should be available within next week or so...:p

quick mod for anyone that wants to assign rotation to their "down arrow key"

open keymap.ini and scroll down to vkrotate = 000 change it to 84 and save.
restart app and now you can change rotation by pressing Down Arrow instead of going through the menu :)

[Watergate]

sorry to be newbie but how do you open all ini files to mod?

[dread123]

open with a text editor -connect via mass mode and navigate to where files are...or edit on the n900 with leafpad?

[bluewizard]

auto-rotation should be available within next week or so...:p


Not sure how wise auto rotation would be though.

I had my N95 set to auto rotate. When using Route66 the jolts when driving kept changing its orientation. A good few times the program crashed because of it.

[Watergate]

thanks for the help dread123 however I still have some doubts as my sygic ( Danish version ) does not contain the following options:

1/ Traffic information
2/ Sound options ( I only have sound on/off ) not any other options
3/ GPS Hardware
4/ Left handed option
5/ City Center

[StocChr]

@dread123
do you have a key number list?

[dread123]

not yet :p

[StocChr]

and why do you know the numbers for space and down arrow?
i have the german keyboard layout. a list would be usefull for me.
do you have a internet source for this problem?

[dread123]

a list would be usefull for me too!

[dimkit]

For my country there are 2 maps from 2 different companies , both maps works but whenever i want to change a map , i have to go through explorer and rename the one map from GRC to GRC1 and again if i want to change map i , have to invert the rename again .
is there a way to make this through sygic.

[alex-000]

is possible to remove + and - keys on the map during navigation

[msa]

is possible to remove + and - keys on the map during navigation

is this a question or a statement?

[alex-000]

is this a question or a statement?

ops sorry, a queation!!!

[dread123]

more than likely ...been trying to figure it out at moment :)

[dread123]

got rid of the zoom in but having difficulty with the zoom out :p

[msa]

ops sorry, a queation!!!

a queation?
you mean an equation?

:D

naaah dont mind, i'm just making fun of you :>

[dread123]

ok if you want to remove the zoom in and zoom out buttons that are on top, you will need to delte couple lines from the application file in res folder
just remember i cant be held accountable if you mess it up.best thing to do is make a copy of it and keep safe :)


look for this section :


<class id="naviControl" xsi:type="classControl"

Then just delete the following lines :

zoomInBitmap="_b.zoomIn"
zoomInBitmap_="_b.zoomIn_"


zoomOutBitmap="_b.zoomOut"
zoomOutBitmap_="_b.zoomOut_"

then start the application and both buttons are removed..you can still zoom using arrow keys if you wish- just gives you little more room at top :)

[les_garten]

ok if you want to remove the zoom in and zoom out buttons that are on top, you will need to delte couple lines from the application file in res folder
just remember i cant be held accountable if you mess it up.best thing to do is make a copy of it and keep safe :)


look for this section :


<class id="naviControl" xsi:type="classControl"

Then just delete the following lines :

zoomInBitmap="_b.zoomIn"
zoomInBitmap_="_b.zoomIn_"


zoomOutBitmap="_b.zoomOut"
zoomOutBitmap_="_b.zoomOut_"

then start the application and both buttons are removed..you can still zoom using arrow keys if you wish- just gives you little more room at top :)

Why would you want to get rid of the +/- ?

[dread123]

no idea mate..someone asked earlier in thread..so i helped out..gives slightly more viewing space..plus u can still zoom with cursors.

[les_garten]

no idea mate..someone asked earlier in thread..so i helped out..gives slightly more viewing space..plus u can still zoom with cursors.

By Cursors, you mean arrow keys on the Keyboard?

[dread123]

yep thats the one..they all work by zooming in and out. unless you modify like i done to have left/right arrowas for zooming and down for rotate and up for 2d/3d.

[der_stefan]

Hi,

any idea how to turn portrait mode for 180 deg ?

I am going to attach the n900 to my car, and i want the cable on the bottom, not at the top of the device.

Any ideas ?

[zehjotkah]

Hi,

any idea how to turn portrait mode for 180 deg ?

I am going to attach the n900 to my car, and i want the cable on the bottom, not at the top of the device.

Any ideas ?

Hi Stefan!

That is currently not supported afaik.
Sygic is working on rotation based on the accelerometer. Maybe the logic portrait modus is then supported, too.

[cardiff-blues]

Want to re-arrange the buttons on sygic- i moved my "exit"button so it was one front page??

...just navigate to res,skins. then open application file with note pad or a text editor.

Then control and F = find and type in menu.main.exit

it will then search and should come up with 2 instances of the above text. all i did was then copy the first instance and paste further up in the "menu" section and swapped one over to its old place-if that makes sense and then save.

Under the Menu section -you will see this

menu.main.navigateTo
menu.main.browseMap
menu.main.alternative
menu.main.memorize
menu.main.extras
menu.main.exit
menu.main.viewRoute

menu.main.itinerary
menu.main.managePoi
menu.main.gpsStatus
menu.main.settings
menu.main.exitmenu.main.extras
menu.main.traffic"

Just copy menu.main.exit and paste within the first 6
---
menu.main.navigateTo
menu.main.browseMap
menu.main.alternative
menu.main.memorize
menu.main.exit
menu.main.viewRoute

menu.main.itinerary
menu.main.managePoi
menu.main.gpsStatus
menu.main.settings
menu.main.extras
menu.main.traffic"

like that and then save

restarted sygic and now have exit button on front page!


works with editing the whole menu..move whatever where you want to.

Just tried this but now Sygic just keeps crashing every time i try to run it. Any ideas?

[cardiff-blues]

Could someone PM me a copy of a working application file as when trying to change the menu items around by following the mod in this forum I think I have messed up and it just keeps crashing. Thanks.

[casper27]

Could someone PM me a copy of a working application file as when trying to change the menu items around by following the mod in this forum I think I have messed up and it just keeps crashing. Thanks.

Here is the original application.dat. Is that the one you wanted?

[cardiff-blues]

Here is the original application.dat. Is that the one you wanted?

Thanks...I think it's the application.skin that I amended and did the damage to. Could send us that one...

EDIT:
I think this is the one.......let me check.

[casper27]

Thanks...I think it's the application.skin that I amended and did the damage to. Could send us that one...

EDIT:
I think this is the one.......let me check.

Heres the application skin

[cardiff-blues]

Heres the application skin

Thanks Casper. Works fine now. Not sure what went wrong with my other file. Cheers once again.

[jplaville]

Hello.

Is possible to activate tmc traffic infos in N900 Sygic ?

Thanks.

[zehjotkah]

Hello.

Is possible to activate tmc traffic infos in N900 Sygic ?

Thanks.

not yet.
there will be traffic infos over 3G, don't know if there will be over TMC..

[psrkn]

Hi,
Do you know how to delete addresses created from the favorite folder? I cann't locate any edit/modify option to modify them. And i sent the question to Sygic support, but i have not heard from them yet. So, i am seeking for help here.
Thanks.

[Ronaldo]

zehjotkah

do you think the auto rotate that sygic is working on will have "phones status bar" at the top if not in full screen mode? this will allow me to switch apps nicely.

thanks ;)

[zehjotkah]

zehjotkah

do you think the auto rotate that sygic is working on will have "phones status bar" at the top if not in full screen mode? this will allow me to switch apps nicely.

thanks ;)

yes, the statusbar is always on top, unlike in the previous version.

[zehjotkah]

They're even trying to implement autorotation in EVERY direction. So the N900 can be used that the USB (charging-) port is on the bottom -> better use in car.

[Ronaldo]

ask them to put a icon on the screen for window switch when in fullscreen :D

[zehjotkah]

ask them to put a icon on the screen for window switch when in fullscreen :D

That is not possible so easily, because they want to have the same software on all platforms. Because of that they have to stay with windowed mode only, too, because the Ovi Store requires a easy way to change windows.

But I think, that would be the ideal solution, too.
Sygic: please think about it again, you would made happy a lot of N900 users.

[NokiaRocks]

Are you working for Sygic now or where did u get all the infos zehjotkah ? :p

[zehjotkah]

Are you working for Sygic now or where did u get all the infos zehjotkah ? :p

No, I'm working WITH them
There is a difference... ;)

(e.g. I don't get paid :D)

[casper27]

One thing I have noticed is that if you add a favourite IE home/mum ect the phone icon is greyed out and there does not seem to be any where to add a phone number. This would be a great feature say if your running late ect.
I know you can call pre loaded poi which have phone numbers.

[torres76]

hi everyone any one know of a vif to pak converter so i can mod my voices.

[dashti]

when i play my songs on the media player
all the voice sound i can hear it...how can i hide it from the media :(

[jesuska]

when i play my songs on the media player
all the voice sound i can hear it...how can i hide it from the media :(

haha yeah me too
first time i heard one , was turkish or sumfink.. i was like WTF ? ^^
well, haven't succeeded in hiding them
but they are just demos, you could delete them all and not touch the language settings anymore...
haven't tried tho.

