How to mod Sygic
 

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:
move cursor with arrow buttons.
click button "a" for editing mode.
change
to
click Esc on screen for quit editing mode
type in
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:rename menu.ini for example to menuold.ini.
save and close

open settings.ini.
search for and change it to Attention! 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...4&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...1&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...4&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...6&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...6&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...&postcount=173

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

Have fun with Sygic!

Re: How to mod Sygic
 

You are my hero over here

Re: How to mod Sygic
 

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?

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

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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.

Re: How to mod Sygic
 

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.

Re: How to mod Sygic
 

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

Re: How to mod Sygic
 

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

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

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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.

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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 :)

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

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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

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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.

Re: How to mod Sygic
 

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)

Re: How to mod Sygic
 

good thread just wanted to say thanks appreciated muchly

:-)

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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.

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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

Re: How to mod Sygic
 

same issue, discussed here
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...6&goto=newpost

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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?

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

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

Re: How to mod Sygic
 

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 ?

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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.

Re: How to mod Sygic
 

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

Re: How to mod Sygic
 

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

Re: How to mod Sygic
 

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...

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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...

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

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You saved my weekend!! Thank you!!

Re: How to mod Sygic
 

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

Re: How to mod Sygic
 

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

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Doh! Thanks :)

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

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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

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

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I Think Sygic not implemented auto rotate

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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.

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

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16 is what i've read on this forum.