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#1 ·
Hi, have been using the above successfully since I got my T Roc but have a question.

When using either Waze or Google maps, once you turn on your headlights (or they come on automatically) the screen goes into 'night mode' which I do not like.

Is there a way to stop this happening and continue to view as day mode even with the lights on?
 
#2 ·
Hi Potsy.

If you have the Discover Media with built in Sat Nav, there is a View touch icon roughly in the middle of the row of icons along the bottom of the screen. Touch that and it pops up a box with various options for ajusting the View and these include the option to set the screen to Day, Night or Automatic.

I'm guessing that you don't have the built in Sat Nav so you need to look for a similar option in Waze. Not being a Wave user, I can't help you there.

However, the Infotainment manual says that there is a similar setting outwith the Sat Nav. According to the instructions in the manual, on the Infotainment screen, select Menu -> Settings -> Screen

Within Screen, the manual describes a [Day/Night] setting with options of Day, Night or Automatic.

My car doesn't have the [Day/Night] setting but that may be because I have the built in Sat Nav and can adjust the View as I described above.

The manual might be totally wrong (no surprise there), but it might be worth checking.
 
#3 ·
As a nearby subject to this and the dark screen. Is there anyway to know in the active dash by way of a symbol to say the lights are actually on. If for say you had the info turned off, no darkening screen. Uhh.
Noticed this today in a tunnel, wanted confirmation of lights on and could not find anything except the "dark matter".
Bit odd l thought.
 
#4 ·
brid said:
As a nearby subject to this and the dark screen. Is there anyway to know in the active dash by way of a symbol to say the lights are actually on. If for say you had the info turned off, no darkening screen. Uhh.
Noticed this today in a tunnel, wanted confirmation of lights on and could not find anything except the "dark matter".
Bit odd l thought.
When driving through tunnels you can tell your lights are 'on' if you can see where you're going; your lights are off if you can't see where you're going :mrgreen: (sorry brid :D )
 
#5 ·
T Roo said:
brid said:
As a nearby subject to this and the dark screen. Is there anyway to know in the active dash by way of a symbol to say the lights are actually on. If for say you had the info turned off, no darkening screen. Uhh.
Noticed this today in a tunnel, wanted confirmation of lights on and could not find anything except the "dark matter".
Bit odd l thought.
When driving through tunnels you can tell your lights are 'on' if you can see where you're going; your lights are off if you can't see where you're going :mrgreen: (sorry brid :D )
Point taken T Roo. Should have thought of that. Silly me :oops:
Now at the risk of additional comments which I feel will be forthcoming :)
Something for those who are using Android Auto.
If you are navigating and the route is "active and displayed in the info screen" - for those who have Park Assist - are you able to activate the "Park Assist" at the same time.
I find that whilst using the VW Satnav and the route is "active" then you not able to use the Park Assist facility so...…
if you wanted to stop mid route and park the car using the Park Assist then you must "stop" the navigation system before you can use the other. Just seems that there is no overlay of selection, only one or the other.
 
#6 ·
Just a question or many, as I have been thinking of using my phones 'nav' via AndoidAuto. Sorry if they appear daft, but I've never used/linked a phone for navigation - only bluetoothed phone calls.
When say Waze or Google maps is running on car screen via AndroidAuto, can you still listen to the car's radio and/or media (usb stored music) or does it not work with 'nav' running. Do you have to turn the navigation off to listen to radio? Do turn instructions overide the radio and then return to radio?
My previous VW cars that had built in nav could obviously run both at once, but I wondered if this "modern way of doing stuff" could do the same.
Any help will be much appreciated.
 
#7 ·
RedRoc said:
Just a question or many, as I have been thinking of using my phones 'nav' via AndoidAuto. Sorry if they appear daft, but I've never used/linked a phone for navigation - only bluetoothed phone calls.
When say Waze or Google maps is running on car screen via AndroidAuto, can you still listen to the car's radio and/or media (usb stored music) or does it not work with 'nav' running. Do you have to turn the navigation off to listen to radio? Do turn instructions overide the radio and then return to radio?
My previous VW cars that had built in nav could obviously run both at once, but I wondered if this "modern way of doing stuff" could do the same.
Any help will be much appreciated.
Not used mine too much but you can definitely listen to the radio whilst navigating, use Spotify instead if you want.

I tend to have mine silent and just follow the map so don't know about the announcements overriding the radio.
 
#8 ·
Impala said:
Hi Potsy.

If you have the Discover Media with built in Sat Nav, there is a View touch icon roughly in the middle of the row of icons along the bottom of the screen. Touch that and it pops up a box with various options for ajusting the View and these include the option to set the screen to Day, Night or Automatic.

I'm guessing that you don't have the built in Sat Nav so you need to look for a similar option in Waze. Not being a Wave user, I can't help you there.

