whitex
Well-Known Member
Yep, read it. Wanted to experience it, so clicked the button, apparently I have to schedule a test drive, no button to schedule an update to experience it on my own vehicle.
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I was really hopeful I'd get the update before my road trip in the morning. I have no payment for the OP to make
CHG-ON
Still in love after all these miles
Where's a Nigerian Prince when you need one?
whitex
Well-Known Member
Update, it came overnight. The biggest thing for me, the big screen seems so much more responsive now!Yep, read it. Wanted to experience it, so clicked the button, apparently I have to schedule a test drive, no button to schedule an update to experience it on my own vehicle.
Where's my money??? 8.0 shipped on Wednesday. Still no response to take care of my payment. He even put it in writing for all to see.
Don't you hate it when internet retailers disappear with no response? Customer service these days...
theslimshadyist
Active Member
Update, it came overnight. The biggest thing for me, the big screen seems so much more responsive now!
I was hoping that would be the case. Thanks for confirming!
I second it. The navigation screen scrolls around more smoothly with less lag.
JenniferQ
Active Member
You know you can just hold down the left button on steering wheel to change a Slacker station, right? Only if you want to search for one, I understand, it gets "tappy"
whitex
Well-Known Member
Anyone figured out how to keep the taskbar from disappearing? Or at least get the network status to keep showing up? Whenever I leave my house, it takes a bit before the car realizes WiFi is out of range and switches to LTE. This is the time to load any websites such as waze. With the new UI I have to keep tapping the screen to see if it's got LTE yet or not. In the old days it used to disconnect from WiFi as soon as I put it in drive. I guess I can just make it forget WiFi network and keep it on LTE, but I figure why not allow the car to use WiFi while at home.
whitex
Well-Known Member
Yea, it's been getting slower almost every release since I got my first MS in 2013, so this increase in responsiveness is very welcome. Other changes like auto-zoom on nav are nice, I'm not crazy about disappearing icon bar - maybe because I'm used to it being there, or tapping on the map to get it to appear makes me worry I will change zoom or re-center the map, or maybe because I'm just annoyed to have to keep tapping it to see the when the car finally decides to switch from WiFi to LTE when leaving my house so I can refresh waze. Overall I'll take the increase in perf over the lack of network status all the time on the screen.
Swap the nav to be on the bottom. The title bar only disappears when the nav is the top app. Note that in 8.0, the nav stickies itself to the top (e.g. a single-tap of Nav will always results in nav replacing the top app), so you'll want to swipe the nav app down rather than just tapping.
