I emptied battery completely (If device is working you may turn on route simulation) 2. Connect Mio with USB cable with PC, with switch on RESET position 3. Now comes a series of fast switching ON/OFF, do it couple of times but make sure the screen is on during your switch is off, it takes about a second then turn the switch ON, then OFF, then ON. Well I am not sure in this but it behaves similar as you turn your PC on and then hit the brake button. Well, in my case, until you reach the point when your PC recognize the device.

Turn the device off and, while it's off, connect the USB cable (which. Spirit S500/S505: SEEKER_T500 or Default. Connect Mio with USB cable with PC, with switch on RESET. Watch on [Please Register or Login to download file]. When I connect the device my PC try to install the driver but cannot. ADB Driver Installation ADB Driver Installation for MioCARE A2xx/A3xx/L13x. Click HERE to download the 'USB_Drivers_A2xx_A3xx_L13x_series' file.; Unzip the file and run USB_Drivers_A2xx_A3xx_L13x_series > add_mio_device.bat.

The moment takes a second and disappears, but if you are lucky and catch the moment, your Mio screen will be frozen but you'll see the device mounted!!! Then you may fix paths.xml or whatever you did before. SOURCE: Unknown. This next procedure requires you to open the device! If both of those tricks don't work, there *may* be a way to establish a USB connection by opening up the Moov and shorting two pins. Poster 'al13lea' came up with this. Here is my interpretation of his instructions: 1.

Open the Moov's case by removing two little screws. Notice 4 pins near the RESET/OFF/ON switch in which pins 1 & 2 form a pair and, slightly further away, pins 3 & 4 form a pair (ex.

' ' or '1 2 3 4'). Connect the Moov through the USB cable to your computer. Take a piece of conductive medal (such as a coin) and touch both of (and only) the middle two pins (pins 2 & 3) with it. If nothing happens after a few seconds, try doing the same with the two left-most pins (pins 1 & 2).

If successful, you should have the device recognized in Windows. At that point, undo the file & folder changes that you made earlier and which caused the problem. SOURCE: Miopocket Readme.txt This procedure below is 'Kill or Cure' You do it at your own risk! This involves opening the unit and grounding a pin on the flash chip to get to the service/upgrade menu where there are several options.

You will need to find the right firmware for your device, Google is your friend here! Select whatever option it is for WinCE upgrade by SD/MMC (Format), There may be a screen before this with other options, one of them should be CE upgrade.

After flashing restart the device and it should go to the USB connection screen, Restore your backup, Disconnect and restart your device! The reason to select Format is the problem is on My Flash Disk, so it must be wiped otherwise you'll go through the flashing procedure and just end up back where you started when the device boots. If you don't have a backup you can use a backup from another Mio Moov device, the original GPS app (SmartST_CE) will fail the licence check and won't work, but you can unlock and run something else as normal.

Do NOT select any of the other options listed within the upgrade screen as you may delete the bootloader, This will permanently brick the device!!! This is a collection of procedures that i've found online to recover Mio devices, Some users have had success with them, But they're not guaranteed to work!

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I'm searching for screwdriver to open device to try to enter to boot recovery mode. Is there any way to enter to boot mode without opening the device? Any combination of pwr button, rst button and usb cable? When I connect the device my PC try to install the driver but cannot. On down right corner i see the message Mio Digi Walker USB Sync and USB Mass Storage Device but then message about Error installing driver appears and I see device in Device manager (as storage device with yellow '!' ) bun not in windows explorer!

Can this help? Could Linux read the devica as mass storage??? Offline Joined: Tue Jul 05, 2011 11:35 am Posts: 60 Has thanked: 0 time Been thanked: 0 time. No as the drivers INSIDE the device are not loaded, so the PC can see 'something' on the USB line, but cannot communicate with it, that's why it shows up as a problem, The same thing will happen under Linux! It is possible to put some files on a SD card to enter service mode, but as the device doesn't boot, this won't work! Using the service mode to reflash will wipe the flash drive (My Flash Disk) so you need to have a backup from a working device handy, You can use a backup from any Moov device although the SmartST_CE software will fail the licence check unless it's from the device itself, Just unlock and run something else as normal.