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GDGPS3.5''

I have here a GolD GPS, model GDGPS3.5''.
I'm sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong are or the wrong forum even, but I don't know where else to look.
I'm trying to install a new Cardinale version, that is, the 3.0 Black. The device has, up until now, used the original SD card with an older IGo version. As mentioned, I'd like to update the maps and the software used to Cardinale, and since the original card is too small to do anything useful with it, I've bought a new one.
In order to install the new cardinale, I need to simply copy it to the card, load it with the device along with the maps and languages I need, and run it from the device, yes?
My problem is as follows - once I turn the device on, it gets stuck on the company splash screen. No errors, no Windows, no messages, just a splash screen and nothing loads. In order to run it, I would need it to load its system so I can navigate to the exe file, but I get nothing but a splash screen?
Could it be that the device is locked in such a way not to recognize anything beyond its original software? If so, how would I go about unlocking it? The device has Win CE. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
P.S. doing some more checking, I found that it uses Nav N Go Igo from 2006, if this info is of any use.

I have now downloaded a new version of Nav N Go Igo and attempted to copy it to the new card. The device still refused to even begin loading.
I then backed up all the contents of the old SD, copied them exactly as they were to the new SD, and then tried loading, hoping to be able to still load the old software, but just add new maps to the now bigger SD.
It finally loaded it, but upon getting past the splash screen it sad "HardwareIDerror" and prompted me to shut down the device, not letting me do anything else.
It seems the device in locked to one and only one card, the original 256MB card that came with it, and refuses to accept others even if they have the identical content. Is there any way to unlock it and make it accept other cards without throwing the Hardware ID error?
P.S. another thing that might be of importance : whether the device works or not, I'm not presented with the WinCE interface. I have no start menu, no icons to click. All I get when the device is turned on properly, is the simple Nav N Go application, ready to go, without letting me choose anything else. I can't shut down the app alone and get back to WinCE, because I never was given access to WinCE.

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devolucija said:
I have now downloaded a new version of Nav N Go Igo and attempted to copy it to the new card. The device still refused to even begin loading.
I then backed up all the contents of the old SD, copied them exactly as they were to the new SD, and then tried loading, hoping to be able to still load the old software, but just add new maps to the now bigger SD.
It finally loaded it, but upon getting past the splash screen it sad "HardwareIDerror" and prompted me to shut down the device, not letting me do anything else.
It seems the device in locked to one and only one card, the original 256MB card that came with it, and refuses to accept others even if they have the identical content. Is there any way to unlock it and make it accept other cards without throwing the Hardware ID error?
P.S. another thing that might be of importance : whether the device works or not, I'm not presented with the WinCE interface. I have no start menu, no icons to click. All I get when the device is turned on properly, is the simple Nav N Go application, ready to go, without letting me choose anything else. I can't shut down the app alone and get back to WinCE, because I never was given access to WinCE.
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Hi! About that gps you got problems with, i have one now same model and with the same problem. have you got any solution fot it? did you managed to get rid of that splash screen and enter in the WinCE? i am very curious .
I was doing a trick. when shutting down the igo program it gave me a screen and i was holding the screen tapped and creating a new folder. open the new folder and from there through the explore bar get into WinCE filesystem. After that remove the SDcard with iGO6 and put in the iGO8 map updated and open it manually from the system.
If you know any solution to get rid of this entire ritual please i would be gratefull if you would let me know
Respect!

Unable to Boot error, but device works!

Greetings people!
Yesterday I got this message while booting up my TP (latest official ROM):
"The device is unable to boot because either you have turned off the device incorrectly or tried to install an application from untrusted source. Press END to reset your device or press any other button to cancel. This operation will delete all your personal data and restore the device to its factory default settings"
However apart from that message, phone works flawlessly without any noticable change in speed or stability! The only apparent problem is that it takes a while longer (about 10 seconds) to boot up because of that message. I tried a couple of backups, problem was solved at first, but returned later...
I do take daily backups, but since I hardly monitor my phone when I reset it, this problem could have been caused by an app or reg entry a while ago... and searching for the appropriate backup will be a pain in the ass.
Since there's no change in speed or stability, do you think it would be wise to keep using the phone as is, or is it possible this would cause further problems down the road?
Any other way to troubleshoot it (at least to find the program that's causing this) other than a hard reset?
Edit: couldn't wait so I reverted to a week-old backup, installed back most of my applications, and it seems to be fixed (for now)

