Quirky, poorly designed navigation system

I have a 2014 Avalon Hybrid XLE Touring. The navigation system in it is exactly the same way. Extremely complicated to use. Fortunately, it has a voice recognition system and it is easier to use than by manually doing it. By inputting manually it is very complicated and definitely not user friendly. I have a Garmin Nuvi portable that is much better. It is very simple to use and it cost about $100.00. TERRIBLE,!!

 

Try the reverse of what you're doing. Choosing State, City, Street, Number in that order has worked well for me.

 

All GPS seem to do that. I had mine take me to the back of an airport stock area last year.
But I've seen that with portable units as well. Some local hunter used a handheld GPS which told him he walked 22 miles from his truck. Lame
I use a combination of GPS and printed directions.

 

definitely counterintuitive.

 

i always feared factory navs for that reason, and the map updates $.

smart phones changed the game.

 

The stock nav is worthless! I gave up and used my phone both times I have tried it.

 

How strange! I have exactly the same year and model as you, and after Entune was updated to fix various early bugs in the nav system, it has never failed to get me where I requested.

And entering a destination takes me less than a minute - state, zip, street name, street number, and I'm ready to go.

 

Wife has Entune on her new 2014 Corolla and without the user provided smart phone and data plan the thing is junk. To each his own, but I will take Garmin NAV everyday of the week and twice on Sunday.

http://www.autotrader.com/research/article/car-news/161010/what-is-toyota-entune.jsp

 

I was late, very frustrated, and mad when I couldn't put in the whole house number before it told me no such address existed. It might have worked better if I knew the zip code?

 

Or the state and city. If you start at the top and work down, by the time you get to the street and number there's very little ambiguity.

 

Around me lots of people say salt lake for any town within 15 miles or so of "salt lake city". Works fine for conversation but freaks out GPS. I guess part of the problem is that Google has turned me into a best guess computer operator, but the stock nav requires exact inputs.

 

I certainly agree with you. I have a 2014 Avalon Hybrid XLE Touring with ENTUNE and navigation. I am not going to buy a smart phone and pay a monthly fee to use the ENTUNE. Also after 3 years you pay a fee for the ENTUNE as well. Talking about a big time ripoff, the lousy Toyota ENTUNE system is it. Also a Garmin Nuvi for $100.00 is much better and much easier to use than the navigation in an Avalon and the Avalon is not cheap, $38,000. I bought the Touring because I wanted the blind spot monitor in the outside mirrors and the rear cross traffic alert and it was well worth it despite all the useless junk I had to buy to get it. Those two options are real accident preventers.

 

Two days ago I searched for an address.
While putting in the street, it gave me several choices; one was " SW 1st AVE" another was "SW 1st Avenue".
My address did not exist under the first listing but it DID under the second one.

Not useless but very quirky and almost impossible to see the screen in the daytime.

 

Entune is free now, at least for the C it is. Nav doesn't require a smart phone.

 

Then my reply is the Nav with Entune is just as bad as the 2010's JBL. Garmin's best hands down.

 

Most factory navigation systems suck. Two cars ago, I had a 2005 Mercedes, after that a 2011 Lexus. I'm not real fond of the Navigation system in my 2012 Prius Plug In Advance. I'll always have a factory navigation system because I like the integration and look. I'll put up with the short comings for the look and a nice visual display. I paid almost $900 for my first Garmin portable GPS in 2002. It worked well and was neat as heck, but big as a brick. Nothing beats a new, up to date Garmin or TomTom for around $100. I know that, but I still prefer a factory integrated system.

 

I prefer a factory one also. My 2014 Avalon has voice recognition for the navigation. I am getting pretty used to it. It is much easier to use than doing it manually.

 

Hi all, I'm new here, just got my 2012 Prius C 4 last week from my brother. The navigation is really annoying even when I figured it out. It's so much faster just to use my LG G3 to do the navigation. I also don't like how dark it is. Is there a way to turn it up without using daylight mode?

 

Daylight mode ??
If that makes the screen brighter I'll take it.
I didn't think there was ANY way to make it better.
Please explain.