I believe this was covered earlier in this thread. Basically, the system is still quite busy while the nag is displayed and it won't present the OK button until it's ready. Removing the text of the nag screen doesn not reduce the processing that needs to happen during startup.

 

Hey bysin, nice bit of hacking! I've always been amazed by the resourcefulness of gamers.

The Back.bmp hack is way cool, but I wish the new screen would stay up through the entire start-up sequence, and the OK button should either be omitted or "press" itself. Maybe the instructions which erase the screen before writing the disclaimer text could be NOP'd so the Back.bmp would stay up longer. The OK button could be harder to fix but it seems logical that when it is pressed a branch is taken in the program code which could be copied to an earlier point in the code just before the OK button is drawn on the screen.

I wonder when the actual initialization is completed. If the NAVI is finished initializing by the time the disclaimer screen comes up, then it is probably just sitting in a series of timer loops... the disclaimer text is drawn, wait, the OK button is drawn, wait, if button not pressed in time - disable map display. While the program code might use a hardware timer and interrupt, the simpler approach of spinning in a loop would account for the lack of responsiveness during this period (e.g., can't switch to the Audio screen). Just some thoughts....

Replacing existing WinCE code with generic PDA-like code seems a little overly ambitious at this point if we can't defeat the Nag screen! (insert something about baby steps and low hanging fruit)

 

well all i can say is that bysin is the man

only thing is that i hope he figures out the nag screen issue SOON hopefully cause text or no text that shit is anoying

keep up good work

 

wow I definetly missed a lot in a week. I may have to give this a shot

 

I had posted the same in TL forum, figured save Bysin the time to look it up here.


I had a PCMCIA card extension with a 1GB micro drive,


I copied all the required BIN files to this drive, and chose "LOAD FROM CARD" instead of CD/DVD, and after a 5-10 secs. it said ATA Card read error. So unless it is looking for a specific folder .. i dont know what could be wrong .. May be Bysin can look into this. Will save him all this burning media...

I know the drive works for the car, I tested it by, holding the MENU button for 10 extra seconds from the main diagnostic menu, it brought me to developer menu, and I went to Logs, and clicked Save logs to PCMCICA. and it successfully created .txt files of logs dumps from the Navi System.

If anyone wants me to try anything else.. I am Open, unless you ask me to bomb my car

 

Yah a couple of us tried with CF cards and also were unsuccessful.

 

hey guys for some reason it is taking about 5 secs to load the image that i saved from Bysin's page

i read somewhere in these 30 pages that it was happening to people making their own pictures but i thought Bysin fixed all the ones on his page so that they wouldnt take 5 secs to load???

any suggestions?

 

size of custom file == size of original Backup.bmp ?

 

well my back12.bmp is 111kb i jacked it str8 from Bysin's wep page

 

the tatoo chick ? I have no idea why you have delay then.
Does the splash come on immediately when you turn key to position II ? (dont start car)

First bmp is even smaller try that one.

 

matelot, thanks for your help.
Do you know any disssambler and hex editor to deep on it?

 

hey matelot yes its the tatto chick man is she hot

and no it does not load right away on position II

 

1) try a smaller file..
2) you used the GUI version ? try the command line version

heck maybe because your system was assembled in Miami lol

 

i checked the other bmps that Bysin has on his page and they all comne out to be 111kb

when i try to load these they give me a five sec lag

anyone else use the ones off of Bysin's page ????? did u have any issues??

trying to use the tatto chick one any help would be apreciated

 

I was messing around with this one (no lag and in BMP format):

 

i'm using that one with the tattoo chick, i had the same problem with the lag... i just shrunk the pixels down by 2 on both sides and now i have no lag.

 

You could also knock the colors down to 172 to lower the file size by a few bits.

 

Just make her right melon smaller. Your image will load faster and your girlfriend will feel less intimidated!

 

I'm sorry if this has been said before, but what if you had the factory mp3 cd player in your car, would it be possible to make a program control that so you can actually see the id3 tags and have a better interface? playlists etc?

 

As long as the filesize is below the limit, it will load at the same speed. I'd rather limit a color than cut off part of the image, given the choice

 

Two quick questions, where can I find the Acura logo with a clear background so I can load it on my back.bmp? And, how do I upload my back.bmp to the board? I clicked the "insert image" button but it takes me to html land, where I'm lost...

 

Ask, and ye shall receive:

Acura Logo

As for the image, click the image button, type in the address (the photo must be uploaded to a server or photo service, Acurazine does not store them for you) and it will show up.

 

Thanks for the logo! Hmm, now I gotta find me a place to store ma pix... I think Yahoo offers a free service...

 

 

what page of this thread is that pic on? THERE ARE SO MANY haha

 

Just go to bysins program's webpage, most of the images are posted there

 

any progress? Looks like the thread went stagnant.

 

Bysins is only *one* page site and you dont even have a good look :shakehead
evidence of how screwed up this countrys education system is <sigh>

 

I dont need multiple pages when one page would suffice.

 

Bysin

is there any way that you might be able to add a smaller size for the back.bmp edit in the gui

for some reason that 480*234 is taking 5 secs to load lol

just a thought maybee you can make a checkbox to choose what size you want

other than that good work

 

of course. and some of the kiddies dont even read that.
that's what happens when one gets used to p0rn :shakehead

 

how can i compress a bmp????
i need to keep my file the same as the orignal

 

PM replied.

Basically you need to:
1) Reduce DIMENSION
2) Reduce color depth (to 173 @ 8 bit)

 

Can anyone direct me to the most current instructions on how to change the NAVI info. I saw the first post of this thread but am wondering if there is a up to date one anywhere on here? Any help to the latest instructions would be greatly appreciated!

 

Just go to the original posted website as there is a readme file with the download.

 

as in the first post???

 

never mind first post 124th post....whatever post
just R.E.A.D the readme.txt
That's how programmers communicate to non-programmers about how-tos

 

I am impressed. I wish I am as good as this! But I am a software only guy and got no knowledge of these hardware stuff......GOOD JOB! AWESOME.

 

Bysin: any updates ?? so what part are you working on these days. We all can agree that whatever you have accomplished is Miraculous.

but human mind always ponders .. whats next ?

 

lol, yea any updates? I wish this thread was as active as before..