Christmas came early! just picked up a 08 SC is the anyway to edit the nav disc so it has a custom logo when it boots up?

Best member to answer that is daveo …. he's the techno wizard on the forum ...

Thanks

no mate there isnt a way to do that......unless you can hack the bootloader which no-one has done yet... ..............................




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MICK wrote:

Best member to answer that is daveo …. he's the techno wizard on the forum ...

a lot of the modern navs are custom written firmware running on customised hardware which is probably proprietary to the manufacturer of the unit. i.e. the info on a) what software to use to write programs for it, and b) how to acutally update the firmware are not public knowledge or a simple download from google. You would need to strip it and see what the chip is inside.

Compared to phones, its not like adding an image into its storage and saying use it. Its more like re-writing the operating system of the phone with the boot image built in, and then flashing the upgrade onto the chip.

I think the early nav units often used DVD display technology ( the system that shows the menus on a DVD player ) as their software. I imagine that the modern ones are still in that sort of theme, but much more advanced than the earlier ones. They used them as they had the quick startup times ( sub 10 seconds stuff ) compared to full PC's or computers. ( 30+ second boot times ) V8 or else.

Sounds wAy to complicated.....i thought it was stored on the nav disc and I could just edit the dsc and reburn it

If it was easy I reckon:

a) Powerful UK would offer a DIY 'kit'
b) Khan/Overfinch etc would have already edited it for their conversions.