IT WAS 100 PERCENT FREE! IT TAKES UNDER TWO MINUTES TO POP IN THE DISC AND LET IT RIP! DON'T PAY FOR THAT...

 

there was no reset. i think they were slightly in the dark as to how long it would take - but were psyched to see the results when we finished in two minutes. it was exactly the same as the downloaded version - except it was a bmw disc.

cheers - drew

 

thks Maven!

 

kewl, thanks for the info
:smile:

 

anytime!

 

Good info nycm - I guess it's free 'cause it's not user selectable.
Fortunately my computer is much closer to my car than the dealer, so I was able to do the upgrade tonight. Very nice! I love this place!!
Thanks to all you enablers!!

 

If you're in Austin and need assistance then drop me a PM.

E-Mini, I sent you a pm with my contact info.

MacGuruTX

 

I have bandwidth to burn on my site folks so if you need the DVD with British voice come on over and get it.


http://mini.mdsbrain.com/

 

Hi,

I just accepted delivery yesterday of my 2006 MCS with Nav and the dealer (or the factory) already had applied the new software. Overall, it's not bad, but I've found two small issues so far:

1. The voice guidance seems to be out of sync (lagging behind) with the actual position of the car. My car is right where it's indicated on the map, but the voice is telling me to turn too late. In other words, the next voice prompt might be "Turn right onto Elm St. in 1/2 mile" but I'm literally a few car's lengths from Elm street and my position on the map agrees with that. Makes it tough to just listen in or look at the next route steps when they're lagging behind.

2. In messing around in the menus today to get used to the UI, I accidentally did the "Disable Icons" menu item (Information - Travel Information - Disable Icons) - see pg 29 of the NAV owner's manual. How to re-enable them as that menu option is now grayed out?

Thanks in advance!

 

I can't help too much with this one since I rarely experience it... but I have seen it happen. It usually corrects itself soon after. Note however that if it's already in the middle of giving one direction, it can't start to give the next direction until the first one is finished. Probably not the case here, but I have seen where subsequent directions come too quickly after the first, and end up coming late.

Don't even worry about it. The icons show up when you search for a particular type of service in the "Information" screens. Then, the icons will appear according to which service type you were looking for (hotel, restaurant, etc.). The sole purpose of the "Disable Icons" button is to get rid of the icons again after this happens... some of us (including me) usually don't want the icons displayed, so it's nice that they added this option, even if it's a little harder to get to than it should be.

 

You were right about the icons- I did another restaurant search and the icons came back. Went back in the menus and the "disable icons" menu item was available again. Being a Usability professional, I guess I just expect the documentation to be a little better.

 

It's a brand new feature (the "Disable Icons" option, not the icons themselves), only added within the last month with V26. Many of us have installed the update, but I'm not surprised that the pre-printed manual doesn't mention it.

 

For what its worth...

I noticed the icons for restaurants and such only shows up @ certain zooms. Like I normally drive with zoom @ 400ft and don't see the icons. But I do at 800ft+.

 

Sort of an off-topic nav question: can 05-06 US MINIs with factory nav change the gender/accent of the spoken guidance between male/female, US/British? Or is some kind of hack necessary?

 

You can change between US/British and Spanish. But only the voice not gender of the speaker.

 

Thanks. So is the default a male or female voice?

 

Female.

 

Hmmm... I asked my SA about this update and he said to hold off for this exact reason.

But I wonder if this problem relates more the map dvd. I recently started using the 2005.2 disk and have had more direction errors with the 2005.2 disk then with the old 2003 disk.

Which disk do you have?

 

I don't know for sure, but must have the most recent disc because I just accepted delivery of the car a week ago.

 

I am using OctaneGuy's British voice on the older (v23) software.

I would like to do this update. So I downloaded Alcohol 120%, the file v26_rar(With USA Female to British Female Voice Hack).rar, and decompressed it with WINRar. When I use Alcohol 120% to start the process to burn a CD image and browse to the uncompressed file (s) I see a 251.06 mb file (only this one file) rather than two files and not the 288mb size I was expecting.

Am I missing something?

Any thoughts appreciated

Vince

 

gagdett - don't assume that because you took delivery recently you have a recent disk. It's been an area of consternation that even new cars are coming with the old 2003 disk.

Chilibit, IIRC, you get the one 251M file. Worked fine for me! The graphics are leagues better.

 

Thanks to this forum, I knew that the MCS I picked up last week from Classic had the old disk. They ordered the new one right away and replaced it at no charge.

 

Thats nice of Classic. I wish my dealer did that for me

 

I think it's a matter of who you ask and how you ask myself. I picked up my '05 Convertible in late August and my dealer also replaced the 2003 disk sent with the car with the current 2005-2 disk. No hassles, no worries.

 

My dealer told me they have what comes with the car. We have a Oct 04 Build 2005MCC and April Build 05MCSa and both came with a 03 Navi DVD .