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NAV-PNF 43
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  • Page 1 User’s Guide NAV-PNF 43 Thank you for choosing an a-rival Na vigationsystem. A good choice. We hope you´ll enjoy using your ne w an a-rival Nav igationsystem. Just in case that you are facing any problems with your De vice, please call our support/service hotline 0049 (0)511 / 123 83 505 or send us an e-mail to support@a-rival.de 
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  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide Table of Contents A Navigation Software User’s Guide ........................4 Main Menu .................................4 General Information............................4 GPS Reception ............................5 Navigation ................................7 Home ................................7 Office ................................7 Address ...............................7 2.3.1 City................................7 2.3.2 Special characters (‘umlauts’), spaces, hyphens, apostrophe ............8 2.3.3 Deleting entries ............................8 2.3.4 Street ..............................9...
  • Page 3 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide TMC – Traffic Message Channel......................33 5.9.1 Receive TMC Data ........................... 33 5.9.2 Bypass traffic jams automatically ....................33 5.9.3 Ask before bypassing traffic jams....................34 5.9.4 Display traffic events only ........................ 34 5.10 Traffic ..............................34 5.11 Language ...............................

  • Page 4: A Navigation Software User's Guide

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide A Navigation Software User’s Guide When employing a navigation system in a vehicle, i.e., this software and the accompanying hardware, it is your responsibility to set up, secure and use the system in a manner that does not restrict your vision in any way and will not lead to accidents, injuries or material damages.

  • Page 5: Gps Reception

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 1.2 GPS Reception Your navigation system is equipped with a so-called GPS receiver which is used by the system to determine your current position. For best reception, mount the device such that it is exposed to the sky without obstruction. When used within buildings or the interior of the car, GPS reception might not be sufficient for operation.
  • Page 6 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide However, if the GPS receiver has been configured correctly the route calculation will automatically start as soon as reception is back to normal. During navigation the current GPS and TMC signal is indicated at the bottom left of the display (red circle).

  • Page 7: Navigation

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2 Navigation There are several methods for specifying the destination: 2.1 Home If you click Home, you will be guided to your home address. See Chapter 5.1 for detailed information on how to set up your home address. 2.2 Office If you click Office, you will be guided to your office address.

  • Page 8: Special Characters ('Umlauts'), Spaces, Hyphens, Apostrophe

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.3.2 Special characters (‘umlauts’), spaces, hyphens, apostrophe You do not need to enter ‘umlauts’. In place of an ‘Ä’ simply enter ‘A’, instead of ‘Ö’ enter ‘O’, instead of ‘Ü’ enter ‘U’. For example, if your destination is located in ‘Köln,’ Germany, just enter ‘K O L N’.

  • Page 9: Street

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.3.4 Street Start by entering the first two letters of the street you are trying to locate. The bottom line displays the city where the street is being searched. Alternatively, you can select DOWNTOWN if you want to drive to the center of the respective city.

  • Page 10: House Number

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide In this case, choose the desired destination based on the zip code or the district indicated in the list. 2.3.5 House number Next you are requested to enter the house number. Enter the house number and confirm by pressing the GREEN button. If you do not know the house number, click the GREEN button without making an entry.

  • Page 11: Favorites

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide Click Search Crossroad to find all streets intersecting the selected street (Roteichenweg in this example). When you select an entry from the list, the full address is displayed in the lower screen section. Press the GREEN button to confirm your selection and start navigation to the chosen intersection.

  • Page 12: Map

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.5 Map This mode allows you to select your destination directly from within the map. You can use the plus and minus Buttons to zoom in and out. Alternatively you can use the magnifying glass. If you draw a box around the target form the upper left to the lower right (blue), the map viewer zooms in the selected area.
  • Page 13 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide Click the button with the four arrows (red circle) to activate the scroll mode. You can now move the map with your finger. Activate the selection tool (red circle) to select a destination by directly clicking into the map.

  • Page 14: Poi

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.6 POI POI is the abbreviation for “point of interest”. These points of interest are important sites such as gas stations, hotels or hospitals. The POIs are grouped into separate categories. After calling up the POI function, you must select the desired category.

