how22 Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 How do i make a back up of the unit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CatchMeIfYouCan631 Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Copy the flash disk onto an SD card. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
how22 Posted September 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 wear do i find the flash disk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CatchMeIfYouCan631 Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 It's in your unit. You have to get into testmode and copy it onto an SD Card. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
how22 Posted September 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 I am very sorry.how do i do that . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CatchMeIfYouCan631 Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 It's fine. First you need an SD Card and SD card reader if your computer doesn't have one. Then you need to download the file posted in this thread: http://avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php? ... boot+files This is called the Testmode.zip. It's what gets us into the internals of the unit to make hacks. What you need to do is unzip the Testmode.zip, and open it to the 2 folders inside. They are "Testmode" and "MiTACAP". Drag those files into your SD card, and DO NOT touch them after this point. Next, load the SD card into the unit, and turn the car on. The splash screen will come up, and then the screen will turn white with a bright green box in the middle. When it finishes loading, use your stylus pen that came with the unit, or something with a fine point to press those small buttons... 1. Press the X in the top right corner 2. You are now in Windows Mode. Press Start in the bottom left. 3. Scroll up to Programs 4. Press Windows Explorer 5. Select My Flash Disk, press edit up top and copy. 6. select Storage Card, press file up top and Open 7. Press Edit, then Paste. Should take 10 minutes roughly. When it's done pasting, turn the car off and pull out the SD card, load the SD card onto your computer, and drag the Flash Disk onto your desktop. I recommend Calibrating your screen first in system settings. My fiance's wasn't calibrated right and it took a frustrating 10 minutes of trying to press edit before I realized that it had to be calibrated. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
how22 Posted September 22, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Thank you very much.now i can change things and download it back t the unit the same way right Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CatchMeIfYouCan631 Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Yes and no. First off don't bite off more than you can chew. Messing up these hacks can result in a bricked unit and then you're screwed. I was changing .bmp files and forgot to rename it and I lost my whole AV interface until I made the correction. If you know what your doing, what you do is you make the changes and then copy that folder or file you edited and paste it onto the root of your SD card. Let's use Data.zip for an example. You want to make sure the unit is still compressed into a .zip file and none of the inner files have been renamed. Then go back into windows mode, go into Storage card, select your modified data foler and edit copy. find the orignal Data.zip (APL2 iGo), and in the bottom right corner, open up the keyboard. rename the data.zip "DATA-bak". Now paste your modified folder and rename it DATA. now your unit will read your modified version instead of the original. Keep in mind this applies to any folder, as long as you create a '-bak' version and rename your modded version after the original, and it's in the right format. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
teksimian Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 It's fine. First you need an SD Card and 1. Press the X in the top right corner 2. You are now in Windows Mode. Press Start in the bottom left. 3. Scroll up to Programs 4. Press Windows Explorer 5. Select My Flash Disk, press edit up top and copy. 6. select Storage Card, press file up top and Open 7. Press Edit, then Paste. Should take 10 minutes roughly. When it's done pasting, turn the car off and pull out the SD card, load the SD card onto your computer, and drag the Flash Disk onto your desktop. This actually doesn't work well for me at all. after trying to copy some of the files (from the windows directory I believe) it craps out at a point saying that you cant copy files from ROM (wtf?) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CatchMeIfYouCan631 Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 That's odd, I have my whole disk drive on my desktop. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blustang05 Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 I had another issue. With mine i would copy the flash to my card and it would say there was not enough space on the SD card WTF its a 4gb card also tried it on a 2gb card same thing I finally copied it file by file and found that when i came to the My Flash/User/user/UserData/Setup It would give me the "Not enough space" message. even on a empty 4gb card Any thoughts on that one? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CatchMeIfYouCan631 Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 How did you get into Test Mode if the SD card was empty? But seriously..I've gotten that message too, and I have a 4gb SD as well, and as you can see.. I have my flash disk on my comp along with my image.res and other projects. The size of the flash disk says 65MB which is nowhere near 4gb. The only solution I can think of is erasing the entire sd card, redownloading the testmode and try again. I honestly have no idea why it would do that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blustang05 Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 I bet if you look at the file in the /user/UserData/Setup DIR on the F and compare them to the File on you desktop you will find they will be missing some stuff. But it might just be me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CatchMeIfYouCan631 Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 you do, but I personally haven't come across anything missing thats been proven valuable for the hacks. I'm sorry, I forgot to mention some things do not transfer the first time, you have to manually drag them into their respected folders. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
teksimian Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 I had another issue. With mine i would copy the flash to my card and it would say there was not enough space on the SD card WTF its a 4gb card also tried it on a 2gb card same thing I finally copied it file by file and found that when i came to the My Flash/User/user/UserData/Setup It would give me the "Not enough space" message. even on a empty 4gb card Any thoughts on that one? It's an sdhc(anything greater than 2 gigs) card, and the unit only supports sd(up to 2 gigs). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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