However, the Infotainment manual says that there is a similar setting outwith the Sat Nav. According to the instructions in the manual, on the Infotainment screen, select Menu -> Settings -> Screen

Within Screen, the manual describes a [Day/Night] setting with options of Day, Night or Automatic.

My car doesn't have the [Day/Night] setting but that may be because I have the built in Sat Nav and can adjust the View as I described above.

The manual might be totally wrong (no surprise there), but it might be worth checking.
Thanks for the info Impala, unfortunately there doesn't seem to be the day/night option on either car settings or waze/maps on my car.

Closest I can find is screen brightness on the screen settings page.

Did try putting maps into satellite mode which brightened things up a bit, but there doesn't appear to be my preferred option anywhere of a daytime setting :(
 
#9 ·
Potsy said:
Not used mine too much but you can definitely listen to the radio whilst navigating, use Spotify instead if you want.

I tend to have mine silent and just follow the map so don't know about the announcements overriding the radio.
Thanks Potsy, I'll give it a try when I've a bit of time to set it up. If I've problems, I'll start a new thread.
Cheers.
 
#10 ·
brid said:
As a nearby subject to this and the dark screen. Is there anyway to know in the active dash by way of a symbol to say the lights are actually on. If for say you had the info turned off, no darkening screen. Uhh.
Noticed this today in a tunnel, wanted confirmation of lights on and could not find anything except the "dark matter".
Bit odd l thought.
Don't think there is any notification that can be set on active dash. But, when set to 'auto' lights, the headlight symbol around the headlight switch lights up green when 'on'. It's obviously low down and not easy to see but it does show when lights on. Hope this helps.
 
#11 ·
RedRoc said:
brid said:
As a nearby subject to this and the dark screen. Is there anyway to know in the active dash by way of a symbol to say the lights are actually on. If for say you had the info turned off, no darkening screen. Uhh.
Noticed this today in a tunnel, wanted confirmation of lights on and could not find anything except the "dark matter".
Bit odd l thought.
Don't think there is any notification that can be set on active dash. But, when set to 'auto' lights, the headlight symbol around the headlight switch lights up green when 'on'. It's obviously low down and not easy to see but it does show when lights on. Hope this helps.
Thanks RedRoc, yes, eureka, indeed there is a green light. Pity you have to cast your eyes around your knees to see it though.
It is particularly more stupid when there is a notification of "flashed and main beam" in the virtual dash and also for those with LED lights when the indicator stick is pushed forward the same symbol shows in white to signify that the system of "intelligent lights" has been selected to auto.
It's a pity that there seems so little "intelligent design" in finishing the job without the "sod it" it will do, put it there, attitude maybe.
There must be some very clever people working on these systems who perhaps get carried away by their own expertise and just lose the plot when it comes to being practical in the real life environment of driving.
 
#12 ·
Have now managed to get Google maps to stay in day mode, changed the setting on the actual app on the phone and not via the car's infotainment screen.

Works a treat now.

Did the same with Waze but that still reverted back to night mode once I turned the lights on...
 
#13 ·
Perfectly true Brid.

This is the same as the lack of a clock display in the main instrument cluster. It is there at the bottom of the screen when you switch the ignition off, in an area that is not used to display any other info or symbols, so why not leave it displayed all the time. When the ignition is on, the only way to see the time is either with the Infotainment switched off and the clock is enabled in stand-by mode, or to switch on the Sat Nav to get the time displayed above at the top of the screen. Plain stupid.
 
#14 ·
Impala said:
Perfectly true Brid.

This is the same as the lack of a clock display in the main instrument cluster. It is there at the bottom of the screen when you switch the ignition off, in an area that is not used to display any other info or symbols, so why not leave it displayed all the time. When the ignition is on, the only way to see the time is either with the Infotainment switched off and the clock is enabled in stand-by mode, or to switch on the Sat Nav to get the time displayed above at the top of the screen. Plain stupid.
I agree Impala, just one thing though, the clock area is used only when sat nav is navigating. Can't remember it it's time remaining for journey or distance but either way there must be an easy way to have the time displayed somewhere on the screen when on the move.
 
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Newtroconthebloc said:
Impala said:
Perfectly true Brid.

This is the same as the lack of a clock display in the main instrument cluster. It is there at the bottom of the screen when you switch the ignition off, in an area that is not used to display any other info or symbols, so why not leave it displayed all the time. When the ignition is on, the only way to see the time is either with the Infotainment switched off and the clock is enabled in stand-by mode, or to switch on the Sat Nav to get the time displayed above at the top of the screen. Plain stupid.
I agree Impala, just one thing though, the clock area is used only when sat nav is navigating. Can't remember it it's time remaining for journey or distance but either way there must be an easy way to have the time displayed somewhere on the screen when on the move.
I think you are wrong ... there is certainly a display during route navigation showing the ETA at destination (this can maybe be configured to show remaining time to destination ?) along with the remaining distance, but the time of day is also displayed. In fact, with the Sat Nav just displaying the map without any route being entered or followed, the time of day and outside temp are ALWAYS shown at the top of the screen.
 
