11.6” Behavior Change

For the past week or so, meaning the last week of January 2020, I’ve noticed a couple of minor but curious changes in the behavior of the 11.6” screen.

These changes are not particularly problematic, but I’m just wondering why it changed out of the blue, and wondering if any of you have seen either of these too:

First, upon power-up, it shows the ... “wheel of icons” for lack of a better phrase ... at the bottom of the screen, along with its reflection on the MID. Again, this at the bottom of the screen, not in the center of the screen as you would see if you hit the menu button.

Second, the maps started showing the box listing exits, whether or not I’m using the NAV to get me somewhere. I have turned that off, but it often keeps coming back.

Again, not a big problem, but just wondering whether anybody else has seen a behavior change along these lines.

 

I did not put in any updates, and I know of no automatic-update mechanism on the P.Prime.

 

It is indeed of that nature: Showing exits on the freeways, but not in residential areas. I have turned off “freeway mode” but that mode switch does not appear to be “sticky” — it keeps coming back. Previously it stayed off.

FWIW, I’m fine with it showing exits, but the problem is that doing moves the icon representing the car on the map over to the left, reducing the amount of map context we can see. In most cases, I’d prefer to see more map.

 

Yeah, did that, but that setting isn’t “sticking”; it seems to keep switching back.

BTW, nobody else is driving the car — well, assuming nobody is breaking into the car and changing the settings just to mess with my brain .

A couple days after I posted the original message, it seemed to have stopped powering up with the ... icon wheel. So, that appears to have gone away.

We’ll see if the “freeway mode” goes away too.

 

I don’t think I saw “freeway mode” on the way to work this morning either.

I guess the 11.6” software must have been just going through some sort of rebellious phase... (Kinda like the project I’m working on at work now, come to think of it: apparently I’m suffering from delusions of grandeur that suggest I can move a project easily from g++ to Visual Studio! )