ayanami22 Posted December 27, 2008 Report Share Posted December 27, 2008 seems to have worked a little bit but overall the unit just lags Quote Link to post Share on other sites
viper62 Posted December 29, 2008 Report Share Posted December 29, 2008 Just wanted to let you all know what I have noticed doing this mod. It does work very well but there is one got ya. If you boot up into test mode again it will reset the memory back to default. I moved the slider to the left a small amount and set up the personal info to come up a bootup. This worked flawlessly and my system boot time decreased alot. I got tired of the personal popup so I booted back into test mode to turn it off and it had been cleared out and memory set back to default. (Remember my pursonal info was comming up untill I booted into test mode) I changed the memory back and restarted and it is a lot more responsive. So it might be stiking for you just being reset by the test mode files. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wizzardeel Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Just booted up in testmode and changed the memory to 2048 and disabled error reporting. pulled the sd out and turn the key off and then on and there is no response time improvement and when I went back to testmode the setting where back to default. so it doesnt work in 2.0 or just not my unit Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cranbers Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Call me crazy, but isn't "testmode" quite simply booting windows ce off of your sd card so you can have access to the drive to edit files located on the drive? In other words its like booting your computer up with a live cd, any changes, modifications etc that you make via the control panel, isn't going to do jack when the system is booted up via the on board disk, unless you make modifiations to the files located on the drive itself. So booting up off of a boot disk, which is what your doing here, and changing a slider that says use more ram for this instead of that, is only going to work for that testmode session and completely goes away upon boot into the avic stereo environment. Besides, if something like this fixed the response time, don't you think it would of been a no brainer? Windows ce test mode only takes up a few hundred k of ram. the unit has 256 mb's of ram. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BorisM Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Call me crazy, but isn't "testmode" quite simply booting windows ce off of your sd card so you can have access to the drive to edit files located on the drive? AFAIK, no. There's not nearly enough stuff in the testmode to have full WinCE environment. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cranbers Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Call me crazy, but isn't "testmode" quite simply booting windows ce off of your sd card so you can have access to the drive to edit files located on the drive? AFAIK, no. There's not nearly enough stuff in the testmode to have full WinCE environment. I didn't mean to say it was the full wince environment, just that it provided a startup resources to bring the unit to a gui interface, and provide the functionality for touch interface, copy/paste function and some test functions. People were saying you could boot into this test envirment and change the ram usage ratios, when in fact I believe this test mode is a simple boot disk, and any changes made while in test mode, short of rewriting files, do not affect the the unit, ram usage or otherwise once its booted back into its installed envirment and os. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BorisM Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 I didn't mean to say it was the full wince environment, just that it provided a startup resources to bring the unit to a gui interface, and provide the functionality for touch interface, copy/paste function and some test functions. People were saying you could boot into this test envirment and change the ram usage ratios, when in fact I believe this test mode is a simple boot disk, and any changes made while in test mode, short of rewriting files, do not affect the the unit, ram usage or otherwise once its booted back into its installed envirment and os. Given that test mode pretty much has two folders neither of which contains any of Windows CE system files... No, I still don't believe it is running off of the card (also, you can remove the card while in SD mode and everything keeps working). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bartsitarski Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 This was my first mod, not counting the splash screen. I have the F90BT with the 2.0 update. Since the mod, I have noticed a difference, albeit, not a huge one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
enkrypt3d Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Just got my F90BT (not installed yet).... where do I get the files to boot into WinCE? I did a search and no love...... thanks EDIT: Just found it http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17542 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joegr Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 I didn't mean to say it was the full wince environment, just that it provided a startup resources to bring the unit to a gui interface, and provide the functionality for touch interface, copy/paste function and some test functions. People were saying you could boot into this test envirment and change the ram usage ratios, when in fact I believe this test mode is a simple boot disk, and any changes made while in test mode, short of rewriting files, do not affect the the unit, ram usage or otherwise once its booted back into its installed envirment and os. Given that test mode pretty much has two folders neither of which contains any of Windows CE system files... No, I still don't believe it is running off of the card (also, you can remove the card while in SD mode and everything keeps working). WinCE is on the root of the FLASH drive. It is WINCEIMG.BIN. At 17K, it is an average size Win CE image. (Yes, 17K is all the full image takes.) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BorisM Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Kernel... But when you boot off of SD you still have the full WinCE desktop with executables... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VBLUE42 Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Call me crazy Yep, your crazy. This mod was discovered before 2.0 and did offer some improvement but it seemed to do a better job on the older firmware. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BorisM Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 WinCE is on the root of the FLASH drive. It is WINCEIMG.BIN. At 17K, it is an average size Win CE image. (Yes, 17K is all the full image takes.) Having looked at the upgrade files... WINCEIMG.BIN is 16+MB, not 17K Quote Link to post Share on other sites
joegr Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Okay, so I got my units mixed up. If NASA can do it... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BorisM Posted January 13, 2009 Report Share Posted January 13, 2009 Okay, so I got my units mixed up. If NASA can do it... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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