FabSwingers.com forum: I have trust issues with my Satnav

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

My Satnav is on my phone. Its a Nokia Windows Smartphone. Only its not that smart. In fact its pretty stupid.

I'm driving along and all of a sudden the Satnav tells me to turn into a road that turns out to be a cul-de-sac, then its tells me to drive out of the cul-de-sac and continue my journey. I'm seriously thinking of launching my Smartphone off the nearest bridge

Anybody else experiencing trust issues with their Satnav?

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Trust?

Do you think it's slagging it behind yr back?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My Satnav is on my phone. Its a Nokia Windows Smartphone. Only its not that smart. In fact its pretty stupid.

Anybody else experiencing trust issues with their Satnav?"

The satnav I have always takes me down a roads when a motorway would have been quicker but it's ok because I think I have a crush on the woman who voices it she has the sexiest accent I've ever heard!

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Sat Navs pah, buy a map

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Sat Navs pah, buy a map

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

is it the one that comes with the phone or is it a free app

there are various free satnav apps for phones that do the job really well...

I ended up getting a paid app (only cost me a tenner...) and they said it was better that the actual tomtom

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My Satnav is on my phone. Its a Nokia Windows Smartphone. Only its not that smart. In fact its pretty stupid.

Anybody else experiencing trust issues with their Satnav?"

I think your satnav has a girlfriend down that cul-de-sac

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By *ivemeyoursoulWoman
over a year ago

Easter just around the corner!

It's just having a little fun with you that's all

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was betrayed by mine just this morning and instead of a full English breakfast at harvester I am stuck with a McDonald's breakfast!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My sat nav and myself have regular argument and it's a mans voice to so half the time I don't listen to him anyway hahaha

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We were driving to Cornwall and sat nav thought we were driving through fields .kept saying do a u turn .We were on a new road .Then took us down a very narrow road .It did take 20 minutes off our journey,but arrived at destination with bits of trees and shrubs hanging off car .

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By *he tactile technicianMan
over a year ago

the good lands, the bad lands, the any where you may want me lands

you've been hacked! Admin has been inbedding malicious software into our smartphones which zoom our satnav straight in to the nearest fabster....

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I use the one on my iPhone and it works really well.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"is it the one that comes with the phone or is it a free app

there are various free satnav apps for phones that do the job really well...

I ended up getting a paid app (only cost me a tenner...) and they said it was better that the actual tomtom"

Its the one with the phone. Its not bad apart from the cul-de-sac issue and not always taking me on the "smartest" route. So its crap really lol. What's the one you brought?

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

I use a map

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"My Satnav is on my phone. Its a Nokia Windows Smartphone. Only its not that smart. In fact its pretty stupid.

Anybody else experiencing trust issues with their Satnav?

I think your satnav has a girlfriend down that cul-de-sac

Maybe, it always happens in Reading

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have a garmin one and its never been updated in the last 6 years yet it always takes me exactly were i need to go

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

I think your satnav has a girlfriend down that cul-de-sac

Or maybe someone down there is on Fab, and your phone is trying to set you up with a meet? There's loads of stories about Fab and Facebook cross-linking, so maybe....

Besides OP, at least it's better than "ooh, that's the turning we wanted," as you zoom past in the wrong lane....

SatNavs are logic-based. Women on the other hand....

Mr ddc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My Satnav is on my phone. Its a Nokia Windows Smartphone. Only its not that smart. In fact its pretty stupid.

Anybody else experiencing trust issues with their Satnav?

I think your satnav has a girlfriend down that cul-de-sac

Maybe, it always happens in Reading

I'll look out for your car

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

"Sat Navs pah, buy a map

I found out, to my cost, map books and even Google maps don't get updated all that often. Just as likely to get lost in a new housing estate on those.

Yorks Millennium Bridge was built in 2000. It didn't show on Google Maps until 2004. It was even on Google Earth, but not Google Maps.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

"I use a map"

How big can a map of Glastonbury be

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There used to be a five to ten mile stretch of the M2 between Rochester and Gravesend where my TomTom always thought I was driving in fields about 200m to the south of the motorway. I thought it might be Kent County Council's cunning plan to stop people from south east London visiting Canterbury. More likely it was my driving though

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By *empting Devil.Woman
over a year ago

Sheffield

I use a free app called waze. Users can update it with traffic jams etc.

Its usually pretty reliable although it does sometimes give me the shortest route which is on 30mph roads when the slightly longer route on bigger, faster roads would be quicker but most sat navs do that.

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

waze is really good for a free satnav app...

because i ended up using one a shed load i went out and bought co-pilot, which was 15 quid and i get unlimited updates and camera alerts and speed limits ect

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By *olfcartweaselCouple
over a year ago

Melrose

Despite little glitches here & there on occasion with routing (use them as strong suggestions, not as gospel), does nobody find it incredible that a little slab in your car can bounce signals off satellites in space and rely on Einstein's general relativity to calculate your position on Earth to within 15 metres?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Despite little glitches here & there on occasion with routing (use them as strong suggestions, not as gospel), does nobody find it incredible that a little slab in your car can bounce signals off satellites in space and rely on Einstein's general relativity to calculate your position on Earth to within 15 metres?"

