Outdoor Electronics

How to hack the Nextar W3G Auto GPS system in order to install another navigation program on it such as tomtom. The one you see in this video has been loaded with tomtom Nav. These instructions might work for other Windows based GPS systems as well although I have not tested it. DO NOT ATTEMPT unless you’re comfortable with this sort of stuff….you may brick your device. I hold no responsibility. look at this site: www.patcoe.com for my method: replace the address with explorer.exe (I’ve created a registry file to do this…read blow) but backup the original address first. This is IMPORTANT: Always backup anything that you are modifying Download this: rapidshare.com make sure your windows folder has those startup, documents ….folders before you point the shell addresses to them. OK, open the ceregeditor and save the registry file on your computer so you can have a backup. connect the device – make sure active sync is running – open the ceregeditor program – press F1 – select the hkey_local_machine folder – click edit then export save the file to your desktop. Download: rapidshare.com extract the registry file to ur desktop in the ceregeditor click on edit – Import – select the registry file you extracted to your desktop Everything should be written in the registry so you won’t have to create any registry entries