Update! I just tried a new SD to try XDAndroid, and guess what, the error disappeared!
So there must be a program I had installed in the storage card, possibly trying to start a service or something on every reset... and failing.
Is there a way to troubleshoot this? Maybe through SKTools or anything similar? I have a ton of apps installed into storage card and it will be a pain in the back cover to try by trial-and-error.
Thank you in advance
edit: inserted my old storage card again, error did not appear, problem solved! At least for now
Still if anyone knows how to troubleshoot this, please let me know

Update: Seems this error occurs every time I use SPB backup.
Yesterday, after a scheduled backup, the error came back. To troubleshoot this, I removed the SD card, did a soft reset, the error was gone! I took another manual backup, and again, the error came back.
So there must be something happening with SPB Backup and my SD card. Probably messing with files on the SD, or the driver or whatever (no idea there, I'm a total noob when it comes to software).
Moved the issue to the SPB forum

I have this message to, but I have never used SPB Backup

Well, in my case, it was obviously something tampering with the SD card (even if not SPB backup, something else)
Have you tried rebooting your phone with the SD card taken off? I just wait till it boots normally, and then insert it back. Works for me every time.
If that still happens, that probably means whatever is causing the problem is in your main memory.

akpidis said:
Well, in my case, it was obviously something tampering with the SD card (even if not SPB backup, something else)
Have you tried rebooting your phone with the SD card taken off? I just wait till it boots normally, and then insert it back. Works for me every time.
If that still happens, that probably means whatever is causing the problem is in your main memory.
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Well I tried that just to see what would happen and I did not get the error message. So it is something on the SD card, but booting without it is not an option for me as I have several boot-start apps that are housed on it.

Perhaps one of those apps is broken?
As far as my case goes, I kept on using it for three months after the error appeared, without noticing any lag or issues at all. The only downside was that it took me three minutes to boot up, something I got used to.
If that's no big deal for you, I'd suggest you just leave it as it is for now, and check for lagging or specific applications failing (maybe one of them will be the app that's causing the problem?). If nothing happens down the road I think it could be safe to leave it as it is.
Now, if you can't stand this, I guess the only practical solution would be a hard reset. You can always play around with removing/reinstalling those apps you mention (or even better, installing them in the phone's memory) to check if and which one is broken, but I can understand that this not only will be a huge burden, but you may come to the conclusion that no specific app is causing this and something went south in the OS.
Personally the only apps which include a boot-up service I have installed into my SD are Football Monitor and PocketWeather. I tried removing both of them them back when I first had that issue, it didn't work...
Sorry I couldn't help more :/

[Q] Problem after rooting LG Optimus Me

Hello!
Two days ago I rooted my phone thanks to this forum. Everything was alright at first, but then I deleted some applications and I think one of them is causing the issue - probably Google Quick Search Box, or some other Google application (deleted a few that seemed innocent enough). I deleted also Facebook, Youtube and Twitter application (all of these were using the internet when the Internet is on and I didn't like it because it is spending me money - that's the reason I ended up rooting my phone).
The problem is when I try to add a new contact or access a new one, I see the android.process.acore ended unexpectedly error. I can see this error also when I do some other applications (Talk for example - not that I need it, just for information). Also, I cannot access the Market application - shows white screen for a second or two and then hides away.
I tried unrooting my phone, removing the battery and sd card out and then putting them in again, doing a hard reset through the buttons (I can't access the Privacy menu on settings also - same error).
I tried updating the software through LG PC Suite, but of course, I got: You have the newest version, update is not required. And of course there is no repair option, which is dumb, but who asks me.
Anyway, if I add some apk files to my sd card through the PC is there any way I could instal them on the LG Optimus Me phone? Since I wiped out my phone and have no access to Market (tried openning it through Browser and then logging in, selecting an application and click on Instal button - nothing happens), I don't have for example a Root explorer or some other type of exploring application on my phone, nor I have a Barcode scanner application.
Any ideas??

Some new info, thanks to my husband's Samsung Galaxy Gio, through bluetooth succeded to install Astro File Manager. Now I have access to the sd card. Now I am going to try to find what should be on the android 2.2.2 by default and install it. Hope this would work.

Just to say - still haven't solved the issue with the phone, but I tend to go around it. Hope I will find a solution one day, though.

Maybe you could try downgrading it or do a factory reset via recovery mode

[Q] Can't access SD apps after reseting DS!

Hi! My Desire S was crashing frequently so I did factory reset to my Desire S. Before that I moved some of the apps to SD.
The problem is that after resetting the phone, I am unable to find the apps on SD. There is no icon of them in the menu. But my card memory is still the same as before reset meaning that they were not uninstalled by resetting.
What should I do? Any recommendations and ideas?
Thnx!