#16 ·
Some pics of the Sat Nav display without route guidance and during route guidance. Both show the time of day and outside temp. The display during route guidance also shows distance to destination and expected time of arrival at destination, both of which can be customised in the Sat Nav Settings -> Map section.

Note the absence of the speed limit display while on the M8 motorway.

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Impala said:
Some pics of the Sat Nav display without route guidance and during route guidance. Both show the time of day and outside temp. The display during route guidance also shows distance to destination and expected time of arrival at destination, both of which can be customised in the Sat Nav Settings -> Map section.

Note the absence of the speed limit display while on the M8 motorway.

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So are we talking about the centre screen or the main instrument screen in front of the driver ? I took you to mean the time that displays under the left 'dial' when ignition is on auxiliary, that was what I was referring too.
 
#18 ·
If you look back at my previous post you will read that I was referring to the LACK of a clock display in the main instrument console (Active Info Dispay or Digital Cockpit if you prefer) except when you switch off the ignition. At all other times, I described 2 ways of having the time displayed on the central Infotainment screen (ie the central Sat Nav and media player screen) both of which require diverting the driver's eyes from the road, which is why they now allow the Sat Nav map to be displayed in the Active Info Display, but it doesn't include the time/clock when you do that.

The following pic shows the Active Info Display immediately after switching off the ignition, and it shows the time, but that display disappears after a minute or so (as the ignition is off). As far as I'm aware, there is no auxiliary position for the ignition.

But what I don't understand is why the time cannot be displayed in that position on the Active Info Display with the ignition on.

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#19 ·
Oh dear, shame we can't pick up the phone and discuss this as many return replies brings up further confusion (on my part) but here goes again.....
When you posted originally (on another thread) that the part of the screen used to display the time, as you demonstrate above, is not used for anything else once you're on the move having started the engine. I've recently realised that it is populated but only when the sat nav is navigating.
I'll check again when I'm next out.
 
#20 ·
No problem Newtroconthebloc.

There would be less confusion if the VW systems were logical and the manuals comprehensive. I don't know how many times I've read something, gone out to the car to try it and found that it is not as described and the only way I can remember what is displayed where and when is by taking my own photos. My wife is starting to wonder what I'm doing going out in the dark with my camera :oops:

Anyway you are correct that the area of the AID where the time briefly shows is occupied by the map. I don't display the map in my instrument cluster so I hadn't noticed, but with such a large display there must surely be somewhere to add the time.

If you Google 'audi seat skoda vw ("digital cockpit" OR "active info") and view images in the search results, you will find that almost every form of VAG digital cockpit displays the time, with and without the navigation map, and the only exceptions seem to be the T-Roc and new Polo which use an identical version. Maybe it was just an oversight :?
 
#22 ·
Potsy said:
Impala..

Could you not just stick this on top of the dashboard? :D

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Is it fully integrated into the GPS system for time zone alterations? No cables showing, is it Bluetooth? Maybe just a tad intrusive 😊
 
#24 ·
Impala said:
No problem Newtroconthebloc.

There would be less confusion if the VW systems were logical and the manuals comprehensive. I don't know how many times I've read something, gone out to the car to try it and found that it is not as described and the only way I can remember what is displayed where and when is by taking my own photos. My wife is starting to wonder what I'm doing going out in the dark with my camera :oops:

Anyway you are correct that the area of the AID where the time briefly shows is occupied by the map. I don't display the map in my instrument cluster so I hadn't noticed, but with such a large display there must surely be somewhere to add the time.

If you Google 'audi seat skoda vw ("digital cockpit" OR "active info") and view images in the search results, you will find that almost every form of VAG digital cockpit displays the time, with and without the navigation map, and the only exceptions seem to be the T-Roc and new Polo which use an identical version. Maybe it was just an oversight :?
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#25 ·
Newtroconthebloc said:
Impala said:
No problem Newtroconthebloc.

There would be less confusion if the VW systems were logical and the manuals comprehensive. I don't know how many times I've read something, gone out to the car to try it and found that it is not as described and the only way I can remember what is displayed where and when is by taking my own photos. My wife is starting to wonder what I'm doing going out in the dark with my camera :oops:

Anyway you are correct that the area of the AID where the time briefly shows is occupied by the map. I don't display the map in my instrument cluster so I hadn't noticed, but with such a large display there must surely be somewhere to add the time.

If you Google 'audi seat skoda vw ("digital cockpit" OR "active info") and view images in the search results, you will find that almost every form of VAG digital cockpit displays the time, with and without the navigation map, and the only exceptions seem to be the T-Roc and new Polo which use an identical version. Maybe it was just an oversight :?
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Impala- are we in agreement on this ?
 
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