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chancerr
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 Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:13 pm Post subject: is this travel-mate sat nav bad???? |
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hi..newbie here and a woman at that!! got one of these off ebay...
cant find out much about it...
says it uses teleatlas with smart2go on the sd card.
on my computor have paired it up with microsoft active..
seems to say the software is mobile navigator??
wondered if i could add to or change the points of interest as it is a little incomplete to say the least...
postcode search leaves a bit to be desired unless i am doing it wrong..couldnt find me house as its down on the satnav with the wrong postcode?..
any help appreciated.... |
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chancerr
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:06 am Post subject: |
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ok..it runs on windows ce from what i can gather, 3d display, sirf sat finder,touch screen and plays mpegs and mp3...
i would be interested to know what can be done with this and what kind of mapping system it runs on and can it be modded?? |
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Darren
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Smart2Go is well know if a little basic. Very little can be done with it such as custom POIs.
You 'may' be able to install other software to replace Smart2Go if you can get at the underlying OS. I have no experience of that device so cannot guide you in that endeavour.
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chancerr
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| Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:40 am Post subject: |
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thanks darren, any info is useful..i would imagine that it could not be too hard to open up ce.net on it by the looks of it..i have seen another post on here with the same unit that someone had opened it up and got tom tom on it, but there were no follow ups or how toos and it was from feb this year..
any one got any ideas how to open ce up on it?..i can give more details of how its set up if it will help any of you techy crackers out there?..
it seems a great unit with a 400 hz processor and is fast but as you say the software on it is not very good... |
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chancerr
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| Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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| ok..managed to get a file manager in to this thanks to some help off a great guy on this site...runs pna software ok like igo and also runs route 66 ok...managed to get cams on igo ok..still playing around with voices and camera voice alerts so will keep posted.. |
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| chancerr wrote: | | ok..managed to get a file manager in to this thanks to some help off a great guy on this site...runs pna software ok like igo and also runs route 66 ok...managed to get cams on igo ok..still playing around with voices and camera voice alerts so will keep posted.. |
i'm presuming you paid for legal versions of this software?
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| Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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absolutely..i have a few friends with sat navs and they are trying there cosha ones out for me to see what works so we can purchase the one that is suitable..is that allowed??  |
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| chancerr wrote: | | absolutely..i have a few friends with sat navs and they are trying there cosha ones out for me to see what works so we can purchase the one that is suitable..is that allowed?? |
If you mean you're installing software that you don't own then actually it isn't.
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chancerr
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surely if i lend my sat nav to the legal owner of some software, he has the right to use it whilst in his care..and take his sd card out when he gives it back to me....as the satnav only runs from the card and is not installed surely thats his perogative...correct me if i am wrong..  |
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| chancerr wrote: | | surely if i lend my sat nav to the legal owner of some software, he has the right to use it whilst in his care..and take his sd card out when he gives it back to me....as the satnav only runs from the card and is not installed surely thats his perogative...correct me if i am wrong.. |
He can use your satnav, he can't use the software from that satnav in his.
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youve lost me now!! 
if i join and download the camera database..can i get it on to mio?..is it the right format |
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