[zehjotkah]

One thing I have noticed is that if you add a favourite IE home/mum ect the phone icon is greyed out and there does not seem to be any where to add a phone number. This would be a great feature say if your running late ect.
I know you can call pre loaded poi which have phone numbers.

calling and routing directly to contacs from the address book is coming in a new version.

[spag]

when i play my songs on the media player
all the voice sound i can hear it...how can i hide it from the media :(

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=431617&postcount=6

[gLobster]

Attempt to switch input keyboard language (from Russian to English by press ctrl+space) freeze and crashed Sygic. Is it possible to block hardware keyboard input ?

[jesuska]

dont know if this has been already mentionned, but i find the roadsign fontsize too small to be readable from a driving position.

The signs that display city directions, road numbers ....

Is there a config file to modify the fontsize ?

thanks

[jesuska]

Question:
1: What is .Mod and .Tod video?
BLAHBLAHBLAHHHH

D Ripper[/url]

WTF man ? can someone remove this ?

[SubCore]

WTF man ? can someone remove this ?

i already reported it as spam a few hours ago. seems the mods are busy or something :)

[jesuska]

dont know if this has been already mentionned, but i find the roadsign fontsize too small to be readable from a driving position.

The signs that display city directions, road numbers ....

Is there a config file to modify the fontsize ?

thanks

Oh and think the french voice algorythm is ****ed up.

Numbers shown on the signs dont match with what the french voice says...
:-(

it says the same for 61 and 71.
and says "soixante-un" instead of "soixante-et-un"
same with 21 : "vingt-un" instead of "ving-et-un"
it also says "soixante-et-sept" instead of "soixante-sept" for 67

its all ****ed up ... :(

is this mod-able at all ? or maye needs to be reported as language bug to be corrected in future release ... ?

[jesuska]

So just to point the guy in charge of the french voice in the right direction , this is how french works for numbers (just the special cases):

11 onze
12 douze
13 treize
14 quatorze
15 quinze
16 seize
17 dix-sept
18 dix-huit
19 dix-neuf
...
21 vingt-ET-un
22,23,24, etc... vingt-deux, vingt-trois, vingt-quatre ...

31 trente-ET-un
32, 33 ,34 etc... trente-deux, trente-trois, trente-quatre

ETC....

71 soixante-ET-ONZE (60 et 11)
72 soixante-douze .... treize ... quatorze (60-12) (60-13) (60-14) etc...

80 quatre-vingt (4x20)
81 quatre-vingt-un (no "ET" !! )
82 , 83 ,84 .... quatre-vingt-deux, quatre-vingt-trois, quatre-vingt-quatre

...

90 ,91,92, quatre-vingt-dix ...-onze ...-douze etc...

!
done
!

I hope the right guy will read this ! :)

sorry if this eventually ended off topic... i dont know where to report.

[bockersjv]

So just to point the guy in charge of the french voice in the right direction , this is how french works for numbers (just the special cases):
..

sorry if this eventually ended off topic... i dont know where to report.

There is "Problems with Sygic" thread. Best add it there too.

John

[jesuska]

Lol..the other topic
i actually started it

yeah shame on me !:D

i need to defragment my brainz

[torres76]

...............

[pabloniss]

i want to know how add poi's.. I'm nothing find usefull..
anyones knows...

[Ronaldo]

How to stop Sygic Sounds showing up on mediplayer

If like me you hate seeing Sygic sound files on your media player you can stop media player indexing it.

You need to edit the tracker config file (/home/user/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg)

look for the line

# List of directory roots NOT to index and NOT to watch (separator=;)

NoWatchDirectory=

and at the end put: $HOME/MyDocs/Res/;

also if you do not want picodrive mega CD games mp3 showing do:

$HOME/MyDocs/.documents/PicoDrive/;$HOME/MyDocs/Res/;

then

in terminal "tracker-processes -r" (it will take while for phone to find your normal audio/video files)

This is not for every one so becareful when doing this, if your are not sure how to please do not attempt it.

(credit to Rob1n for helping me)

[mzanetti]

Hi Sygic modders!

I just had an idea but not sure yet how this turns out.

The problem is: When listening to music in the car one often cannot understand what a navigation system is saying.

Possible mod/solution:
I have seen there is a voice packager for sygic. So theoretically it should be possible to unpack the current voices, and add traffic announcement sounds to those files. Then, set the radio up to listen for TA announcements on the N900s FM transmitters frequency to make TA enabled radios switch to the navigation sounds and then back to CD/MP3/Whatever.

I have not tested this and don't know if it would be possible to do this with sygic audio files or if they are split up in tons of smaller files and making this proposal impossible. Anyone with experience with RDS, TA, Sygic and so on could make some statement about this?

Better yet, portable navigation system manufacturers like Sygic could/should make use of the TA feature for exactly this use-case.

[HammY]

Hi Sygic modders!

I just had an idea but not sure yet how this turns out.

The problem is: When listening to music in the car one often cannot understand what a navigation system is saying.

Possible mod/solution:
I have seen there is a voice packager for sygic. So theoretically it should be possible to unpack the current voices, and add traffic announcement sounds to those files. Then, set the radio up to listen for TA announcements on the N900s FM transmitters frequency to make TA enabled radios switch to the navigation sounds and then back to CD/MP3/Whatever.

I have not tested this and don't know if it would be possible to do this with sygic audio files or if they are split up in tons of smaller files and making this proposal impossible. Anyone with experience with RDS, TA, Sygic and so on could make some statement about this?

Better yet, portable navigation system manufacturers like Sygic could/should make use of the TA feature for exactly this use-case.

... nice idea ! I've no idea what attributes TA's have on FM radio (RDS), but as you say this would be great if Sygic could do this.


--
HammY

[flydeep]

I downloaded poi's from poiplaza.com, looks good for those which belong to a state. Where do I place the USA upi files? The file names start with USA-xxxx?

Sygic doesn't seem to recognize the files placed in maps folder.

[casper27]

Anyone found a way of increasing the max volume. I know theres a volume slider built in but the N900 can go way louder than that.

[Kamikaze]

Would it be possible to run the voice files through something like Sound Forge and boost the recordings manually for each one then put them back into the relevant directory? I've only been able to find the .ogg 'sound' files rather than the 'voice' files so I haven't been able to try this.

[x61]

Anyone found a way of increasing the max volume. I know theres a volume slider built in but the N900 can go way louder than that.

Some claimed they have been able to transmit the sound to an fm station but I have not tried it because I have no idea how to go about doing it.

[cardiff-blues]

Some claimed they have been able to transmit the sound to an fm station but I have not tried it because I have no idea how to go about doing it.

You'd do this with pairing the FM transmitter frequency on the N900 with the FM frequency on your radio.

The problem I have found with doing this is that when the sygic voice starts to speak sometimes - there is a slight delay before it comes through the car radio and so misses the first part of the instruction.

Whether that is an issue with my Vauxhall Car Radio or a general one I don't know.

[nthx]

I downloaded poi's from poiplaza.com, looks good for those which belong to a state. Where do I place the USA upi files? The file names start with USA-xxxx?

Sygic doesn't seem to recognize the files placed in maps folder.

there are 2 files: icon + pois. pois to maps/your-country-here/
icon to res/icons

though I experience almost always instant crashes when I quickly browse map with all pois enabled (original and from poiplaza).
t.

[Natan_xy]

How to stop Sygic Sounds showing up on mediplayer

If like me you hate seeing Sygic sound files on your media player you can stop media player indexing it.

You need to edit the tracker config file (/home/user/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg)
[CUT]
This is not for every one so becareful when doing this, if your are not sure how to please do not attempt it.
i suggest you use tracker-cfg, it’s a really great and easy-to-use program

[flydeep]

for the USA maps, there is a subfolder for each state in /maps/statexx/ while the poi's are USA-yyy. I understand your logic of putting the poi files in the country but there is no USA country folder as such ....

there are 2 files: icon + pois. pois to maps/your-country-here/
icon to res/icons

though I experience almost always instant crashes when I quickly browse map with all pois enabled (original and from poiplaza).
t.

[HammY]

You'd do this with pairing the FM transmitter frequency on the N900 with the FM frequency on your radio.

The problem I have found with doing this is that when the sygic voice starts to speak sometimes - there is a slight delay before it comes through the car radio and so misses the first part of the instruction.

Whether that is an issue with my Vauxhall Car Radio or a general one I don't know.

No delay in hearing the instruction on my (old) Vauxhall. Are you playing anything continuous via the the FM transmitter ? - the FM transmitter will turn off in there is nothing playing, and may be slow in starting when it occasionally gets something to play. I usually have some music playing from my N900 and Cygic briefly pauses this to play any instructions/warnings. Works great for me. If you don't want music playing, someone suggested recording a silent mp3 and playing this in a loop in the music player.

