magellan gps update drama
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I managed to totally delete my dad's GPS while trying to upgrade it and have felt fairly dorky about this useless GPS sitting next to me for the past few weeks, but someone on the glorious innerweb had detailed instructions on how to unfux0r it. Ignoring the fact that it can't seem to find more than 3 satellites in my office and thus doesn't have a clue where it is, it seems to be a heck of a lot better when only the splash screen and a black bar would show.
I bought my dad and i matching GPS units when they were on sale. I tested mine out to see if it was worthwhile to actually give him. At some point, i upgraded mine. I think i had some issues with it but managed to sort it all out.
Foolishly, i gave him his sealed in the box and didnt upgrade it before giving it to him. I later told him how to upgrade it and the " go to the magellan site and download the upgrade file and run the program" was too much for him to handle, so he kept bugging me to do it.
At Thanksgiving at my cousin's house, he brought the GPS and his laptop for me to do it. But my cousins doesnt have WiFi, so i just used his computer to download the upgrade.
Notably, in the upgrade instructions, it says it only works on Windows XP. My cousin's computer is Vista.
I have no idea what actually happened, but it seems like somehow the difference between the two is the difference between it working and it completely erasing the contents of the GPS.
I'm far too tired to verify this, but it seems like a funny bug and one that deserves a better note than "this only works on XP"
Since between now and when these were purchased, my GPS was stolen (and i still found shattered glass last month from that), i couldn't just copy the contents over.
It seemed like the upgrade should have all the files to make the GPS work, but all you got was a self-extracting archive (inside a zip file) that, if you found the temp directory, just contained a bunch of folders "Copy_Group_1", "Copy_Group_2", etc.
I tried manually going through the .bat file, but my brain was getting scrambled.
Fortunately, someone was more persistent than me. They listed which files needed to be copied from where to where. The process is slightly mindboggling (1,11,13,17 go into /sys; 2,3,5,5 go into /usr; 4,6,12 go into /app; etc). But it seems to be working.
I managed to totally delete my dad's GPS while trying to upgrade it and have felt fairly dorky about this useless GPS sitting next to me for the past few weeks, but someone on the glorious innerweb had detailed instructions on how to unfux0r it. Ignoring the fact that it can't seem to find more than 3 satellites in my office and thus doesn't have a clue where it is, it seems to be a heck of a lot better when only the splash screen and a black bar would show.
I bought my dad and i matching GPS units when they were on sale. I tested mine out to see if it was worthwhile to actually give him. At some point, i upgraded mine. I think i had some issues with it but managed to sort it all out.
Foolishly, i gave him his sealed in the box and didnt upgrade it before giving it to him. I later told him how to upgrade it and the " go to the magellan site and download the upgrade file and run the program" was too much for him to handle, so he kept bugging me to do it.
At Thanksgiving at my cousin's house, he brought the GPS and his laptop for me to do it. But my cousins doesnt have WiFi, so i just used his computer to download the upgrade.
Notably, in the upgrade instructions, it says it only works on Windows XP. My cousin's computer is Vista.
I have no idea what actually happened, but it seems like somehow the difference between the two is the difference between it working and it completely erasing the contents of the GPS.
I'm far too tired to verify this, but it seems like a funny bug and one that deserves a better note than "this only works on XP"
Since between now and when these were purchased, my GPS was stolen (and i still found shattered glass last month from that), i couldn't just copy the contents over.
It seemed like the upgrade should have all the files to make the GPS work, but all you got was a self-extracting archive (inside a zip file) that, if you found the temp directory, just contained a bunch of folders "Copy_Group_1", "Copy_Group_2", etc.
I tried manually going through the .bat file, but my brain was getting scrambled.
Fortunately, someone was more persistent than me. They listed which files needed to be copied from where to where. The process is slightly mindboggling (1,11,13,17 go into /sys; 2,3,5,5 go into /usr; 4,6,12 go into /app; etc). But it seems to be working.