  • Page 15: Poi In City

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.7 POI in City The POI in City function serves to find a POI located far from your present location. This function can be very useful, for example, when you are looking for a hospital in another city.
  • Page 16 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide Next, enter the keyword, e.g. “Brandenburger” for finding the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. All matching results are shown in a list. Click the map icon (red circle) to display the location of the POI on the map. Pressing the GREEN button will start navigation to the selected POI.

  • Page 17: Itinerary

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.9 Itinerary The Itinerary function allows you to specify several destinations you want to travel to successively and to save them. Use the Create button to create new Itineraries and the Load button to load existing Itineraries.

  • Page 18: Coordinates

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide You can change the order of the stops using the up/down buttons (red circle). Click the GREEN button to start navigation to the first stop. Once you reach the first destination, navigation to the next stop will commence at the touch of a button. 2.10 Coordinates A destination can be defined by entering a pair of coordinates.

  • Page 19: Zip Code

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.11 Zip Code The Zip Code function enables you to define your destination by entering a zip code. This is what the screen looks like after entering “5137”. After selecting the first entry, you can search for a street within the zip code area or define the center of the zip code area as your destination.

  • Page 20: Previous Destinations

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.12 Previous Destinations The Previous Destinations function facilitates the selection of destinations you have previously entered. Upon calling up the Address (cf. Chapter 2.3) or Zip Code (cf. Chapter 2.11) entry method, the system will initially display a list containing up to 10 destinations entered at a previous time.

  • Page 21: Start Navigation

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.13 Start Navigation After you have selected a destination, you can specify the driving mode that is to apply for the route (cf. Chapter 5.6). If you don’t want this query to appear each time navigation is started, deselect the check mark in the Ask before every route calculation field (red circle).

  • Page 22: Alternative Routes

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.14 Alternative Routes After the initial route calculation a similar screen to the one below will appear. The calculated route can be accepted by pressing the blue OK button. Alternetively you can press the “Alternative” button to calculate other routes. To choose one route, press the OK button with the color corresponding to the color of the selected route.

  • Page 23: Route Planning

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 3 Route Planning Use the Route Planning function to plan future trips. This allows you to obtain information on the distance and expected duration ahead of time. The Route Planning function works much the same as entering a normal destination; the only difference is that you must indicate a start location in addition to the destination.
  • Page 24 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide After you have selected start location and destination, you can specify the driving mode that is to apply for this trip (cf. Chapter 5.6). If you don’t want this query to appear each time route calculation and navigation are launched, deselect the checkmark in the Ask before every route calculation field.

  • Page 25: Position

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 4 Position The Position function is used to display your current position on the map. The orientation of the map can be northward or in driving direction. Please see chapter 5.3 for more on these options. You can use the zoom buttons to zoom into or out of the map.

  • Page 26: Options

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5 Options 5.1 Favorites 5.1.1 Adding favorites Favorites are frequently used addresses you can store in a list. This facilitates quick access to these destinations. When you start up the system for the first time, the favorites list is empty.

  • Page 27: Deleting Favorites

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide There are many options for creating a new favorite. For details on how to do so, please refer to Chapter 2. After selecting an address (e.g. by entering the address, see Chapter 2.2), you will be prompted to provide a name for this favorite.

  • Page 28: Renaming Favorites

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.1.3 Renaming favorites If you want to rename a favorite, mark the entry in the list and click the renaming icon (red circle). 5.2 Volume The volume menu allows you to adjust the system volume. If you want to change the system volume during navigation, please refer to Chapter 6.4.

  • Page 29: Map Display

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.3 Map display The (Map display) menu offers several map display options. Northward: The map is ‘northed’, i.e., north always points up.  Driving Direction: The map is always displayed in the direction of travel. In ...

  • Page 30: Poi-Display

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.4 POI-Display In the POI Display menu you can define the POI categories to be displayed on the map. 5.5 Route Settings The Route Settings menu allows you to specify whether to calculate the shortest or fastest route.

  • Page 31: Profiles

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.6 Profiles The Profiles menu offers options for optimizing the route calculation for a specific vehicle type and/or driving mode. The profile “car fast” shall be used for passenger cars in general. The option “car slow” may be used for slow passenger cars.