[Kamikaze]

No delay in hearing the instruction on my (old) Vauxhall. Are you playing anything continuous via the the FM transmitter ? - the FM transmitter will turn off in there is nothing playing, and may be slow in starting when it occasionally gets something to play. I usually have some music playing from my N900 and Cygic briefly pauses this to play any instructions/warnings. Works great for me. If you don't want music playing, someone suggested recording a silent mp3 and playing this in a loop in the music player.

Does using media player at the same time not crash the phone? I usually use panucci as most of the music I play is podcasts or long sets and every time the phone crashes after two or three commands from Sygic and I have to take the battery out. This combination is the only thing that makes my phone crash.

[zehjotkah]

Does using media player at the same time not crash the phone? I usually use panucci as most of the music I play is podcasts or long sets and every time the phone crashes after two or three commands from Sygic and I have to take the battery out. This combination is the only thing that makes my phone crash.

No, using mediaplayer and Sygc together does not crash the phone.
In fact they're playing together really well..

[jesuska]

No, using mediaplayer and Sygc together does not crash the phone.
In fact they're playing together really well..

except when u are driving with directions, the gps is quite talkative, and the music gets cut into a lot of poor pieces....
would be really better if the music volume just went down a bit so that the gps instructions is heared clearly...

[zehjotkah]

except when u are driving with directions, the gps is quite talkative, and the music gets cut into a lot of poor pieces....
would be really better if the music volume just went down a bit so that the gps instructions is heared clearly...

the music will be paused and resumed..
but I will talk to them, asking for lower volume instead of pause.

[Kamikaze]

No, using mediaplayer and Sygc together does not crash the phone.
In fact they're playing together really well..

Damn that's really annoying, I was wish the media player had the feature to remember how far through the track it was when last played.

[jesuska]

the music will be paused and resumed..
but I will talk to them, asking for lower volume instead of pause.

Yes , it is paused and resumed, and you get the new track notification to appear each time (if you have enabled it).

It is not a big deal, tho, but if you sing along, its impossible to follow the music ! ^^

Thank you for trying to convince them :)

[zehjotkah]

Damn that's really annoying, I was wish the media player had the feature to remember how far through the track it was when last played.

???
the music will pause and resume. not start from beginning.

[zehjotkah]

Thank you for trying to convince them :)

They're looking into lower the volume of the music from the media player and not pause it. But that isn't so easy.

I'm quoting:

Sygic is using pulseadio to playing sounds, and I think, there is possibility to play only one sound at time - you request permissions for playing (what means stop playing other sounds), then you play sound, then you release permissions (other sounds may play).
But as I said, sound playing will be redesign, someday...

What does that mean? Sygic is using pulseaudio to play the sounds, like the mediaplayer. With pulseaudio it isn't possible to play two sounds at one time. (If anyone have a idea, you're VERY welcome). You can test it by open lets say glTron and then open the mediaplayer. Sound from glTron will stop as soon as your music starts. After that test the same thing with glTron and SuperTux. There it is possible because they're using a different system, afaik.

Therefore Sygic want to redesign the whole sound-stack someday.

[psrkn]

My Sygic works great after I made all the modifications as suggested by you and D-livil. Thanks again.

I have another request. My green arrow direction, especially the tip of the arrow, is somehow past where my car is actually located. For example, when I stop my car at the middle of an intersection, the middle of the arrow is at the intersection, but the tip of the arrow is already past the intersection. How would I change the settings in the "settings.ini" file's parameter to make the point of the arrow to be right at the intersection?
I would appreciate very much your help.

[SubCore]

With pulseaudio it isn't possible to play two sounds at one time. (If anyone have a idea, you're VERY welcome).

That's a pretty big pile of BS. (btw, this is the second time they've shown little to no knowledge of basic linux/maemo components... the first was the fact that they originally inteded to split the map packages into many small pieces so they fit into /opt, instead of using MyDocs for the map data...)

one of the main advantages of pulseaudio is the fact that it's a sound _server_, capable of receiving and mixing several audio sources.
you can even send the output of several pulseaudio servers to one single audio sink over a network...

click here (http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Architecture/Multimedia_Domain#PulseAudio) for more info on the maemo specific implementation of pulseaudio.


sygic was probably talking about ALSA, one of the oldest sound architectures for linux. with alsa, it is indeed impossible to play two sources simultaneously. but then, that's why we have PA as the default audio arch on the N900...

[qwerty12]

Maybe they weren't even referring to sound servers at all. Check out the closed-source and undocumented (save for Doxygen comments in its headers) libplayback, and the closed-source policy plugins that go with it. They can limit what is played. (Think of some applications not outputting sound in Silent mode or not being allowed to press the play button on the media player whilst in a call.)

[Ronaldo]

My Sygic works great after I made all the modifications as suggested by you and D-livil. Thanks again.

I have another request. My green arrow direction, especially the tip of the arrow, is somehow past where my car is actually located. For example, when I stop my car at the middle of an intersection, the middle of the arrow is at the intersection, but the tip of the arrow is already past the intersection. How would I change the settings in the "settings.ini" file's parameter to make the point of the arrow to be right at the intersection?
I would appreciate very much your help.

try zooming out a bit

[zehjotkah]

Thanks SubCore for your response!

I've just quoted, what Sygic said to me. I've forwarded your answer. Lets see, what they think.

[SubCore]

Maybe they weren't even referring to sound servers at all. Check out the closed-source and undocumented (save for Doxygen comments in its headers) libplayback, and the closed-source policy plugins that go with it.

you're probably right.
it seems that the default media player is very greedy when it comes to audio output (i never noticed that before, as i don't use it). no other audio sources get through as long as it is playing.
mediabox and mplayer f.ex. can both send audio at the same time no problem, but the media player seems to take precedence over everything...

damn proprietary implementations :P

[SubCore]

Thanks SubCore for your response!

I've just quoted, what Sygic said to me. I've forwarded your answer. Lets see, what they think.

i wasn't aware that the media player doesn't just send its output as a normal pulseaudio client...
so the issue was probably just (very *g*) badly expressed in the mail you received and quoted...

[zehjotkah]

edit: you got PM, SubCore ;)

[jesuska]

do you mean that if we use an alternate audio player, it might not pause the music to send gps messages ?
gonna try to see how it behaves

[jesuska]

do you mean that if we use an alternate audio player, it might not pause the music to send gps messages ?
gonna try to see how it behaves

tried mediabox..
same behaviour as with default music player, sound pauses.

[YoDude]

do you mean that if we use an alternate audio player, it might not pause the music to send gps messages ?
gonna try to see how it behaves

Maybe not...

However, an independently developed media player front end could possibly be launched with bare bones controls (advance song. etc) from within Sygic's menu's I would think.

The interruptions are not too bothersome for me though.

The songs on my N900 are basically the sound track of my life. I use the British dude as my Sygic voice. So when when this dude interrupts Tull's "Locomotive Breath" or Santana's "Europa" with Please turn slightly to the left, it kind of gives the car an Isle of Man concert feel. :D


I do think launching things like media player controls, a specific web page or Internet radio station from within Sygics main menu or a user defined sub-menu page, would be useful and could be community developed.
>> http://panucci.garage.maemo.org/

As far as rotation is concerned, Easily moving the status bar to the top of the page in portrait view may also be problematic. Perhaps they should take a cue from MicroB's browser rotation and develop a different style sheet or configuration for portrait mode.
That is, leave the status bar on top in landscape to comply with Maemo, but go to full page view in portrait just as the browser does.
This doesn't eliminate the "minimize to dashboard" problem but it could be done as it is in MicroB by simply returning to landscape mode, if auto-rotate is implemented .

In the mean time, just like when I'm using the browser in portrait mode, I return to the dash board by using the "Proximity sensor" configured through the Shortcutd app.

[SubCore]

tried mediabox..
same behaviour as with default music player, sound pauses.

yes, in the second mail zehjotkah quoted (for a short period of time, now edited away *g*) sygic said that they currently _don't_ use pulseaudio.

both mediabox and mplayer directly send their output to pulseaudio, whereas the media player and sygic use the proprietary libplayback library, which uses ALSA.

[zehjotkah]

As far as rotation is concerned, Easily moving the status bar to the top of the page in portrait view may also be problematic. Perhaps they should take a cue from MicroB's browser rotation and develop a different style sheet or configuration for portrait mode.
That is, leave the status bar on top in landscape to comply with Maemo, but go to full page view in portrait just as the browser does.
This doesn't eliminate the "minimize to dashboard" problem but it could be done as it is in MicroB by simply returning to landscape mode, if auto-rotate is implemented .

In the mean time, just like when I'm using the browser in portrait mode, I return to the dash board by using the "Proximity sensor" configured through the Shortcutd app.

