April 7th 2009

The Easy To Follow Guide To Setting Up Your GPS Car DVD

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By ALi Dayekh

So you’ve bought a China car DVD with GPS and you’re all exited. No more fiddling with maps and asking strangers for directions and you didn’t need to take out a second mortgage on the house.

Excellent!

Unfortunately there’s going to be a good chance there’s a problem. the software you’ve got may well be cracked or at best the sample version.

So it means that you could be in the middle of nowhere heading to your destination and then loose access to your GPS system.

That’s if the options you had suited your area anyway.

So how do you get the authorized, full version of the navigation software that suits your area from the computer to your car DVD player?

Thankfully getting your hands on GPS software is not a difficult task.

You can either talk to your local GPS product dealer or, directly from the software provider’s website.

This is a list of some of the bigger GPS software providers:

Most China car DVD players are compatible with windows compatible software.

Once you get the software just put it onto a SD card (if you buy it from a bricks and mortar supplier this is how you will probably have it delivered).

Now it’s just a case of getting that SD card into your GPS Car DVD Player and getting the software running.

The Idiots Guide To Installing Car DVD GPS Software

If you haven’t already check out Chinavasion’s great range of GPS car DVD players and see which one is best for you. Then get online and decide which software package will suit you best.

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  2. Posted by Polat 19th October, 2009 at 2:08 am

    Hallo,

    Ich möchte bei chinavasion (Night Rider 7 Inch Touchscreen Car Media Player with GPS + DVB-T) kaufen.
    Ich Habe iGO8 ist das Kompatibel?

    Thanks und best Regards

  3. Posted by Gareth 19th October, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    Hi Polat,

    I’m sorry but I am not sure if the Night Rider car DVD player is compatible with iGO 8. While many of our car DVD players are compatible with older iGO incarnations we have not had the opportunity to test it with iGO 8 software yet.

  4. Posted by sorin 20th October, 2009 at 4:02 am

    Sorry but igo 8 doesn´t work,know because i just bought one and tried it !!!

  5. Posted by Gareth 20th October, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    Hi Sorin,

    Thanks for your feedback,

    Perhaps you could try an older version of iGO. We would recommend downloading a sample of the older version of iGo and trying it out before putting down any cash for software.

  6. Posted by Kevin 24th October, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    Ok i’m hearing what everyone is saying but i missing it for some reason. I go to these sites and i don’t have a clue what i’m looking for. TomTom or any other can some1 please help me. The way they have it for sales seems like you have to buy the GPS unit and software. I’, just looking for a good product so any recommendations would help. post a link for me and steps to take so i can buy and save to an SD card…thanks much

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