Given the same basic tools, one person can expose the statue hidden inside the rock, and the other can smash his thumb and blame the hammer.

There is enough knowledge posted here by perhaps a few dozen contributors to make your Avic sing, and enough misinformation spread by a few thousand posters to totally brick it.

Take the time to READ and fully understand before attempting any mods or leave it STOCK. If you don't take the time to do it right, then don't expect others to waste their time fixing the problems you created.

I know now that I made my mod too easy to install and lured in users who don't even know how to work a desktop PC let alone apply mods to a carputer. They'd be better off being intimidated by the modding process and leave it stock.

Peace out.

To avoid the confusion:

The zip files that Cmh928 has provided contains the DATA.ZIP, the Sound files, the Speedcam files, the 3D Building files, the SYS.txt, the Image.res, and all the other mods listed.

All of these files are installed in the MiTACAP folder.

So to quote the original post:

Cmh928 says,

"With any luck, it will only require the user to unzip 2 folders to SD card, insert card, turn on the key, wait for copying to end, remove card, and reboot."

I was confused when downloading the zxip to only see the testmode and MiTACAP folders and a readme, so I wanted to post this to augment what Cmh928 already said.

Big thanks to Cmh928 for making this so easy, my 4 y/o can do it.

It will be hard to screw this up, I can't thank all you guys enought . I know you have put in many hours and believe me we all appreciate it

Ok now i will have to watch your threard, IDT thread, Boris thread and GTIMatt thread. I think pioneer should hire you guys and fire their crew. I will test out your new mod. It sounds great. I have a couple of questions that might save me time and running out to my car back and forth, otherwise i will have to ExamDiff. After reading through GTI's threads and Boris progress report thread, I just wanted to know if you have incorporated these items

Boris' -

1. setting_800_480.ui and setting.ui. - Building Visibility, etc.

2. poi*.ui files so you can search POI by address

3. route.ui and route_800_480.ui - Route settings allow turning "snap to road" on and off and Route settings allow changing vehicle type (care, pedestrian, truck, taxi, bus, bicycle, emergency) - 700-90 models only right now.

4. place.ui and place_800_480.ui files - lets you add new or edit existing cameras

5. model_variables.ui - some speedcam settings

6. speedcam.ui files - which i assume you have even modified it further than Boris in order to get the voices, etc.to work

Thanks, just trying to save myself some time if i could

sorry one more question. what is the msn mod. is this something that we have to subscribe to in order to use it. I am not sure what this is and i am trying to decide whether to use he MSN data file or NOMSN data file?

Thanks

Good job on this man, much respect for putting this out for all the newbies... Thanks man... This one is by far my favorite mod man... Good working on it...

Also, you know what would be awesome if we can do for the newbies, if we can get this to copy all the new maps the 2008 maps without having to copy them yourself individually.

Ok now i will have to watch your threard, IDT thread, Boris thread and GTIMatt thread. I think pioneer should hire you guys and fire their crew. I will test out your new mod. It sounds great. I have a couple of questions that might save me time and running out to my car back and forth, otherwise i will have to ExamDiff. After reading through GTI's threads and Boris progress report thread, I just wanted to know if you have incorporated these items

 

Boris' -

1. setting_800_480.ui and setting.ui. - Building Visibility, etc.

2. poi*.ui files so you can search POI by address

3. route.ui and route_800_480.ui - Route settings allow turning "snap to road" on and off and Route settings allow changing vehicle type (care, pedestrian, truck, taxi, bus, bicycle, emergency) - 700-90 models only right now.

4. place.ui and place_800_480.ui files - lets you add new or edit existing cameras

5. model_variables.ui - some speedcam settings

6. speedcam.ui files - which i assume you have even modified it further than Boris in order to get the voices, etc.to work

 

Thanks, just trying to save myself some time if i could

Look at the pix on the FTP and all your questions will be answered.

Also, you know what would be awesome if we can do for the newbies, if we can get this to copy all the new maps the 2008 maps without having to copy them yourself individually.

That would surely cause this FTP to fall to the same fate as the last one.

sorry one more question. what is the msn mod. is this something that we have to subscribe to in order to use it. I am not sure what this is and i am trying to decide whether to use he MSN data file or NOMSN data file?

Thanks

MSN Direct is only available in the US and only on F90, F900 and F500. It is a pay service ($50/year) after the 3 month free trial. If you never activated it, then I suggest you try it out. Call the 800 number shown on the Avic's screen and read off the 25 digit code to them. I use it for movie listings and gas prices mainly. It is very accurate at least in CMH. It also shows road construction and accidents along with local and worldwide weather.

Great!

Ya know, you sure would have saved me a buttload of time if I had just waited for this Great work!!

One thing you might try and that I found handy, I have made my clock clickable which starts route recording and changes colors when active/not active. This was taken from Matt's orig. version. I also gave the fonts my twist and added "Digi-ds" and made them digital with larger glowsize and different colors (hex value changed to whatever ) to match my own Toyota dash illumination.

Great work again!!!

Bud

Great!

Ya know, you sure would have saved me a buttload of time if I had just waited for this Great work!!

