ok, Navigation question, and that damned second window

Ed_330i · 02-19-2006, 06:21 PM

so im driving (as usual) and a thought comes into my head.

wouldn't it be more practical to have the navigation take up the main window and the other thing, like audio, on the smaller window.

is there someway to switch these two? Isn't the navigation image more important than the song playing??

wac77 · 02-19-2006, 06:55 PM

What prevents you from using the main window for Navigation?

Ed_330i · 02-19-2006, 07:01 PM

ya, i want the main window to be navigation, and the secondary window to be entertainment or whatever else.

how can i do this?

ska///235i · 02-19-2006, 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Ed_330i

so im driving (as usual) and a thought comes into my head.

wouldn't it be more practical to have the navigation take up the main window and the other thing, like audio, on the smaller window.

is there someway to switch these two? Isn't the navigation image more important than the song playing??

Yea....I rather have Nav on the main screen and audio..etc on the smaller screen
but I dont think we can do it

Ed_330i · 02-19-2006, 07:03 PM

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Originally Posted by ska

Yea....I rather have Nav on the main screen and audio..etc on the smaller screen

ya, instead of hurting my eyes, and possibly wrecking, why not make the navi big and the less important song tittle small.

SteveMD · 02-20-2006, 01:56 PM

I asked this a week or so ago. It can't be done but it should be. Map on left, song title, channel and artist on right.

D.D. · 02-20-2006, 02:03 PM

Agree......What I've done is to push the idrive controller to the "RIGHT"and the larger screen will then show the same as the smaller screen. So essentially you have two screens running the same. The larger easier to see, but the same as the small. I have all the info I need on the bottom of the screen...ie: CD # , track, time, date. I agree, it SUCKS!! The larger screen SHOULD be for nav, and the other for the other stuff,. However, the only way I have found to have the larger screen show the nav, is by pushing the idrive controller to the right and going from there. I hope this helps...

Ed_330i · 02-20-2006, 02:19 PM

its so utterly pointless to have such a trivia thing such as song tittle to be more important on the screen.

vladinecko · 02-20-2006, 03:13 PM

i also hate that the system doesn't allow you to have for example perspective view on the large screen and map facing north view in the small window or other combination. maybe it's just me, but it simply changes views in both windows to be the same. the only thing that i can choose to be different in the small window is the arrow view.

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SteveMD Colonel 198 Rep 2,485 Posts Drives: 2016 F10 535i MSport Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Raventown! iTrader: (3)	I asked this a week or so ago. It can't be done but it should be. Map on left, song title, channel and artist on right. __________________ 2006 E90 330i (retired) 2009 E90 335i (retired) 2012 E70 X5 50i M Sport (retired) 2016 F10 535i M Sport
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D.D. Private First Class 5 Rep 126 Posts Drives: 330 xi Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Jersey iTrader: (0)	Agree......What I've done is to push the idrive controller to the "RIGHT"and the larger screen will then show the same as the smaller screen. So essentially you have two screens running the same. The larger easier to see, but the same as the small. I have all the info I need on the bottom of the screen...ie: CD # , track, time, date. I agree, it SUCKS!! The larger screen SHOULD be for nav, and the other for the other stuff,. However, the only way I have found to have the larger screen show the nav, is by pushing the idrive controller to the right and going from there. I hope this helps...
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