alexmax Posted March 8, 2002 Share Posted March 8, 2002 Hello all, Greetings from the first Platinum user in Japan (apparently). Garmin rules here - except for a few 310/315 users whose pages I found on the Internet (hope they're still alive - most pages dated 1997), Japan is a Magellan-free place. I asked Thales if they have or plan to release maps for Japan - nope. So all I have is a VERY rough outline of the coast. Now back to subject. Has anybody managed to put her/his name and address on the Meridian's startup screen? It would be very nice a feature to have in Japan. Probably 90% of Japanese would return a lost GPS to its owner. By the way, this is why I'm here asking silly questions: >From: "Randy Tippetts" >Date: Sun Mar 3, 2002 1:41 am >Subject: Re: [Magellan_Meridian] Name and >address on startup screen > > >Check with Clayjar at Geocaching.com. I >understand he had done it with his MeriGold. >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: loible >>To: Magellan_Meridian@yahoogroups.com >>Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 4:39 PM >>Subject: [Magellan_Meridian] Name and address >>on startup screen >> >> >>People were able to hack Etrex software to put >>their name and address >>on the startup screen of Etrex. Do we already >>have anything similar >>for 330 or Meridian? Anybody know? BTW, I'm not the original Loible Thanks, alexmax Quote Link to comment
+infosponge Posted March 8, 2002 Share Posted March 8, 2002 When the latest firmware came out I made a mental note to look at the file with a hex editor to see if something like this was possible. Has anyone tried this? Quote Link to comment
+alexm Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 quote:Originally posted by infosponge:When the latest firmware came out I made a mental note to look at the file with a hex editor to see if something like this was possible. Has anyone tried this? The file is in Motorola S-Record format (or at least something close to it), so it's a bit more complicated than editing data with a hex editor. I started to write a quick and dirty parser for it, but soon gave up after I realized that I've got no experience with S records. I stopped when I think I figured that the S7 record at the end of the code translated into "Now we've loaded the program, run it!" I figure even if I *did* change it, I'd be too afraid to use it anyway. ... alex Quote Link to comment
+infosponge Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 Thanks for the info on S-records. I may tweak with it when I get some time. I reckon the worst that can happen is that I have to three-finger-salute it into the upload mode and re-load a good copy of the firmware. Quote Link to comment
+infosponge Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 This site seems to have some utilities for converting between S-Record and other formats... http://www.keil.com/download/utility.asp Quote Link to comment
+alexm Posted March 9, 2002 Share Posted March 9, 2002 quote:Originally posted by infosponge:Thanks for the info on S-records. I may tweak with it when I get some time. I reckon the worst that can happen is that I have to three-finger-salute it into the upload mode and re-load a good copy of the firmware. The piece that made me quick and realize that I was WAY out of my league was the S7 record at the tail end of the meridian update. I've seen and molested data in intel .hex format before, but the motorola S format has that "starting execution address" record at the end. I took that to mean "you are loading program code to the unit. When the end comes, it runs that program to update the unit to the new firmware". I ain't going there just for fun! I'm probably wrong though. If I had a little bit of experience and fully understood it, I'd go for it. ... alex Quote Link to comment
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