BorisM

Really? I wonder why I pay for my WinMo apps then... BTW, Windows Phone 7 makes iPhone look modern and advanced. I don't really see it lasting any longer than Microsoft Kin did...

Right... been there done that with my (thankfully) ex g/f... It should be possible to replace the screen at home, but it's a delicate enough surgery that I think finding a qualified technician might be a wise idea...

(snide -- anything is better than iPhone anyway) To answer the original question, AVICs only recognize iPod players as anything special. Anything else will be seen as a USB drive.

Well, there you have it. European models of F-series never had (or advertised) voice control.

There is absolutely no difference between 2.5 and 1.8 drives as far as functionality goes.

No, you're not lost, just militantly clueless.

Software, really remains exactly the same, it's still the iGO routing engine. Only the mapping data changes, and if Navteq has better real speed data(as they often do in North America), it will provide better routing. Of course we are lucky enough to have routing software that even lets you use different map sources. Most do not.

As long as the unit thinks that going back to the original route (freeway) is faster/shorter/whatever than continuing on a backroad, it will try to route you back there. Once you deviate far enough that a new route is better, it will show you a different way. It can't really read your mind and realize that you do not want to take the freeway. Garmin might have worked differently, because a) it quite possibly has better maps (if you are using stock maps on AVIC) and really, Garmin's routing algorithms are not as good as iGO's.

Sorry, still won't work. You porobably could build a new iPod out of a hard drive and pieces of old iPods, but that's about the only way.

Chances are your mom's unit just does not know that it is a toll bridge, then... Since the behaviour is entirely logical. If you forbid the use of toll roads, it will route you around the bridge, and all other tolls, which quite likely would result in a longer route (much longer in your case). It is up to the user to apply _human_ common sense and decide whether avoiding tolls along the route is worth it.

It still won't work, no matter how you structure your hard drive. iPods connection does not work through direct file access. Apple has a special protocol that is used to access their units, so only an iPod can present itself as an iPod to any external device. While _theoretically_ it might be possible to emulate iPod, if you use a full computer instead of a hard drive, for one it would be cheaper to just get an iPod, and even if you tried writing an emulator, Apple's lawyers would eat you alive long before you'd get it working. You can as people to go to lengths doing absolutely useless th

You could try playing with routing options. I.e. try shortest instead of fastest etc. If that still tsakes you through Atlanta, you could simply add a via point along the route that Mapquest suggests and let AVIC take you there. It should route you straight from there.

No guarantees that it will work, but you could try adding [debug] supress_trivial_left=1 supress_trivial_right=1 to your SYS.TXT. That might make it a bit less talkative.

Since when a phone call is connected you can not control anything on the screen, and navigation prompts are muted, switching to the map automatically lets you actually follow navigation instructions while on a phone.

Did you add th font file as well?

Since you obviously do not know how to work WInZIP properly, you were told how to give the system a modified file without zipping it up at all. Instead of telling us how data compression works, you could have just tried it...

It means that the source file is so incorrect that iGO does not even try to execute it, because it does not meet certain requirements. In this case, as from the error message, there is a layer that has an opening tag but not the closing one, so it pretty much never ends. I just do not see how that is possible since all I did was add the 2 ui files and edited the main.ui. Other than that, all I did was add the bmps and sprites. I am assuming there is something that needs to be added to the variable_def.ui file or the navigate.ui file that I am missing for this mod. Either one of the ne

It means that the source file is so incorrect that iGO does not even try to execute it, because it does not meet certain requirements. In this case, as from the error message, there is a layer that has an opening tag but not the closing one, so it pretty much never ends.

Sure, it's called Installation Instructions

There you go. Thanks Boris, I thought I remembered reading something you had mentioned. You're welcome.

Hey gnasr74, were you ever able to locate any 3D pickup .mdl and .tex files? I've done a lot of searching and haven't been able to locate any. nothin yet it sucks. Boris mentioned that he knows someone that can convert your bmps. to 3d files, but haven't gotten his email. I also ceheck all the time on i-go8.com and haven't seen one either. I am constantly searching like you. Actually, no. Converting BMPs to 3D model pretty much involves making the 3D model from scratch, using the bitmap as reference. I don't know anyone altruistic enough to do that just for fun There is at l

Step 1. Adjust screen brightess with headlights off. Step 2. Adjust screen brightness with headlights on. Of course you do need to have the illumination wire connected to the HU. Otherwise you'll only get times color scheme switching in the map screen.

You cant. You sorta can... Total Commander can open up ZIP files and do basic text editing, but you really don't want to. With no keyboard and very limited memory and CPU resources, it is quite painful.

The short answer is NO. Pioneer AVIC use ezrider.exe to load the iGo navigation software instead of iGo.exe, because there are hardware related code within the loader. . To be exact, EZRider is iGO specially built by NavNGo for Pioneer. Regular iGO can be used, supposedly, with a special ezrider stub that includes support for Pioneer-specific commands. Our Russian friends made good progress on that, but when I tried it here, MSNDirect did not work, so I have not paid much attention to it afterwards...

You were told the most foolproof way of modding the speed control.