Incredible yes, but there's no way I'd describe my ex-wife as a little slab.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love my Garmin - but the woman on it just can't pronounce Welsh place names - !!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Satnavs are rubbish

I looked up on google earth a address in Farnham , me and my son drove there with me just using notes

he was amazed and is planning a hoolyaling the a31

Never hear of a sat av doing that

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By *andsonjohnMan
over a year ago

in the eye of the storm

"My Satnav is on my phone. Its a Nokia Windows Smartphone. Only its not that smart. In fact its pretty stupid.

Anybody else experiencing trust issues with their Satnav?"

OP have you check for any updates to the app there regular updating such apps even the free ones with new speed camera positions and the like .

Could be your several updates behind and not getting the best out of the app

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By *olfcartweaselCouple
over a year ago

Melrose

"Satnavs are rubbish

I looked up on google earth a address in Farnham , me and my son drove there with me just using notes

he was amazed and is planning a hoolyaling the a31

Never hear of a sat av doing that "

The thing about satnavs is they can reroute, and written notes, printed notes, or maps, can't. At least not on the fly. Road closure? Satnav handles it. Wrong turn off a roundabout due to unclear instructions? Satnav handles it.

They're not perfect, and they're frequently out of date - but I've done the printed-directions route and it sucks when one minor issue turns into a huge detour without you realising it.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"waze is really good for a free satnav app...

because i ended up using one a shed load i went out and bought co-pilot, which was 15 quid and i get unlimited updates and camera alerts and speed limits ect"

Just trying it. Looks good. Thanks Fabio

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By *LCCCouple
over a year ago

Cambridge

My Garmin is brilliant, free lifetime updates, traffic alerts, shows which lane to be in etc. Far superior to built in phone software.

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By *ivemeyoursoulWoman
over a year ago

Easter just around the corner!

"My Garmin is brilliant, free lifetime updates, traffic alerts, shows which lane to be in etc. Far superior to built in phone software. "

I have a Garmin and find it really good.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I've used a variety of satnavs, including Tomtom, and currently use the Windows Maps, via Lumia too. I've regularly, but not too often, had prompts to drive in unusual or inappropriate places. Tomtom took me over the moors in Devon, one cold foggy night, using unmarked roads - that was the worst ever!

I've had Windows get mixed up, sometimes I think it's jumped ahead by a few miles, twice, in over a year. But it's routes have been as good as they get. There isn't one perfect system.

But free map updates for life on Microsoft Windows phones, worldwide maps, and free voice guidance is pretty good. It's integrated with my car now, so I can speak to the car and tell it what to do.

There are often updates to Nokia/Microsoft maps apps in the Store, so it's worth checking there: think I had one a couple of weeks ago. Also, remember to check for map updates, which will be small downloads: it doesn't download the whole of the UK again.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
over a year ago

Central

"My Garmin is brilliant, free lifetime updates, traffic alerts, shows which lane to be in etc. Far superior to built in phone software. "

The Microsoft maps do that too, with worldwide free maps for life. They update the route for traffic alerts, which lane to be in onscreen and via voice prompt. Nokia which developed it were great, but it's all run by Microsoft now.

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By *emini1637Woman
over a year ago

Warwickshire

I have an Android phone and Google maps on that is fab! I'd be lost without it!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Satnavs are rubbish

I looked up on google earth a address in Farnham , me and my son drove there with me just using notes

he was amazed and is planning a hoolyaling the a31

Never hear of a sat av doing that

They're not perfect, and they're frequently out of date - but I've done the printed-directions route and it sucks when one minor issue turns into a huge detour without you realising it."

Wasn't printed route,

Just the road names from Farnham

I can usually remember a route how to get to towns etc , no need for a sat nav

Still can't be doing with satnavs, I have a road map to refer to and also will use google maps on my phone .

But it's each to there own , and more importantly when you don't use a satnav , and use a map , your remember the places and roads , eventually knowing them without having to rely on sat nav

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I rely on my sat nav a little too much. Last night the batteries died and I ended up having a dump in the wardrobe

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I use mine when I get lost for that last little bit of the journey.

They give instructions I don't understand.

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By *olfcartweaselCouple
over a year ago

Melrose

"I use mine when I get lost for that last little bit of the journey.

They give instructions I don't understand.

In my experience it's critical to actually look at the map on the screen, not just obey the disembodied voice.

And at least if you misunderstand and go the wrong way (which happens sometimes - UK roads can be complicated) it will reroute you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

After the breakfast fiasco this morning because the satnav clearly didn't want us going where we wanted, we set off on our next destination, there was a sign for it and everything but could the twat I was with follow the sign, nope believe the bloody nav (remember it didn't want us entering this town we went!) who took us down a new housing estate and was half hour late!!!! Ffs!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've been given the otherhalfs navman mio, I think she's pissed off she's been dumped with me now...cos she's a total biatch! The cowbag works well for ben but always screws up with me!

I think it's my fault as I always call her names! Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I love my Garmin - but the woman on it just can't pronounce Welsh place names - !!!

You should hear Apple maps trying Irish place names!

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