Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone Manual English — Last update: 2015/03/20 Sygic
Table of Contents Prologue ..................................................................................................................................................... 2 Getting Started ........................................................................................................................................... 3 Personalizing settings ............................................................................................................................. 5 Map management .........
Troubleshooting ....................................................................................................................................... 77 Crashing, freezing, not starting at all ..................................................................................................... 78 Connection issues................................................................................................................................. 79 Route calculation errors .....................................
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Prologue Dear customer, Thank you for choosing Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone. Sygic GPS Navigation software is a complete navigation system with realistic 3D maps, accurate search and precise route computing. Sygic GPS Navigation goes beyond professional car navigation, supporting pedestrian navigation and basic level for outdoor activities.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Getting Started Related Articles: • Personalizing settings • Map management • My account • Sygic Store Sygic GPS Navigation is offline navigation software and does not require online connection to operate. Online connection is only necessary during initial installation and activation of the software and for installing maps and updates.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Personalizing settings If you wish to change the default set language, time format, distance units and voice in Sygic GPS Navigation, your first steps will lead to Menu > Settings > Regional. From here, you can select from the list of regional settings. Menu Button Menu Settings Regional Voice: Set language and type of voice instructions.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English • Manage voices provides you Standard voices with efficient voice instructions during navigation. • TTS (stands for Text-To-Speech) voice is a stand-alone voice engine, that can process any text input, for example road exits and street names. In addition to all the standard instructions available in the normal voices, TTS voices give you the ability to set up completely custom notifications for railroad crossings, speed cameras, pois etc.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Distance units: Select the distance units Sygic will display. Menu > Settings > Regional > Distance units Time format: Set the time format display.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Temperature: Set the temperature units. Menu > Settings > Regional > Temperature GPS Coordinates: Set the format to your preferred GPS Coordinates format.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Map management `Anytime you are able to download/update/remove your purchased map packages in Manage maps > Download maps menu: • Add a map by selecting the region you wish to add the map from first and then tapping on the country you wish to add (Note: you can cancel a map that is being downloaded by tapping on it while downloading). Select multiple maps at once to queue up the maps while downloading. • Remove a map by tapping on the check box.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English My account The email used for making an in app license purchase becomes automatically your Sygic account. You can log in to Sygic GPS Navigation with two types of accounts: • Sygic • Facebook (optional) To do so, go to Menu > My Account. If you don’t have either of the accounts above, you can create a Sygic account in this section by tapping Create a new account button.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Additional options will appear by tapping the Menu button in the bottom right corner of the screen: Menu button Additional options • Clear login data – This option will clean your login data. • Change password – This will re-direct you to our webpage, where you can change your password.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Sygic Store The Sygic Store page in Menu > Sygic Store is used to purchase the Premium features, add-ons and Online-Services. It also displays your license status and validity of your prepaid subscriptions, you can restore your previous purchases when transferring your account to another device, or you can check out other apps by Sygic available on the Store.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Personalize your settings To further personalize your settings, go to Menu > Settings. The following articles will elaborate in more detail about the controls of Sygic GPS Navigation.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English General This section includes the General settings for Sygic: • Enable/Disable the GPS Module to save your battery when not using the app for navigation (while downloading maps, or pre-planing routes) • Enter the Manage maps section to add/remove/update maps when needed • To Reset to defaults when necessary, so that you can start over whenever you need.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Map The Settings > Map section allows you to customize basic map features and functions, such as: Menu Select Settings General Map • Autozoom: Enable/disable autozooming Autozoom Last update: 2015/03/20 15:45:27 Page 17 of 93
