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There aren't many as polished as iGo, Tom Tom or Garmin, but there are open-source nav programs that exist: http://navit.sourceforge.net/ (I like this one, uses gpsd for location and speechd to announce directions) http://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/ http://www.gpsdrive.de/ http://roadmap.sourceforge.net/ http://roadnav.sourceforge.net/ OK, the remainder of this will be a small rant, feel free to stop reading and go about your day/night. I'm about to get touchy-feely, consider yourself warned. For teksimian, the whole point of considering Linux would be to use a set of app

What you might have seen is a temporary glitch in the vBeta variable in iGo. During the boot up process, the Navi reads what board it is based off some resistor values on the board, if that value gets mis-read it might accidentally set itself to the value used by the F90/F900BT. If that happens and vBeta gets set wrong, the menu with the MSN button on it might get selected for display (the menus for all models are inside the data.zip, it just depends on a variable to select which one to show). Technically, the F700BT should not have the MSN Tuner chip or the chip that holds the MSN firmw

OK, opinions aside (and yes, I agree with BorisM's point that if we could just cook a better WinCE image and applications we'd be in a quicker starting point), here are some of the facts about the hardware: CPU is a SiRF (who bought Centrality) Titan CPU with an ARM1136J core and a VPU coprocessor (hence the "dual core" claim). 256 MB of DDR1 RAM (unknown device manufacturer/model) @ 133MHz. Bootloader is stored on a Spansion S29AL004D70BF102 (256 MB). NAND Flash chip is a SAMSUNG K9GAG08U0M-PIB0 (2Gb). MSN firmware (F900/F90BT only) is an SST 34HF1641J. AC97 Audio Codec (unknown vend

It doesn't really apply if you have done the hardware hack (i.e. swap the Mute wire and ground the parking brake). But some of us haven't done it for one reason or another (me, I was lazy, knew of the software version and thought it would have the same effect as grounding PB, then decided to fix next time I had the dash open which was never because the replacement HD tuner died on the bench instead of making it into the car). Now I just add the statement to any button in the screens I use the most, and live without it in the lesser used screens. According to GPSPassion and other forums,

I think I've added " USE_SEPARATED_SAFETY_MODE=0" to pretty much every button in navigatemap_800_480.ui in your latest mod. Couldn't mute the Nav voice or cancel a route without the handbrake applied (I'm in a manual, have the softmod applied but not the hardwire PB to GND and move mute hack).

How is Google Maps not exactly a solution? Check out the new Motorola Droid... it uses Google Maps Turn-By-Turn Navigation. It also assumes you've got a data connection at all times. If you don't have a cached source of data/images, it's less than useful. Would love to port Android to our AVIC but like BorisM pointed out we don't yet have enough information about how the Navi board controls the other boards in the system (protocol to talk to AV uCOM ASIC to change audio/video sources and control volume, commands to get data from the MSNDirect chip, control the Parrot handsfree chip, etc

If the forum had a "like" button, I'd click it! Looks good.

Sorry Azux, but that URL has firmware that's newer than 2.000 under the "Firmware" section. Try a few clicks next time. One last hand-holding effort: 2.009 for F900BT/F700BT (http://www.pioneer.eu/files/support/avi ... E_6175.zip) 2.007 for F500BT (http://www.pioneer.eu/files/support/avi ... E_6050.zip) 3.010100 for F910BT/F710BT (http://www.pioneer.eu/files/support/avi ... E_6219.zip) 1.0001 for F310BT (http://www.pioneer.eu/files/support/avi ... _10001.zip) Testmode 2.3 should work just fine with 2.009, IIRC, as long as you're using an SD card. Good luck if you were trying to u

Try Pioneer's Europe site: http://www.pioneer.eu/eur/content/suppo ... 700BT.html It's got 2.009 for EU models there.

Azux, have you tried upgrading to 2.006 first? That's a free upgrade path, and Testmode 2.3 works with that version.

Ditto on the big icons. Small targets are just too tough to hit when you're driving (example: I've modded copy of your mod to make the next turn icon to be the nav mute instead, since it's big and closest to me and what I use the most in the map). Mind you, most of the quick menus shouldn't be used while driving period, but smaller targets make for less accuracy when stopped at the light.

Does the clock read an hour ahead in all screens, or is the time correct in the Map and wrong in all the audio control screens (FM/AM/HD/XM/iPod)? If the hour is correct in the Map and wrong in the audio screens even when the Timezone's set manually, you're not the only one with this problem. Myself and several others are experiencing it as well.

Nope, our units don't have a full Bluetooth stack, just a neutered one custom made by Parrot that only provides hands-free and serial port profiles. If we can figure out how to hack the USB to accept one of the USB bluetooth dongles w/ a CSR radio and manage to get a configuration interface working, general devices like these might be an option...

