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OK, before you read on the usual disclaimer: Everything you do to your RNS-E is at your own risk. The following may cause more questions than providing answers and it can definitely brake your RNS-E and render it unusable. But if you are brave and have some skills in this area, it may give you some ideas on what's possible.
So, I have this Euro RNS-E and got the 2005_1 DVD to see how to get the US patch working after powertony confirmed that the current patch doesn't work anymore. Before I do so I think I give the US DVD another try and see what's possible in regards to loading the US software onto the Euro device.
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I take my US DVD and copy the following files to my hard disk:
- 00.VNS
- A2220109.MOT
- INDEX.TXT
- LDM.BIN
- LOADING.KWI
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I then take a look at the new Euro DVD, especially the version information in the files mentioned above. Assuming that the Euro device will look for an Euro update CD/DVD I thought it should be possible to modify the US files to look like the Euro update files and make the Euro RNS-E load that "software update".
Well, said, done and indeed the Euro RNS-E did a software update and came back with this:
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I accepted the warning and put in my US DVD and no surprise, it was detected and accepted as Navigation DVD.
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Even the radio works now in "US" mode, showing FM, AM and Satelite Radio
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I thought great, now let's see if we can get it back to be a Euro device but even after trying a couple of different values using the same process as shown above the RNS-E would not detect a software update and load the Euro software. Damn :twisted: , while it's nice to have a real US unit now, that's not where I wanted to get. Since it was time for dinner I stopped for a couple of hours and came back this morning to give the Euro DVD another try.
I don't know what I did or why but somehow the Euro RNS-E still running the US software accepted the Euro 2005_1 DVD as software update and loaded the Euro software.
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The 0330 Euro software has some new features, one being the clock shown at the bottom. Anyway, I said, ok let's go back to the US software and put in the CD I used earlier and which worked fine. But it didn't work anymore, not after a reboot, not after a while without power. So I let it sit and got some lunch and when I came back I saw this:
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Somehow it found the software update after a while and loaded the US software. But whatever I tried this afternoon, I couldn't get it to load the Euro software again.
What this confirms is that the RNS-E hardware is the same in both regions and that the whole funtionality is only software controlled (incl. radio frequencies, sat radio and most likely TMC/TP which I couldn't test).
If you want to give it a try as well and maybe get more consistant results, here are the strings I changed in the files taken from the US DVD:
INDEX.TXT:
SOFIDX:0330
NAVVER:V220059E
AUDVER:A2210126
00.VNS:
V22000 059E
LDM.BIN:
V220045A
LOADING.KWI:
V220
045A
LDR V220045A
APL V220057B
FNT V220055A
OS V220059D
I used UltraEdit32 to search for V222 in 00.VNS, LDM.BIN and LOADING.KWI and then set the values listed above.
Since I don't have a Euro RNS-E right now, I can't really test if the US DVD can be patched to work with the Euro 0330 software. But since the DVD has now an electronic signature, it may not be possible anymore to use a patched DVD. Maybe I give it another try in a couple of days...
And again the warning, if you do it wrong you may break your RNS-E but if you do it right you may end up having a real US device.
Good luck...
So, I have this Euro RNS-E and got the 2005_1 DVD to see how to get the US patch working after powertony confirmed that the current patch doesn't work anymore. Before I do so I think I give the US DVD another try and see what's possible in regards to loading the US software onto the Euro device.
[siteimg:7ec70caded]224[/siteimg:7ec70caded]
I take my US DVD and copy the following files to my hard disk:
- 00.VNS
- A2220109.MOT
- INDEX.TXT
- LDM.BIN
- LOADING.KWI
[siteimg:7ec70caded]225[/siteimg:7ec70caded]
I then take a look at the new Euro DVD, especially the version information in the files mentioned above. Assuming that the Euro device will look for an Euro update CD/DVD I thought it should be possible to modify the US files to look like the Euro update files and make the Euro RNS-E load that "software update".
Well, said, done and indeed the Euro RNS-E did a software update and came back with this:
[[siteimg:7ec70caded]226[/siteimg:7ec70caded]
I accepted the warning and put in my US DVD and no surprise, it was detected and accepted as Navigation DVD.
[siteimg:7ec70caded]227[/siteimg:7ec70caded]
[siteimg:7ec70caded]228[/siteimg:7ec70caded]
[siteimg:7ec70caded]229[/siteimg:7ec70caded]
Even the radio works now in "US" mode, showing FM, AM and Satelite Radio
[siteimg:7ec70caded]230[/siteimg:7ec70caded]
I thought great, now let's see if we can get it back to be a Euro device but even after trying a couple of different values using the same process as shown above the RNS-E would not detect a software update and load the Euro software. Damn :twisted: , while it's nice to have a real US unit now, that's not where I wanted to get. Since it was time for dinner I stopped for a couple of hours and came back this morning to give the Euro DVD another try.
I don't know what I did or why but somehow the Euro RNS-E still running the US software accepted the Euro 2005_1 DVD as software update and loaded the Euro software.
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[siteimg:7ec70caded]234[/siteimg:7ec70caded]
The 0330 Euro software has some new features, one being the clock shown at the bottom. Anyway, I said, ok let's go back to the US software and put in the CD I used earlier and which worked fine. But it didn't work anymore, not after a reboot, not after a while without power. So I let it sit and got some lunch and when I came back I saw this:
[siteimg:7ec70caded]235[/siteimg:7ec70caded]
Somehow it found the software update after a while and loaded the US software. But whatever I tried this afternoon, I couldn't get it to load the Euro software again.
What this confirms is that the RNS-E hardware is the same in both regions and that the whole funtionality is only software controlled (incl. radio frequencies, sat radio and most likely TMC/TP which I couldn't test).
If you want to give it a try as well and maybe get more consistant results, here are the strings I changed in the files taken from the US DVD:
INDEX.TXT:
SOFIDX:0330
NAVVER:V220059E
AUDVER:A2210126
00.VNS:
V22000 059E
LDM.BIN:
V220045A
LOADING.KWI:
V220
045A
LDR V220045A
APL V220057B
FNT V220055A
OS V220059D
I used UltraEdit32 to search for V222 in 00.VNS, LDM.BIN and LOADING.KWI and then set the values listed above.
Since I don't have a Euro RNS-E right now, I can't really test if the US DVD can be patched to work with the Euro 0330 software. But since the DVD has now an electronic signature, it may not be possible anymore to use a patched DVD. Maybe I give it another try in a couple of days...
And again the warning, if you do it wrong you may break your RNS-E but if you do it right you may end up having a real US device.
Good luck...