When the device is rotated, the status bar moves accordingly to the top.
Exactly as the phone application does.

[YoDude]

When the device is rotated, the status bar moves accordingly to the top.
Exactly as the phone application does.

Cool. Now if they could move the zoom buttons down a tad that would be nice. :)

Oh and please don't forget to mention to them how the app closes incorrectly from the "X". This is easy to do when trying to maximize it from the dashboard. The annoyance is that closing it this way doesn't save settings changes and the most critical of those would be recent history and memorized locations.

You could spend a day marking spots to add to a POI later on but then loose all this info with a misplaced touch... major suckage.

Otherwise I'm liking the heck out of this app in portrait mode.


Back to the topic: Is there a way to change the speeds that trigger auto zoom? When I cruise at 60 MPH. POI's do not show up until I am right on top of them. If I drop my speed below 50, they show up (in 3D view) a good 900 yds further ahead giving plenty of time to react if I want exit for gas or a meal. But cruising at 50 MPH is not looked upon nicely by my fellow drivers on the road at the time. :D
I would like that sub 50 MPH zoom level to be the maximum rather than having it zoom out above 50...

[yourthe guy]

Hi you seem to be the man wh knows about sygic software, i have a problem trying to load it on to the n900 (before you ask i have been on to sygic for help i ue the term help very losely just told to uninstall and try again).
My problem is when i open apps manager to install it i do not get the option to install just uninstall download and up date.
Any ideas please.

Thanks Simon.

[Laughing Man]

for the USA maps, there is a subfolder for each state in /maps/statexx/ while the poi's are USA-yyy. I understand your logic of putting the poi files in the country but there is no USA country folder as such ....

Yup, I'm confused by this too. Though the actual file path is /maps/uXX where XX is the state initials. Anyone have an idea?

[YoDude]

Yup, I'm confused by this too. Though the actual file path is /maps/uXX where XX is the state initials. Anyone have an idea?

On mine with USA maps installed, the folder in the "maps" directory is "upa". Regard, I'm thinking this might be different depending on your home location.

The best way to find the correct folder is to first create a new POI category from within the app and save it. You can call it whatever you want. After you save it you will find a *.upi file with that name in one of the map folders. The folder that you find it in is the folder you want to place your other POI files into as well. :)

The coresponding Icon files go in "res" under "icons"

EDIT: I have attached a zip file with a Red Light & Speed Cam POI that I produced so we can all play along at home. :)

[zehjotkah]

Hi you seem to be the man wh knows about sygic software, i have a problem trying to load it on to the n900 (before you ask i have been on to sygic for help i ue the term help very losely just told to uninstall and try again).
My problem is when i open apps manager to install it i do not get the option to install just uninstall download and up date.
Any ideas please.

Thanks Simon.

you have to open the File Manager. Not the Application Manager.
After copying the files with the Sygic program to the internal memory of your N900, take the usb-cable off, open file manager and select the mobile-maps-setup.deb file, or whatever it is called...

[Laughing Man]

On mine with USA maps installed, the folder in the "maps" directory is "upa". Regard, I'm thinking this might be different depending on your home location.

The best way to find the correct folder is to first create a new POI category from within the app and save it. You can call it whatever you want. After you save it you will find a *.upi file with that name in one of the map folders. The folder that you find it in is the folder you want to place your other POI files into as well. :)

The coresponding Icon files go in "res" under "icons"

EDIT: I have attached a zip file with a Red Light & Speed Cam POI that I produced so we can all play along at home. :)

Thanks, though I find this setup rather...well ******ed. So if I want speed cameras in MD, DC, and VA I have to copy it three times into UMD,UDC, and UVA. I can't imagine what wasted space there will be if I do this for the POI of starbucks, reststops, etc... in the USA. Oh well good thing I don't travel often out of the East Coast.

[yourthe guy]

you have to open the File Manager. Not the Application Manager.
After copying the files with the Sygic program to the internal memory of your N900, take the usb-cable off, open file manager and select the mobile-maps-setup.deb file, or whatever it is called...

Yes i have done all that you have said but it still does not give me the option to install, i've tried searching for sygic, mobilemapssetup.deb and it still don't find them.
I don't think i'm doing any thing wrong but something seems to be missing??
This will be my last post for a couple of weeks as i'm of to the USA where as you can see without a working sat nav i'm going to get lost, haho thanks to all that have tried to help.
Cheers Simon.:confused:

[YoDude]

Thanks, though I find this setup rather...well ******ed. So if I want speed cameras in MD, DC, and VA I have to copy it three times into UMD,UDC, and UVA. I can't imagine what wasted space there will be if I do this for the POI of starbucks, reststops, etc... in the USA. Oh well good thing I don't travel often out of the East Coast.

No... just once in whatever folder your upi's are stored. If you want speed cams where ever and they are not in the file I provided. Simple fix, add them. :)

[les_garten]

No... just once in whatever folder your upi's are stored. If you want speed cams where ever and they are not in the file I provided. Simple fix, add them. :)

Well, I'm not sure about that. If I save favorites in FL, it puts the upi file in ufl and nowhere else.

[Laughing Man]

No... just once in whatever folder your upi's are stored. If you want speed cams where ever and they are not in the file I provided. Simple fix, add them. :)

I may have mis-understood the file layout. Are the maps not broken down by each state (hence why we have a folder for each state?). I'm not currently using your speed camera file, just using some random one I found online though it contains speed cameras across several states. My comment was regarding how we would show the same POI across several states.

[YoDude]

Well, I'm not sure about that. If I save favorites in FL, it puts the upi file in ufl and nowhere else.

And that is all it needs to do. This I believe is the limit of whatever pre-fetch it uses. It loads just what it needs to give you a quick response when navigating to a "POI near me"

... There are many map folders for the US, Sygic breaks the country down and ID's POI's by region apparently. The region I am in is the Philadelphia Metro Region. For faster searches it must load just the POI's for the region you are currently located. I have seen what you describe when I search for a POI outside my region. However, the POI's are still there.

When I go to "browse map", zoom out, and move the cursor to any part of the country: If I tap the menu button and select "Find nearby POI" It does return all nearby POI's. A search for "Borders" in Oklahoma City took about 15 seconds, but it gave me the Borders on the Northwest expressway there.

...and Laughing Man I'm sorry if I appeared snippy. The "R" word does that to me sometimes. Having a younger sibling that has been called that most of his life, for most of my life I have volunteered my free time to his community of friends and others who provide support. Again, I apologize for being overly sensitive.

BTW the file I provided has 2455 locations included in it.

; unicode
; Created from User Poi file C:\Users\YoDude\Desktop\Sygic POI\cams\1Cams.up
; longitude latitude name

-111.361730 56.720030 cam
-111.360210 56.719200 cam
-111.352360 56.686660 cam

<snip> A whole bunch o'numbers <snip>

-157.889500 21.333310 cam
-157.888600 21.334530 cam
-157.779740 21.277710 cam
-157.779610 21.277950 cam

; number of written points 2455
; Bitmap name in 'Icons' directory is Cams.bmp


If you load it in your local directory when you go to "Browse Map" point to say LA, hit the menu button (between "Options" and "Done") then select "Find Nearby POI", then select "Cams", It will find cams in LA. If you find yourself on the road in LA I'm pretty sure the cams will show up. They have for me when I am outside my home area in DC or NYC.

Could you share the methods you used to convert a "file found on the net" to a useful Sygic POI? I have been working on and off for two weeks now trying to find all the idiosyncrasies of a Sygic POI file in order to post a "How to". Maybe you found an easier way. :)

[bockersjv]

Yes i have done all that you have said but it still does not give me the option to install, i've tried searching for sygic, mobilemapssetup.deb and it still don't find them.
I don't think i'm doing any thing wrong but something seems to be missing??
This will be my last post for a couple of weeks as i'm of to the USA where as you can see without a working sat nav i'm going to get lost, haho thanks to all that have tried to help.
Cheers Simon.:confused:
Simon, this thread is intended for question about modifying the application. Can i suggest you have a read, and post if required, your problem on the Sygic problems thread Click here (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=47786&highlight=sygic). You may find someone on that thread wh has had the same issues.
Thanks
John

[dogward]

i'm having a problem, which I think is a bug:
when i try to route more than about 50km, i got an error message saying that the waypoints are too far from each other. this renders the software totally useless for me. is thered anything I can do ? thanks

[zehjotkah]

i'm having a problem, which I think is a bug:
when i try to route more than about 50km, i got an error message saying that the waypoints are too far from each other. this renders the software totally useless for me. is thered anything I can do ? thanks

dogward,
this thread is intended for question about modifying the application. Can i suggest you have a read, and post if required, your problem on the Sygic problems thread Click here (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=47786&highlight=sygic). You may find someone on that thread wh has had the same issues.
Thanks
John

.....

[YoDude]

Another POI of interest in the USA...

