Thread: AULRO Subscriber Offer - cheap on-road/off-road GPS units

Mine's arrived!

Given you guys make it all sound so simple to add software to these and get them to work..... I had a good go at making it fire up. And it's done my head in. And that in the (relatively) short time of 4 hours......

Awaiting the sage's advice on how to undo what I've done......

Anyone who has limited or no knowledge of how to do stuff with these things, just get one from Ranga directly..... It will save you hours of stuffing around.......

Have a look at the post from DavidB (couple of posts up).

If you have been locked out also it may be that the new units have had a change in firmware/software.

I will wait before tackling mine. If someone can assure me that using the existing methods of "upgrading" works then I will have a go.

Off on hols in a few days so it will have to wait until around middle of March when I get back in any case.

And your suggestion of sending the unit off to Ranga may be the solution for me if it is that tricky - assuming Ranga is still OK with that of course.

Mike

Had a chat to Ranga this morning, turns out I haven't stuffed it. Just needed to 'double tap' on the program menu from:

Welcome to GPSUNLOCK.NET!

AFTER you have put the OziExplorer trial software (from www.oziexplorer.com - pick the one for PortableNavigationDevices) into a new folder on the SD card. The middle one is the wrong one.

Main thing is to get the CD from Ranga as it has more software on it than you can easily down load.

Hi all,

Further to my previous post re locked GPS.

Just received new unit from Dealextreme.

Turned it on and it showed full charge.
Connected to my laptop (Windows 7) and automatically connected to Windows Mobile Device Centre (latest replacement for Active sync if you are not runnung XP).
All OK so far.
Before starting upgrade thought I would check the USB cable, as I had a faulty one before.
When I connected with a new cable it showed that the battery was nearly flat.

This could have been the cause of my previous problems.

So please check your USB cable with a known good one if you can.

Anyway, this time I will be backing everything up before I attempt any changes.

Dave.

And make sure you're just taking out the SD card and using a card reader on the USB cable. The GPS will either not be recognised as a mass storage device or be really sloooooow. You load and program from the SD card anyways.

Looks like it is all good.

I will take on-board your suggestion up2nogood, and wait for the cd from Ranga. Be after I get back now - mid March.

Mike

Hi Ranga,

I would like to buy one of these gps units. Could you please pm me.

George

Originally Posted by DavidB

Hi all,

Further to my previous post re locked GPS.

Did you hit the reset button - mine locked today but was Ok after a reset.

Garry