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heh - you beat me to it - I was sure I posted the info before hehe if ya need a hand feel free to pm - the menu comes with a way to run it on the PC so you can setup the icons & menus on the pc first & test it - then copy to the GPS

also check out these links

Mio pocket menu rocks! Its another menu you can use instead of the GPS unlock one
GpsPasSion Forums - MioPocket 3.0 (Unlock for PNAs)
http://www.gpspassion.com/upload2/Mi...eadme.html#5.1

Mobile Passion <--- good resource for info & other stuff

Originally Posted by RaZz0R

Mio pocket menu rocks!

I take it from this that you have installed Mio pocket onto the Ranga gps?
I see in Mio pocket readme file http://www.gpspassion.com/upload2/Mi...eadme.html#5.1 that they warn against installing it to "...obscure GPS devices (especially no-name Chinese GPS devices)..." or risk permanently bricking it.

I like what I see with Mio pocket, but not confident about installing it.
Any tips?

Ian

yes I have it on my GPS.. works ok - but 128mb of ram would be better.

You have to remember all these units run winCE in the back ground. When I downloaded the install files there was a full install guide. In short - Wince loads what ever menu you want, installing mio pocket pretty much puts it self as the menu to load instead of the normal one, I found the wince registry setting for the menu & found them numbered like 00 = default menu, 01 = mio pocket would tell it to load the default menu & ignore mio - setting mio to 00 would tell wince to load mio pocket as the default. Setting the unit to start active sync when ever USB was connected is the fail safe as then you can edit the Windows CE (wince) registry & change what menu is loading, this is what I did & then launch mio pocket off the default menu - this was my way of setting it up in a fail-safe kinda way so it didn't brick it - you can pretty much only brick it if you screw up the firmware or can't get in to a menu\boot loader & can't get active sync going. Need to stuff it pretty bad

Hi All,
Today I got the following delivered to my door Wholesale-7inch GPS with Bluetooth, FM, AV IN

So far I am fairly impressed with the unit - will be modding it for Ozi explorer & the newest Igo tonight, but so far - really good unit!

My 7" from DealExtreme works fine with OziExplorer.

I used the first menu from GPSUNLOCK and I did NOT update the firmware as suggested.
Not sure why an update is suggested.

Some of the firmware's could be fairly old affecting how quick GPS signal is found. From memory there was an issue where all china GPS's had to have a fireware update as the GPS single's code strings were changed, but if it aint broke - dont fix it!

Originally Posted by RaZz0R

Hi All,
Today I got the following delivered to my door Wholesale-7inch GPS with Bluetooth, FM, AV IN

So far I am fairly impressed with the unit - will be modding it for Ozi explorer & the newest Igo tonight, but so far - really good unit!

Thats the one the same as the one we got from DX... very impressed with the unit and runs miopocket 3 and ozi and igo nicely... picks up gps pretty quickly too... only thing it struggles with sometimes is TTS

Rach hasnt complained once at it yet..

Steve