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[cyclist]

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Lifted from another thread:

Originally Posted by neilm

Navizon has a nasty habit of putting its shortcut into the Windows/Startup folder whenever you run it, regardless of how you have set the options.

As a consequence, Navizon trys to run after a reset.

This is mega-inconvenient to me. There is a work-around of sorts: in Navizon in Options Power untick the box for allow Navizon to manage power. Then, although Navizon starts up, it can't turn your WiFi and GPS on.

If anyone can come up with a better solution that would be great.

[neilm]

I have those options already set, so it seems that even if Navizon doesn't actually start the GPS at startup, it still tries to grab the COM port, which caused the conflict mentioned in the other thread

[cyclist]

We'll have to find somewhere to report problems to Navizon, no time to do that right now. My cycle to work gets longer every day as I try to find new routes to use Navizon on - I've criss crossed the direct routes pretty comprehensively by now.

[windows]

ROTFL I'm doing the same with the car as well, but run out of routes to try now unless I want to get up any earlier!

[fowljr]

I've had problems today, I tried to use Navizon and TomTom together, is that the subject of your other thread Neil?

[cyclist]

Originally Posted by windows

ROTFL I'm doing the same with the car as well, but run out of routes to try now unless I want to get up any earlier!

Well as the normal route to work is a whole kilometer long, and takes all of 10 minutes, I can vary it quite a lot without it taking too much longer. I still keep getting new APs on the most direct route though!

The real virtue of studying their website is for trips like tonight, 7 miles there and back to swimming lesson, where there are a lot of choices of non-main roads. Don't have to rely on my memory to see which 2 of 3 parallel roads I've already done.

[windows]

ROTFL that is almost like a planned military campaign!

[neilm]

Jim- no my problem was with a Today Screen GPS app- instant GPS with also runs at startup. That & Navizon were fighting for the GPS; had I not had Pocketpkus Safe Mode it was terminal enough to need a hard reset.

Do you use the MS GPS driver (ie is the GPS cpl set to 'manage automatically' ?) If so TTN and Navizon ought to share the signal, but I fear Navizon grabs the hardware regardless, so would need the 'Output Port' setting to create a forwarded COM port- but then you'd have to change the TTN settings to point to that meaning Navizon would always need to be running to run TTN

[fowljr]

Ahhh, I see, I had both TomTom and Navizon running on COM4, they did share it apparently, but TomTom ran a bit jerkily for some reason. I guess they weren't really sharing the port as Navizon also had problems updating location, i.e. nothing was happening!!

I'll try your suggestion on the forwarded COM port!! Cheers mate.

[cyclist]

Originally Posted by windows

ROTFL that is almost like a planned military campaign!

Well the plan paid off with 410 new access points from the minor roads and 110 already mapped, not bad for less than an hour's cycling.