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

I picked up one og the faster units, works great, got OzExplorer CE working fine.
I can not seem to get the camera to go but, is there a trick that anybody knows

The more I use mine, the more I like it.

My latest project is to fine tune the Igo8 skin to suit my tired old eyes.

I downloaded a new skin from here:

www.i-go8.com customize your iGO8 !:Ultra Dimka skin radar speedcam!

I really like what it offered, but found some of the text a bit small. However i found a way to edit the files to enlarge the text used for street names and for the data displayed on the left hand side. You can choose between several things like GPS time, time to destination, time of arrival, distance to go and a dozen other things.

I still have a couple of things to adjust, but this is what the navigation screen looks like now. The text on the left is about 50% bigger than it was.

I found a skin that made the navigation screen look like Tom Tom and liked the look of that, but the voice files were Italian.

Hey guys

can someone please PM me the weblink to the instructions to modify the unit? I have PM'd Ranga a couple of times now and he is obviously busy!

Cheers

Originally Posted by wobbs_disco2

Hey guys

can someone please PM me the weblink to the instructions to modify the unit? I have PM'd Ranga a couple of times now and he is obviously busy!

Cheers

PM sent

Originally Posted by Basil135

This is wetting my juices...

Does anyone have a link to the units they are buying? I am looking for a unit that will run Igo, Ozi & a reversing camera.

Thanks...

Originally Posted by 5teve

i would recommend this... its Huge! it actually doesnt interfere with the view at all.. and seems to work nicely in the deefer...

DealExtreme: $170.41 7.0" Touchscreen 400MHz CPU Windows CE 5.0 GPS Navigator w/ Bluetooth Handsfree + 2GB Maps SD

I also got mine in under 10 days from order... which must be a record for DX

Steve

I bought the same unit as Steve from DealExtreme. They are also showing up on Ebay.au $181 + free postage >>>> 7" GPS <<<< It appears to be the same unit. They say they will preload maps of your country, but I contacted the seller to see if he sells the SD cards sepperately and he said yes, but the Aus maps were 2006.

Cheers, Murray

I now have Garmin, TomTom, Igo8, Route66 and OziExplorer all working on "Ranga's GPS". I'll try to get Destinator up next. Anyone done this? What else can I put on?
I wish I could work out how to put extra icons on the new navigation menu page though.
Oh yeh, another problem - I can't find the off button for the Route66 program either. I don't think it's got one.

Originally Posted by biggin

I now have Garmin, TomTom, Igo8, Route66 and OziExplorer all working on "Ranga's GPS". I'll try to get Destinator up next. Anyone done this? What else can I put on?
I wish I could work out how to put extra icons on the new navigation menu page though.
Oh yeh, another problem - I can't find the off button for the Route66 program either. I don't think it's got one.

If you look on the SD card in GPS menu and then in Config.
Open the GPS.ini file in a text editor.

Each icon has two parts like this:

#IGo8
ICONXPBUTTON
x = 329
y = 105
NewIni= \SDMMC\IGO8\IGO8.EXE
SizeNormal = 63
SizePushed = 52
ScaleAlpha = 100
IconNormal = ..\Icons\igo.ico
ScaleAlpha = 80
IconPushed = ..\Icons\igo.ico

TEXT
x = 335
y = 155
Text = iGo8
Size = 16
FrameColor = 000000
Weight = 700
Color = FFFFFF
CreateFont

A bit of copy and paste and change a few of the details and you should be able to add an extra icon.

You may need to fiddle a bit with all the x and y co-ordinates if you need to make room for too many icons.

Originally Posted by biggin

"Ranga's GPS"

LOL - I wonder if this is my 15 minutes?! :P

Originally Posted by vnx205

If you look on the SD card in GPS menu and then in Config...

Thanks vnx205 with your help with these GPS devices - I simply don't have the time to answer all the questions, so many hands make light work

When fiddling with the GPS Menu, you can use GPSMenu\SystemInformation32.exe to run it on a windows PC so check on the GUI (graphical user interface) to see how it looks. Applications won't run, but at least you can check the appearance.