V70: Stereo/SatNav/Phone Satnav... Postcodes?

[steadvex]

UK postcodes can cover square miles, in a perfect world they cover no more than 32 houses, and sure it built up area's it mostly works that way.

I speak from an ex delivery driver who covered rural area's.

But yes, the earlier systems are terrible, although I think the routing engine is quite good, the newer ones are a lot simpler, I find txt typing nokia phone style makes entry a lot easier on the sensus systems

[apersson850]

My Sensus, which is a High Performance Multimedia from 2012, allows both text typing on the keyboard in the center stack (yes, like an old cell phone) or the "Dymo wheel" in the main display.

[andykem]

Hello,
Thanks to Simon Jones for the pointer to the button that is supposed to let me search by postcode. However, on my unit nothing happens when I do like it says in the RTI manual and press enter after navigating to the postcode button. Except that after quite a while it takes me to the stored locations page... Not what I want at all!
Any ideas how to fix it? I've tried resetting the system.
Regards
Andy

[Simon Jones]

Mmm - strange.

[andykem]

Thanks again Simon! Though I am not sure quite what to make of your observation this time!
The only thing I can think of doing is to unload the DVD so as to 'empty' the software and then try reloading it. So that's what I will unless some kind soul offers a definite fix before I get around to it.
Andy

[Simon Jones]

If I get a mo tomorrow, I'll step thru the process and see if there is something we're missing.

[apersson850]

Could it be that if postcodes aren't included in the map material, you get the result that's referred to in this thread? If I understood it correctly, the discs used in this case aren't from Volvo? Perhaps they lack some information? Perhaps Volvo's disc from the same time lacked the same information?

I don't know, I'm just guessing here. But it seems funny if a function to search for postcodes simply doesn't. It's like it had none to search for.

[jodiexii]

I got disc from satnavdvd and mine has Postcode button on top left after clicking city, like simon jones's

[Simon Jones]

Once the postcode button has been pressed and it changes to say 'city', there is a qwerty keyboard below and you enter the first 4 characters, then it will show a space button to select and then you can put in the remaining characters.