11 Responses to “Advent GPS 400 – Further snippets”

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   Rick said on 21 Jun 2006 at 08:32

  It looks as it the fifth point, the backup.stg viewer, and the whole backup thing is a complete waste of time. As far as I can tell the favourites and other transient data used by the navigation software is not backed up. Whether this is because ActiveSync only backs up certain folders and the software stupidly pust the files elsewhere or for some other reason I don’t know. At the moment it looks like ActiveSync is only useful as a very slow data transfer system—much better to get a storage card reader.
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   kwik said on 3 Jul 2006 at 09:01

  About Active Sync ;

  There is no need to install or use Active Sync if you have Windows XP on your PC.
  The GPS pops up as a drive ,and you can use drag and drop.

  Better ; Put the memory card in a card reader/writer ; Transferring files goes much much faster than via the usb connection on the device.
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   Rick said on 3 Jul 2006 at 15:31

  Hi kwik, I expect you are right (but I don’t have a card reader/writer). Initially I thought it was doing something fancy because it was talking about converting the format of the files. That may be true for some type of files for a true PDA but I don’t think there is any conversion required for these files.

  As I have said in a later post, the backup facility of ActiveSync does have a small use for MP3 files but otherwise, I agree, it is a waste of time for this device.
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   yo said on 15 Oct 2006 at 08:30

  need to find out how to use my mp3 as i have lost my cd
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   Rick said on 15 Oct 2006 at 17:48

  Hi Yo,

  the mp3 files have to go into the “My Documents” folder at the root of the Mobile Device storage (not on the SD card). To do this you have to use Active Sync. If you haven’t got Active Sync installed on your PC or the CD available to do it then you will need to find a copy somewhere. This shouldn’t be too difficult. Ideally you need version 3.7.1 but I expect any verstion should work. Version 4.2 is here but I expect older versions are available elsewhere. I haven’t tried the newer versions.
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   jim dhanpaul said on 14 Nov 2006 at 11:21

  hello, I bought an advent GPS 400 about a year ago. Do you know how I can upgrade the mapping software ie latest maps?

  Thanks
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   Rick said on 14 Nov 2006 at 14:15

  Jim,

  simple answer – you can’t! There have been no new maps published, the ones on the Medion web site are the same as the ones you have got already. It is possible you may be able to change to different software, but that is beyond my current knowledge.
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   jim dhanpaul said on 16 Nov 2006 at 07:44

  Ok, Thank you
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   Mark said on 17 Nov 2006 at 07:07

  Jim, if you want to update your gps 400 try this site. This can be tricky to set up initially but worked very well on my Advent the only problem being you have to reload all the software if you let the battery go completely flat…

  http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=44304

  Regards
  Mark
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   steve11168 said on 3 Nov 2007 at 13:32

  all i have coming up on my advent is application software not installed please insert sd/mmc card —-but there is the card in there any one please HELP reply [email addr removed]
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   Rick said on 4 Nov 2007 at 21:32

  Hi Steve. This sometimes happens if the card can’t be read for some reason. You can try a hard reset (recessed button on the bottom) and/or try viewing the card using the USB cable and ActiveSync. Or an easier way is to check the card itself with a SD card reader if you have one. If you can’t read the contents or they look corrupted then you can replace them. If that doesn’t work then you may have a damaged SD card.

  Update: I have received a letter this morning (7th) promoting an extended warranty because the 2 year manufacturer’s warranty was about to expire. It came as a surprise to me that it was 2 years so maybe this is your answer. I doubt that they could fix it or replace it with another one so perhaps you would get something different.

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