The subscription for Speedcams on my MIO Navman M450 ran out. It’s a logical model to sell the hardware at a fair profit, and then add revenue to the business by subscriptions on up-to-date maps, speedcams and points of interest. Trouble is that they sell the updates at rates of a new piece of hardware. Given the rate of development on hardware, it doesn’t make sense to pay for the upgrade when you can get a better unit for the same amount. So, the hacker in me wanted to see what options there were for seeing if I could bypass the restriction.<\/p>\n
It seems the easiest way forward is to install another piece of software.<\/p>\n
1) Copy the content.<\/p>\n
Just plug it to the USB and access the content using a file manager, where you take all of the content and copy it to a safe location.<\/p>\n
You now have two basic option, remove the old content and replace it with something else<\/strong> (think of this as formatting the disk of a computer, and installing Linux on it) or use the existing installation and install a parallel solution (think of this as dual boot, even if it formally is two applications on the same system booted from the same OS).<\/p>\n Option 1:<\/p>\n Delete the old content and install the new. This <\/a>video on YouTube shows how it’s done (but not where to get the software).<\/p>\n Option 2;<\/p>\n Have a unit that can run more than one application.<\/p>\n 1) “Root” the unit<\/p>\n The MIO MOOV Unlock found here<\/a> does just that – unlocks the Windows CE. After this you have the Windows CE (ouch \ud83d\ude1b ) desktop and an icon that starts the existing MIO program (SmartST).<\/p>\n 2) Install another software<\/p>\n It seems a popular choice is iGo which comes in several flavours; Primo <\/a>and iGo8<\/a>.<\/p>\n Installation guide here<\/a>.<\/p>\n I actually managed to install both, in Swedish , with Swedish voices but it was A LOT of work to do it, and I had to pick a chose from several different packages to get it right. Key one here<\/a><\/p>\n General<\/span><\/p>\n I created two directories – one which was called Primo<\/strong> and one called iGO8<\/strong>. The base distribution I used had a smart way to share the data for the two systems so I do not need duplicate maps, poi:s and so on.<\/p>\n The iGo filer is the “base” where the maps are. I needed to locate language and speech files for it and then it needed the small fix in the sys.txt<\/strong>. I needed to define the relevant path under the folders section of it.<\/p>\n [folders]<\/em> The Primo one turned a bit more complex as I had to reference the other installation.<\/p>\n [folders]<\/em> I guess I would like to change the voice and speedcam but I have a stable solution now, so I will leave it be for now.<\/p>\n Full giude to the sys.txt is found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Shortcuts<\/span><\/p>\n It’s naturally quite inconvenient to find the files in the file manager and open it like that (especially while driving \ud83d\ude09 so shortcuts are convenient.<\/p>\n I have two shortcuts – one for each file.<\/p>\n One called “Primo.lnk<\/strong>” which is a file residing in \\Program files\\Unlock\\Desktop<\/strong>. It contains one line of text; 31#”\\My Flash Disk\\Primo\\iGO9.exe”<\/strong> (The first number is length, has as separator and then the actual path enclosed by quote marks). As you see the exe in the pack I use is called igo9.exe<\/strong>.<\/p>\n One called “iG0.lnk<\/strong>” which is a file residing in \\Program files\\Unlock\\Desktop<\/strong>. It contains one line of text; 30#”\\My Flash Disk\\iGO8\\iGO8.exe”<\/strong> (The first number is length, has as separator and then the actual path enclosed by quote marks).<\/p>\n Points of Interest<\/span><\/p>\n
\napp=”\\My Flash Disk\\iGo8″<\/em><\/p>\n
\nsdcardpath=”\\My Flash Disk”<\/em>
\nbuilding=”..\\..\\iGO8\\content\\building”<\/em>
\ndem=”..\\..\\iGO8\\content\\dem”<\/em>
\nmaps=”..\\..\\iGO8\\content\\map”<\/em>
\npoi=”..\\..\\iGO8\\content\\poi”<\/em>
\nklmpoi=”..\\..\\iGO8\\content\\userdata\\poi”<\/em><\/p>\n