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I would like more warning, please

Post by i70warrior
Anyone know of a way to toggle Waze so it'll give me upcoming alerts a bit earlier? Most times "police reported ahead" happens when it's too late - maybe I'm driving too fast?? :-)
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I'll find out!
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Post by gerben
Autourdupc wrote:
kentsmith9 wrote:
pvaladares wrote: You can manually changed it tweaking the \Waze\preferences file.

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Line 318: Alerts.Police Alert Distace: 600
Line 319: Alerts.Hazard Alert Distace: 600
Line 320: Alerts.Accident Alert Distace: 2000
Line 321: Alerts.Heavy Traffic Alert Distace: 3000
this must be on Android. iPhone does not have this file that I can find anywhere (only other preference files, but I have not decoded which ones would be holding this data.
Is it in km or miles ?
Meters
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Post by gettingthere
Yes, Waze changed this in the past few weeks. IMO, now the warning is too early...
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Post by i70warrior
invented wrote:I'd like *less* warning, personally. I don't need 3 prompts to tell me to turn ahead when there is only one interchange or intersection around.

Not talking about routing - talking exclusively about "watch out - police reported ahead".

If you are driving 80 miles an hour it can happen a bit late. ;-)

Completely agree on the "not there" button going away too soon too.
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Post by invented
I'd like *less* warning, personally. I don't need 3 prompts to tell me to turn ahead when there is only one interchange or intersection around.
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Post by invented
grahamk wrote:
invented wrote:I'd like *less* warning, personally. I don't need 3 prompts to tell me to turn ahead when there is only one interchange or intersection around.

Not talking about routing - talking exclusively about "watch out - police reported ahead".

If you are driving 80 miles an hour it can happen a bit late. ;-)

Completely agree on the "not there" button going away too soon too.
I got that now. Actually, isn't there a bug with alerts that they don't stop talking when Mute is turned on?
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Post by kentsmith9
Funny, I had not noticed the change in my last 2500 miles driven in 10 days. Maybe it is client app based? I am IOS.

I agree that we should see the last alert until we thumbs up or not there. Maybe a background noise to alert us there is another pending alert.
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Post by kentsmith9
I suppose we should consider adding this to the Wiki with a warning it is not a simple change for the computer challenged, but most of the forum and Wiki readers probably have a basic level of knowledge to do this.
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Post by kentsmith9
pvaladares wrote: You can manually changed it tweaking the \Waze\preferences file.

Code: Select all

Line 318: Alerts.Police Alert Distace: 600
Line 319: Alerts.Hazard Alert Distace: 600
Line 320: Alerts.Accident Alert Distace: 2000
Line 321: Alerts.Heavy Traffic Alert Distace: 3000
this must be on Android. iPhone does not have this file that I can find anywhere (only other preference files, but I have not decoded which ones would be holding this data.
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