Fatboyfun wrote:This sounds like a bad flash chip, if you see any messages like "Recover the hive partition" then it's the chip.
Could be when the device has been off for a while the data is corrupted
Hi Fatboyfun,
I need your help please if you don't mind as I know you are very familiar with Binatone sat navs.
I have a Binatone G500 Model:4035 and I installed iGo 8 following the guides and it worked perfectly, I installed all the maps and I verified it locks satellites and plots routes then I turned it off and stored with a full battery (the battery never went flat as I charged it from time to time).
When I was ready to ship it (I am doing it for a family member, as I don't drive) and I turned it on and the touch screen does not respond anymore, it gets stuck at the warning of the GPS needs time to lock in, and don't use it inside, bla, bla, bla and the OK button doesn't respond to touch.
And if I don't get past that screen I don't know if turbodog loads.
I have tried resetting it, boot it with or without microsSD and nothing, it chirps when I put the microSD in and it connects to a PC and I can access the internal memories(shows Windows CE) so I know windows seem to be fine.
What I did before putting in storage (for troubleshooting sake), I changed the language of the original turbodog software to Portuguese from English and I deleted the contents (and maybe the folder, I don't remember) of the Mobile Navigator and the 4 bin files from the DataFlash . After it malfunctioned I put them back from a backup but still does not work.
It seems to me that could be a software problem and I don't have a ROM to try to flash it. Because if is the touch screen digitizer is just that, hardware failure and is not worth pursuing changing.
But because it died so suddenly without me doing anything I was asking myself if there is something I could try before disposing of it. I have a feeling that deleting that MobileNavigator folder might have cause the problem in the long run (it worked fine after deleting it and it worked without that folder)
Thank you for reading my long post.
Could you offer any help or suggestion please?