Nav v can't get voice prompts?

[jaclaw]

2016 R1200RT, Bike is relatively new to me (less than 1,000 miles) and came without navigation. Bought a used Nav v off of ebay. I am familiar with Zumo 390 and they seem much the same. Seems to work fine except for no navigation voice prompts. The wonder wheel will work to zoom in and out but will not work to toggle the "speak" or "mute" menu choices. Ideally I would like to get the voice prompts through the bike speakers without having the radio on. At this time I get no prompts with or without the radio on. I have made sure the unit is not muted, I have cleaned the contacts with alcohol, I have done a reset to factory defaults, finally I did a hard reset by disconnecting the battery and reconnecting it. HELP

 

[exgman]

Well jaclaw in many miles of riding my 2015 RT equipped with a Garmin Nav 5 I never heard a voice prompt. I use foam earplugs and don't really expect or need to hear the Garmin talk. That said, if you look here (https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?productID=118565&tab=topics) perhaps you can find a solution to your question.

 

[djdixon]

As far as I know, you can't get the voice prompts through the speakers if the stereo isn't on, at least that's the way it works on my '20 RT. You may be able to select a media type (such as an AUX source) and stop playback and still get the voice prompts, but I haven't tried that. There doesn't seem to be a way to turn on the amp for the speakers without having the "stereo" on in one way or another. I know that muting the stereo also mutes the GPS, at least on my bike.

I'm probably just going to pair my Bluetooth helmet to the GPS, that should work.