One thing you might try and that I found handy, I have made my clock clickable which starts route recording and changes colors when active/not active. This was taken from Matt's orig. version. I also gave the fonts my twist and added "Digi-ds" and made them digital with larger glowsize and different colors (hex value changed to whatever ) to match my own Toyota dash illumination.

Great work again!!!

 

Bud

Read the !Readme! and all the icon presses are explained. The clock brings up traffic events. I made this file for ME and the features I use most. Track recording isn't one of them. Feel free to mod away!

I didn't do any custom fonts as I have read FAR too many posts from newbies of "Your file crashed my unit!" and don't need the grief. The all-in-one does install ds-digi as well as transportm fonts just in case they later add GTIMatt's or IDT's file. I do like the look of the EU speed limit using the custom font, but not enough to risk getting PM's about it not working.

Okie-Dokie!

Keep up the great work and I'll follow this post religiously

--Bud

Woo-Hoo!

Great job! This will make adding mods very easy. Many of us I know will appreciate the hard that everyone has done! I can't wait to mod my F700bt with these.

Just gave it a go around town. Worked good. DId a fly over dallas and see some 3d buildings. Thanks to all.

One question though. Will the files that were replaced handle updated maps? And if so which version?

Thank you for this best mod IMO

There are 4 versions: The normal Data.zip with MSN shortcut and traffic info

A NoMSN.Data.zip version for F700 and euro users which has a History icon and TMC.

An all-in-one UnzipToSDCard.zip for newbies

and a NoMSN.UnzipToSDCard.zip

Hey cmh928 i dont see the link for NoMSN.UnzipToSDCard.zip . Is it the same as the UnzipToSDCard.zip?

Also when the unit boots when you put the sd card in, the file you created automatically puts all those files in the correct folders without you having to copy and paste? If so that is very nice.

Also if i just want to copy and paste everything in myself rather than using that, do i need to copy over the contents in the lang and voice folders?

is there anything different about the image.res file you sent me a couple of days ago?

Thank you plan on working on this tomorrow

also in the voice folder in content, is that the modified samantha voice. If so, i dont know if it worked when i transferred it into my unit from the setup menu, so i was wondering if i can just take it and copy it into the same folder in my avic unit. Do i delete the file that is there and replace it with this TTS file?

What is the transportm.ttf font for?

thank you

Every time you enter testmode using the original testmode files, samantha is overwritten by the old version. That is why it was required to update it using the Avic's interface in normal mode. If you drag the new samanthaTTS file into your Testmode SD card's MiTACAP\APL2\iGo\CONTENT\voice\ folder, then it keeps the newer file.

Only newbies should be using my full UnzipToSDCard file, if you know what you're doing and have most all the mods to begin with, just copy the data.zip or whatever other files you want manually. If you use my full file, you will have to wait for over 64MB of data to transfer automatically even if you only want to add the voice file. It is still the safest way to get everything where it belongs, though.

I verified the NoMSN all-in-one is there and it shows up using Firefox just fine.

Image.res may be newer than the one I sent you. Check dates or just install the new one.

No custom fonts are needed for my version, but I included the ones that GTIMatt used for his EU speed limit sign and IDT's current speed digital one. This is just to prevent headaches if a newbie later decides to try one of their data.zip files

Just gave it a go around town. Worked good. DId a fly over dallas and see some 3d buildings. Thanks to all.

One question though. Will the files that were replaced handle updated maps? And if so which version?

You can use worldwide IGo 8.0 maps on it, but you may want to read this thread first:

viewtopic.php?f=34&t=22251&start=105

There can be some issues with TTS and POI's not showing up. I personally only loaded the 4.2008 version of Ohio and it works fine.

Hi Cmh,

Can you please tell me what the purpose and advantages for the hacked sys.txt are??

I've downloaded a sys.txt once (not yours). But was not happy with the height and angle of navigation in 3d.

My sys.txt is made to default to a 3D tilt that surrounds the top icons with sky, yet shows a decent amount of the upcoming map and labels. I also hated the arrow size and knocked it down to where I was happiest. Sys.txt settings also enables 3D buildings and speedcams.

Hey, CMH,

Which is the bit in which code string that needs to be changed to up the warning BEEPS?

Thanx,

Bud

Just a heads up that some of the buttons in the navigatemap.ui are missing their USESEPARATEDSAFETYMODE=0 statements (specifically, the announcer mute button when a route is active). Some of us haven't done the HW bypass yet, so they're unavailable without the separated safey mode in the declaration...

Thanks!

FourG,

Are you using my entire data.zip? It already has the software hack enabled and should not enter "separated safety mode" as long as you have the P-Brake wire grounded.

At any rate, I have added the lines to the file and will update the FTP with the new files as soon as I testdrive it.

69Bee,

you can try adjusting vSpeedcamAlertVolume=40 in common\ui\modelvariables.ui, but I believe the level is controlled under navi settings>sound settings> master volume.

Tha !alert3.wav itself is recorded at a very low level. It resides in the audio folder in data.zip. I am attaching a copy editted to nearly double the original volume.

Just unzip the wav and drop it into the audio folder in data.zip.

it will be included in the data.zip on the FTP within a few hours.