Mio Moov S505

I just unlocked another GPS: the Mio Moov S505 using Dalibor Lanik’s Visual GPS. It was as easy as unlocking the Mio Moov 500.

Installation Instructions

1. Download Visual GPS
2. Extract it to your hard drive
3. Connect your Mio Moov S505 to your computer with the USB cable
4. Copy the following 3 folders to your GPS to the parent directory (just open Mio Device – appears on your desktop when it has connected with your PC): Visual, Visual.auto and Visual.ins.
5. Open Program Files/NavMan/appstartupsec.ini in a text editor and change the first 2 lines under [ Process1 ]:
   RelativePath=TRUE
   ProcessFile=SmartST_CE.exe

   to

   RelativePath=FALSE
   ProcessFile=\\..\\My Flash Disk\\Visual.auto\\auto.exe

6. Safely remove your GPS, remove the USB cable and turn it on.

The only problem I encountered is that Core Player did not play videos. The sound was there but without any image. To fix this all you have to do is to:

1. open Core Player
2. go to Tools -> Preferences ( press the arrow in the top left corner first )
3. Select Page -> Video – Select page is a button in the bottom left corner
4. Change Video output to Raw FrameBuffer

Videos should play now.

And there you have it: your unlocked Mio Moov S505.

Mio Moov 500

Pretty nice, huh ?

The bad thing is that it came only with the navigation software ( MioMap ). No video player, picture viewer or mp3 player. After a little bit of google-ing I found out that Dalibor Dalik made the Mio Moov Unlock Shell.

The Unlock Shell simply kills your original GPS application and starts Visual Shell. You can download the Visual Shell from www.lanik.org. I wanted to upload the current version to my website but it wouldn’t be useful as it isn’t final and future versions will appear. Let me share a small tutorial on how to install the Unlock Shell on a Mio Moov 500.

Note: If you have another GPS model read the full instructions. This is the easy way to install on a Mio Moov 500. I’m writing this so you don’t have to read the whole ReadMe file.

Installation Instructions

1. Download Visual GPS
2. Extract it to your hard drive
3. Connect your Mio Moov 500 to your computer with the USB cable
4. Copy the following 3 folders to your GPS to the parent directory (just open Mio Device – appears on your desktop when it has connected with your PC): Visual, Visual.auto and Visual.ins.
5. Open Program Files/MioMap/appstartupsec.ini in a text editor and change the line:
   ProcessFile=Program Files/MioMap/MioMap.exe to
   ProcessFile=\\..\\My Flash Disk\\Visual.auto\\auto.exe
6. Safely remove your GPS, remove the USB cable and turn it on.

You will see that VisualGPS is starting. I won’t tell you how to use VisualGPS. It will be nicer to find out what it can do yourself. All I’m telling you is that you can now play a video, listen to music and use other GPS software (iGo, TomTom, Route66 etc.) on your Mio Moov 500.

Screenshots

Mio Moov 500 Unlocked - GPS Applications

Mio Moov 500 Unlocked - Multimedia Applications

Mio Moov 500 Unlocked - Games

Mio Moov 500 Unlocked - Settings Screen

And there you have it: your unlocked Mio Moov 500. Remember that you can always read more about the VisualGPS Mio Unlock Shell.