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.

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).

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.

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

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.)

Kernel... But when you boot off of SD you still have the full WinCE desktop with executables...

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.

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

Okay, so I got my units mixed up. If NASA can do it...

Okay, so I got my units mixed up. If NASA can do it...

Finally got around to do this and it's absolutely working just fine. Combined with blank .wav files for button sounds GUI is so fast now. There is no lag anywhere

I also have the F90BT and have started modding it. For some reason in 2.0, I can't get any changes I make to WinCE to stay, I don't get it. It's not that I drag the memory bar too far to a certain side because I disable the error reporting and once I boot back into WinCE, ram was reset as well as the error reporting is turned back on. Is there some special thing I have to do? I press the OK button instead of the X, but i'm stumped by this!

Same here. Have the F90 and the changes won't take. Tried it a number of times and followed the directions exactly but it resets every time. Maybe they "fixed" this with the 2.0 release.

Is this confirmed to have an effect in 2.0 firmware or no?

Is this confirmed to have an effect in 2.0 firmware or no?

i think it works for me, try it out for yourself and then you tell us

i think it works for me, try it out for yourself and then you tell us

I was more just wondering if this is a change that was necessary in the 1.x firmware that Pioneer made permanent in the 2.0 firmware - and now EVERYBODY has it done...

2 thumbs up, I noticed a faster response on my AVIC-F500BT

I have done this a number of times and I also can't get my unit to keep the settings, I have moved the slide in both directions and after reboot and back into testmode, everything is as it was before I messed with it, I was just wondering if anyone figured it out yet, my unit is 2.0 from Pioneer.

I have a F900BT and want to increase ram to wince but not exactly do it, anyone can advise me?

thanks

Is this applicable on the 3.X firmware?