Kenwood DNX874S Owner's Manual

Select Settings > Display.
Color Mode: Allows the device to display 

day or night colors.

Select Settings > Display > Color 

Mode.

Select an option:
• To use a light background, select Day.
• To use a dark background, select 

Night.

• To allow the device to display day or 

night colors automatically, based on 

the time of day, select Auto.

From the main menu, select Settings > 

Traffic.
Traffic: Enables traffic.
Subscriptions: Lists the current traffic 

subscriptions.

trafficTrends™: Enables the trafficTrends

™ 

feature (

).

Traffic Voice Prompts: Enables voice 

prompts for traffic events.

When the trafficTrends feature is enabled, 

your device uses historic traffic data to 

calculate more-efficient routes.
NOTE: Different routes may be calculated 

based on traffic trends for the day of the 

week or the time of day.

To prevent your device from recording traffic 

data, you must disable trafficTrends.

Select Settings > Traffic > 

trafficTrends™.

To open the Units and Time settings page, 

from the main menu, select Settings > 

Units & Time.
Current: Sets the device time.
Time Format: Allows you to select a 12-

hour, 24-hour, or UTC display time.

Units: Sets the unit of measure used for 

distances.

To open the Language and Keyboard 

settings, from the main menu, select 

Settings > Language & Keyboard.
NOTE: To change the text language 

settings, see the KENWOOD system 

instruction manual.
Voice Language: Sets the language for 

voice prompts.

Keyboard Language: Sets the language for 

your keyboard.

Keyboard Layout: Sets the keyboard 

layout.

To open the Device settings page, from the 

main menu, select Settings > Device.
About: Displays the software version 

number, the unit ID number, and 

information on several other software 

features.

Travel History: Allows the device to record 

information for the myTrends (

), Where I’ve Been 

(

), and Trip Log (

) features.

Clear Travel History: Clears your travel 

history from the navigation system.

Update Maps: Exports data from the 

navigation unit for map and software 

updates (

).

NOTE: You must have custom points of 

interest (POIs) loaded for proximity points 

alerts to display.
NOTE: This feature is not available in all 

areas.
Select Settings > Proximity Alerts.
Audio: Sets the style of alert that plays 

when you approach proximity points.

Alerts: Sets the type of proximity points for 

which alerts are played.

You can restore a category of settings or all 

settings to the factory default values.

Customizing the Device

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