Guide to Binatone devices

Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:30 am

Bought it faulty of ebay. Will have to use the we travel on my lg fone till I fix this one :)
Fatboyfun thanks for cooperation!

Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:40 am

Can you access it with a PC? (you will need activesync or wmdc installed on the PC to connect to it, and it'll show up as pocket PC or windows ce device in my computer) if you can then it's not bricked.

Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:19 am

The USB port on G500 itself just plays up, Windows detects the device connected and then after about 2-3 sec it doesn't and then all over again, kind of flapping connection. Windows keep saying the device connected to USB v1 port when in fact its v2.
So I can't have a proper USB connection yet :(

Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:55 am

Just found a fault in resistive touch panel: pins 1 and pin 3 have almost short circuit - measured with a multimeter, it shows just ~ 800 ohms! This is either X+ and X- or Y+ and Y- on controller chip pins. Could this spoil realtec alc5611 audio codec & touch panel controller? Audio works tho..

Thu Jan 17, 2013 11:25 am

Do you have activesync or wmdc installed, it won't connect without it.

Here's something you can try...

Create a plain text file with...

\windows\control.exe

...in it and save it as SHELL.ini (not SHELL.ini.txt) and place it on an empty SD card (not SDHC)

Place card into device and reboot, what happens?

Thu Jan 17, 2013 2:34 pm

Thanks for your input mate. Just tried out your proposal but nothing else happens as the touch screen doesn't work and I'm unable to press the OK button on the WARNING screen (straight after 1st screen where it shows Binatone logo in the middle and "drive like a local" on the bottom). Trying to figure out whether the realtec controller is partly faulty or just the thouch screen itself (it seems the device cannot see the battery - the voltage measurement is done on the same realtec ac/dc converter as the touchscreen).

Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:33 pm

This won't be a ROM issue, unless someone flashed the wrong ROM in the past, which can cause hardware items like the screen and sound to not work due to different hardware drivers etc.

Wed Feb 13, 2013 8:34 pm

Do you know what is Bluetooth and FM root for Binatone S500?

Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:06 pm

best110 wrote:Do you know what is Bluetooth and FM root for Binatone S500?

I don't understand the question sorry?

Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:17 pm

I want to active Bluetooth and FM transmitter through Primo therefore need to know where they are in device?

Wed Feb 13, 2013 9:51 pm

I don't have one to hand, but i imagine they are in the Windows directory, If not, look in the MobileNavigator folder...

Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:08 pm

no unfortunately they are not in Windows
have DataFlash folder but not there too (only installed map and software)
It must have other folder like as Residentflash or residentflash2 but test both and they are not exist!
any other place that I can check them?

Wed Feb 13, 2013 10:58 pm

Load up Total Commander on the device and have a good look around, Activesync/WMDC is a pain for hiding files from view on the PC, run some exe's, etc.

Wed Feb 13, 2013 11:28 pm

already used total commander but no luck!
with Activesync also have same folders, DATA Flash, Network, SDMMC, main Rom folder (contains windows, etc)

Thu Feb 21, 2013 2:07 pm

Hello,
I'm thinking of buying the Binatone S500 from Amazon
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but only if I can upgrade the software and maps.

I've had a good read of the advice on this page and clicked on the links to 'IGO Primo 2 for Binatone Devices' and the link to the maps. But it seems the links might be out of date as I can't see where to download. One of the links wants me to download Embedupload on my machine 1st, which I don't want to do. I just want the .RAR files.

Can someone post a link to the files that I need to download ?

cheers
Bobster