Thank you, thank you, thank. I have F500BT, the reset trick WORKS!

Thank you StupidPig! I tried what you suggested and it worked well. It didn't change the id3 tags to be asian characters but it seemed to read the file names fine. I'll check it out once I get my ipod cable and attach my ipod to see if it is any better.

Too bad whenever the system shuts off it loses the settings though. I will try it in my car overnight to see if that causes it to reboot. I always thought the whole reason why you wire the yellow cable to the harness is to keep the navigational system charged up while the car is off so it wouldn't have to reboot but I guess not.

This has given me a lot of hope though, thanks again!

Thanks for the reset trick. Mine lasts overnight.

StupidPig, did you hardwire your F500BT? I didn't. I plug the power directly to the DV5V Jack instead of using the "fat" cable. Maybe that's the reason why mine lasts overnight but yours don't?

I have my unit semi-wired. I have the cradle installed on my car with the audio out and power connected, but the 12v and reverse wire are not connected yet (will do it once I found the location of the reverse wire on my car). I remove the unit from the cradle everytime I parked the car (guess that the whole point to have F500 instead of F700/900).

The reset of unit just randomly happened, and I just not able to figure out any pattern yet. The most strange one is there is one time I bring the unit inside home and plugin the A/C supply during night, but then the next morning when I try to bring it back from standby mode, the System Loading screen comes up and I lost the font.

I used the cardle too, but only for holding the GPS, did not connect the fat cable. I left GPS on the cardle overnight. Sometimes, I remove the GPS and carry it with me. I wasn't able to drain the battery since I had the GPS. There was one time I had problem with navagiation audio and trid to drain it hoping the problem would go away by doing that. I turned the GPS on and left it in the house. It shuted off automatically. I turned it on again and it shuted off again after few seconds. Did this for two days and I could still turn it on instantly for few seconds. Never went to the long loading bootup.

Firrmware might make a difference, but I think you have updated yours to 2.0. So really no idea how come yours doesn't last overnight.

I did some tests trying to iron out the reset problem, and here is what I found:

- The F500BT reset itself if you turn it off/standby, before it fully started.

The most obvious scenario is if you have a practice to turn you car key to ON position and stay for a brief time, then turn more to start the engine. When the key move to ON, ACC is on and trigger the unit to wake up itself from standby mode, but then when you turn the key to start, ACC will be off for a moment, which triggered the unit to turn off itself. Since usually your time between the ON and Start is pretty short, the unit is not fully wake up before the ACC off during the Engine Start, and it will reset itself when you try to turn it on again.

This behavior is nothing related to the use of the cradle/fat cable or not, or whether to connect the +12V always on wire or not. You can reproduce this behavior with your F500BT running with the A/C adapter, or even with just the internal battery. To try this, simply press the power button to wake up the unit, then press the power button again before it showing the main or map screen. You will see the unit reset when you try to turn it on again.

just thought you should give the credit to mattchench.

He's the first one that post it.

http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19394

just thought you should give the credit to mattchench.

He's the first one that post it.

 

http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19394

Don't get me wrong, I never said I figured out how to install the asian font to F-series, and definately the credit for that should go to whoever detailed the procedure in the first place.

I'm here just trying to help out some F500BT owners (like myself) who failed to see the asian font by following those steps. I can't say it is valid for all F-series models, but for F500BT, at least the following important points are worth mentioned on top of the original post:

1. Use the reset button at tha back of the unit after installation.

2. RegEdit is not needed.

3. Lost of font setup caused by specific power up scenario (not testmode related).

Now back to idea on getting this asian font mod working better.... There are two ideas in my mind:

1. I'm currently looking for a way to reload the wince.nls during startup. The problem that we lost the setup after system restarted is caused by the windows replaced the original wince.nls with the ROM copy, and reset all modified registry entries. If we can run a program during start (which is possible as shown in the LeetLauncher), we may be able to replace the wince.nls and all registry enteries whenever the system is restart.

2. Trying to minimize the chance for system restart. Except the case of running testmode (which I guess it is understandable that someone should redo the installation in that situation), if we can get rid of the stupid system restart, then the font will stay. This is the exact reason I did the test which I mentioned in previous post. Well, to solve a problem, I think I need to understand the cause of the problem first. Again, specific for F500BT, which come with a battery, there should be some way to maintain the machine status.

Thanks for all your help StupidPig

It's quite interesting why F500BT behavies differently compare to other F-series or X-series units. I just installed x710BT for my wife's car and the Korean font stay even with every restarts. I'm trying to reduce the number of resets but sometime it's un-avoidable.

Hey guys!

This link:

http://www.phm.lu/downloads/download.aspx?{940B734A-C437-41C7-ADED-2A4418802FD3}

doesn't work anymore and I'm desperately want to install Asian font in my X910, does any of you still have the file?

or can anyone tell me where to find the file?

I see that you have solved the broken link problem, just for others to have access to the TRE.exe utility under \TestMode\Utils folder ...

See here: http://www.avic411.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=31838&p=214868&hilit=asian+font#p214868

It's quite interesting why F500BT behavies differently compare to other F-series or X-series units. I just installed x710BT for my wife's car and the Korean font stay even with every restarts. I'm trying to reduce the number of resets but sometime it's un-avoidable.

I used to this tool to add Korean fonts to WinCEIMG. Now, I don't have to worry about losing the fonts altogether.

viewtopic.php?f=34&t=31938

Originally I wrote a reply in this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=34&t=19394&start=15

I was thinking if the fonts would stay if we added unicode glyphs to the font file and then replaced this with the original font file stored on the unit?

Please see link below for example of what I mean:

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=55408

This should get around the part where Windows will restore the registry back to default.

Please do not double-post! As this will help others to find info more easily