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IG4 still suffers from the 'white screen flash'... but it appears that this only happens on slower machines (like my 650MHz PIII). it is annoying, but it's not enough to make me not use the program. I'll just have to deal with it until I install a faster machine to run it.
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Don't hold your breath hoping for the white flash to go away. I've run it on 4 different laptop or mini-ITXmachines, the latest a 2.0 gig dual core HP TX1200 laptop with 2 gig ram, and it does it just the same as it did on my slowest one, a via M10000. The others are a Toshiba P4 satellite, and a Sony VIAO. No difference between any of them. They all just about put me into cardiac arrest at night when that flash goes off.
FWIW, I've been communicating with iNav regarding the problem. They are skeptical there is a problem, they say I'm the only person to ever report the "white flash" bug. While they are responsive and courteous, there has yet to be any headway in fixing it. I have tried everything I can think of, and that iNav has recommended, all to no avial. This is so very discouraging for what is otherwise just an awesome software package for a CarPC.
As good as it is, though, there is at least one more bug that is rather annoying, and that is the navigation's propensity to tell you to turn when you really shouldn't. It happens a lot on interstate highways, where it tells me to get off an exit, yet the map actually shows me going straight, which is correct. Yet the "guidance screen" or whatever it is, pops up and says to turn and then turn again to get right back on the road it just told you to turn off of! wierd. This is in IG3, so maybe it's fixed in IG4. Also, it seems variable as to how good the nav solutions are. Some are just excellent, some worthless. And sometimes if you take a detour, but don't tell it, it will never recalculate a solution for a different route. It just keeps trying to make a U-turn and take you back the way you came, forever. But not always.
It is a really good package for a CarPC in UMPC mode, absolutely the best graphical presentation for quick safe viewing in a car, better than most any OEM, and so much flexibility. This, they got right. Pefectly right. In my opinion.
If they fixed the couple bugs, and added some traditional GPS features that are surprisingly missing on IG, like nav to a lat/lon, or waypoints, or breadcrumb trail, etc., they would have the best damn GPS Nav product possible, and my company would be buying a copy for every truck in the fleet, and so would many others. These are features that many OEM systems have, and most traditional GPS units have, but granted, some newer nav systems like Tom-Tom don't have it either.
Just think about this: Lets say I take a turn off the highway onto a gravel road in the desert, drive a couple miles on the gravel road which isn't in the IG database, and then get lost. And then find the lost dutchman's mine with $Megabucks of sparkling gold in it. But my IG screen is completely blank...no road, no waypoint, no way to nav to a lat/lon, no breadcrumb trail to backtrack on. I'm lost, I'm going to lose the treasure, maybe drive in circles till I run out of fuel... Why have the navigation? Might as well bring a map and compass, or a cheapo hand-held GPS. The only useful data I'll get from IG is my current lat/lon and heading, sort of, if I can figure out which screen it's on.
Like wierd Al says, "close, so very very close.....but no cigar"...
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