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Category Archives: Tips & Tricks

Tips and Tricks: Creating a Routing Profile

By Todd Klein | Published: March 16, 2010

There are times when the journey is there to be enjoyed. Away from the school run and the grind of the daily commute, priorities can change – an indirect route presenting  more adventure and a greater range of possibilities than just a quick dash down the motorway. A different drive for different occasions. CoPilot Live can [...]

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Tuesday’s Tips & Tricks: How to use your own voice (or someone elses) in CoPilot Live

By | Published: January 19, 2010

Time Required: Approx 90 minutes Had enough of the inbuilt voices? Like the idea of recording your own (or your other half’s) voice and using it within CoPilot? It’s not difficult, and before long you’ll be driving around guided by your very own voice from within CoPilot! You’ll need a computer, a microphone (or you [...]

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Know your CoPilot: switching-off the menu beeps in CoPilot Live v8

By Todd Klein | Published: October 14, 2009

A number of people have asked us whether it is possible to turn off the menu beeps in CoPilot Live for iPhone without muting the overall system volume.  It’s already possible to do this in CoPilot Live v8 for Android and Windows Mobile, and now in our latest CoPilot Live v8 software update we have added it to the [...]

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FAQ: How to correct iPhone POI error message

By Todd Klein | Published: October 13, 2009

Some CoPilot 8 iPhone customers who have recently installed the latest CoPilot Live Europe iPhone app update have reported an error message at start up: “POI set safetycam – Version does not match network version”. You can ignore this and CoPilot Live v8 will still work as normal, but there’s a couple of things you can do [...]

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Know your CoPilot: How to save your current location

By Todd Klein | Published: October 8, 2009

Did you know that in CoPilot Live v8 there are several simple ways to quickly and easily save your current location or other places as a favourite or even as a custom POI. Save your current location. Simply select MENU | SAVE CURRENT LOCATION and you will be asked to name your current location. Once [...]

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CoPilot Live for Android FAQ

By Todd Klein | Published: June 29, 2009

Response to the launch of CoPilot Live for Android has been fantastic. We’ve had a lot of questions and queries from all over the globe and have compiled the top ten most frequently asked questions and posted the answers below. If your question isn’t answered below, leave a comment on this blog or drop us [...]

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Beat the crowds this Spring Bank holiday

By Todd Klein | Published: May 18, 2009

As the Spring Bank holiday weekend approaches, what better reason is there to jump in the car and take a long weekend break? But with most families looking to holiday in the UK this year, many of the country’s most popular weekend destinations are likely to be busier than usual. So to help you beat [...]

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CoPilot Live is built-in to HTC’s new Touch Cruise

By Todd Klein | Published: April 2, 2009

Any self-respecting smartphone has in-built GPS receiver these days, and many are capable of running CoPilot Live sat nav. Now we are seeing smartphones arrive on the market designed specifically for sat nav, and a great example is HTC’s new Touch Cruise. The new Touch Cruise is supplied (in many European Regions) with CoPilot Live, [...]

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Tuesday Tips & Tricks: How to record your (or someone elses) voice for use in CoPilot

By coliff | Published: November 25, 2008

Time Required: Approx 90 minutes Had enough of the inbuilt voices? Like the idea of recording your own (or your other half’s) voice and using it within CoPilot? It’s not difficult, and before long you’ll be driving around guided by your very own voice from within CoPilot! You’ll need a computer, a microphone (or you [...]

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FAQ: Cross Upgrading

By coliff | Published: August 26, 2008

We have a lot of customers asking if they “cross-upgrade” from CoPilot Live 6 on a Nokia N95 to CoPilot Live 7 for HTC Touch or from CoPilot Live 6 on T-Mobile MDA Compact III to CoPilot Live 7 for their new HTC S730. The answer in all these cases is yes. It doesn’t matter [...]

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