RE: MyGIG Software Enhancements Requests
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RE: MyGIG Software Enhancements Requests - 3/8/2008 11:57:30 AM
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klibby
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Oh yeah, speaking of necessary changes... aenimon reminded me in the Mods/Hacks thread...
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...2) Also, the impression I've gotten about the MP3 player is that it allows you to select an artist, but then just gives you a laundry list of songs with no option to have it show albums, and then songs in successive menu's. Is there any word of a potential change to this in an update, since this is a pretty MP3 player basic inclusion?
It would be nice if when you go to select an artist, once you do it gives you the option to select a specific album from that artist, rather than just all songs by the artist.
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RE: MyGIG Software Enhancements Requests - 3/8/2008 8:04:22 PM
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needforsleep
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For the Nav Guidance annoyance, can't you just turn the volume down all the way for the nav guidance and then it will remain low over ignition cycles?
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RE: MyGIG Software Enhancements Requests - 3/16/2008 8:35:42 AM
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mantis223
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This one drives me nuts.
Improve the Navigation Search : "Input by Name" feature.
Example / Problem :
I'm sitting in my car and want to find the closests Target, Walmart, Best Buy for example.
1. I have no idea what type of POI this would fall under.
2. Im not sure which / what cities around me these stores exist.
3. I dont have the store phone number.
( Like any other Navigation System I've Owned..... )
I want / should to be able to :
1. Press "Input by name"
2. Type out "Best Buy"
3. Be able to see ( quickly ) what Best Buys are around me and be able to sort by Name or Distance.
4. I want the list of Best Buy Stores in a view such as :
Example Best Buy Stores ( Sorted by my choice of distance or name ) :
Best Buy - Manchester, CT 5.1 Miles
Best Buy - Holyoke, MA 12.8 Miles
Best Buy - Ellington, CT 29.6 Miles
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RE: MyGIG Software Enhancements Requests - 3/16/2008 9:21:07 AM
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klibby
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Just to add to that...
It would also be nice if it were an actual search and not just a match. What I mean by that is that you have to have everything exactly correct from the beginning to get results. The only example I can think of right now (although pretty obvious if you were looking for it) is if you were looking for Home Depot near you, you wouldnt get any results if it were in the NAV as "The Home Depot" since you didnt put in the "The" in the beginning
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RE: MyGIG Software Enhancements Requests - 3/16/2008 6:34:14 PM
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milous
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Something I would like to see is some sort of way to limit the search results as far as distance goes. I couldn't count the number of time that I have entered in a business and what comes up is 2,100 miles away!! I know there is a sort by distance but for whatever reason I seem to get initial results from businesses hundreds or thousands of miles away. I would like to have a way to enter a default setting that, for example, lets me select "Limit results to xxx miles" and have it remember that setting unless I go in and change it. 99.9% of the time I am looking for something that is within 10 or 20 miles from where I am at. This would also make the search faster and have a lot less results in the listings.
Something else that is irritating is the amount of "repeated" listings. The "Outback" restaurant can come up as "Outback Steakhouse", "Outback Restaurant", etc., yet they end up having the same listings.
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RE: MyGIG Software Enhancements Requests - 3/19/2008 8:30:48 AM
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foundrybullet
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Nah Silkk19 I mean when you input a new destination and then you click continue or whatever after it gives you the trip overview, that woman's voice comes on and says "You are in an area where turn by turn guidance cannot be provided" or she either starts out giving directions.
For each new trip that is entered you need to go in to guidance prompts and turn her off. Then if you go to your recent destinations list she should still be turned off for the trip that was previously entered, and even then sometimes she still isnt off for some reason.
So what I am proposing is that HB should make it possible that when you go in to guidance prompts and turn her off, she should be off for everything, whether you enter a new trip or not because it's really irritating to have to turn her off every single time you enter a new destination.
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RE: MyGIG Software Enhancements Requests - 3/19/2008 8:13:05 PM
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nightshade72
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How about a feature to backup your settings to USB?
It's got a USB port.. it can be read...
Address book, pictures, nav settings, radio station settings..
