C7 nav question
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Drifting
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From: McKinney TX
C7 nav question
Just purchased a 2016, I tried to put in my home address in the nav and it could not find my address. The state was showing correctly, the city was entered correctly. I start typing my address pressing 5 and it says there are only 52 places in my city that have an address starting with 5
What am I doing wrong? lol my 2012 with 2010 dated maps knew my address
What am I doing wrong? lol my 2012 with 2010 dated maps knew my address
Drifting
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This doesn't help you, but just a suggestion from a paranoid type: I NEVER put my home address an my GPS. I'll enter something a few blocks away, as that will get me home if I'm in unfamiliar territory. I always worry about someone having access to my car while I leave it parked in an area which suggests I will not be home for a while.
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Drifting
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I think it is telling you that there are 52 streets and/or roads in your town where the street addresses start with a "5". Have you put in the 2nd digit of your address and/or the complete numeric number? Basically the NAV unit is trying to "guess" ahead. The 2nd digit should reduce the "number" of possible streets. The 3rd digit will reduce it more.
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This doesn't help you, but just a suggestion from a paranoid type: I NEVER put my home address an my GPS. I'll enter something a few blocks away, as that will get me home if I'm in unfamiliar territory. I always worry about someone having access to my car while I leave it parked in an area which suggests I will not be home for a while.
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Just purchased a 2016, I tried to put in my home address in the nav and it could not find my address. The state was showing correctly, the city was entered correctly. I start typing my address pressing 5 and it says there are only 52 places in my city that have an address starting with 5
What am I doing wrong? lol my 2012 with 2010 dated maps knew my address
What am I doing wrong? lol my 2012 with 2010 dated maps knew my address
once you have the State, try entering the numbers before entering the city.
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You are entering something wrong. Without knowing your address, have no idea. Common error - Routes have to be entered as; state route 5, not route 5. I never put punctuation in my navigation unit and have no trouble.
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Last summer I went to visit a friend at his camp in Ontario. The corvette nav system could not find his address, which I was able to find in Google Map on my phone. So I set the corvette nav for the closest town which I followed until I got close. I then turned on the nav in my phone. Shortly after, I got verbal instructions to make a legal u-turn. On completing the u-turn I got instructions to make a legal u-turn which, of course, would put me back in the same direction from which I had just turned. I stopped and then realized I was being instructed by two different devices.
Too bad GM does not adopt Google Map like Tesla. I have a 2014 and can't link nav from my phone. I have not updated the nav in the corvette but I expect, like the caddy, it will cost about $150 (can't remember the exact amount) a few years ago. I could have bought a GPS device cheaper.
John
Too bad GM does not adopt Google Map like Tesla. I have a 2014 and can't link nav from my phone. I have not updated the nav in the corvette but I expect, like the caddy, it will cost about $150 (can't remember the exact amount) a few years ago. I could have bought a GPS device cheaper.
John
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The hardest part of the nav system is figuring out how it works, but once you do, its not a bad system. Especially for multi-stop trips, i like it better than my tomtom.
Anyway -
I don't imagine it changed much for the 16 vs the 14 - in my 14 it number street city state
Manual entry
123 main street anytown state (no punctuation)
Voice command, say the entire number, not the individual numbers; that is
1035 is not one-zero-three-five, it is one thousand thirty five.
Slight pause between the words; one hundred-twenty three (pause) main (pause) street (pause), longer pause, city longer pause, state.
My registration card shows a PO box, so no worries there, and the closest thing to "home" address in any of my GPS systems is the MP station at a local military base
Anyway -
I don't imagine it changed much for the 16 vs the 14 - in my 14 it number street city state
Manual entry
123 main street anytown state (no punctuation)
Voice command, say the entire number, not the individual numbers; that is
1035 is not one-zero-three-five, it is one thousand thirty five.
Slight pause between the words; one hundred-twenty three (pause) main (pause) street (pause), longer pause, city longer pause, state.
My registration card shows a PO box, so no worries there, and the closest thing to "home" address in any of my GPS systems is the MP station at a local military base
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Just purchased a 2016, I tried to put in my home address in the nav and it could not find my address. The state was showing correctly, the city was entered correctly. I start typing my address pressing 5 and it says there are only 52 places in my city that have an address starting with 5
What am I doing wrong? lol my 2012 with 2010 dated maps knew my address
What am I doing wrong? lol my 2012 with 2010 dated maps knew my address
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