Sygic GPS Navigation for Windows Phone Operating instructions

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 ................................................................................................................................. 10

My account ........................................................................................................................................... 11

Sygic Store ........................................................................................................................................... 13

Personalize your settings ........................................................................................................................ 15

General................................................................................................................................................. 16

Map ...................................................................................................................................................... 17

Notifications & Sounds .......................................................................................................................... 22

Speed cameras................................................................................................................................ 23

Speed limits..................................................................................................................................... 24

Traffic notification ............................................................................................................................ 25

Sharp Curve Warning ...................................................................................................................... 26

Railway crossings ............................................................................................................................ 27

Route planning...................................................................................................................................... 28

Regional ............................................................................................................................................... 30

Display.................................................................................................................................................. 35

About .................................................................................................................................................... 38

Searching and Entering a Destination..................................................................................................... 43

Map-tap Navigating ............................................................................................................................... 44

The Search Bar..................................................................................................................................... 47

Entering your destination ................................................................................................................. 48

Entering waypoints .......................................................................................................................... 50

Navigating to GPS Coordinates ....................................................................................................... 51

Navigating to POIs........................................................................................................................... 53

How to add Favorites ............................................................................................................................ 55

Navigating to Favorites .................................................................................................................... 57

Navigating to recent destinations ..................................................................................................... 60

How to save Routes .............................................................................................................................. 61

Basic route overview ............................................................................................................................. 64

How to set up a Home address ............................................................................................................. 66

Additional options .................................................................................................................................... 68

Advanced Route Overview .................................................................................................................... 69

Avoiding parts of the route .................................................................................................................... 73

Demonstration mode ............................................................................................................................. 76

Troubleshooting ....................................................................................................................................... 77

Crashing, freezing, not starting at all ..................................................................................................... 78

Connection issues................................................................................................................................. 79

Route calculation errors ........................................................................................................................ 80

Create an account to boost your Sygic with special features ............................................................... 81

Traffic information ................................................................................................................................. 82

How to buy Traffic............................................................................................................................ 83

How to activate Traffic ..................................................................................................................... 84

How to use Traffic............................................................................................................................ 85

Head up display .................................................................................................................................... 87

How to buy Head up display ............................................................................................................ 88

How to activate Head up display ...................................................................................................... 89

Lifetime Navigation ............................................................................................................................... 90

How to buy Lifetime Navigation........................................................................................................ 92

How to activate Lifetime Navigation ................................................................................................. 93

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.

For mobile viewers of this user guide: please press the highlighted button to display the Table of Content

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We wish you a pleasant and safe journey.

Sygic | Bringing life to maps

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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. Online connection is also necessary for optional add-on services such as Traffic

information and crowd-sourced Police trap alerts.

Your safety and the safety of your passengers is of utmost importance, that is why you should always plan

your route before the beginning of the journey. Also make sure that you have installed all maps and

updates while in the comfort of your home or at a place with solid Wi-Fi connection. For longer trips make

sure that you have a compatible charger to avoid draining the device battery.

System Requirements:

Internet connection

Location services

Microphone

HD720P (720×1280)

WVGA (480×800)

WXGA (768×1280)

100 MB of free storage

In Navigation Mode (Pic.1), the software tracks your position for visual reference of the route and map

around you. (Please note that it is necessary to have GPS Module enabled on your device during usage).If

you want to explore other locations, drag the map with your fingers to switch to Map Browsing Mode

(Pic.2).

(Pic.1) Navigation mode (Pic.2) Map browsing mode

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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.

Menu > Settings > Regional > Voice

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• 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.

Language:

Set language of menu interface.

Menu > Settings > Regional > Language

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Distance units:

Select the distance units Sygic will display.

Menu > Settings > Regional > Distance units

Time format:

Set the time format display.

Menu > Settings > Regional > Time format

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Temperature:

Set the temperature units.

Menu > Settings > Regional > Temperature

GPS Coordinates:

Set the format to your preferred GPS Coordinates format.

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Menu > Settings > Regional > GPS Coordinates

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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.

• Update maps after a map update is available. This option will be available usually after an app update

and will be presented the next time you the Download maps section.

Please note that before creating a route it is necessary to download maps of all countries included on your

route .

Menu Button Menu Settings

Manage maps – Regional

display

Manage Maps – Europe

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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.

Menu Button Menu My Account Login Screen

If you are signed in successfully to Sygic with your account, you can set the following account settings in

the My account screen:

• Sign me in automatically – Enable automatic log in after startup.

• Help Improve Traffic – Send us data about current traffic situation.

• News & Updates – Get in touch with news and updates about Sygic.

My account – signed in

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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.

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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.

The following features are available At no cost:

• Offline Maps

• Free Map Updates

• Route Planning

• Alternative Routes

• 3D Buildings & Landscape

• Multiple Waypoints

• Millions of POI

• Offline Search

These features are available during the 7-day Trial Period and Premium users after the trial period

expires:

• Guaranteed Map Updates

• Lifetime License

• Turn-by-Turn Navigation

• Voice Instructions

• Spoken-Street-Names (TTS)

• Speed Limit Warnings

• Sharp Curve Warnings

• Dynamic Lane Assistant

• Junction View

• Travelbook

You can purchase add-on features as in-app purchases:

• Live Traffic service to avoid delays in your daily commute

• Head Up Display (HUD) projects GPS navigation onto your windshield

Menu select Sygic Store Sygic Store

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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.

• General

• Map

• Notifications-sounds

• Route-planning

• Regional

• Display

• About

Menu Select Settings General

Please note, that you can easily use Sygic GPS Navigation without changing most of the settings above,

though you might want to consider changing to your preferred regional settings*.

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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.

Menu Select Settings General

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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

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• Landmarks:

Enable/disable the displaying of Landmarks.

Landmarks

• Color scheme:

Change the color scheme of the map to day/night/automatic

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