...a list of all the places that were visited on the Food Network show called "Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives." Each of these places looks great and should be worthy of a visit. Here is the link to the show http://www.foodnetwork.com

Combined with..

...a list of all 105 places that were visited on the Travel Channel's show called 101 Tastiest Places to Chowdown. #1 was Louis' Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut (the first restaurant to serve hamburgers).

Details: The five week, Season I of the show began on January 3, 2010 with Chowdown Countdown 101-81. New countdowns appear each Sunday, with Chowdown Countdown 20-1 aired on January 31, 2010. #1 was Louis' Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut (the first restaurant to serve hamburgers). #2 was Roscoe's House of Chicken' N Waffles in Los Angeles. #3 was Primanti Brothers in Pittsburgh. (Sandwiches contain coleslaw, tomato, and fresh-cut fries).

The address information in this POI was obtained from the Travel Guides listed at Chowdown Countdown Episodes Travel Guides http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows

For a grand total of 406 of the greasiest, artery clogging, heart attack provoking, and most delicious points of interest in the USA. :)

Unzip the attached archive, install the files as descriped in the included "Read Me", and enjoy.

[gregtoth85]

Hi all!

how can i change the actual speed size. It is to small!
Another question is how can i change the line assistant color?
because when i am on motorway and sygic show me which line is the correct one i cant see the different. The correct one is light green. how can i change to red?

Somebody know something about the traffic app in europe

Thanks

[zehjotkah]

Somebody know something about the traffic app in europe

Traffic notifications will come in Sygic Mobile Maps 10, to which you can update without to pay again, when it's ready..

[cardiff-blues]

Good news about the traffic notifications :)

Also, regarding this
>>>
Another question is how can i change the line assistant color?
<<<

I would also like to know where this can be tweaked as the light green is not that easy to spot when driving.

[Laughing Man]

And that is all it needs to do. This I believe is the limit of whatever pre-fetch it uses. It loads just what it needs to give you a quick response when navigating to a "POI near me"



...and Laughing Man I'm sorry if I appeared snippy. The "R" word does that to me sometimes. Having a younger sibling that has been called that most of his life, for most of my life I have volunteered my free time to his community of friends and others who provide support. Again, I apologize for being overly sensitive.

BTW the file I provided has 2455 locations included in it.




If you load it in your local directory when you go to "Browse Map" point to say LA, hit the menu button (between "Options" and "Done") then select "Find Nearby POI", then select "Cams", It will find cams in LA. If you find yourself on the road in LA I'm pretty sure the cams will show up. They have for me when I am outside my home area in DC or NYC.

Could you share the methods you used to convert a "file found on the net" to a useful Sygic POI? I have been working on and off for two weeks now trying to find all the idiosyncrasies of a Sygic POI file in order to post a "How to". Maybe you found an easier way. :)

I'm sorry too. I tend not to associate ******ed with its usage towards those with physical or mental disabilities (I've worked with quite a few children with mental illnesses when I was an undergrad in Psychology). So I forgot that term could be interpreted in a different way. I meant the usage of a word as in it seems redundant and pointless if I had to put the UPI file in every state and district (say VA, DC, and MD).

So are you saying that if I place the speed camera UPI file in say UMD (for Maryland) if I'm in Virginia I can still get the speed cameras in VA without having to place the speed camera UPI file in UVA (for Virginia)?

As for POI, I've been trying to use the POI converter (http://www.sygic.com/index.php/en/download-tools/120-poiconvertor.html) though I haven't gotten it to work with the files from POI Factory, though that may be because.

a) I'm running Sygic's POI converter program (Windows only) through Wine in Ubuntu. If this is the case I have to use the software in Windows (I'm trying this tonight)

b) The CVS files provided by POI Factory aren't in the right order. I'll have to compare it with the way yours is laid out to see if I need to re-order the contents of the file.

BTW POI Factory is a great community with lots of useful POI files, for example there's one just for Starbucks in the USA if people are Starbucks addicted, likewise there's a great one for speed cameras and red light cameras (the later two require you to be an active member, e.g. 3 weeks of at least one post a week).

Edit: It seems the problem with the POI converter program is it needs the files to be in Sygic's example format. So basically tabs instead of comma deliminations.

[YoDude]

I'm sorry too. I tend not to associate ******ed with its usage towards those with physical or mental disabilities (I've worked with quite a few children with mental illnesses when I was an undergrad in Psychology). So I forgot that term could be interpreted in a different way. I meant the usage of a word as in it seems redundant and pointless if I had to put the UPI file in every state and district (say VA, DC, and MD).

So are you saying that if I place the speed camera UPI file in say UMD (for Maryland) if I'm in Virginia I can still get the speed cameras in VA without having to place the speed camera UPI file in UVA (for Virginia)?

As for POI, I've been trying to use the POI converter (http://www.sygic.com/index.php/en/download-tools/120-poiconvertor.html) though I haven't gotten it to work with the files from POI Factory, though that may be because.

a) I'm running Sygic's POI converter program (Windows only) through Wine in Ubuntu. If this is the case I have to use the software in Windows (I'm trying this tonight)

b) The CVS files provided by POI Factory aren't in the right order. I'll have to compare it with the way yours is laid out to see if I need to re-order the contents of the file.

BTW POI Factory is a great community with lots of useful POI files, for example there's one just for Starbucks in the USA if people are Starbucks addicted, likewise there's a great one for speed cameras and red light cameras (the later two require you to be an active member, e.g. 3 weeks of at least one post a week).

Edit: It seems the problem with the POI converter program is it needs the files to be in Sygic's example format. So basically tabs instead of comma deliminations.


Yup, Sygic is real particular that way. If there are characters it doesn't like like in the descriptor, ; ( ) (like those< to name a few), the program crashes as soon as you attempt to search the category. If you don't do a search, things will work fine until one of those poi"s comes into range. Then crash. :eek:


I found it best to download Poi's found on the net in OV2 (TomTom) format. then I use a simple freeware converter to change them to UPI format. However this UPI format still can not be read by our Sygic correctly. The fix is simple though.

Use the Sygic POI converter that you pointed to and first change this older UPI format file to a Unicode text file, then use the Sygic POI converter to convert this new text file into a UPI POI and our Sygic will now load and use them just dandy...

I know it sounds re... er, mentally challenged :p but this two step process cleans up the descriptors and what not.

BTW, thanks for the heads-up PM dude. Send or post up that cam file if it is the one that has 3400 cams in it and I'll clean it up for you to post. That seems to be the most up to date.

All others please hang in there I will have a post up shortly (2 to 3 days) with pictures, circles, arrows, and everything included hosted downloads of the tools I found useful...



As tempting as it may seem at the time, like when cooking good rice, do not lift the lid until it's done. That is, do not open the text file with a Windows text editor before you reconvert it to a useful UPI POI. As this will add some of those characters that our Sygic is particular about. :)

Also, when making that final pass, Sygic POI converter will ask for an icon. Whatever you name this icon then, must remain the name of it when you place it in the "Res/icons" directory or it won't show up. Even if you later change the name of the POI itself, leave the name of this icon the same because its description and location are now coded into the UPI file. You can however, always choose one of the pre-configured icons once you load the POI file on to the device.

Another thing I found... If the name of your POI has a dash in it like "Before-After", the dash and all the characters following the dash will not show up in the POI field on the device. The POI will still work but the name of it reported by the device will simply read "Before"

...and another thing :p

Regardless of what the Sygic POI converter says. Our Sygic will only read icons rendered in 8 bit. I found that 45 x 45 is the best size for them as the 27 x 27 the help file states will show up at only about 60% of the size of other POI icons.

[casper27]

Anyone get anywhere with increasing the volume on this. I know the N900 can go way louder

[basp]

Hi all!

how can i change the actual speed size. It is to small!
Another question is how can i change the line assistant color?
because when i am on motorway and sygic show me which line is the correct one i cant see the different. The correct one is light green. how can i change to red?

Somebody know something about the traffic app in europe

Thanks

I ran into the same problem. I fixed it by editing the application.skin file. Find the textline with laneHighColor in it. By default it uses the value "_c.sygicGreen" which is defined in the top part of this skin file. I tried updating the value of the sygicGreen declaration, but this had no impact at all (I do not know why though).

So I simply changed the value of laneHighColors to "_c.bgrMainCapion" which is kind of light blue. This seems to work for me. You could choose to change the value to "_c.sygicRed" to show red arrows.

Edited to give more detailled information ;)
Step by Step:

start xterm
sudo gainroot
cd /home/user/Mydocs/Res/skin
vi application.skin
type '/laneHighColor' (without the quotes, with the slash)
user the cursor to go to the color part within the double quotes
use the x to delete unwanted characters
type i
now insert mode is on, you can type the requested text. I used _c.bgrMainCaption. You could choose to use _c.sysgicRed
press esc on the screen
type ZZ
start sygic
happy driving :D



Hope this helps.

