I live in the UK. This query is about the 718 Cayman Navigation System.My problem is that the navigation instructions are just too quiet forme to hear well. Now I have followed the instructions in the Driver'sManual given on page 184. I can produce the list that is needed.However, the item Navigation Announcements is in faint script and does not select when I touch it. Instead I get a message saying ' option not available'. This is very annoying. Please can someone help me.
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Hi @Paul. Welcome.
When you are in NAV or Maps, press the OPT (option) menu and select sound settings. You should find the Navigation Announcements in the list. Alternatively - if I recall correctly - turn up the volume during an announcement. You should find the Nav announcement volume remains at the level you have just turned it to.
When you are in NAV or Maps, press the OPT (option) menu and select sound settings. You should find the Navigation Announcements in the list. Alternatively - if I recall correctly - turn up the volume during an announcement. You should find the Nav announcement volume remains at the level you have just turned it to.
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that's how i did it.
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The following always works for me and just tested it again before posting this:
1. Have an active route on the Nav
2. Press the Map button to initiate the system to read the next instruction
3. Turn left rotary dial clockwise to increase volume (or via MFSW if available)
It will now stay at the selected volume.
If this doesn’t work check you sound setting via the OPT button.
1. Have an active route on the Nav
2. Press the Map button to initiate the system to read the next instruction
3. Turn left rotary dial clockwise to increase volume (or via MFSW if available)
It will now stay at the selected volume.
If this doesn’t work check you sound setting via the OPT button.
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And when you do this, the maximum volume you achieve will be way too low. I also have this issue. Last summer I found an annoying, complicated set of system parameters (Tuner and Source) to enter which allowed me to access a higher volume level - I don't remember what they were, and I recommend anyone interested search my posts.
It's an absurd, incomprehensible PITA which is mitigated by Apple Carplay, and by the appearance of Navigation information in the MFD - there is enough information there to offer a significant amount of the guidance that is lost by the quiet Nav voice.
If neither the OP nor anyone else wishes to search my posts, I'll try to get to it tomorrow.
It's an absurd, incomprehensible PITA which is mitigated by Apple Carplay, and by the appearance of Navigation information in the MFD - there is enough information there to offer a significant amount of the guidance that is lost by the quiet Nav voice.
If neither the OP nor anyone else wishes to search my posts, I'll try to get to it tomorrow.
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This thread contains my work around:
https://www.718forum.com/forum/elec...justing-volume-navigation-voice-guidance.html
If I go into tuner, I peg the volume for Sirius. Then I go to source and select Bluetooth. There seem to be some songs, coming from somewhere, ready to play, but they are not playing, and I don't want them to play. Now, If I work my way through the menus to the erstwhile grayed out volume choices, nav voice volume and Bluetooth are active. I go into each of those and max them out (11/11 and 6/6 respectively). At this point, a loud, adjustable Nav voice is produced.
Lastly, I suspect that this is something that benefits from storing the key fob settings.
I have to go into Sirius and split my ear drums maxing out the volume, got to source and switch to blue tooth, and I get the volume back. This is a PITA.
I can also go to source, select Blue Tooth, and max out the volume in Blue Tooth. And even though some song is identified and seems to be trying to play, it is not - no music comes out, but the volume is maxed. Then, I've got volume in the nav voice.
https://www.718forum.com/forum/elec...justing-volume-navigation-voice-guidance.html
If I go into tuner, I peg the volume for Sirius. Then I go to source and select Bluetooth. There seem to be some songs, coming from somewhere, ready to play, but they are not playing, and I don't want them to play. Now, If I work my way through the menus to the erstwhile grayed out volume choices, nav voice volume and Bluetooth are active. I go into each of those and max them out (11/11 and 6/6 respectively). At this point, a loud, adjustable Nav voice is produced.
Lastly, I suspect that this is something that benefits from storing the key fob settings.
I have to go into Sirius and split my ear drums maxing out the volume, got to source and switch to blue tooth, and I get the volume back. This is a PITA.
I can also go to source, select Blue Tooth, and max out the volume in Blue Tooth. And even though some song is identified and seems to be trying to play, it is not - no music comes out, but the volume is maxed. Then, I've got volume in the nav voice.
I tried this. Not a lot of success. Turning up the volume using manual control has no effect. All I get is a message saying that there is no audio control. Using the OPT menu does give me the choice to increase the volume in response to traffic noise, but the volume as I hear it in stationary car is just the same.
Is there some interplay between the setting for the radio (tuner) and the navigation system ? I do not listen to the radio and don't want it coming on and making announcements.
Why do they make this so difficult?
Is there some interplay between the setting for the radio (tuner) and the navigation system ? I do not listen to the radio and don't want it coming on and making announcements.
Why do they make this so difficult?
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Paul, I've read post #7 carefully, and it sounds to me like you have followed the recommendations in posts 1-4, but stopped short of trying what I've documented in my post #6. It describes an "interplay between the setting for the radio (tuner) and the navigation system", and it does result in a meta stable configuration that gives usefully louder Nav voice (and this is in a top down Boxster) without music blasting.
It is complicated, and a bit of a challenge to describe, but it has worked for me - and I do believe I've had exactly the same experiences you are describing.
It is complicated, and a bit of a challenge to describe, but it has worked for me - and I do believe I've had exactly the same experiences you are describing.
Yes you are correct. Originally my post was intended to an add on to an earlier post. But I failed to accomplish this, and the post just added on at the end. I am not overlooking your suggestion and have printed out your comment and the previous thread you cited. I am a bit disheartened but intend to investigate the route you suggests. Please don't think you efforts are not appreciated. They are and will be acted upon.
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Ah; thanks very much for that info. Best of luck, and please let me know how things turn out. It is certainly possible that my documentation could be a bit unclear, and/or fail to capture all that is necessary and sufficient for us to be successful.
My car is largely stored in bad winter weather, but I will print out that stuff and try following it like I'm encountering it for the first time, and make sure that it is robust and reproducible.
Why such a small number of people encounter this problem, I cannot possibly imagine.
My car is largely stored in bad winter weather, but I will print out that stuff and try following it like I'm encountering it for the first time, and make sure that it is robust and reproducible.
Why such a small number of people encounter this problem, I cannot possibly imagine.
Well in a sense I have solved the problem. It is something to do with the interaction between the tuner and the navigation system. Sadly I can not tell you exactly what this is. I was just playing round with the tuner, pressing random things, when the grey area giving me the choice of navigation system volume became live. I don't really know what I did, so I am a bit insecure with the whole thing. Just hope that when I get in the car again things are as I left them and have not reverted to the prior state. Not sure I will ever have the courage to use the radio or the CD player again. That's not such a big loss. In the five years I had my previous car I never used either once.
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