If you look through some of Leet's MortScript files and replace any reference to "My Flash Disk" with "USB Disk" you might be off to a good start. The only other issue might be if he's hard-coded references to "My Flash Disk" into some of his custom programs (like the main launcher, say for sourcing images).

I'm pretty sure you only get Atlasmgr if you've got an RDK for one of the SiRF chips, and that usually comes with a nice NDA to sign before you get your hands on one. There's lots of references to AtlasMgr on the QNX Foundry site that talks about setting up the Titan RDK with their board support package.

If you look at Diaftia's mod, he has the ability to launch executables from iGo under Settings->Navi->Run (I have mine launching explorer.exe, for example). Testmode 2.3 includes a "restart" app that would let you soft-reset the unit, you could probably modify Diaftia's mod to launch "restart" from that screen (you'd have to copy "restart" to somewhere on "\My Flash Disk" so it's available if you don't have the Testmode SD card in).

We have the schematics to the AV board and others via the Service Manual, but it doesn't have a schematic for the Navi board where the RAM and Flash ROM live. carver's done some work on hardware hacking on the NN746 Navi board (see this post and this thread (Upgrade NAND Flash from 2GB to 8GB?) to see some of his efforts). One thing to note is even if you succeed in swapping out the flash module, the eboot/BIOS of the board is probably hard-coded to initialize the smaller part, and would also likely advertise a smaller size to the OS when it hands off the boot process to it. So you might

Sadly the Bluetooth in our AVICs isn't a full-featured one, it's a phone and serial port only device made by Parrot. It looks like the Navi board communicates with the Bluetooth module over a serial or USB connection and uses Parrot's DLL/driver to run the board, rather than a full Bluetooth stack that can talk to HID devices.

Checked the registry, the entries for time zones (under "HKLM\Time Zones\") seem to indicate the DST stuff mandated by the Energy Policy Act has been applied to the WinCE 5.0 Platform Builder that Pioneer's using, so much for hoping it was stale TZ rules and auto DST screwing up the hour. These settings seemed to work for the dev system to address the clock +1hr issue, though it will sort of break the ability to set the time from iGo 8 since it won't show the same time in the form as the system time it sets. Using the "Down" or "Up" buttons in the Time Settings screen, I was able

Sounds like you overwrote the files CopyTool.exe and CopyTool.mscr in the Testmode folder. You need the LeetLauncher copy of both files there in order for the correct script to be launched to load up LeetLauncher. If you compare the *.mscr from both folders in a text editor (MortScript files, in case you're curious), you'll see they're like batch files that tell the script engine (CopyTool.exe, which is really MortScript.exe but renamed) to do certain tasks on our behalf. This is why you need to create a "hybrid" Testmode folder that has the contents of LeetLauncher 3.0 with only the mis

th3-sh4rk, there are some files in the "testmode" folder with very long names made up of a mix of numbers and letters. Try copying the ones from testmode 2.3's "testmode" folder into the leetlauncher 3.0's "testmode" folder. These are a sort of key that the system looks for to decide if testmode is valid, and Leet's last release was before 2.006 and 3.0 came out and the required keys changed.

Looks to be coincidence that I see the clock on the Suby's F90BT jump ahead when the phone pairing message shows up. The desk's F90BT will also have the time jump ahead if the GPS locks quickly, phone or no phone. Did notice that if I go into explorer and run the Date/Time adjustment control panel after everything's launched that the non-iGo apps will reflect the system time I set. Guess it's time to see if this works (set via sys.txt): [timezone] sync_os_timezone=0 reset_os_timezone=0

Yeah, it's freakin' hilarious. WA users apparently don't have the problem, there was a user that saw his clock jump ahead an hour when he drove south across the bridge to Astoria from WA, and then fall back to the right hour driving back north across back into WA. Can't describe how annoyed I was to spend the $60 x2 (one for the car, one for my dev system) only to find out iGo 8.3 *still* has the problem. To be fair, my iPaq 310 that runs iGo 8.0 also has the same bug with the auto-correction, so the fault lies with NavNGo and not with Pioneer in this *rare* case. The autocorrection timezo

So far both osubeaver and myself have the exact same problem, and we're both in Oregon. The "Auto sets me to Idaho" problem's been there since 1.0 days. I have noticed that if it takes the GPS a while to lock (like it does with the radio on my desk) that the time gets set correctly in the non-iG0 apps too. If the lock is quick (as it is with the radio in my car, which doesn't get constant power removed between uses) then the hour is ahead by 1 hour until I go into Settings->GPS & Time->Date & Time and turn auto on, then off or bump the hour up and then down by 1. Then when I

Yeah, for the most part the code is maintained in a text editor if it's for the iGo 8.x mods (i.e. APL2\ezrider.exe). We still don't have a Board Support Package for the AVIC written that allows access to the DLLs/hardware/etc for apps other than ezrider.