Bas

[cardiff-blues]

I ran into the same problem. I fixed it by editing the application.skin file. Find the textline with laneHighColor in it. By default it uses the value "_c.sygicGreen" which is defined in the top part of this skin file. I tried updating the value of the sygicGreen declaration, but this had no impact at all (I do not know why though).

So I simply changed the value of laneHighColors to "_c.bgrMainCapion" which is kind of light blue. This seems to work for me. You could choose to change the value to "_c.sygicRed" to show red arrows.

Hope this helps.

Bas

Bas, where's the application.skin file located?

[zehjotkah]

I ran into the same problem. I fixed it by editing the application.skin file. Find the textline with laneHighColor in it. By default it uses the value "_c.sygicGreen" which is defined in the top part of this skin file. I tried updating the value of the sygicGreen declaration, but this had no impact at all (I do not know why though).

So I simply changed the value of laneHighColors to "_c.bgrMainCapion" which is kind of light blue. This seems to work for me. You could choose to change the value to "_c.sygicRed" to show red arrows.

Hope this helps.

Bas

edited the first post, referring to your post. it would be great if you could update your post with more information (where the files are, and so on).

[basp]

edited the first post, referring to your post. it would be great if you could update your post with more information (where the files are, and so on).

I have added more detailled information in my previous post.

[cardiff-blues]

For the remaining miles value that decreases through a journey - does anyone know the location within the application.skin to change the font size?

[ceroberts75]

how about this?



http://ceroberts75.001webs.com/pictures/sygic%20(2).png

http://ceroberts75.001webs.com/pictures/sygic%20(3).png

[casper27]

@ceroberts75
Nice pics but you might want to edit out you imei number on first screenshot. There are alot of naughty people out there.

Anyone got any further with the default volume settings?
I've been having a play in the settings.ini and changed a few items that realate to vulume blindly such as
Volumefactor=2.0 changed to 5.0
With no effect. Bit stumped maybe im missing something. Does sygic use alsa as default?

[craftyguy]

Is there a good place to download (paid or free) POIs for entire regions? For example, every restaurant, hotel, gas station, business in the Pacific NW?

Something like this would make this application extremely useful. Currently it cannot even replace my old iphone for navigation since Google maps has the power of Google's online POI search..

[Laughing Man]

Is there a good place to download (paid or free) POIs for entire regions? For example, every restaurant, hotel, gas station, business in the Pacific NW?

Something like this would make this application extremely useful. Currently it cannot even replace my old iphone for navigation since Google maps has the power of Google's online POI search..

I personally use POI Factory. Though the coverage depends on where members on the community contribute from.

http://www.poi-factory.com/poifiles

[hollow]

if someone wants to take a look over at www.digital-car.co.uk

there is a massive thread on modding sygic it is for windows xp but most of it is relevant to this thread as it seems most versions of sygic are identical , the maps for the pc work with the one for the n900

[crash16]

can i move the sygic Maps folder to the 32 GB memory?? it is ocupiing a lot of space in MyDocs...and it is only 2 GB

[zehjotkah]

can i move the sygic Maps folder to the 32 GB memory?? it is ocupiing a lot of space in MyDocs...and it is only 2 GB

MyDocs IS the 32GB memory.
But you could move it to the external memory card and change the folder Sygic is searching for its files, if you like to (for example if you have a 64GB microSD ;))

[munkiii]

Could somebody please upload their "sygic.desktop" file which is working and is modded to use full screen, because somehow mine will not work in full screen anymore (since i re-flashed it).

Mine looks like this at the moment but it isn't showing full screen.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Mobile Maps 9
Icon=sygic
Exec=/opt/sygic/Drive/Maemo/drive -cwd=/home/user/MyDocs/Drive/Maemo -rfull
Type=Application

[Marlon]

Could somebody please upload their "sygic.desktop" file which is working and is modded to use full screen, because somehow mine will not work in full screen anymore (since i re-flashed it).

Mine looks like this at the moment but it isn't showing full screen.
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Mobile Maps 9
Icon=sygic
Exec=/opt/sygic/Drive/Maemo/drive -cwd=/home/user/MyDocs/Drive/Maemo -rfull
Type=Application


Try this post at the beginning:
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=574626&postcount=30

Neil

[tangs]

i have one lil question someone knows how to stop the voice ? I mean that when i'm driving i'm often using the music to and i don't want to have the voice that is stoping" the music.

any idea ?

thanx

[Marlon]

i have one lil question someone knows how to stop the voice ? I mean that when i'm driving i'm often using the music to and i don't want to have the voice that is stoping" the music.

any idea ?

thanx

Not sure why you would want to turn them off and NEED to look at the screen?

Hit Settings - Disable Sounds?

Neil

[Dave999]

Is it possible to mod sygic so I not use full screen?
can i use reverse steps in first post?

(Dont want to use ctrl+backspace or camkey when driving and playing music or use the phone.)

[puiradu]

Is it possible to mod sygic so I not use full screen?

(Dont want to use ctrl+backspace or camkey when driving and playing music or use the phone.)

Why?! When you drive you don't play to the phone!
I don't get you guys! This is a problem?
What about me!? I even don't have maps for my country(Romania)! Don't you think that this should look a real problem?

[zehjotkah]

Is it possible to mod sygic so I not use full screen?

(Dont want to use ctrl+backspace or camkey when driving and playing music or use the phone.)

disable Fullscreen-mode:
open X-Terminal and type in the following:
root
vi /usr/share/applications/hildon/sygic.desktop

move cursor with arrow buttons.
click button "a" for editing mode.
change
Exec=/opt/sygic/Drive/Maemo/drive -cwd=/home/user/MyDocs/Drive/Maemo -rfull
to
Exec=/opt/sygic/Drive/Maemo/drive -cwd=/home/user/MyDocs/Drive/Maemo
click Esc on screen for quit editing mode
type in
:w
and hit enter to save

[ioan]

What about me!? I even don't have maps for my country(Romania)! Don't you think that this should look a real problem?

I don't think anyone here can solve the problem you are having with the Romania's map. You should contact Sygic. From what I understand they only provide the main roads for Romania.

[puiradu]

I don't think anyone here can solve the problem you are having with the Romania's map. You should contact Sygic. From what I understand they only provide the main roads for Romania.
Yes I know. The strange thing is thst in Sygic 7.60 the maps for Romania are at 99% coverage but those maps are not working with 7.71 and for Maemo is not available the 7.60 version of application. GREAT! Now what is the solution?

[YoDude]

disable Fullscreen-mode:
open X-Terminal and type in the following:
root
vi /usr/share/applications/hildon/sygic.desktop

move cursor with arrow buttons.
click button "a" for editing mode.
change
Exec=/opt/sygic/Drive/Maemo/drive -cwd=/home/user/MyDocs/Drive/Maemo -rfull
to
Exec=/opt/sygic/Drive/Maemo/drive -cwd=/home/user/MyDocs/Drive/Maemo
click Esc on screen for quit editing mode
type in
:w
and hit enter to save

Yup, I figured that out today on the road. I upgraded early this AM (GMT -4:00) before leaving the house.

Couple of things I noticed after removing full screen:

Sygic doesn't seem to recognize what orientation you are in when the app is started. That is; if you are in portrait mode and start the app it will start in landscape mode. I have to unmount the sucker and do the shake. :eek:

When it does go to portrait mode the status bar moves to the top where you can now get to the dashboard easily. :cool:

But, status bar apps (volume, MFE, Availability, Clock & Alarms, yadda, yadda, yadda) are not available.
(This last bit is understandable until Maemo makes some changes. :) )

Now here is where it gets interesting with -rfull removed ... If, rather than invoking portrait by doing the shake you instead chose the menu option to rotate the display, the status bar with access to the status bar apps is on the side of the display like it was before the update...

I'm glad these guys are making the effort. I'm havin' a blast with this thing. :)

BTW zehjotkah, thanks for all you are doing dude.

If you can, see if you can find out where the blue "arrow" icon is stored. I would love to make my own to represent the back of my car or suttin'. :cool:

[Laughing Man]

Hey YoDude, how's the integration of the cameras? :)

[YoDude]

Hey YoDude, how's the integration of the cameras? :)

I'm checking that mail box now. I didn't see anything after our last posts..

EDIT: Nothing dude. I can't integrate what I don't have. :)

I even checked SPAM... I got invited to Mainland China :eek:

The 8thChina (Guangzhou) International

Environmental Protection Exhibitation

Invite Letter

...but no CVS or OV2 files.

EDIT: EDIT: (I got your second e-mail) I received 3882 Poi's in CSV last night and was able to combine them, clean-up the extra descriptor field, and remove duplicates for a total of 3644 in one file.

