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Postby Atasas » Tue Mar 01, 2011 4:18 pm

EDITED:
New Topic started regarding Looket G8:
http://www.navitotal.com/forums/showthread.php?4870-Looket-G8-TomTom-or-iGo
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Postby Fatboyfun » Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:34 pm

There may well be an exe to start the GPS driver, Or you may need PortSplitter but if this is a WinCE4.2 Device then Tomtom won't work anyway (And it's not worth the trouble of using MortScript)

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It has WinCE5
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Postby chas521 » Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:06 pm

@Atasas

You have some excellent advice for using TT. Regarding iGO, can you tell me what error messages you are receiving when you try to install it? What do you see in "My Computer" when you connect your device via USB to your computer?
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Postby Atasas » Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:19 pm

chas521 wrote:@Atasas

You have some excellent advice for using TT. Regarding iGO, can you tell me what error messages you are receiving when you try to install it? What do you see in "My Computer" when you connect your device via USB to your computer?

Yes, I believe it would be not a problem at all if I could connect device via USB, but it has unique connection, that I could not find cable for as when I searched for it at all.
Thanks for thought thought!
http://www.navitotal.com/forums/showthread.php?4870-Looket-G8-TomTom-or-iGo/page2
Edited:

Sorry, I got carried away with Looket, but MyGuide- worked fine with both TT (FatBoyFun version 7.450 core) and both iGO's did work too!
the only need is to modify shell accordingly!
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Postby Fatboyfun » Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:07 pm

Atasas wrote:TT (FatBoyFun version 7.450 core)


I don't take credit for this version, I only found it... :)
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Postby Atasas » Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:47 pm

Fatboyfun wrote:I don't take credit for this version, I only found it... :)

OK... still, your guidance and your knowledge was the only the factor for me to get the bugger to work... and I enjoyed it! as TT rocks!:clap:
ANW phoned supplier- they offered to send different one as replacement for MyGuide 4228WE (as I stated quite clearly- not looking forward to same unit ever). Considering hell I had to endure with it Germany, freezing up, booting other way round with first unit;/// then second unit loosing signal, sometimes booting in green color only; whinny speaker sound with no audio output, even LooKet G8 seemed as better unit. Now, as I think about it, second faulty unit might have been cause of my SD card death and load of unnecessary effort on it.... so due to the item being out of stock, the only one they offered- Garmin 255W- will be posting about in a different section (lol, you can anticipate that), once it'll arrive.
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Postby Fatboyfun » Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:06 pm

Be aware that the Garmin runs a linux based system so you cannot run other software like Tomtom or iGO.
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Postby Atasas » Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:18 pm

We'll see if it is bearable...
Other stuff for it (dunno what I'm after) is about- so a bit of playing about might turn to be fun.
... let me be stu*id!?- I've seen "Windows CE 5.0 full" DL'd somewhere, Would by "some crazy carried away moment" be possible to modulate/virtualize install on it?... would not it be the same for all USB connection owning units?
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Postby Fatboyfun » Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:30 pm

Theoretically it may be possible if you have access to Jtag equipment and firmware only available from the hardware manufacturer...
Or maybe you may need access to a Jig to change one of the surface mount IC's...

In short... No! :lol:
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Postby Atasas » Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:48 pm

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Can not remeber the N-Lite weather it does have such feature
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Regarding hardware- for ones, that run winCE- surely got to be the way to find drivers and specs of... the ones, that dont... firmware dont know as it would necessarily need to be installed from new (Windows CE) should take care of that?
ANW thought and once less hectic might thing about again.
I could be absolutely wrong as how it is meant to be done....
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Postby Fatboyfun » Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:01 pm

Flashing firmware on most devices would require tools that only the manufacturer could supply (And they usually don't) and would require an WinCE image built for the device in question with the correct drivers for the hardware, A full image with all drivers probably wouldn't fit in the limited memory available. Get any of this wrong and there is (usually) no recovery.
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Postby Atasas » Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:13 pm

... mhmh yes....
The n-lite is if to applied correctly would extract as what is needed (data of extract should not be as big as full WinCE installed platform)... will have a read about it a bit more. As it comes to think about it, shame I agreed on Garmin replacement- MyGuide would have been ideal (with USB connection and WinCE platform candidate to play about)
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Postby Fatboyfun » Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:45 pm

Even if you could build a WinCE image you would still need the hardware drivers and ROM flashing tools from the manufacturer, Which for most of them, are not available.
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Postby Atasas » Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:53 pm

ROM flashing? simply erasing from PC(erase volume I"-") rest as it should/would extracting image- not a problem... (sorta, as so far even iGO is failing to emulate on my sys...)
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Postby Fatboyfun » Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:09 pm

The WinCE core is flashed onto a EEPROM, Any changes to the windows directory are only held in RAM temporarily and you can't permanently change it without flashing a new ROM image, There is some user accessible flash memory where the navigation programme is, This can be a SD card and/or an internal memory chip.

It is designed this way so if the end-user changes any windows settings or edits the registry and stops the device from working it only needs a "Hard reset" to fix it.
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