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Title: Something weird popped up on my screen tonight
Post by: Sootchucker on 17 March 2015, 22:15
Hi guys, on starting the car this evening I had a speed display graphic pop up on screen briefly which I've never seen before.

It was the various UK standard road speeds in MPH, it went away too quickly to get a photo of it, but on searching the web, found a youtube clip that shows exactly that, albeit this is German and the speeds are in km/hr

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7621/16822363906_53a04ac0a9_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rCx1H1)

Now i did have the firmware on my Nav Pro updated a month or two back and it now stands at 0200 (was 0172), but can't find mention of it anywhere in the settings ?

Anyone seen this before ?
Title: Re: Something weird popped up on my screen tonight
Post by: mikeok on 17 March 2015, 22:31
Looks like the screen you get when you cross boarders...say Holland to Belgium and it, gives you the speed limit of that country.  Never seen it happen in UK before though. ?
Title: Re: Something weird popped up on my screen tonight
Post by: mcmaddy on 17 March 2015, 22:38
It's happened to me a couple of times but can't remember exactly where I was when it happened. It may have been after the maps were updated.
Title: Re: Something weird popped up on my screen tonight
Post by: ajmoir36 on 17 March 2015, 22:40
Höchstgeschwindigkeit = Top Speed. There must be a button on the discovery pro about it somewhere, although I cant see it in the manual.
Title: Re: Something weird popped up on my screen tonight
Post by: Derv_Driver on 17 March 2015, 22:47
Probably just the GPS Receiver obtaining its fix upon initial power up and finding inaccurate coordinates in another country briefly.
Title: Re: Something weird popped up on my screen tonight
Post by: Mark V GTD on 17 March 2015, 23:09
Quite normal - it always does this when you re-enter regular roads from an 'off road' situation such as an airfield....
Title: Re: Something weird popped up on my screen tonight
Post by: CraigW on 17 March 2015, 23:29
Yes also happened to me a few times and wondered what was causing it. I've yet to update any maps
Title: Re: Something weird popped up on my screen tonight
Post by: kevinm on 18 March 2015, 09:50
I usually get that screen if I am on an unlisted road then return to a road on the nav map.
Title: Re: Something weird popped up on my screen tonight
Post by: matchboy on 18 March 2015, 10:00
Quite normal - it always does this when you re-enter regular roads from an 'off road' situation such as an airfield....

Exactly this.  I have a client that is a hotel in the middle of no where; when I rejoin the main road after leaving there I get this message everytime.
Title: Re: Something weird popped up on my screen tonight
Post by: KyleB on 18 March 2015, 10:20
Is this just Nav Pro? Pretty handy feature.
Title: Re: Something weird popped up on my screen tonight
Post by: fredgroves on 18 March 2015, 10:33
It is a useful feature when you drive across Europe (which I do) but it also does *sometimes* also appear whenever you go from somewhere not marked on the map (private roads) back onto Her Maj's highway.

Perfectly normal if a little unpredictable in its regularity.
Title: Re: Something weird popped up on my screen tonight
Post by: Sootchucker on 18 March 2015, 10:45
Huh, thanks chaps. Strange that in 18 months of ownership I've never seen this before (it disappeared as quickly as it came up)
Title: Re: Something weird popped up on my screen tonight
Post by: stuart.cameron on 18 March 2015, 10:56
Get this quite often when driving out of farms/fields.
Title: Re: Something weird popped up on my screen tonight
Post by: itavaltalainen on 18 March 2015, 20:09
You may also get it when you are near ports or other routes that go in and out the country.... nice feature though. Especially going out of Germany and see a struck through speed limit and then it just reminds you before you loose your licence :D