IGO8 into a Navig8or D35

[mandc]

Got one of these for $78 delivered and it is not a bad unit but it comes with metroview maps that are only updatable for 60 days after registration and the speed alert is only a short trial version.

It has 2Gb of internal flash memory but an SD card slot is also there. I got a high speed 2Gb SD card for about $17.


Using the info from Hollowman


I downloaded IGO8, the latest maps,terrain etc and put them on the SD card.
On re-start it now came up with IGO8 without having to do anything. The main problem is that it would not pick up the gps.
In IGO8 I went to settings...page2....GPS....Port...change this from 1 to 7 and you get "GPS receiver is connected"

Now if you turn the unit off and remove the SD card. it goes back to the original software....put the card in and you have IGO8.

[kukuk]

Got one of these for $78 delivered and it is not a bad unit but it comes with metroview maps that are only updatable for 60 days after registration and the speed alert is only a short trial version.

It has 2Gb of internal flash memory but an SD card slot is also there. I got a high speed 2Gb SD card for about $17.


Using the info from Hollowman


I downloaded IGO8, the latest maps,terrain etc and put them on the SD card.
On re-start it now came up with IGO8 without having to do anything. The main problem is that it would not pick up the gps.
In IGO8 I went to settings...page2....GPS....Port...change this from 1 to 7 and you get "GPS receiver is connected"

Now if you turn the unit off and remove the SD card. it goes back to the original software....put the card in and you have IGO8.

Delete everything in SAVE folder...

Add this on your Sys.txt

[gps]
port=2
baud=4800

change the value of the correct port and baud rate of your unit

[martymoose]

i have 2 of these and they will not see anything
did you rename igo to something else?

[martymoose]

Got it going i put the stuff in a folder called MobileNavigator
also got primo working had to download a new data file

[TonyJZX]

i got it to work on three of them (M, D, L whatever)

they work ok but they are glitchy... the don't power down and restart and the need a hard reset

once running they are solid and you can autodetect the antenna

[martymoose]

once running they are solid and you can autodetect the antenna

mine didn't had to put gps port as 7 in sys.txt

also unless it was all in the mobilenavigator folder it did even start from the sd card
mine is a d35

[Jards88]

Without running a separate shell program any application you want to use must be in a folder named MobileNavigator and the executable renamed MobileNavigator.exe. This is the way that the standard Navig8r shell program expects it to be. It is quite easy to use a secondary shell by following the above rules but instead of starting an application just start up a secondary shell program. For further details see this thread on the Navig8r user forum.

Cheers, Ian

[mandc]

mine didn't had to put gps port as 7 in sys.txt

also unless it was all in the mobilenavigator folder it did even start from the sd card
mine is a d35

Weird, as mine did not need sys text changes or renaming of exe or even the need for a mobilenavigator folder...I have a iGO8 folder on the card with all the files in it...works fine but does not power off very well...a bit glitchy!