Do you have to look at your phone to see non-radar alerts? Will the detector unit tell me about a speed camera, cop, etc, without turning on my phone?
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Phone is off? Radar only alerts. Phone is on? Other things will be displayed/alerted. There are then choices about which device you want to hear the alert through. However, radar only if no phone attached at all. If it's just in your pocket, you MAY still be able to get other alerts if it's paired and on. However, I find that since I'm also connected to bluetooth audio and handsfree with my phone, lots of the alerts never make ANY noise, because my phone silences them.
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Yes. If you go to the options menu at the top left of the screen then select settings. At the bottom of the returned settings screen select the GPS settings. Turn on any alerts you want to hear. Click on the green button with an I in the middle if you want information about what each option does.
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It's my understanding that all radar detectors are illegal in France. Regardless of whether they are used or not, police there may confiscate radar detectors, operational or not, and impose substantial fines. So will it detect in France, yes as the French Police are likely using K or Ka or Laser or Lidar technology to detect speed. Would I use one in France...probably not worth the risk.
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Big Marcus, A very big yes on Ka detection. My commute each day is through SE MA and RI and my whistler always alerts me well in advance when the stateys are setting up a trap. As for GPS, not sure since neither model that I have owned had that feature. Hope that info helps. BTW, for the price, Whistler can't be beat.
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All radar detectors have a local oscillator for detection (used to mix the radar signal down) that can be detected by "radar detector detectors" in areas where their use is illegal (such as Ontario). Although this device is not a radar transmitter the signals from its own operation can be detected. This device can be detected by one of those devices.
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I live in Colorado so the police do not care. If it is a problem in your state put a piece of black tape over the lights. The front of the display lights up and beeps like crazy. As a side note the detector has gone off every time a patrol car has had the radar on. I drive about 300 highway miles a week and so far it has always worked.
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Every time I see it go off there is a patrol car sitting or driving by. Sometimes it reacts to doors at super markets like wall mart and when emergency vehicles are active they also set it off. But other than that no it does not alert you unless it is something that actually sets it off. It will constantly beep with a bar telling you how strong the signal is. The stronger the signal the faster the beep. Also it will let you know well in advance about a radar and will continue to beep until out of range.
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No. It will not detect cameras, but will detect speed detector signs that law enforcement periodically put up on streets and highways. The red light camera has no laser or radar to be detected.
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As far as I know, the Escort Live function has no connection with false alarms. If you have the Escort 9500iX, it learns non-police radar signals over time, and locks those out. Of course, if it's the first time that radar detector has driven through a particular route, it doesn't know about false alarm signals. What Escort Live does do for you is link your radar detector to your smart phone (either iPhone or Android - make sure you order the appropriate Escort Live unit to match the phone you have). The link between the phone and the radar detector does two things: 1) it alerts you to the presence of police units that have been noted by other drivers, as well as if the radar was active, it advises you of that fact, and the age of the report (current, 30 minutes ago, an hour ago, etc). If other Escort Live drivers are ahead of you, and your unit receives a report from their system you get a LIVE RADAR alert, as well as distance to the point where the other driver's system detected the radar. 2) Your system provides alerts to the other drivers with Escort Live capability. In busy metro areas, or on interstates, this can be quite helpful. If you are traveling where there is no cell coverage, of course there is no link to the Escort Live server, as your cell phone has no network connection. Keep this in-mind if you acquire this system. I find the system quite valuable, and I occasionally get an alert in areas where I didn't expect another Escort Live driver to have passed through, just because the area is so remote.
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It depends what band of frequencies that your agencies use to monitor vehicle speed. The Whistler picks up the standard X, K, and the Ka bands in addition to a laser light signal.If radar detectors are legal to use in your area and the police are using any of these common radar bands, you will know right away after you get the unit and make any kind of a road trip.JOHN P.
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Don't know really. Not sure why it should have anything to do with a radar detection device. It is a communication device one uses to communicate with other skiiers/snowboarders on the slopes using a similar device.
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Hello Steve, Good Question....The Unit Is Set Up To Actually Do The Reverse. It Will Alert You Once It Leaves A Geo-fence Area. But You Can Do One Of Two Things To Accomplish What You Are Trying To Do. 1- You Can Set The Unit On No Move And Once It Moves You Can Watch It In Intervals To See If The Unit Enters The Area. 2- Once The Tracker Reaches The Area You Are Talking About, Then Set Your GeofenCe And YouR Intervals, Then The Tracker Will Alert You When It Is Out Of That Area.....Once It Returns To That Area It Will Stop Alerting You. Hope This Answers Your Question. Thank you.
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The radar detector does. This picture is for the mount which I returned. The radar detector has its own mount.
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Hello, this device detect radars that are used by the police. This radar detector is able to detect laser radars and radars based on K, X, and Ka band. It works very nice.
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Yes, but there might be small features that do not work with other vender equipment such as this. For instance I can not memorize locations with this one. If I want to do that I have to use the buttons on the detector. But everything else works. I love it and would not drive without it. So great for silencing the unit quickly and having more lights go off when radar is detected. Great unit for the price.
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Police radars mainly use "k", "ka" & "laser" alerts. Other car radar detectors use most of the others, so I recommend checking those off the menu list as I did. In town shops with automatic doors will set of the police alerts, and if you pass them often enough, you'll recognize them. Highway driving with the police alert going off briefly with no police in front or behind might be a police car going in the other direction or hills/median concrete walls causing the signal to break up intermittently.
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No it does not detect red light cameras. It detects most forms of radar except the most modern, like Proline, that shoot a radar beam about the size of a softball. Really no detectors pick those unless the detection is whole car or happens to be place where the softball sized beam is pointed. In Florida where I live police are not using the newest forms of radar, so it works fine and has never missed a detection here. But when I was in Atlanta October 2014, I got a ticket from a cop using in Proline radar gun.
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I may not know how to use mine, so that could explain an ignorant answer. In any case, it has a limited value. I can't use it to find my phone because I get repeated annoying alarms when it I have my phone and because it stops tracking things when it wants to - and without my phone (which I am looking for), I can't turn it back on. I use it to find just a couple things that I often misplace and aren't always too close to set off repeated alarms.