iPhone sat nav help again urgent please!!

You need to use 'Data Roaming', but this is often expensive when used abroad. Mine is free on O2 in the UK, but when abroad it is waaaay too expensive to use.
 
You will need roaming data which can be expensive.
 
Roaming data is now capped at £40 unless you ask o2 to remove the limit.
 
Lawrence. Could be worth talking to your provider to see if they do any foreign roaming packages?
 
I've used co-pilot in the US with no data. No signal at all come to think of it.

Should be just fine, you do need to keep the phone active as it wont work in flight mode but does not use data at all.

Edit to add, additional services like weather and traffic updates may be what they are talking about re the data usage.
 
Have you thought about tomtom western europe, i use it a lot and it needs data only for tomtom live etc so not needed in general

£43 for the app
 
I thought it received the triangulation data from the phone masts for free?
 
I'm ringing vodafone right now.
 
well vodafone have no idea apart from that data over there is 3.50 per mb, and £5 or ever extra 5mb after that. Now to ring apple store :/
 
copilot stores the maps locally so no need for roaming data, unless you use the "live" functionality.

Just make sure data roaming is turned to off in your settings and all will be fine.
 
I used Co-Pilot France for a recent holiday to.....yep, you guessed it, France (!) and I never got any data roaming charges. Mind you, I wasn't using any of their live services.
 
Right, just been on to Apple and she said that it will need data connection. And all the others will as well - Tomtom etc. Now, can I ask Darren and Barney, is that definite that it didn't use any data? I'm really confused here. Did you use it on iPhone 3Gs? What is the 'live'? Live traffic updates? If live is off(how do you switch it off?) do you still get turn by turn directions? God I'm soooo confuseeeeeeeeeeeeddd!! :p
 
I used Co-Pilot in part of the states with no signal at all to my 3Gs on vodafone. It worked perfectly as all co-pilot needs is a GPS lock to the satellites and the map, which is in the memory.

It's pretty simple to test, fire up co-pilot and then just lift the sim card tray up. No signal and the satnav carries on.
 
Right. I will take the plunge and get it. Fingers crossed.
 
It needs a data connection to register in the first place, but whilst you are away? No.

As a test, i've just shut down the wifi and turned off mobile data.

Works fine still

You will need to make sure its working in this country before you go though.

That way it's registered and working.
 
Thanks! That's now downloading - 6 hours it takes!! :O Went thru topcashback so 5% discount too! :) thankyou for the responses, much appreciated!
 
It is definite that it didn't use any data....I think I would have noticed a hefty phone bill if there was! I was using it more or less every day for lengthy periods of time as we did a bit of a drive through France!

As for the 'live' service, I believe that is for traffic updates, weather conditions etc.
 
Apple don't know what they're talking about. Copilot stores the maps on the iphone so doesn't need a data connection for normal routing. Same with Navigon, Tomtom and Ndrive. They do need a data connection for the flash stuff, i.e. traffic, weather, petrol prices etc.
 
swordjo said:
Roaming data is now capped at £40 unless you ask o2 to remove the limit.
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It's £60. And I'm about to hit the limit after 8 days with just one of my email accounts activated on the iphone, all others being deactivated until I get access to free or hotel paid-for wifi.

Yes - you need the data to draw the map. Otherwise the GPS would indicate your location on an empty page ;)

/edit. Didn't realise you were talking about satnav. (who reads the subject line anyway?) You *should* be OK for standard use of most satnavs.
 
Got me worried John until I read a bit further!

I'm guessing you'll know - if I turn off Cellular data, and data roaming it will not connect at all will it? So I'll have to pull in emails manually, to avoid costs.
 
lawrenceots said:
Got me worried John until I read a bit further!

I'm guessing you'll know - if I turn off Cellular data, and data roaming it will not connect at all will it? So I'll have to pull in emails manually, to avoid costs.
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Correct.

When I was in Germany last week, I simply turned off Data Roaming;

Settings > General > Network > Data Roaming = Off

... which did mean I couldn't get emails etc while out etc, but the hotel I was staying at had free WiFi.

I did turn it on once or twice to get them as a batch download, which cost me around £5.00 in total for about 30 seconds worth of access!!!
 
Make sure you set it up before you go, as it requires a connection back to their servers to set up your account. Without that you can't start it up. Once it's done that, in standard use the only data connection is checking for updates.
 
Thanks I will. Just another 5 minutes and itunes will have downloaded it. :D
 
lawrenceots said:
Got me worried John until I read a bit further!

I'm guessing you'll know - if I turn off Cellular data, and data roaming it will not connect at all will it? So I'll have to pull in emails manually, to avoid costs.
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Aye. Find a free wifi or subscribe to hotel wifi, test it by browsing to a web site then set your email account(s) active. Not forgetting to undo this when you have finished replying to your emails.
 
My last question - just about to go on the ferry! Do I turn off location services in the menu? If I do that it won't work surely, bit codafone have told me it will!
 
Location services on, data services off.... good to go.


And don't forget............... have fun. :)
 
Thanks! :D

Edit but when I click location I het a list of apps to choose of it's used camera etc. If it doesn't cost then I might as well leave it on so I van het the location data embedded. In photos I take?
 
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