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English • Landmarks: Enable/disable the displaying of Landmarks.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English • Points of interest: Enable the display of POIs on the map.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Notifications & Sounds Changing the Notifications & Sounds section settings will change the sounds for notifications based on your preferences.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Speed cameras In the Speed Cameras section, the notifications settings when approaching a speed camera can be changed.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Speed limits In the Speed limits section, the notifications settings when exceeding the speed limit can be changed.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Traffic notification In the Traffic notification section, the notifications settings for traffic warnings can be changed.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Sharp Curve Warning In the Sharp curve warning section, the notifications settings when approaching a Sharp curve can be changed. By changing these settings, you can achieve the following: • Turn Sharp curve warning notifications on/off • Set to vibrate when approaching a Sharp curve • Set the sound of the Sharp curve warning notification to preset sound/custom sound/off • Set the angle for a easy/medium/hard/sharp curve.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Railway crossings In the Railway crossings section, the notifications settings when approaching a Railway crossing can be changed.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Route planning The Route planning section allows you to select some of the basic preferences for your planned route and also allows you to change to a predefined route computing algorithm.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Regional The Regional settings allow you to change the output of Sygic GPS Navigation, as well as input settings for your preferred GPS Coordinates format: Menu Select Settings General Regional Voice: Set language and type of voice instructions. • Standard voice provides you with efficient voice instructions during navigation.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Language: Set the language of the menu interface.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English • Kilometers • Miles / Yards • Miles / Feet Regional Distance options Time format: Change the time to your preferred format Regional Last update: 2015/03/20 15:45:27 Time format options Page 32 of 93
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Temperature: Change to your preferred temperature format (Degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit) Regional Temperature options GPS Coordinates: Set your preferred GPS Coordinates input/output format in Sygic GPS Navigation to: Last update: 2015/03/20 15:45:27 Page 33 of 93
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English • Degrees 0.0° • Minutes 0°0.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Display The Display section changes the display of various information in the map screen. You can choose which of the following information to display: • Lane guidance – Activate this dynamic feature to let Sygic guide you through multiple lanes when approaching a junction • Junction view – Never miss your turn by knowing the actual situation when approaching a junction. • Signpost info – Enable/Disable the appearance of Signposts when navigating.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English You can also set the Information bar to display three of the following options, which you can select for Walking mode or Driving mode: • Signal level • Time • Route length • Remaining distance • Elevation • Speed • Estimated time of arrival • Traveled distance • Remaining time Display Last update: 2015/03/20 15:45:27 Information Bar – Driving mode Information Bar – Walking mode Information Bar – options available Page 36 of 93
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English About The About section of Sygic GPS Navigation includes additional information about the installed software.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Copyright: End user license agreement and Sygic copyright terms. Copyright Give us feedback: Provide us with information about your user experience with Sygic GPS Navigation.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Give us feedback Help: See our short online user guide for new Sygic Next Generation.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Privacy policy: Contains information about our privacy policy and the information we gather from you.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Searching and Entering a Destination This section contains a detailed insight into the primary functionality of Sygic GPS Navigation. The following articles will explain how to create, manage and save routes. Let’s return to the Map overview screen and try pressing the screen once.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Map-tap Navigating The basic way to enter your destination is Map-tap Navigating. It allows you to select your destination by selecting a point from the map in map browsing mode without needing to type an address. Although not as many options are available by entering your destination like this, it is still an effective way to navigate.
Sygic Map Browsing mode Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Select a point on the map POI Details 2) Select a nearby POI (Press Get Directions in the POI Details screen) Map Browsing mode Select a point on the map Scroll to display nearby POIs Select a POI Notice that the Nearby POI option allows you to filter the POIs not only using search, but also in groups.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English navigate to it. Once you select the Get directions option, a route will be calculated and you will enter the Basic Route overview window. Map-tap navigating also allows you to add a Pass-by or via-point from the map while a route is already established. You need to enter Map Browsing mode when a route is created, then add the point: • Pass-by points are available if you select an area, like a city, district, etc.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English The Search Bar The Search Bar serves to find your destination in a number of ways. Most of your input when creating a route goes through here. To actually enter the Search bar, you need to tap the Search icon from the bottom of the screen. The icon is available in Map Browsing mode, or you need to press the screen once when in Navigating mode.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Entering your destination You can enter your destination using a combined system of your input and suggestions given by Sygic based on the information given and available. Notice that once you start typing your destination, Sygic will give you a number of suggestions.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Entering waypoints Once you enter your destination, you might want to add waypoints you wish to stop by on the road: 1. Enter the Search field 2. tap the “+” icon at the end of the search bar. Notice that another line will appear above and the list will change. 3. You can now enter either a waypoint, enter your destination or change your current position. You can add a large number of waypoints this way.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Navigating to GPS Coordinates Your first step before entering GPS coordinates in the search bar will lead to the clearing of the predefined country. Tap the “x” icon at the end of the line to do this. Once done, please enter your GPS coordinates. You can enter them in one of the supported formats: • Degrees – 0.0 • Minutes – 0.0’0 • Seconds – 0.