Uncle Phil
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Just a note - I'm having cradle issues with the one I brought down here. Finds satellites fine out of the cradle, but not very well in the cradle. Brought my old Peaklife as backup and it works just fine.
I notice different USB cables have thicker rubber/plastics housings. I left the original cable at home, and was trying to use another, and the USB cable was getting intermittant connection. I took a knife and trimmed off a little rubber/plastic of the cable housing, that cable works fine now.On another note, I'm having a hard time connecting to the usb port on the gps unit .
I think there is some rubber or plastic preventing the connector from fully seating .
I got the unit working but it just turns off now . I think it may be because the battery is near dead and won't charge .
Have you guys had this problem ?
I'm sure there's a reason this won't work, but I'll ask anyways - what about renaming the file with a .doc extension and then emailing it? I know you get a message when renaming it that changing the extension may make the file unstable but if you are just going to rename it on the other end it shouldn't matter.John - Yes, GPSBabel usually grabs the first and last waypoint for 'names'. I wrote an app that 'fixes' that when it invokes GPSBABEL and downloads to the GPS. I'd be glad to share it if I had way to but .exe installed generally will not email. BTW, my old Peaklife is working like a champ!
In my iGO 2.4 version there's an MP3 player in the application itself, so you don't have to exit to the Windows CE operating system. I have no idea if it's any good and the one time I tried it the OS crashed because it was low on memory. Could have been the music player, or it could have been me maxing out the memory numbers in the sys.txt file. I don't have the Rage with me so I can't give exact instructions on how to access the player, but it's an accessory and you get to it from the opening screen of the iGO app.I did finally find out how to get back and forth from navigation to the media player. A quick touch of the power button will take you from the navigation software, back to the "desktop", where you can start the media player. Now I have to figure out how to press the power button while wearing gloves.
Giz - That will work. I'll bring my netbook along.Thanks for educating me. Perhaps I'll try and pick up the file from you on a USB key at an upcoming RTE
Hi Uncle Phil,Giz - Most email systems are smart enough to 'see through' changing extensions. Since the install package is .cab file, the .exes are buried in it.
This is from a draft of a review of the Rage that I'm writing and should be posted in the next week or two:The USB cable that comes with the RAGE has a much smaller amount of plastic so it will properly seat into the unit. So you could use it or trim an existing cable. You should not have to trim the rubber covering on the unit itself.