[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Darkdreamers:
GO 8

For people who have a HTC Diamond and iGO 8 not getting working.

Install procedure:

1. Unrar the content of the archive (2577 & iGO8 folders) into your Internal Storage

2. Start autorun in your phone

3. After starting up the program delete the 2577 folder from Internal Storage

OR

1. Unrar the content of the archive (iGO8 folder) into your Internal Storage

2. Rename application.dat to iGO8.exe

3. Open SYS.TXT file located in your IGO8 directory and edit the following section to it:

[folders]

app="%SDCARD%/iGO8"

;app="Internal Storage/iGO8"

[interface]

maxzoom2d=6000000

show_exit=1

TO

[folders]

app="Internal Storage/iGO8"

[interface]

maxzoom2d=6000000

show_exit=1

Don't forget to translate "internal storage" in the phone user interface language. For example in french the line:

[folders]

app="Internal Storage/iGO8"

TO

[folders]

app="Stockage interne/iGO8"

Upgrade procedure (Not 100% sure if working):

1. Start from scratch, and follow the procedure described initially.

2. The first time it says that an "older version exists in your card, do you want to downgrade?"

3. Press yes.

4. A message appear "a newer version exists on your card. do you want to upgrade?"

5. Press yes.

6. Another message appear "older version exists in your card, do you want to downgrade?"

7. Press NO

Settings for GPS:

Go to Settings - GPS Settings, select Port 4 and Baud Rate 57600 or 4800, don't forget to enable GPS also in the settings

OR

In iGO8 at GPS settings select auto search at right bottom and enable GPS

POI:

I can't see POI in iGO8 even if i have in \content\POI:

If you have POI in the content with extension .kml, it wil not work because its an older version. The newer version of POI is with the extension .poi

Paths:

Voice: ....\iGO8\content\voice

Speedcam: ....\iGO8\content\speedcam

Skin: ....\iGO8\content\skin

Scheme: ....\iGO8\content\scheme

Poi: ....\iGO8\content\POI OR \iGO8\content\userdata\POI

Phoneme: ....\iGO8\content\PHONEME

Map: ....\iGO8\content\map

Languages: ....\iGO8\content\lang

Dem: ....\iGO8\content\DEM

Building: ....\iGO8\content\BUILDING

Others:

Annoying Tap Sounds: In iGO8 Settings - Sounds -> Key Sounds you can put the button click volume to zero

Backlight Problem: In iGO8 Settings - Device -> Choose the Power Management Backlight Always On

iGO8 shortcut to the Touchflow3D Program list: make a shortcut of iGO8 to windows\start menu\programs and then you can see the icon there when adding a new shortcut in touchflow3D after choosing it:

Simply copy iGO8.exe, go to the folder in which you want to put the shortcut, activate the context menu with a longer press of the stylus on the screen and choose Paste as shortcut.

OR

You can create the shortcut on PC with an Active Sync connection.

1. Establish ActiveSync connection between the device and the desktop computer.

2. Explore the Mobile Device folder and browse to the folder which contains iGO8.exe

3. Right-click on the file and select Create Shortcut menu item. This will generate a shortcut (.lnk) file in the same folder.

4. Move or copy the shortcut if you want it anywhere else on the device.

iGO 8 VGA Display:

sys.txt

[interface]

skin="ui_igo8"

resolution_dir="320_240"

vga=1

[rawdisplay]

class="landscape"

[debug]

skip_eula=1

enable_roadshadow=1

[map]

auto_nightmode=0

[msnd]

msnd.start=0

If you have some problem and fixed, let me know to add here on troubleshoot

tried all this but cant get it to work any ideas?