NEWBIE [and THE OTHERS :)] PROBLEMS with NG INSTALATIONS

**tufg** · 17th March 2019, 03:29 PM

Hi there,

I use the universal unisex TTS voices from post #1, and I am very happy with them. But I have a question: When selecting the German voice, street names are announced at junctions etc. When using the (UK) English voice, those names are not announced, although the system knows the names. Is there a simple way to change this behaviour, i. e. letting the English voice announce the street names?

Many thanks in advance!

**Golom** · 17th March 2019, 05:21 PM

@tufg

Settings / Sound / Say road names in foreign language Area ?

**Dink** · 25th March 2019, 12:15 PM

Not sure if this is correct section to ask this in , please advise and move thread if wrong.

Hizpo 2 DIN Car Head Unit
1024x600 4G RAM 32G ROM ( Internal memory )
Android 8.0.0 STD not Rooted
iGO NextGen 9.18.27.687519 Jan 26 2017
nextgen by pongo / 2017-01-22 . for users 4pda.ru@gpsIt
Loaded on Internal ROM :

Flash/Download/iGO_Israel/content/map United_Kingdom_HERE_2017.Q3_170728.fbl

with numerous other maps and licenses.

My question is , is it possible to update only the UK maps ?

As we had a massive ring road put in around our local city end of 2017 and the Sat Nav gets most upset with me driving through fields all the time !!

I have some experience with Linux systems , however after reading for the last few hours on this forum I see how easy it is to go badly wrong when
modifying this software , so thought I'd ask before trashing my Sat Nav , what the correct/best route to go is and what are the easy mistakes.

Hoping one of you clever people can spread me some light on the situation.

**Boki** · 25th March 2019, 12:34 PM

With some software editions - Yes. You can mix old and new content. But only with some. I think Israel also can use it.
Just delete old map (fbl, poi, fda...etc) of UK and add new one.
Btw, honestly, I do not see the purpose of keeping other maps if you do not use them. So, put just maps and accompanying content those countries where you intend to travel, and this in this quarter.

**BIRBANTE** · 25th March 2019, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by Dink

My question is , is it possible to update only the UK maps ?

Yes.

In some areas in Italy the TomTom maps are better, in others instead the Here, so I have both. Three years ago I went to Costa Rica, two years ago in Cuba and last summer in Mexico, all the maps in the same folder, each map of a different year and have worked, (without any license, I also have Israel).
Even if you don't delete older ones, the software should still use the newer ones.

To choose the maps I use the map_changer_here_tomtom.zip, it is much simpler than the external application.

**Dink** · 26th March 2019, 12:08 AM

Thanks for the replies from you both but can we just back track a bit , I am sorry if I am asking stupid questions , but that's how we learn

You say " fbl, poi, fda...etc " of UK , you are assuming I understand the fda and etc bit . I am a complete Newbie at playing with SatNavs ,
so can you please explain this a bit clearer ,I have read for hours again tonight on this forum , but when you don't know what the
question is , the answer is harder to find, although in my quest I have read some very interesting stuff on here.

To make it clearer for me can you tell me :

Which files need to be changed/added and where to go on this forum to get the best replacements , a link to another post discussing
this would be fine , I will go check out the SatNav tomorrow and see whats in the folder trees to see if what you are saying makes more sense.

And then return to ask some more silly questions

**BIRBANTE** · 26th March 2019, 12:33 AM

The maps when are released they are posted here , both TomTom and Here:

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

and where the various files must be inserted here:

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

Avoid phoneme files because they create problems in android.

**Dink** · 31st March 2019, 01:04 AM

@ Birbante and @ Boki_Srb ,

Thanks again you both gave me the confidence to " Give it a go " on my new £250 head unit and I now have roads around the city and not fields .

I decided to use an SD card for the extra files ( iGo Europe Q4 2018 United Kingdom + Western Europe HNR's ), using the guide to make the content folder with 3 folders inside for Maps/POI and Buildings .

I just renamed old .fbl/.fda/.fpa files etc on Internal Memory to .fbl.old etc to make sure it used the new ones on SD.
I will probably delete these once I am sure it all works fine.

I modified the sys.txt ( and the sys-wd.txt as both referred to the SD card folder ) to make iGo look at the SD card .

android_secondary_root_path="/storage/external_sd/addons"

I also added " Global_cfg_748892 10.01.2019 modded by Alain57 " to the internal memory for Igo , renaming old ZIP with Total Commander,
to .zip.old , everything seems to work fine, so far.

I then noticed no files in Internal Memory for iGO in the speedcam folder , so I returned and downloaded the .spc files and put them in
the iGo Internal Memory folder. Speedcams now appeared on map and a warning appears on screen , but no audio warning even though it is set to ?

So I came back and did some more reading on here and see many are referring to a " Speedcam.txt " that should also be in the speedcam folder
and suggest modding this when there are issues with audible warnings not sounding.

All other audio seems fine , navigation speech and Warning Dings are heard over radio when driving etc , so my question this time is :

Should I have this file in speedcam folder and is it likely this is why I am not getting the audible warning ?
( unfortunately speedcam folder was totally empty when I started )

I have looked but cant seem to see a default speedcam.txt available to download .

**Boki** · 31st March 2019, 07:34 PM

Try to browse forum next time...
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

There is no such a thing as "default speedcam.txt"
Download txt files of desired countries (only them), put in speedcam folder, the rest is up to software

**Dink** · 31st March 2019, 11:09 PM

Thanks for the feedback , but I have read loads of these threads , I am not being lazy , just confused.

I did read that thread before but it also mentions the speedcam.txt files . I have also looked for the txt file for UK but I could not find it , that's why
when I saw the .spc files to download for uk on here I used them .

Brown Dog mentions " data.zip\ui_android\common\ui\variable_def.ui " or is this just background info , do I need to unzip the data file and do some
changes to variable_def.ui and re zip ?

A later response in thread says : Working, just put files in iGO_Avic\ui_nextgen\audio and set in pongo skin that path !

So is it a case of find the \ui_nextgen\audio path in my Israel version and place audio files in that folder ? Then mod the sys.txt file in warnings section ?

When he says " set in pongo skin that path " , what does he mean ?

I did not ask the question in that thread as I assumed it was a newbie question and deserved to be here ?

Please can someone help explain this a bit clearer to me , am I reading too much into this and confusing myself ?

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