However, as I suspected some have "E-07" appended to their longitude. This may have been left by a text editor somewhere along the line and can not easily be cleaned up. In fact, it crashes the program I have for doing this. :eek:

If I have time when I get home this evening I'll try something else but in the mean time if you can get me a copy in unedited (and not reconverted) OV2 format from your original source it may save some time.
The descriptors would still have to be cleaned up but the position information would be virgin, dig?

[Laughing Man]

Wondered why it didn't go through. o.O

I sent you another email.

[YoDude]

So last night while I was waiting for a POI data base Laughing Man sent me to recompile (and crash, yet again :eek: ) I found a way to change the slash screen.

It involves creating a new folder in the Sygic "Res" directory found in MyDocs on the N900 N900:\home\user\MyDocs\Res\skin\others

http://files.myopera.com/yodude/blog/custom.jpg

Open "Res" with the N900's file manager then open the "skin" folder, then open the "others" folder found there. You should see just one folder called mobilemaps. While you are in the "others" directory create a new folder and call it "custom" (or whatever you dang well please).

Now the next part will require an image editor and I used Paint Shop Pro. The next set of instructions are for using a Windows PC (Linux users, being much brighter then us common folk :p, I'm sure can transpose them to ones that work for them.)

Connect the N900 to the desktop in "Mass Storage Mode". from your PC cruise into the N900:\home\user\MyDocs\Res\skin\others directory where we were on the N900 before. Open the mobilemaps folder and select a file called 1_1.dat. Copy that file (do not move it)to the "custom" folder you created earlier.

Now open that copied file with Paint Shop Pro. You should see something like this:

http://files.myopera.com/yodude/blog/1_1.jpg

Change that image's dimensions from 130 x 29 to 800 x 480. Do not change anything else.
It will look like hell but that's not the point.

Next open an 800 x 480 image in your editor that you would like to use as your splash screen, copy that image and paste it as a "new selection into the resized 1_1.dat image. Save your new 1_1.dat image to where it came from N900:\home\user\MyDocs\Res\skin\others\custom.
Close up shop. You're done.

Now cruise over to the settings.ini file found at N900:\home\user\MyDocs\Drive\Maemo

http://files.myopera.com/yodude/blog/settings.jpg

Open that file in Notes on the N900 or WordPad or other text editor on your PC.

Edit the line splash=mobilemaps found there to splash=custom (or whatever you called the dang thing), start up Sygic and enjoy. :headbang:

http://files.myopera.com/yodude/blog/edit.jpg

This is Q & D and I'm thinkin' with a little tweakin', animated Splash screens will also run. :)

***

For those playing along at home who want to see it in action simply unpack the attached Splash Screen.zip file and put the two folders found there in the N900:\home\user\MyDocs\Res\skin\others directory.

If you change the line in settings.ini to splash=custom
...you will get the following as your new splash screen:

http://files.myopera.com/yodude/blog/anna%20nilsson.png

A photograph by Anna Nilsson (http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=1256473), an artist I found that shares some of the same attractions with me.

If you change the line in settings.ini to splash=yodude
...you will get this as your new splash screen:

http://files.myopera.com/yodude/blog/ydps.png

... and you may see why I think crude animations would work.

Have fun.

... But hey, don't go a hurtin' yourself none. :)

>> http://my.opera.com/yodude/blog/sygic-splash-screen

[zehjotkah]

Updated the first post to include your awesome tut for replacing the splash screen.

[batman]

has any one had any success while tinkering with the Sygic Colour 1.6.2.2 as posted by Dread123?

http://w13.easy-share.com/1701313535.html

I tried showing it the N900/maps directory.. I tried making new folders and naming them to accomodate the Sygic Colour tweaker.. doesn't seem to want to read the .pak files as .bmps or otherwise.

If some one has had some success changing the colours and icons is there any chance of a couple of screen shots and possibly a dumbed down step by step instructions being posted?

[joh]

Wishlist
High contrast UI design as option (how to read white on light blue in a sunny environment? I do not need fancy designs, I need legible ones!)
UI design without outlined text (outlines make text less easily legible -- up to unlegible when the eyes are not the best anymore)
Screen autorotation
Edit: Adjustable speeds used for calculating the time to destination (I simply do not want to drive as speedy as the navigator means I should do to finish my trip in the Sygic's time)
Sygic not stopping to navigate while pushed to background
Quick access to other programs while in full screen mode (I do not want to move the N900 from the holder first to get the phone or any other application)
Faster first GPS fix when no Internet access available (the external GPS mouse used on my previous phone was much faster with the first fix)


PS SygicColors can help a little bit regarding high contrast UI design, but it does not allow to eliminate the outlines. Unfortunately, many of the options specified in application.skin are not read by Sygic, it seems they are only applied when integrated into the corresponding .dat file. :mad:

[joh]

has any one had any success while tinkering with the Sygic Colour 1.6.2.2 as posted by Dread123?

http://w13.easy-share.com/1701313535.html

IIf some one has had some success changing the colours and icons is there any chance of a couple of screen shots and possibly a dumbed down step by step instructions being posted?
You need to download the whole Res folder from your N900 and point SygicColors to that folder on your file system. (Have a backup copy of the folder before making any changes.)

I did not try to change icons, just colors and fonts. I was even able to add new fonts (just move ttf files into the fonts folder).

Changes occur mainly in the skin folder, only changed files must be copied back to the N900.

For editing: You simply have to try and test. The names of the colors etc. give a hint, what they are for. The tab "Application" is used while there has not been a GPS fix yet and for menu browsing, tab "Navigation" is used during turn-by-turn navigation etc., tab "Browse" probably when you browse the map (have not tested this).

Changing colors: Mark the name of the color and click (or double click?) on the white field between color and font names.

Changing fonts: Mark the name of the font and click on the button [...], mark the new font and click the [Change ...] button (cannot remember what exactly it is called).

By the way: There is no indication of the source of the software. The website mentioned inside SygicColors is off. You must put a lot of trust on this, that it does not do any harm. I had it running in a Virtual Machine only, that was reset after use.

[Quino]

Good afternoon gentlemen,

help is appreciated: After I start the navigation, it asks for internet conection. After I dont connect, this request opens periodically again. Its quite expensive to allow internet connection especially if I drive abroad of my country.

Any suggestions?

Thx,
Peter

[stantheboss]

Just turn off a-gps in "Location" position in Settings of your N900.

[Quino]

Stan you are a real Boss, thank you!
P.

[atunguyd]

Does anyone know if it is possible to get rod of the exit confirmation screen?

[ALLEyezOnMe]

Pony obicha Kony :)))))))))))))))

[southwalesboy]

Help! please. I tried the edit to make sygic full screen, im pretty sure I did it exacty as instructed on a few posts here on forum.. but now my icons for sygic cant be found anywhere? neither from app menu or to add shortcut to desktop. can i launch from terminadl to make sure its still installed? and is there a way to bring bk my beloved sygic short cuts??

[kwek]

Maybe simply reinstall? The icon should be located here. You can execute the application by running the 'Exec=' argument (see below)


/usr/share/applications/hildon/sygic.desktop


And this is its contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Mobile Maps 9
Icon=sygic
Exec=/opt/sygic/Drive/Maemo/drive -cwd=/home/user/MyDocs/Drive/Maemo -rfull
Type=Application

[larryh]

I want to replace the light blue background in the field for address apply becuase it is to light when the text is white.

How do I do that?

I use it in Nokia N78 and in a Blaupunkt Lucca.

Yes i can edit ini files, but dont write so well in english.

[Laughing Man]

I'm checking that mail box now. I didn't see anything after our last posts..

EDIT: Nothing dude. I can't integrate what I don't have. :)

I even checked SPAM... I got invited to Mainland China :eek:



...but no CVS or OV2 files.

EDIT: EDIT: (I got your second e-mail) I received 3882 Poi's in CSV last night and was able to combine them, clean-up the extra descriptor field, and remove duplicates for a total of 3644 in one file.

However, as I suspected some have "E-07" appended to their longitude. This may have been left by a text editor somewhere along the line and can not easily be cleaned up. In fact, it crashes the program I have for doing this. :eek:

If I have time when I get home this evening I'll try something else but in the mean time if you can get me a copy in unedited (and not reconverted) OV2 format from your original source it may save some time.
The descriptors would still have to be cleaned up but the position information would be virgin, dig?

Ah, just got your message (I don't check this thread often as you can tell). But those files I gave you were directly from the site (as they offered it).

[robnas]

I got a question about speedcams:
Within Sygic you can manually set the distance for a warning when approaching a speed- or redlightcam. but when I set it to 100 meters, the warning comes too late, when I set it to 200 meters, the warning comes too early. Is there a way to get this to 150 meters?

[sophocha]

Can we update Sygic (the official update file) with the new PR1.2 or is it out of the question?

[jflatt]

It updated on the PR1.2 leak, I don't foresee any issues. Be sure your distribution in the app catalog is "fremantle"

[cardiff-blues]

How to backup Sygic and reinstall after a N900 reflash?

