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Starting NavFunPro
If you have a bluetooth GPS, turn it on before starting NavFunPro. Check that the bluetooth of your mobile is enabled.
When you start NavFunPro you will see the start-screen. Fill in the fields:
- E-mail address: Your email address
- Nickname: Fill in a unique nickname
- Password: Fill in your preferred password.
- pincode: The pincode is used to protect your location data at the internet site. In the trial mode your pincode is always 0000.
That means that at the site www.trackthisout.com/tm.html
everybody can see your last track.
- License key: If you do not have a key you can leave it empty. In that case you have a 14 minute trial.
After that NavFunPro terminates and you can try another 14 minutes.
You can buy a valid license key here. Then you
can use NavFunPro unlimitedly, and you can set a pincode to protect your location-data. Besides you
review all your tracks of the past at www.trackthisout.com/tm.html. Those
tracks are protected by your password.
Now open the menu by pressing the button below menu and select 'Connect'.
- Most mobiles now ask permission to access the internet. If you have internet and want to work online
you give the mobile permission else you do not. In the latter case the application answers with
'All servers are down'. You can ignore this message. After that you get the message:
'Continue working offline' . Here you answer yes.
- The first time you start NavFunPro you will get a message: 'Location device not ready'.
After pressing 'ok' you can select a location device:
- Default location device (JSR-179): Choose this option
if your mobile has got a built-in GPS device
- External bluetooth device: Choose this option if you have a GPS bluetooth device.
Note that some mobiles do not support Java applications like NavFunPro to access the bluetooth.
Those mobiles may close the application when you select this option. In that case restart NavFunPro
and cancel when you have to select a location device.
Choose ok to confirm your choice or choose cancel if you do not have a GPS.
- When choosing one of the GPS location devices the mobile may again ask a permission question.
After that you enter the main screen.
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The main screen
- a: Compass
- b: Speed and direction in degrees
- c: GPS indicator. When there is a red cross in this icon the GPS is not ready yet.
- d: Online indicator. When there is a red cross in this icon you are not online and the track is not stored on the internet server.
Else it is stored and you can check your tracks at www.trackthisout.com/tm.html
- e: Point of interest. We have the following types:
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 This is another buddy. Adding buddies, see Buddies
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 A tourist point, see bullet i
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 A wheather station, see bullet i
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 A self-created waypoint, see bullet j
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 An address, see bullet i
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 A reverse address, see bullet i
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 A business, see bullet i
- f: You. Location is only valid if you have GPS reception.
- g: Altitude and coordinates of you
- h: scale of map
- i: With this button or the button at the right you can popup the menu
- Track me: Moves the center of the screen to your location
- Add buddy: Used to add a buddy, see Buddies
- Find: Here you can find new points of interest near the center of your map.
After finding the points are added to the map. See bullet 'e' for a list of possible points of interest.
- Load track from file: If your mobile supports a file system like a flash card you can put a GPX
track file on the file system. With this option you can read such a GPX file.
The track will be shown in green.
- Follow track: One you have loaded a GPX track file, use this option to follow the track.
In the compass you see the
 icon.
This icon indicates the direction you must go to follow the track.
In the map itself the next point of the track is indicated by  .
- Save track to file: The track you have made yourself can be saved to the file system.
In this way you can review your track on the PC using for example Google Earth.
This is also usefull when you have no internet connection on your mobile, because
then the tracks are not uploaded to www.trackthisout.com/tm.html.
A track is saved in the GPX file format.
- Reset my track. You can reset your track. All the track history is removed.
- Settings: See Settings screen
- Help: A help screen
- j: Move the map using the cursors. When you move to a
point of interest you can click the 'ok' button for more info and options.
When there is no point in the center, clicking the ok button will
define a new point of interest. This new point you can give a name
and you can modify the coordinates of the new point.
- k: Key '2': Disable/enable compass, and other info windows on the screen
- l: Key '3': Go to the next screen. The following screens are available:
- The main screen.
- The chat screen (only available when online)
- Buddy list (only available when online)
- Points of interest screen
- Altitude graph screen
- m: Key '9': Go to the previous screen
- n: Key '1': Zoom in
- o: Key '7': Zoom out
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Points of interest
At the right you see an example of points of screen. Use the '3' key several times to enter this screen.
In this screen you see all the points of
interest you have made. (You can make them by entering the find option of the menu in the main screen, see
here).
In this screen you can delete or delete-all points of interest. You ucan also select a point of interest
and press ok. Now you go back to the main screen and the point fo interest is centered in the map.
Extra info about the point is shown in the top of the screen. If you press ok again you go to
a menu with the following options:
- Set as target (straight line): In this case you go back to the main screen.
In the compass you see the icon.
This icon indicates the direction you must go to meet the point of interest.
Right of the compass you also see the distance to the point of interest.
The point of interest is also marked with the icon.
- Set as target (Google directions): You go back to the main screen and in the top of the screen
you see 4 lines of directions to meet your point of interest. If you want to see
all lines directions press ok.
- Details: More details about the point of interest (not always available)
- Delete
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Buddies
On various screens it is possible to add buddies. Buddies are friends that use NavFunPro or Tracky (this
is a NavFunPro like program for the PDA, see Tracky).
If you want to add a buddy you need a nickname and pincode of that friend.
After that the buddy is added to your buddy list and you are added to his buddy list.
Using the key '3' various times you can enter the chat screen (example see here at the right). Using the arrow down
you open a combobox and you can select the buddy to send a message to. After that you press on ok.
You can create a message by pressing ok again and type in the message.
Using the key '3' one more time you enter a screen where all your buddies are listed.
Here you can add and remove buddies. By selecting a buddy and pressing ok you go to the main screen
and the map is located so that you see you buddy in the center. Pressing ok again gives you
more info and options for a buddy in the same way as for points of interest, see options.
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Settings screen
The settings screen is entered via the main screen, menu button (see menu).
The following items can be configured:
- Select location device: More info see location device.
- Map type: If you want to save internet-data you
can select 'Raster'. In the main screen you see a blue raster,
but you still see you track, your points of interest, etc.
- Unit: Kilometres versus miles
- Online/offline: Online means that your routes are
uploaded to a server. They can be review/exported at www.trackthisout.com/tm.html.
Choose offline if you do not want to uploaded your routes. Note that in the
offline mode your buddies are not visisble.
- Recording interval: The interval for uploading your location to the track-server.
Use a small value if you want very accurate tracks.
- Show dashboard: In the main screen you can also use the '2' key.
- Show dashboard configuration. You can configure your dashboard and
leave items away if they bother you.
- number of points of track to show: This relates to the red track line that you see
in the main screen. If NavFunPro becomes slowly after a while
you may decrease this value. If you want to see your complete track
in the main screen you can increase this value to 9999.
- Full screen: If you select yes all other parts of your mobile's screen are removed.
You see NavFunPro only. Use this option for small screens.
- Maximum number of stored tiles: Decrease this value if NavFun crashes quickly.
Increase this value for more performance.
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