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Once your input of your destination coordinates is complete, simply tap the play button in the bottom-side panel of the screen. Once you press this button, a route will be calculated and you will enter the Basic Route overview window.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Navigating to POIs There is more than one way to actually enter a POI as a destination: 1. If you are not looking for an address, but for accommodation, vehicle services, petrol stations or other Points of Interest, select the nearby POI option from the search bar right away. • Notice that a list of POIs will be displayed with their actual distances from your current position.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English When your input of your POI is complete, simply press the play button in the bottom-side panel of the screen. Once you press this button, a route will be calculated and you will enter the Basic Route overview window.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English How to add Favorites Saving favorites saves time while traveling in your daily commute and it is also very easy. Favorites can be added just like any other destination: 1. Select a point on the map, or search for an address via search 2. Enter POI detail 3. Press Star icon 4. Enter name of the Favorite 5. Confirm. Icon will change if successful. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 To remove a Favorite, follow these steps: 1. Enter the Favorites section 2.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Navigating to Favorites By entering the Favorites section, you can easily navigate to either places you consider your favorite, or to places you visit more frequently, or places you have visited in the past. To actually utilize this functionality, you need to add these favorites first or travel to a few places, so that both your history and favorites list has entries. Adding favorites was described in the previous article.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 • While creating a route via Search (you can do this before or after entering the destination, but before pressing the Play button to start the computing of your route):: 1. Press the highlighted icon to enter the Favorites section 2. select the Favorite you wish to add 3.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English When your input of your favorites is complete, simply press the play button in the bottom-side panel of the screen. Once you press this button, a route will be calculated and you will enter the Basic Route overview window.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Navigating to recent destinations Once you start using the app and travel to more and more destinations, the app will store these destinations into the History section of the Favorites list. Once there, you can recall these destinations anytime by going to the Favorites > History. These are stored once you create a route and press the Navigate button. To Navigate to a recent destination: 1. Enter the favorites section 2.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English How to save Routes As well as single Points on the map, POIs or other map features, Routes can be saved as well, further increasing the comfort of your day-to-day commute. To save a route, create a route first and before confirming it by pressing the Navigate button, follow these steps: 1. Go to Route overview 2. Tap the Star icon 3. Enter a name for the route 4. Confirm Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Your saved route will be added to your favorites.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English To remove routes from your favorites, follow the steps below: 1. Enter the Favorites section 2. Press and hold the Route you wish to remove 3.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English When your input of your saved route is complete, simply press the play button in the bottom-side panel of the screen. Once you press this button, a route will be calculated and you will enter the Basic Route overview window.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Basic route overview The Basic Route overview appears every time Sygic calculates a new route. This section doesn’t appear when recalculating.The calculated route will be displayed on the map, with the following information/ options: 1. Details for one of the selected routes 2. Options to avoid certain road types 3. The Cancel, Advanced overview and Navigate buttons. 4.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English How to set up a Home address You can set up your Home address as a regular favorite. They are very similar: 1. Both are stored in the Favorites section 2. Both are added by pressing an icon in the POI Details screen – How to add favorites is described here 3. It can be removed like any other favorite – How to remove Favorites is described here 4.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Additional options This section is dedicated to the more advanced settings that provide more detailed information and insight into the app and some of the more advanced functions. It is still subject to change as we will bring more functions.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Advanced Route Overview The Advanced route overview section can be accessed in two ways: 1. From the basic route overview screen a) Select a destination and let the app compute a route b) Once in basic route overview, press the Route summary button Basic overview Advanced Route Overview 2. Whenever after you press the navigate button, until you reach your destination or cancel your route.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English The Advanced route overview contains the following additional information and options: 1.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English 2. Instruction Screen: a) All route events (start point, turns, destination) b) Allows you to avoid parts of the route (if possible) Advanced Route Overview Instructions screen 3.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Avoiding parts of the route On some occasions, you may need to avoid a certain point of the route. Ranging from single route points, up to road types for entire countries, Sygic can help you reach your destination as quickly and comfortably as possible.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Avoiding a route point 3) Avoiding Traffic (if purchased): • You can avoid a Traffic incident on your route from the Advanced Route overview > Delays section by pressing and holding the point you wish to avoid. If available, a window will pop out with the avoid option.