Navcore 8 on a Go 500 ?

young-goat · Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 8:53 am Post subject: Navcore 8 on a Go 500 ?

Can Navcore 8 be installed on a Go 500 ?

mikealder · Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2009 9:01 am Post subject:

You could install it but whether it will reliably work or not is a different matter, Navcore 8 has never been released for the Gox00 range so whilst it might work it might not be stable, it could at worst brick the device - Mike

young-goat · Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:46 am Post subject:

I'm not entirely familiar with the term 'Brick it' but I guess you mean it will damage it some way.
I'm wondering which part of it might be damaged, the hardware, the firmware, or the SD card ?
If it's only the latter two, both can be recreated or replaced.

Mind you, I have yet to obtain a copy of navcore 8, it seems only to be available from dubious sites and I hesitate to use those.

mikealder · Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:26 am Post subject:

Turning the device in to a "brick" makes it useful as a door stop or costly paper weight but it won't be much use as a Navigation device. If putting the Navcore 8 on your device increases the Bootloader version this is not reversible and could prevent future downloads of software.

There are plenty of links to various version 8 Navcore releases within the forum, these links go straight to the server at TomTom, the following are intended for the Go-x30, there are different version 8 downloads for the x20, x40 or some of the newer XL devices

The instructions about how to install this can be found in This Thread

For Go x30 devices click
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Mike

alan_sh · Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 9:07 am Post subject:

Mike,

Do you know that the link you provide to the 8350 firmware points to the 8320 firmware? This is the second time I noticed it - so I assume it's a cut and paste error somewhere.

cheers

Alan

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