Reply With QuoteHas anyone purchased the aluminium body GPS with the 4.3" screen?
Regards
Maggsie
04V8Disco
LordRover
SupporterGot my GlobalGPS back from Ranga last week and thought I would put up my thoughts. I got it because I have a 12 month old cheap aldi street GPS (has actually all the tracks I have been on to date) but having a couple of cars I have found myself in one without a GPS when needing to look up addresses. So the aldi one will stay in the Freelander and I will use the Global will go in the 101. I put in a 16gb card and the system works with it but OziCE does not like it - see below.
The Aldi has a good system using Route 66 and Navteq 2008 Q3 maps. Only occasionally takes you the wrong way but mainly because of the settings I have put in it. Updating the maps seems difficult unless you pay and there no extra storage for maps etc as everything is in resident flash memory. When you switch the unit off you loose some settings - if it goes to sleep the battery runs down in a day or so. The maps are reasonably accurate and it is good with speed and redlight cameras.
The Global has Tom tom, Igo8 and Ozi and stores information on the SD card. It seems to work really well but looses some settings like time when powered off - but putting the unit to sleep seems to work well and unlike the Aldi doesn't seem to use power when asleep.
Tom Tom works really well - advises of cameras etc, no unexplained detours, and the maps seem much more up to date than the others. When the Global is powered off most Tom Tom settings seem to go and have to be put back in which takes about 10 mins with POI (speed camera alerts) to set back up. The information displayed is great but the graphics are ordinary. Dunno how to update maps as yet.
Igo8 uses Navteq 2008 maps and like the aldi version do not seem to be as up to date as the Tom Tom - we have road works nearby that are on the tom tom but not the aldi or igo. Otherwise the Igo works well but did take me on a 2 km detour yesterday and brought me back to where I started. Settings seem to be kept when powering off, display and information is Ok BUT I have 4 speed cameras and 3 redlight cameras within 3 km of where I live and it only advised of one of the redlight cameras - so something is not right there. The Navteq maps have the same version of the file that contains the camera information and the Aldi displays it really well where the IGo doesn't - so must be a Igo software issue. Maps are easily downloaded.
OziCE - this was the first time I have used the CE version and works really well. I loaded some of my own maps and all worked. In the computer section of the forum I raised the issue I was having with a 16gb SD card. Well OziCE does not seem to like the big card. It loads OK but when you exit Ozi and then put the Global GPS to sleep and then wake it up and then go into Ozi, Ozi cannot find the OziCE.exe file. All works OK when you can enter and exit Ozi with the Global GPS on but as soon as it goes to sleep Ozi seems to be killed off. Works all OK with the 2gb card - I will try a 4gb card later in the week. The other problem is that each time Ozi is switched on it has to index the maps which can take up to 30 mins when I have 6gb of maps on the card which delays its use. These are just management issues and maybe I just need to load the maps I need for a trip and not have the lot loaded.
Overall I am really impressed with the GPS - it really exceeds my expectations - thanks once again to Ranga for his generous offer.
Oh - I accidently hid the Windows Task bar on the bottom - how do you get it back and is there a simple way to align all the times and dates in all the various applications in the GPS?
Cheers
Garry
REMLR 243
2007 Range Rover Sport TDV6
1977 FC 101
1976 Jaguar XJ12C
1973 Haflinger AP700
1971 Jaguar V12 E-Type Series 3 Roadster
1957 Series 1 88"
1957 Series 1 88" Station Wagon
Master
Has anyone purchased the aluminium body GPS with the 4.3" screen?
Regards
Maggsie
04V8Disco
Anyone know how to get the WinCE menus (on top of the screen) and the date display out of Chinese?
I can't follow Ranga's instructions as I can't read Chinese!
Kinda stuck on these points:
16. Tap the YFAP30 button then choose Edit | Copy in the menu up the top.
17. Tap the blue left arrow up the top.
18. Double tap the ResidentFlash icon.
I worked out which Chinese writing is edit and copy, but I have no 'residentflash' icon. All I have is:
Australia_83_0_2290
GPSLOG
GPSMenu
Igo8
Navigator
OziCE
YFAP30
Shell
ttnavigator
Am I missing a crucial part? Or is it hiding in one of these folders?
Still need to ditch the Chinese bits tho, any assistance appreciated!
Master
Make sure unit is fully charged before starting. Stop, re-read Rangas notes one step at a time.Originally Posted by up2nogood
1. I assume you have created a text file called YFGo2CE.bld in notepad or similar editor and put this on your SD card in the root and done a hard reset by pushing the recessed button near the card slot and thus have made it into WinCE. Having achieved this navigate to SD card and remove/rename YFGo2CE otherwise you will always boot to WinCE.
Also assume that ActiveSync is working between PC and GPS.
2. From Windows explorer in CE find \ResidentFlash folder and select it.
3. Start onscreen keyboard from bottom right of screen
4. Place a 2 after the ResidentFlash so it looks like ResidentFlash2
ResidentFlash2 is a hidden folder. Follow the rest of your instructions.
Haven't had problems with languages so not sure what causes this. Other than changes from within WinCe. When the new YFApp30 is installed it should fix the language. Not much help though when its in Chinese to start with.
Hope this gets you on the right track.
JLo
Moderator
OK, so after receiving and modding a few new units last night, it appears some are indeed shipping with Chinese firmware. Sneaky buggers!
Normally, an end-user would never see this because they never get to see the Windows CE running in the background. Us modders do see this, so we need it to be in English.
Don't despair, there is an easy fix. By downloading this firmware FromDX3.0.9.11.rar and following the instructions below, this will change the firmware to an English version (a little older version, but works fine).
Put the two files extracted from the RAR file you download in the root of your SD card. Then, power off (not sleep) your GPS and turn it back on. A blue upgrade screen should appear. The unit will then start up and prompt you to press OK - do this. After upgrading, please remove the two upgrade files from the SD card. (This firmware update fixes some problems with the FM Transmitter.)
Hopefully this should allow you to continue the mod process in English
Sounds good. One thing tho, where's the 'root' of the SD card?
I put those files into YF30AP folder. I have NFI if this is the root. That said it did nothing, so no win.
Any other ideas?
For all you other guys, just get the damned thing from Ranga directly, this is beyond the computer luddite's ability to work out.
Wizard
The root means "next to" the YF30AP folder.
If your card appears as a drive, open the drive, then copy them to the open drive.
Does that help?
Fraser
Wizard
anyone notice these run very hot,have used mine a lot lately. almost to hot to touch.bottom left as you look at the screen.
Ranga, can you please contact me as I would like to buy a GPS from you. Please PM me or contact me on: george.zouev@rmit.edu.au
LordRover
SupporterWhy not send Ranga a PM through the AULRO messaging system? See the "Private Messages" area near the top right of the screen under your welcome message.
Garry
REMLR 243
2007 Range Rover Sport TDV6
1977 FC 101
1976 Jaguar XJ12C
1973 Haflinger AP700
1971 Jaguar V12 E-Type Series 3 Roadster
1957 Series 1 88"
1957 Series 1 88" Station Wagon
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