Mohib86 said:
Hi! My Desire S was crashing frequently so I did factory reset to my Desire S. Before that I moved some of the apps to SD.
The problem is that after resetting the phone, I am unable to find the apps on SD. There is no icon of them in the menu. But my card memory is still the same as before reset meaning that they were not uninstalled by resetting.
What should I do? Any recommendations and ideas?
Thnx!
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"Factory Reset" resets the phone to the factory default (or the ROM default if you're using a custom ROM). That means it starts up as if it was a fresh install. However, it cannot touch anything on the SD-Card unless to tick the box for "Format SD-Card" (or whatever it's called).
Simply reinstall the applications and move them to SD again as you did before.
One lesson to learn though - just because your phone is crashing, doesn't always mean that a factory reset is the best plan of action. If it is 'Stock', unrooted etc then fine, but as you are on XDA I assume you actually play with it a bit; you would have been better off taking logcats and trying to work out what was causing the crashes rather than simply wiping and having to install everything from scratch again. It could even be something as simple as your SD-Card going faulty, thus causing the phone problems when it tries running the apps that you have moved to SD.

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"Factory Reset" resets the phone to the factory default (or the ROM default if you're using a custom ROM). That means it starts up as if it was a fresh install. However, it cannot touch anything on the SD-Card unless to tick the box for "Format SD-Card" (or whatever it's called).
Simply reinstall the applications and move them to SD again as you did before.
One lesson to learn though - just because your phone is crashing, doesn't always mean that a factory reset is the best plan of action. If it is 'Stock', unrooted etc then fine, but as you are on XDA I assume you actually play with it a bit; you would have been better off taking logcats and trying to work out what was causing the crashes rather than simply wiping and having to install everything from scratch again. It could even be something as simple as your SD-Card going faulty, thus causing the phone problems when it tries running the apps that you have moved to SD.
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Hi! Thanks for your detailed reply. No doubt I am on XDA, but my DS is still "Virgin" ! It is on stock ROM Gingerbread. I am still a newbie in the filed of ROMs that's why I haven't rooted my DS yet.
Actually, what happened was that whenever I unlocked the phone, some .com service stopped working and my phone dropped all the network signal. There was some issue with the radios I think. WiFi signals also got very feeble.
I by moving apps to SD doesn't it mean that I will not be required to re-install then after resetting? I mean they were not deleted or erased? Or by moving to SD means that there data is moved but there apk is still on phone?
Regards,

Mohib86 said:
Hi! Thanks for your detailed reply. No doubt I am on XDA, but my DS is still "Virgin" ! It is on stock ROM Gingerbread. I am still a newbie in the filed of ROMs that's why I haven't rooted my DS yet.
Actually, what happened was that whenever I unlocked the phone, some .com service stopped working and my phone dropped all the network signal. There was some issue with the radios I think. WiFi signals also got very feeble.
I by moving apps to SD doesn't it mean that I will not be required to re-install then after resetting? I mean they were not deleted or erased? Or by moving to SD means that there data is moved but there apk is still on phone?
Regards,
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Although the data may still be on the SD-Card, the phone O/S will have no knowledge of them, or of what to do with them. It would be useful if you could remember which '.com' stopped, but it's too late now. I doubt if it was actually a radio problem though - if it has been working fine since you got it then it is unlikely that the radio firmware suddenly decided to go wrong.
It may be worth keeping an eye on it as you reinstall all your apps. If it is still under warranty then it may be worth taking it back to the shop you got it from just in-case there is a developing hardware fault, although that is unlikely.

Getting an OTA update after installing TWRP and rooting OR use RUU?

