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Not so long ago i decided to buy a cheap GPS reciever. Well i guess it paid of, atleast if you use it for a car, rather than for hiking, because the battery is not that good.. Anyway, it took me a while to get good, new software for it, so i guess i can share how to do it for this item from DealExtreme, and i think for similar ones. This is the Item.

Software: it come with IGo 2006 by default, but there are not many new maps for it, so you need to get a newer software. I tried TomTom, had no luck with it, actually had no luck with getting maps, the software runs, but I really didn’t like the interface. People have reported success with this software:

• Route 66 Version 8
• Navigon 2100 (with tts)
• PolNav 2008 R 5.0
• Destinator 7 (with tts)
• Garmin XT v5
• TomTom v.7.910
• Sygic v 7.6.080820
• Igo 8 (with tts)
• Igo 8.3 (with tts)
• AmIgo 8.4
• Smart2Go v4.1.14000
• MioMap 3.3
• OziExplorer 2
• waze 0.14.2 (PPC version works great)
• BeeLineGPS (part of MioPocket)
• viaGPS 3.0 Black Edition
• nDrive 9
• Navitel 3.2.6.3594

as stated by this Post. But there are no guidelines how to install it. Well i tried IGo, and had some success. IGo8 runs fine, but there are some problems with maps, and not all of the versions runs. IGo8.3 or any subversion is unusable. And AmIGo8.4 runs just fine. So i stuck with it. This helped A lot.

So how to install it? First you need to download it. You can use torrents or grab it from the link posted before. Secondly you need to get to WinCE mode , follow the instructions on this site. After you get in WinCe mode turn of the device and take out the card. Place it in the card reader (It will be much faster than connecting it with usb cable). Get to the root directory of the SD card. Copy all the files of AmIGo.  In the main folder of AmIGo there should be a file called AMIGO.EXE , run it  and it should work. Maps can be downloaded from torrents , or can be found on forums. That is not very hard to find.

Hope that this hellped for some of you, who buy stuff from DX