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Demonstration mode Demonstration mode allows you to view a full demonstration of your route from the comfort of your home. Demonstration mode resembles navigation mode in the amount of information displayed and also offers additional functions. Press the screen once to display the controls menu with following options: 1) Cancel – Cancels your currently set route – Not Demonstration mode.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Troubleshooting Dear customer, if you are experiencing issues while using Sygic GPS Navigation, this category will provide you with basic troubleshooting steps. If you would not find proper solution in this User Guide, please contact our Customer support. Please provide our support team with as much detailed information about the issue and, if possible, provide us with a screenshot of the About section in Sygic Settings.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Crashing, freezing, not starting at all If Sygic exits without an apparent reason, freezes while performing an operation or doesn’t start at all, then you might want to check if you don’t have many additional apps running. Sygic relies heavily on your device’s hardware and memory. If your device’s hardware is OK, then please restart your device. If that doesn’t help, then you might want to consider Resetting to defaults.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Connection issues To access certain sections of Sygic, you need to have an active internet connection. If you receive an error message while trying to enter these Sections (Signing in, downloading maps, entering Sygic Store or downloading voices), check your current connection, if you don’t have a firewall, antivirus or other app blocking Sygic’s access to the internet.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Route calculation errors These are two most common routing errors you might encounter while using Sygic GPS Navigation.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Create an account to boost your Sygic with special features Your own Sygic account is the best (though not the only) way to sign in and use your purchased features. It is also used once you complete an in-app purchase, binding the purchased product to your account and enable you to carry it over to a new device, once you replace your previous one.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Traffic information You can avoid delays in your everyday commute with precise, up-to-date reports on traffic jams, road works and incidents. With Traffic you will know what lies on the road ahead and save time and fuel. Traffic display 1 Traffic display 2 Sygic Store • Featured topics:* • How To Buy Traffic • How To Activate Traffic • How To Use Traffic Please note : Traffic is an add-on service that can only be used in Sygic GPS Navigation apps.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English How to buy Traffic The Live Traffic Service is an add-on of Sygic GPS Navigation that is purchased directly in the app. 1. Go to Menu 2. Select Sygic Store 3. Select Traffic Information 4. Select the package you wish to purchase 5. Press the price button 6. Confirm your purchase A charge will be then placed on the account you use for the purchase and upon completing the purchase, the service will be activated on your account.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English How to activate Traffic Once you complete a purchase of the Live Traffic service, it will be activated to your account right away – you don’t need to enter a product code or perform additional steps. However, if you purchased this service with an email account, the product will be bound to it, therefore you will need to sign in Furthermore, you can control the display and data flow from your device to help improve the service: 1.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English How to use Traffic The Traffic Service works as an informative tool about the current situation on the road ahead when creating a route. Our currently set route calculation system allows the avoiding of Traffic delays on your route as well. 1. Traffic display in route overview Traffic in overview 2.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Head up display With Head up display feature, you are able to see all navigation instructions projected directly into your line of sight – the windshield. Keep your attention on the road and enjoy a safe & comfortable drive at night.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English How to buy Head up display The Head up Display is an add-on of Sygic GPS Navigation that is purchased directly in the app. 1. Go to Menu 2. Select Sygic Store 3. Select Head up Display 4. Press the price button 5. Confirm your purchase A charge will be then placed on the account you use for the purchase and upon completing the purchase, the service will be activated on your account.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English How to activate Head up display The Head up Display is usually bound to the e-mail address you have used during purchase – your Sygic account. The product is activated upon purchasing, so you are not required to perform any additional actions to activate your purchase. To restore your purchased Head up Display feature, simply Sign in The Head up Display is activated from the Menu: 1. Enter Menu 2.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English Lifetime Navigation Users who purchase Sygic Lifetime Navigation have full access to all premium functions of Sygic. We’ve already mentioned which features are paid and which are for free. Sygic GPS Navigation is a free application that offers in-app purchases.
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Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English How to buy Lifetime Navigation Lifetime Navigation for Windows Phone can be purchased only as an in-app purchase in the free Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone app. The process is very simple: 1. Go to Menu 2. Select Sygic Store 3. Press Get Lifetime Navigation 4. Select a package you wish to purchase 5. Check the product description page and then press the price button to proceed with the purchase 6. Confirm the purchase.
Sygic Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone - English How to activate Lifetime Navigation The Lifetime Navigation is usually bound to the e-mail address you have used during purchase – your Sygic account. The product is activated upon purchasing, so you are not required to perform any additional actions to activate your purchase, though you might need to restore your purchase in case you are transferring from one device to another. To Restore your purchased Lifetime Navigation: 1. Sign in 2.