I have an HTC One E8... I know, it's ancient... But... It's been a good phone until this past year when it really started dragging. Takes forever to do anything. A year ago, the main camera (is that the front or back camera) stopped working (phone doesn't even recognize that it's there -- flash doesn't work either with a flashlight app). Before that, phone dialing using my Bluetooth earpiece stopped working. Maybe related, but the phone doesn't work as a phone (holding it to your ear). If I'm not using the Bluetooth earpiece, it will only work on Speaker-phone mode (voice command apps such as Google Assistant and song recognition apps like Sound Hound don't 'hear' anything). Lastly, the Bluetooth has been disconnecting for no apparent reason. My earpiece will say 'Phone 1 disconnected', but when I look at the Bluetooth icon on the phone, it still thinks it's connected. Tapping the icon to turn off Bluetooth and then tapping again 'fixes' the problem and it connects again. It's just annoying when it does this in the middle of a conversation (and because, when it happens, the other party doesn't hear me yelling at them to wait because my Bluetooth disconnected because the phone doesn't know that anything is wrong). I had read ones that the Bluetooth drivers for this phone were sketchy. It's strange, though, this this problem has really gotten worse over the past couple of months without me making any changes to the phone. Lastly, the battery has really gone downhill. The phone will unexpectedly shut off around 30% battery. (I even tried the HTC battery recalibration technique -- no joy.) I chalked all of this up (except for the battery issue) to software. I thought maybe a good ol' factory reset (wipe) would fix the issues. For years (literally) it's been nagging me about a system update (Android 6.0). I never did it because the phone was already running slow and it's always screaming about being out of storage space. It hovers around 500MB free most of the time. I don't have that much installed on it. Any apps that will allow it, have been moved to the SD card.
That's the back-story to give you some insight as to what's going on with the phone. I included all of that 'other' stuff (camera and voice dialing issues) in case someone has seen them before and can offer any suggestions there.
So here's where I'm at. I decided to try to do a factory reset to 'refresh' the OS (remove all the patches and updates) and start over. Afterwards, I wanted to run Link2SD with a 64GB SD card so I wouldn't have the space limitations that I'm experiencing now after all of the apps have updated. The other night, after backing up the internal memory and the SD card, I started the process. (BTW, I have another SD card that I'm going to use that I've already partitioned per the Link2SD instructions.) After much trial and error, dead download links, incompatible versions of adb.exe and fastboot.exe I finally managed to get TWRP recovery installed. Then there was the issue of getting a working SuperSU installed. Finally did that. The phone booted and started walking me through the process of setting up my Google account. Everything seemed to go well. The phone was just as speedy as the day I got it. I was even able to restore my 15000 text messages and it was still zippy. It was wonderful! Unfortunately, the camera still doesn't work. Seems like voice dialing isn't working at the moment either. The Bluetooth issue seems to have gone away. Since the camera still isn't working, it looks like I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and get a new phone. This one will just become a 'toy' or a temporary backup phone in the event something tragic happens to the new phone. I'll just use this one on Wi-Fi only to check the weather and maybe play some games (which I had pretty much stopped doing because it was so slow and always out of storage). I would also use it as my portable media device for listening to downloaded podcasts and music while I'm running or riding my bike. It could also (maybe without mobile data) track my runs and rides, etc. As long as it doesn't get slow like it was before, I think it'll do just fine in its re-purposed life. (It was so slow I could barely play music from Google Music and have Google Fit tracking my run at the same time. It would take forever to switch screens!)
Ah, what's this?! Oh, there's that software update again. I guess I'll go ahead and do it before I start setting up a bunch of apps and tweaking the phone to my preferences. Nope! It downloads the OTA update into the Downloads folder and starts the process, but when it reboots, it reboots in Recovery mode into TWRP. I'm now finding that you can't easily do an OTA update after you've rooted your phone and put a custom recovery on it. I've seen lengthy instructions on how to put get a stock recovery.img out of the OTA zip file in the Downloads folder. I've moved it to my PC and pulled the firmware.zip file out. When I try to open the firmware.zip file to get to the recovery.img file, Windows is saying it's corrupted. I also see something about using an RUU.exe or RUU.zip file to restore the phone to stock. I've downloaded the correct RUU .exe file for my Sprint e8 in case I decide to go that route.
Here's my question... I know, finally! Since I don't have really anything on this phone since I did the reset and root, would it just be simpler to use the RUU method to blow it away and start over instead of trying to resolve the corrupt firmware.zip file issue and all of the other steps that follow? That's question #1. Question #2 is this... Will this RUU that I downloaded actually take the phone straight to Marshmallow before it starts walking me through setting up my Google account? If so, that's great! I'm all for the ease of that. I noticed that OTA download was about 250MB, while the RUU download is 1.5GB. Why such a difference? Is it because the RUU is the full-blown deal and not just the patches? I'm fine doing the RUU and then reinstalling and rooting the phone afterwards if that'll work. I still have all the files that I previously downloaded.
Sorry for the novel, but I wanted to be as thorough as possible to eliminate the back and forth "Did you try this?" "Did you try that?" However, if there is anything that I left out that would help with your answer/advice, please don't hesitate to ask. Thanks in advance for any guidance you can give a noob.
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