POI Observer on Sony Nav-U50/70: full instructions

Dippy · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 124

All satnav maps on all systems are always outdated. Even when they are crisp and shiney new, they are about a year behind the reality on the roads, as far as I can see.

JD76 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 19, 2006 Posts: 8

Dippy you are some sort of cool dude to come up with this but I'm afraid I've hit a snag at virtually stage one.
Prologue: I've got the unit connected via ActiveSync and all appears well there.
However when I hit "explore" all that's in there in mounted volume is a file called install and that contains nothing at all.
I've downloaded windows ce 5.0.
I've downloaded showtaskbar.exe (4 kb...can that be right??)
When I try to open that I'm told it's not a valid win32 application.
Same thing happens with nav-u.exe which I extracted from the cd.
Which screamingly obvious bit (to you clever guys) am I missing here?
Yours in desperation, Confused

JD

Dippy · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 124

Well, you don't need to download win ce at all - it's part of the unit, so forget that bit!

Does the unit still work, firstly?

JD76 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 19, 2006 Posts: 8

Yep, all works a treat, even gettings gps signals in my home office.

Dippy · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 124

But you can't see any folder names on the unit when exploring the device via Activesync? Not even the Windows folder? You ARE exploring the device, not your pc?

JD76 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 19, 2006 Posts: 8

Tell me the procedure please and I'll tell you where I'm going wrong.
I connect the unit to the PC and the screen shows "connecting" and a series of blue dots running between an icon for the PC and an arrow in a circle which I assume is the icon for the unit.
ActiveSync window appears on PC screen showing that it is connected and synchronised.
Go from here please.

Dippy · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 124

Choose the explore device option from within Activesync and the window that opens will be the folders on your Sony.

paul9619 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 01, 2007 Posts: 7

Great guide Dippy. Got everything working a treat on my nv-50.

Does anyone else find that the cameras are reporting at about 20-30meters out. I have the distance set to 300m and it very rarely hits 0m as I go bar its more like 20-30???

Is this just the way it is?

Elena · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 03, 2007 Posts: 2

I've got a problem: when i Launch POI Observer first time, it didn't complain that it can't find wav/bmp files nor a poi database. And when I see a coloured bell in the task bar at the bottom, it's only yellow, it doesn't go green.
When I finished all the steps, navigator couldn't find gps. It says: 'A GPS reseiver has been detected, but a convenient GPS signal is not available. The reseption is obstructed or the reseiver is being initialised' Don't know what to do now. If you have any idea, I would be gratefull.

paul9619 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 01, 2007 Posts: 7

Dippy · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 124

Are you sure you successfully changed prefs.ini and saved it to the Sony? Sounds like you didn't forward the gps signals from port 5 perhaps?

Elena · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 03, 2007 Posts: 2

That's fine, everything is working now, thank you very much!!! :D

r4bkk · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 21, 2006 Posts: 1

Hi can any one tell me if their is someplace in the UK to send the sony unit to get the software installed, and also the cost thanks

Vikash_sinha · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 18, 2006 Posts: 68

just be patient. sony has laucnhed a website through which you can download speed camera database. it was actve in dec for few days , but now probably they are workng on it. here is the link. http://www.navu.sony-europe.com/

tox99 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 25, 2007 Posts: 2

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