They could back up everything except for the music. (that would get them into legal issues maybe)
I just had my radio swapped out and now get to re-add all my addresses etc.. very annoying.
Would be great to have a sort of flat file that we can use to load up the addresses and numbers.. :)
I think the firmware update smokes your address book etc as well. (again... annoying)
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RE: MyGIG Software Enhancements Requests - 4/11/2008 3:19:12 PM
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klibby
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I just wanted to bump this thread because I thought it was a great idea for everybody to put in their thoughts and ideas for things they'd like to see on the MyGig. Futil, I'm not sure if you sent the initial posts in, but I think after awhile I will compile all these into a document to send off to HB. It should be pretty useful for them.
Other than that, I have a few more enhancements I have thought of...
1) Option to reverse the Prev Track & Next Track hard buttons. I know they are correct they way they are; Up should be next, and down Previous (which is why I am saying to put in an option to reverse them because not everybody will agree with me). For some reason it bugs me that then I press the up button it plays the song below the one I am currently listening to.
2) Phone/NAV/Media Volume: The NAV Guidance volume should be adjusted as dB compared to the media volume (display as % for a more friendly interface since most people dont know dB) ie. NAV volume should be adjusted as say something between 0% to 300% of media volume. This way when you turn up your radio, the NAV volume will be adjusted as well. Sometimes I have the radio turned way up, so I have to go in and adjust NAV prompts (if I'm using them) so I can actually hear them over the radio, but then when I have the radio at a more human volume and forget to turn the NAV volume down I feel like the NAV lady is screaming at me :-(
3) There should be a soft key while using UConnect on a phone call, drop the bluetooth and transfer to the handset.
4) When you do transfer to the handset, I noticed radio comes back on (which is ideal) but when you end the call, UConnect cuts back in to say "Phone call completed"... This is not necessary. UConnect knows that the call was transfered to the handset (obviously, since when you do it goes back to radio media), so it should know then to ignore the signal from the phone telling it the phone call is has ended so not to interupt the media.
5) More robust voice commands: I recently got a mic, but was slightly dissapointed to see the voice command setup. I don't think everything should be in a tree as it is. I realize some things need to be like destination entry but for others you shouldnt have to go through a command tree. Also, even with the tree setup you shouldn't have to wait for it to read off the available options to you before you can say the next command.
6) Again with voice commands: MyGig has an advandage over the Microsoft Sync in several ways, but one feature of the Sync that stands out, is the use of voice commands. (ie. Play artist The Ramones) This will probably require a more advanced voice recognition software since it doesn't have to only recognize certain commands, and probably require more voice training from the user's perspective, but it will be well worth it!
7) HDD Media Selection: I believe this has been said before, but this is where a tree would come in handy. With a tree in this aspect, a user should be able to hit the "Music" soft key, select "Artist" then select the artist from a list, then have all the albums from that artist displayed with soft keys at the bottom "List all Songs" "Play all Albums" (Of course if the user selects "List all songs", the list that currently is displayed when you select "Artist" will be displayed, and the "Play all Albums" should be changed to "Play all Songs" as it does now). The same could be done for other fields.
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RE: MyGIG Software Enhancements Requests - 4/11/2008 9:42:18 PM
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futil
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Hey Klibby..
I haven't sent them in yet for 2 reasons..
1. HB is flooded with work and emails due to staff going on vacation and the software release.. (I wanted to let things calm down a bit as the suggestions might be ignored if they are overwhelmed with other work)
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2. I wanted to give everyone enough time to voice their opinions as I am sure everyone didn't get the chance to chime in yet..
But since I am flooded with tech emails, requests for help on the web site, and adding content to the web site as well as nearly burned out from all the projects I keep taking on.. So If you want to compile all the requests into a single document and submit them then you can.. otherwise if you don't get to it I will shortly. (Just please let me know if you do so that I wont duplicate your work) :) The last thing I need is to redo work that has already been done..
I hear a better emergency CD ejection method is in the works but you may want to mention that anyway..
Thanks
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Anyway, I'll get my head out of the clouds and just hope for some of the more necessary changes we have listed above 