Can anyone point me to a post showing how to do this if there is one?

[Trek1701]

Hi cardiff-blues,

These are the files you should backup:

Settings:
Drive > Maemo > settings.dat

Favorites:
maps > Country name or State name > favourites.upi

Radars (if you have any):
maps > Country name or State name > radars.upi

License number, so you don't need to bother with it in next install:
maps > license.txt

Search history (only if you think that's necessary):
Res > nameshistory.syg

If you have any itinerary saved, it will be saved in this directory:
Res > itinerary


Trek1701

[cardiff-blues]

Thanks Trek.
Do I need use the same installer for Sygic as when I first installed and then copy my saved files over?

[Trek1701]

Yes, install with the same deb file and then copy replacing the files with the ones you've just made the backup.

Trek1701

[ceroberts75]

Thanks Trek.
Do I need use the same installer for Sygic as when I first installed and then copy my saved files over?

i just copied these folders to the memory card:

cities
drive
maps
res


and then after doing a vanilla flash, copied the folders back to the main folder and then used the deb file to reinstall.


all my customizations are also still there.

[cardiff-blues]

Forgive me for being a little thick. I have heard of these flavours of flash but I don't really know what it is. What is a vanilla flash?

[bockersjv]

I forgive your "think" I think :D

You can flash the emmc to the latest version. The Emmc version is called vanilla because because it goes with all the various firmwares.

[cardiff-blues]

Yes, sorry for the typo. You actually might be the closest N900 to me. I am only a few miles from Chertsey. I'm near Bagshot.

Yes another term I have heard banded about but never understood is emmc.

[cardiff-blues]

I forgive your "think" I think :D

You can flash the emmc to the latest version. The Emmc version is called vanilla because because it goes with all the various firmwares.

If I flash the emmc to this vanilla flavour - will I lose my t-mobile settings for phone and internet etc,?

[ceroberts75]

make sure you create a fresh backkup before you flash.


flash the pr1.2 file first WITHOUT the "-R" at the end of the code (prevents it from rebooting)

then flash the vanilla file to it.

the whole process takes less then five minutes.


then restore from the fresh back-up you made.

the back up will have all your settings, etc in it.

[cardiff-blues]

I am confused by the line of code I need to run. I don't want to flash the emmc so what is the line of code to run the firmware? Am looking at the documentation but am a little confused...

[Weedalot]

i got a little problem my Sygic installed into the /opt/ and i dont have anything in MyDocs to edit after following the stages the sygic program is gone all together from menu

[Trek1701]

Weedalot,

The drive maps and res directories must be copied manualy by you to the MyDocs directory, together to the deb file.

[Weedalot]

how do i do it? i would appreciate some help a noobie here sorry.
edit: i can run sygic maps through the Xterminal by launching Drive file inside the OPT but it is gone from menu and shortcuts.. can i restore it?

please help

thanks.

edit: i installed it from the Ovi store.. i shouldn't have?

[Trek1701]

When you downloaded the files from Sygic site you have the deb file used to install Sygic and more three folders: drive, maps, Res.
Mount N900 usb on yous pc, copy the deb file plus the three folders to N900 MyDocs dirctory, unmount it and install the deb. Do the licensing process and you should be ready to use Sygic.

[excelar8]

is there any way to NOT stop the music playing when voice-directions are given??

this is really annoying when i'm using FM Transmitter and music stops when directions are given. never had this problem with Garmin XT Mobile on my N82. there must be a way to let the music continue

[Weedalot]

Thank you.. i will try it right away.. although i do have a question (do i need to uninstall this one and remove all trace?)

[Trek1701]

*Probably* you don't need to. Just copy the three folders and test it. If it doesn't work, then remove it and begin from the start again.

[Weedalot]

and what about the Sygic.desktop file? when i install fresh it wont be pointing at launching from /MyDocs/ again would it?

[Crogge]

Does someone know a source where I can download speedcam POIs? I need badly ones for Germany at least, don't want to get more police punishes :P

German:
Kennt jemand eine Quelle wo ich mir die Blitzer POIs runterladen kann?

[Weedalot]

installed all over like you told me and now it shuts down the second it loads

[les_garten]

installed all over like you told me and now it shuts down the second it loads

That means it can't find those 3 directories, Drive, RES, and Maps. Your Desktop file is wrong most likely.

[cardiff-blues]

What is the directory location for the desktop file on the N900.

[cardiff-blues]

Ok found it. And it does point to the myDocs directory but am getting same problem. It doesn't fire up.

[les_garten]

Ok found it. And it does point to the myDocs directory but am getting same problem. It doesn't fire up.

Post your desktop file here.

Where are those 3 directories located at?

I just reinstalled all this stuff last night after a fresh 1.2 rebuild of everything. Mine works perfectly.

[cardiff-blues]

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Mobile Maps 9
Icon=sygic
Exec=/opt/sygic/Drive/Maemo/drive -cwd=/home/user/MyDocs/Drive/Maemo -rfull
Type=Application

My Directories are located:
/home/user/MyDocs

[les_garten]

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Mobile Maps 9
Icon=sygic
Exec=/opt/sygic/Drive/Maemo/drive -cwd=/home/user/MyDocs/Drive/Maemo -rfull
Type=Application

My Directories are located:
/home/user/MyDocs

reading back a few lines, I see that you reflashed. Did you get the eMMC flashed as well? Looked like you were having problems.

Here's what I did.

I backed everything up.

Flashed the OS Image and the eMMC. Installed all appz from scratch. In the sygic repository was the Mobile maps. I installed from there. Moved the 3 directories back to MyDocs and it ran first try. You might want to uninstall and reinstall.

[cardiff-blues]

[1] Ok I had to reflash firmware and emmc.
[2] Installed Sygic through N900 App Manager
[3] Moved backup folders: RES, DRIVE, MAPS, to MyDocs.
[4] Then had to run the Sygic Assistant

Then it worked for me.

[les_garten]

[1] Ok I had to reflash firmware and emmc.
[2] Installed Sygic through N900 App Manager
[3] Moved backup folders: RES, DRIVE, MAPS, to MyDocs.
[4] Then had to run the Sygic Assistant

Then it worked for me.

As long as you're having fun!

[Crogge]

Does someone know a source where I can download speedcam POIs? I need badly ones for Germany at least, don't want to get more police punishes :P

German:
Kennt jemand eine Quelle wo ich mir die Blitzer POIs runterladen kann?

Nobody got a idea yet? I found sources like http://mygully.com/thread/116-update-blitzer-and-tools-fuer-tomtom-garmin-sygic-navigon-1817750-13/ and I can even select the POIs on the POI selection menu. Still they don't display on the map itself :/

[Weedalot]

well i installed it all over yet again and copied the files to MyDocs and the sygic.desktop file was pointing at the opt folder after changing it to the mentioned line posted by the OP it is yet again does not work.. this time it does not start at all not even though the xterm

could anyone give me instructions for dummies how to? i am getting really unhappy with this (i dont really need the GPS that much it just became an obstacle i must conquer/go through) ;) thanks guys i believe you will come to my rescue...

thanks

[Trek1701]

@Weedalot

Does it return any error message when running it on terminal?

[Weedalot]

Permission Denied (was) i finally did it.. i managed to beat the beast :P

[robnas]

I got a question about speedcams:
Within Sygic you can manually set the distance for a warning when approaching a speed- or redlightcam. but when I set it to 100 meters, the warning comes too late, when I set it to 200 meters, the warning comes too early. Is there a way to get this to 150 meters?

kick...
slowchat spoiling the fun...

[haj]

Anyone know if it's somehow possible to search for the streetname before the cityname? here in Denmark at least some roads are placed in the wrong citys/postalcodes in Sygic's map... Makes it very hard to locate destinations sometimes.. ;)

[FifthFreedom]

Anyway way to make Sygic start in portrait mode by default every time?
My phone mounts in my car sideways and having to hit the button every time is irritating :P

EDIT: Plus I just remembered something else.
Here in the UK, when I enter a postcode, it doesnt let me enter the last 2 digits, I have to enter streetname and number instead.

Is there a way I can just enter a whole postcode like (for example) on a TomTom?

I usually dont bother with street names, just postcode and buliding name, so this irritates me quite a lot.

[zehjotkah]

Anyone know if it's somehow possible to search for the streetname before the cityname? here in Denmark at least some roads are placed in the wrong citys/postalcodes in Sygic's map... Makes it very hard to locate destinations sometimes.. ;)

I haven't found this function, if there is such a function. will ask.

[Sash]

EDIT: Plus I just remembered something else.
Here in the UK, when I enter a postcode, it doesnt let me enter the last 2 digits, I have to enter streetname and number instead.


What happens? I'm in the UK and I can enter full postcodes. I sometimes have to press the abc button to get all the letters back in view but it still lets me type them all