Thread: DriveSmart 51LMTHD (Enterprise Rental Edition) Restricted Mode SOLVED

Re. Safety Comments: Fair enough, I do not program navigation units, text or even answer my phone while driving.

Hundreds of DriveSmart models 50LMTHD and 51LMTHD (Enterprise) were, and still are sold on eBay.
I initially bought one of each, cheap. I installed new batteries in both and had two like new units to play with.

I was on a road trip with my wife when I tried Voice Command "Find a Place" on the 51 without success (this usually works fine). Maybe there was too much traffic noise, I'm not sure. Both my wife and I repeated this particular request numerous times resulting in choices that were so far astray that we both had a few good laughs. I asked her to "just key it in" ... Ah, "Restricted Mode", yes we had the 51 this trip.
We had to exit the freeway (the 405 in Los Angeles), find a safe place to stop, then key in the "Place" and proceed back to the freeway as directed.

THAT is what motivated me to attempt to disable restricted mode on my 51LMTHD.

@timsley
Just thinking if you had the settings.db file from a normal fully functioning device ,would substitution be another way to change the restricted mode on an Ex rental device ?
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That could work to disable safe mode, but I'm not sure about how other settings on the 51 may be affected.
Also the settings file "DS 50 settings.rar" you attached above has safe mode enabled so that file won't work.
Disable Restricted Mode in the device's settings first then download "settings.db" if you want to try it.
I think it is better to just mod the 51's settings.db file to all of your desired settings and keep as a spare.
I am going to try to convert my 51LMTHD to a 51LMT-s or something like that to totally solve the issue. I'll post the results if I can make it work. Might be awhile.