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    Default What can cause dropping satellites after 20-30 min. drive?

    Hi guys,
    I have an Mio digiwalker P360 with I go Primo on it and about 6 months ago it started dropping satellite connections after 20-30 minutes of driving. While it was connected I could see at least 5 green lines, onces it dropped the signal, I saw at least 10 lines, 5 green ones and 5 red ones and it seemed to me that the lengths of the greens matched the lengths of the red ones, it looked strange to me. I never got the signal back, the main screen kept showing the status message as "autodetecting gps signal" or something similar. The only way I could get it working again by turning the GPS (PDA) off and then on again.

    Any idea what can cause this problem?

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    Before you launch Primo, make a calibration screen.
    Or you Dimka skin.
    Or use this ux-utility and add in sys.txt :
    [utility]
    calibratefix=1
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    Are you sure screen calibration will fix GPS issue? Last I checked calibratedfix is for screen calibration. And your zippyshare went bye-bye after only 5 mins.
    Do not PM me with questions. That's what a forum is for.

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    Rebuild link.
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    Costas, I forgot to mention that my Primo is a "Truck" version and that my Mio P360 has Windows CE 5.2 on it:

    OS 5.2.1438 2006
    Processor: ARM920T S3C2443
    Memory: 53.43 MB

    Does that makes any difference?

    I was just looking at the file "esc.nfrun" with SLEEP "250", should I leave it on 250 or maybe I should increase it to 500?

    But, you told me 3 different options:

    1. make a calibration screen
    2. use Dimka screen
    3. use this ux-utility

    about the 1st option: How do I make a calibration screen?

    about the 2nd one: where can I download a Dimka screen for my P360?

    about the 3rd one: I unzipped both rar or zip files the result is this:

    UI_IGO9
    UTILITY
    UX
    sys.txt

    should I copy the folder UX, inside with these three folders to the Primo folder or maybe to a different folder?

    and thanks for your help!
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    1. Settings - Calibrate Screen
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    3. Don't unzip, just copy into ux folder.
    Mio P 360 have WM OS.

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    I don't have my GPS handy (it's in the car now) but I don't recall in my Igo Primo Truck any button called "Settings", nor the calibrate the screen option. The version of my Primo is:

    9.6.5.245577
    Jul 6 2012

    I cannot even find the way to see how many satellites are green or red when the GPS IS connected and working fine (I do remember, that I had no problem to that in Igo 8 My Way.)
    I can only see the satellite info screen when I can see the revolving 3 satellites icon in the left upper corner on the main screen.

    I downloaded the stuff, should I unzip anything or just put it in the Primo folder?

    Btw., my Primo folder is called IGO8 because back then I couldn't make Primo work when its folder was called Primo. Is there a way to make it work in a "Primo" folder by editing any config file?

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    I installed the Dimka screen and now I cannot start Primo, get error message:

    Failed to open file:
    ui_igo9\common\ui\common_params.css
    exiting application

    Btw. I managed to rename the folder and exe of the application to Primo and it started and worked fine. Then I copied the Dimka files to the ux folder (I had to create the folder "ux") and copied the folder "utility" to the root of Primo and I also added the utility entry in the SYS.txt.

    Next time I start Primo, get a message whether I want to start Primo with default settings and delete all custom config info, so far I picked No.
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    Skin -> iGO\content\skin\
    ux-utility -> iGO\ux\

    First try to copy calibratefix_20.zip into iGO\ux\ folder, Without unzip it.
    Add in sys.txt :
    [utility]
    calibratefix=1

    If everythings is OK, at start you'll see for a short time calibrate screen.
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    Well, I ended up messing with my Primo, that now it won't start at all. It stops in the middle of the bottom blue stripe loading. I already removed everything that I added to it, no difference.

 

 

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