Co Pilot 8 Live

[DaddyCee]

Hi All.

Anyone using the above satnav software on their HTC Desire?

I purchased this at the weekend and took it on a couple of hours jaunt yesterday, only for the thing to lock-up my handset after approximately 1hr. I did try a couple of more times, but again it locked my handset up. The only way to get the handset working again was a power down and reboot. Which wasn't the safest of manuveurs whilst driving.

 

[Intruder]

I have it running on mine and all is well, no locks or another as yet...

 

[mcnob]

I'm afraid I'm using it without issue as well. Contact ALK cos their customer service is top notch. You might wanna check their website for any known issues too.

 

[DaddyCee]

OK cheers for that. I have contacted support and am waiting to hear back.

I suspect its one of my apps that is causing the problem no doubt.

 

[tanbe174]

why not use free google navigation ?

 

[DaddyCee]

why not use free google navigation ?

because that eats in to my 3G Data Allowance.

Co Pilot stores the maps on the SD Card so you don't use so much / if any 3G Data.

 

[Pryomancer]

In Google Navigation you can get the route using your 3G/wifi and then turn it off, it still saves the route. Then you only need GPS to track your position.

 

[dunbad]

I'm afraid I'm using it without issue as well. Contact ALK cos their customer service is top notch. You might wanna check their website for any known issues too.

I beg to differ, let's see how long they take to get back to you. Mine was 2 months. And then they were useless. We need tomtom.

 

[DaddyCee]

In Google Navigation you can get the route using your 3G/wifi and then turn it off, it still saves the route. Then you only need GPS to track your position.

I didn't know that.

 

[Mark One]

Just make sure you don't deviate from the route or decide to take a detour en route without a net connection - or you'll have no map data.

Which is where the whole concept falls on its face for me ....

 

[Khas]

In Google Navigation you can get the route using your 3G/wifi and then turn it off, it still saves the route. Then you only need GPS to track your position.

Does it download the maps too though? Doesn't it need a data connection to download the maps as you go?

 

[ifb-online]

Does it download the maps too though? Doesn't it need a data connection to download the maps as you go?

It only needs to download extra data if it needs to re-route you (when you drive off the pre-set route). Of course, if you don't have wifi for the return journey, you will need to use mobile data to download the route data.

To be honest the amount of data is reasonably small. I did nearly 200 miles on Saturday, using five different routes and some re-routing and, including all my other use of the phone's data connection, saw less than 10MB of data usage. I didn't use wifi. 31 days at 10MB is still way less than a meagre 500MB monthly allowance, and I have 3GB with T-Mobile. I really don't worry about mobile data any more. I don't use it for really intensive stuff like video streaming, etc. I've had my Desire for 3 weeks now and I've only used 140MB of mobile data.

Ian

 

[Pryomancer]

Pretty interesting. Luckily I've got unlimited internet so I never need to worry, and 3GB fair usage is way more than I'll ever regularly need.

 

[drbell]

Actually, I bought CoPilot 'cos I'd had it on my HTC HD2. Worked very very well on there and also on my Desire. HOWEVER, only today, discovered Google Maps Navigation and I'm very impressed. Not taken it on a decent test drive yet but so far it looks really useful. I didn't understand what it was before I got excited about buying CoPilot (again) at a cost of