Ah, the first post in the XM section.

So if you have an AVIC and the XM Receiver, you'll notice that some XM logos do not appear. I found this irritating because its a nice feature and looks cool.

This occurs on D1, N1, N2 with either DVD 1.0 or 1.2, and any XM receiver (Nav Traffic or original). The reason is, as Jason pointed out, that the AVIC reads the channel name that XM broadcasts and then matched that up in a table with a logo. However, XM recently changed the names of some channels (for example, SquiZZ xL is now xL SquiZZ). This simple change ruins the name mapping and the logo disappears. All xL channels don't work, as well as some name changes to the comedy channels. All new channels don't work.

But, there is a fix. See the D1 mods/hacks section. Should apply to all AVICs though, since the issue is on the DVD, not the hardware.

Derek

Just in case you don't head on over to the other thread, here is the file that fixes Squizz, Boneyard, Fungus, RAW, The Rhyme, and High Voltage logos.

Derek

Any idea on how to get the 10 new channel logo's to work?
I uploaded most of them in the General Section.

Wow - you just saved me a ton of work - awesome! I was just contemplating doing this to. I think my first attempt will be replace some less desirable channels with some of these. Like I could do without Franks Place or Cinemagic. I will try to replace those names with the new ones and add the logo files to the DVD.

Next step would be to actually add them to the list, but I am assuming there are some checksums or word count fields I would need to alter... gotta check.

Derek

Ok, I looked at the TABLE file. Its going to be a piece of cake to add these channels. I just hope the actual logos don't end up appearing 'transparent' of with funky colors. But getting logos to appear should be easy. I will give it a try.

Derek

Any progress on the logos? I would test it myself, but I have run out of every kind of burnable DVD in my house. Heh... Maybe i'll "BORROW" some from school.

Yep, the logos and new channels work. I haven't gotten them all lined up yet. I have to go through them and rename some of the logo files. They aren't labeled by channel number, but by the index number inside the tabledat file. Anyway, it doesn't matter, I'll fix it, but you'll have to rename some of these files.

As far as a few things I saw:
Big Tracks looks a little funny due to the gray scale.
The Message - the 'g' is cut off at the bottom.
Most others look good. Some didn't show up cause I got the index wrong. I am going to make a spreadsheet to line up the channel names, numbers, and indexes from now on.

Give me a few days though.

Derek

Cool, sounds like your making good progress. You used the Bigtracks logo I posted right? It shows up grayscale? Stupid color thing...

JasonH said:

Cool, sounds like your making good progress. You used the Bigtracks logo I posted right? It shows up grayscale? Stupid color thing...

No, it has the color, but the grayscale gradient fill in the words themselves gets a little screwy (the transparency issue). But its really close.

anything on the xm images yet?

Yeah, any luck yet?

All of the Clear Channel stations have now renamed -- the big ones -- KISS, Mix, Sunny, and Nashville!

I don't know if the new names are permanent, or if they are tweaking them... However, now they're missing icons!
:(

SuperH said:

All of the Clear Channel stations have now renamed -- the big ones -- KISS, Mix, Sunny, and Nashville!

I don't know if the new names are permanent, or if they are tweaking them... However, now they're missing icons!
:(

Yes, pretty soon we won't have any logos. Never fear, I fixed that already. They added cm, sp, and fr. I fixed those. However, I haven't gotten The Heat or XMLM to work yet for some inexplicable reason. Also, there are a lot more channels that need new logos, like enLighten, the NHL stations, a bunch of Talk Stations (some changed there names as well), the French stations... I have a big spreadsheet trying to fix these. Its taking more time than I thought, sorry for the delay!

Derek

Where would I see logos? More details to get some in there?

The most I got was the whale jumping out of the water.

I have N1 ver 1.2. Hoping to upgrade to 60 discs

Keep us posted Derek .. cant wait to fix this. Would be nice to have it fixed before my 6,000 mile road trip to California in July... :)

I'll get something before July... the problem is The Heat and Viva. They just refuse to get logos to appear. Maybe they are transmitting a space afterwards or something - its really strange.

ohlarikd said:

I'll get something before July... the problem is The Heat and Viva. They just refuse to get logos to appear. Maybe they are transmitting a space afterwards or something - its really strange.

Ok, I am getting close. The Heat still refuses to work. They must be transmitting some hidden characters that make it not match up with the table file. I am stumped on that one. I have all the spanish channels working now with proper logos.

Also, we need a logo for 'enLighten'. There are quite a few new talk channels that have the wrong logos or no logos, and the French channels also need logos. Jason, can you get some of these made up, however you did it? Also, NHL channels.

XM Hitlist, Liquid Metal, and Big Tracks all have gray scale, and they tend to look a little messed up because they are semi-transparent. Can you make new ones that don't use gray scale colors?

If you want to just get the channels that changed their names to work, use this table file. It fixes the cm and sp channels. Although the sp logos may not match unless you use new DPS files. I will eventually post all the DPS files and table file together.

But for now, try this file. Rename the old one to .OLD just in case this makes things worse...

Derek

So that file replaces the same-name file currently on the NAV DVD? That DAT file contains both the data AND the images then?

Shaka said:

So that file replaces the same-name file currently on the NAV DVD? That DAT file contains both the data AND the images then?

Yes, replace the same exact file in the XMDAT directory. It only contains the name of the channel, and has an index number that points to the logo file. For the channels that just changed there name (added xL to the front, or cm/sp to the end), the same logos are used. But there are new channels that have new index numbers. Those channels have logos that need new files in the XMDPS directory. I haven't gotten that sorted out yet... But I figure some people must be irritated by logos that disappeared when XM recently changed channel names.

Derek

Is this fix for the N3 also (CNDV-60MP)?

Mine isn't displaying any icons/logos at all, on any stations... Not even the default "satellite" icon. I'm using a GEX-P10XMT tuner...

*edit* I figured it out on my own. :)

hybridamp said:

Is this fix for the N3 also (CNDV-60MP)?

Mine isn't displaying any icons/logos at all, on any stations... Not even the default "satellite" icon. I'm using a GEX-P10XMT tuner...

I only know about the D1 because I have one. I know nothing about the N3. May be the same, may not.

Derek

Have we made any progress on getting the new channel images to show up?
Just wondering.

I have an N1 with 60MT with the older 920 xm receiver and I dont see any spots where logos would even show up. It looks the same as when I had the 40MT software.

Do you need the new p10xm receiver for this?
Anyone know? :roll:

Im not 100%, but I think you need to have the N3 to see channel logos. It is a hardware issue, not a software issue. Honestly I don't like how the channel logos look on my n3 compared to my Pioneer Inno XM unit.