  • Page 32: Units

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide Now the following screen should be displayed: Display Interpretation Status: Connection OK The navigation software has established a connection with the GPS receiver and is receiving data. Count: 3 The navigation software receives one dataset per second. Since the connection was established 3 datasets have been received.

  • Page 33: Tmc - Traffic Message Channel

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.9 TMC – Traffic Message Channel TMC are traffic information which can be considered by your navigation software for route calculation and for map display. Prerequisite for using TMC is a TMC receiver (internal or external). 5.9.1 Receive TMC Data In order to use TMC tap chose an other status as “TMC off”...

  • Page 34: Ask Before Bypassing Traffic Jams

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.9.3 Ask before bypassing traffic jams Activate „Ask before bypassing traffic jams “ to get an message box when an traffic jam is arise. 5.9.4 Display traffic events only With this option the traffic jams will be shown only on the map viewer. 5.10 Traffic The „Traffic“...

  • Page 35: Language

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.11 Language In the Language menu you can select the language used to output spoken driving instructions and display texts on screen. 5.12 Speedwarnings The menu „Warning“ allows you to select, if you want to be alerted when exceeding the local speed limit.

  • Page 36: Gps-Logs

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.13 GPS-Logs Your navigation system is able to record GPS logs. To record a GPS log click the red button and enter a name for the log. You can now use the navigation system as usual while the GPS data is recorded.

  • Page 37: Blockades

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.14 Blockades By tapping the button “Blockades” a map with your current location will be displayed. By first tapping the marker button (red circle) and then the map, any road segment can be permanently blocked. To unblock a segment tap it again. The blockades persist even when the navigation software is being shut down and started.

  • Page 38: While On The Road

    The lane info is most common on freeways, highways and big crossings. 460 meters: Indicates the distance remaining until the next maneuver must be  carried out. 1:18: Indicates the calculated arrival time.  48 min: Indicates the remaining driving time. ...

  • Page 39: Zoom

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 6.2 Zoom During navigation you can use the plus/minus buttons (red circles) to enlarge or reduce the displayed map section. After 10 seconds the map will automatically revert to the optimal display setting. This Auto zoom function can be disabled (cf. Chapter 5.4). 6.3 Route Overview and Destination View Depending on the size of the display, two buttons are displayed to toggle a route overview (red circle) or to show the region of the destination (yellow circle).

  • Page 40: Driving Instruction Volume

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 6.4 Driving Instruction Volume Click the left bar at any time to adjust the volume of the driving instructions. After a few seconds the volume display automatically disappears.

  • Page 41: Options

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 6.5 Options Click the map during navigation to display the option dialog. 6.5.1 Mute Use the Mute button to disable the acoustic driving instructions. Pressing the button again will enable the spoken instructions. 6.5.2 Map View The Map View button calls up a menu for performing map display settings (cf.

  • Page 42: Block Km

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 6.5.5 Block KM The purpose of the Block KM function is to block the upcoming road section for a certain number of kilometers during active navigation. The navigation system will determine an alternative route bypassing the blocked section. This function is useful for circumventing traffic jams or blocked roads.

  • Page 43: Quit

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 6.5.11 Quit Press the Quit button to end navigation. The navigation software returnes to the main menue.

  • Page 44: C Copyright Notice

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide C Copyright Notice The product and the information contained in this document are subject to change without prior notification. This manual or any parts thereof may not be modified or duplicated without the express written permission of infoware GmbH. Data Source ©...

  • Page 45: D End User License Agreement ("Eula")

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide D End-User License Agreement („EULA“) This End-User License Agreement (“EULA”) is a legal agreement between you (either an individual natural person or a single legal entity) the “End User”, and infoware Gesellschaft für Informationstechnik mbH, Riemenschneiderstrasse 11, 53175 Bonn, Germany) (“infoware”). This EULA applies to software, pre- installed software on any hardware devices as well as cd-rom, floppy disk, memory card, download package or any other data carriers and all contents and contents programs (“Software”).
  • Page 46 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide c) Some countries may not allow the exclusion or limitation of damages. If this Limited Warranty is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not invalidate or render unenforceable the entire Limited Warranty, but rather the Limited Warranty shall be construed as if not containing the particular invalid or unenforceable provision or provisions, and the rights and obligations of each party shall be construed and enforced accordingly.

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