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I've spent about an hour playing and so far managed to get the Windows CE desktop to come up.
1) connect AyToBe via Active Sync
2) take a backup copy of the the file \flash_storage\Autorun.inf file to a folder on your PC and keep it safe. Make another copy to edit somewhere else.
3) Edit the copy of Autorun.inf to now say
navigation = \Windows\explorer.exe
4) Copy this back to the \flash_storage\ folder
5) perform a reboot with the switch on the back
6) Hey presto, the device drops into the Windows CE desktop.
When you press the menu button on the AyToBe (top right) it shows the 3 button app launcher (malata.exe) with Navigation / Music / Setting buttons. If you now tap the navigation button, it goes back into Window but this time it runs Windows Explorer - you dont get the desktop.
This is as far as I got - very simple - nothing too complicated.
I'd like to know how to get the desktop to come up when I press the navigation button - not sure how to do this yet. I assume maybe somehow got to kill/end/close the malata.exe app - not sure how?
Also, there is no taskbar / start at the bottom - so I need to find out how to get this working.
Ideally, I'd be happy with it opening the desktop and having some shortcuts there for my apps.
I guess this AyToBe device will run MPEG video players as well....?
Does anyone know of a way of entering text into the Windows CE .NET 4.2 OS - is there a piece of software that pops up a keyboard to use with the stylus?
Would I be right in thinking that doing this alteration to what's automatically run - ie explorer, rather than the aytobe navigation app, then installing tomtom to a SD card, creating a shortcut on the WinCE desktop, should mean it's full speed ahead to running tomtom on the aytobe? (bearing in mind I'm a complete novice when it comes to tomtom navigator)
Might have a go at that, tonight.
If so, it would appear it's pretty easy to put back as was - copy the original autorun.inf back, and put the original SD card back in?
As to the other comment about the daylight savings thingmy - I've tried that (ie via the WinCE desktop and control panel, and the applet), I'll see what happens in navigation, as to whether the time is correct when it does a route calculation (ie the arrival time).
Be interested to hear any other modification tips / recipes / success-stories.
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:40 am Post subject: aytobe
1st time post
i've had my aytobe unit for a couple of days now fairly impressed so far only other experence with sat nav was tomtom on a moble phone slow frezzing etc put me off buying a proper unit but gave in a brought this iv'e looked through this post and thought i'd mention that the user manual and found this "optional extras which is tmc (traffic message control) and speed camera dection " but is say's go to aytobe.com but no where top download the "extras" can any body help me
thanks for this, most useful for setting daylight saving via the control panel, as the aytobe settings do not allow this.
I modified that, too, when I booted it just to WinCE.
I'd found it irritating that I'd had to set the aytobe to a different timezone (ie GMT+1) just so that the time / arrival time was correct.
Modifying the daylight saving time setting in control panel did the trick. GMT is set in the aytobe settings, and when it must obviously get some time from the sats, the arrival time is calculated correctly (rather than being an hour out, if setting the aytobe to GMT).
i've had my aytobe unit for a couple of days now fairly impressed so far only other experence with sat nav was tomtom on a moble phone slow frezzing etc put me off buying a proper unit but gave in a brought this iv'e looked through this post and thought i'd mention that the user manual and found this "optional extras which is tmc (traffic message control) and speed camera dection " but is say's go to aytobe.com but no where top download the "extras" can any body help me
I phoned the company. I didn't ask about the TMC but the speed cameras aren't available as the software is stilll underdevelopment. _________________ Device: Co-Pilot (Android)
Skoda Columbus
i've had my aytobe unit for a couple of days now fairly impressed so far only other experence with sat nav was tomtom on a moble phone slow frezzing etc put me off buying a proper unit but gave in a brought this iv'e looked through this post and thought i'd mention that the user manual and found this "optional extras which is tmc (traffic message control) and speed camera dection " but is say's go to aytobe.com but no where top download the "extras" can any body help me
I phoned the company. I didn't ask about the TMC but the speed cameras aren't available as the software is stilll underdevelopment.
they didnt give any clue as to when the software will be ready did they
Just as feedback to this, I've managed to get TT navigator 6 installed on my aytobe / SD card.
I did the autorun.inf hack, first, so it effectively boots to a WinCE desktop.
I've left the original SD card intact.
I also ran an activesync backup, first (this is actually unnecessary, really - but more on that later).
The installer seems to insist on placing some components (like the tt executable) actually on the flash memory of the unit, though.
So as a result, I've got maps and stuff on the SD card, but some bits of the TT install tattoed on the aytobe flash.
The one thing I can't seem to get working is the full 7 digit postcode thingmy. I can run the update - either from the PC, onto the aytobe, or using the CAB file and actually running it on the aytobe, updating the zip folder on the SD card. But when I try and navigate to a postcode, only the first 3 digits seem to be used?
Don't know much at all about TT software, so don't know whether that's completely the correct procedure.
All of this seems hampered by not having any "keyboard" usable (that I can find) on the aytobe - WinCE is still something of a new thing to me.
As to people worried about any warranty changes to their aytobe, well you needn't be. Assuming you are using a different SD card (well actually, even that doesn't matter, because the CD allows you to recreate the SD / mapping stuff, on a blank card, with a reader / writer).
AND more significantly, using the hard on-off button on the back of the aytobe, returns it to virgin content.
Any of the WinCE / TT navigator whizzes got any advice on the postcode thing, or running purely from an SD card?
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:57 pm Post subject: ay-to-be
I ordered my ay to be the weekend Maplins had it, after a couple of days it started to come up with a fatal error box. also after compliling a list of all my contacts it would choose to forget them and empty it's menu'.
I took it back to Maplins and they exchanged it for another, problem is this one does the same thing. if anybody else has had this this prob and knows a cure I would like to hear it please.
ejr
I ordered my ay to be the weekend Maplins had it, after a couple of days it started to come up with a fatal error box. also after compliling a list of all my contacts it would choose to forget them and empty it's menu'.
I took it back to Maplins and they exchanged it for another, problem is this one does the same thing. if anybody else has had this this prob and knows a cure I would like to hear it please.
ejr
Are you keeping it charged up?
Mine has been faultless for navigation duties for around a week - used daily - no crashes or freezes, and no lost favourites.
For purely navigation, I think it's very good - consistent routing, fast aquisition of sats, recalculation and deviation is practically seamless.
The annoyance with the daylight savings thing, can be "hacked" with a bit of playing. And it may not be currently capable of installing custom POIs or speed camera locations, but it can be hacked to run TT.
Hi Lester,
thanks for the reply, yes it is always on charge, in the house or on the road. It doesn't fail on the road and I like the unit, when it has lost the favorites it is from turning it on. Between the two of them I have had they have lost them 4 times. My son also bought one at the same time and he has had the same problems.
ejr
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