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Originally posted by Marz

Hi! Nice!:D
Are there any instructions?


Marz

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Originally posted by gpschicago1

Unbricked my Magellan Maestro 3225, full functional now. Here is the howto tutorial !!!

Like many of you, I changed the Magellan Maestro 3225 splash screen and bricked my unit. A bricked unit only shows the Magellan logo on startup and then stops. I also reformatted my internal TFAT HDD flash drive and lost everything. Even though I created a full backup of my GPS's internal TFAT drive onto my PC, it was useless.

After doing some serious research, I was able to create a workaround that allows me to use the 3225 as a full functioning GPS unit, play most popular audio/video files. I also installed MioPocket 2.0 Release 39 on it which can open MS Word, Excel, Acrobat and many other popular file formats and play games.

I was able run softbutton and mgnshell.exe both from the SD card which started the USB interface and then my PC recognized the GPS's TFAT drive. However, the TFAT drive loses all copied information once you restart the unit. The following has been verified on my Magellan Maestro 3225 unit but should work on all 32xx models. Use the following at your own risk.

If you have not formatted your flash HDD (internal TFAT drive), and you have a backup of your GPS's internal TFAT drive, there is a very easy way to revive your unit. Follow these steps:

1. Using the backup you have on your PC, copy the original files that you have modified onto your SD card.

2. Copy softbutton, FileManCE, the DLLs and the ini files on your SD card's root from this download link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0LUIG0FZ

3. Restart the 3225 with the SD card in the SD card slot, let everything load.

4. By running FileManCE, copy the original files from the SDMMC CARD back to their original directories under HDD and replace the files you have modified. Your GPS's TFAT internal flash drive shows up as the HDD folder in FileManCE.

5. Remove the SD card, click the reset button on the left side of the unit using a paper clip to restart the GPS. You have unbricked your 3225 !!!

If you are like me, formatted your 3225's internal flash HDD drive by pressing the reset button on the left and the on/off button on the right simultaneously for 10 seconds which started the bootloader then selecting the format option which bricked your GPS, use the following steps to unbrick your 3225 GPS unit.

1. Get a SD card that is 1 gig or larger and format it using FAT32. Charge your GPS fully.

2. Download this file and unzip it to the root of the SD card. Download link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E921GB6X

3. Copy a few small DIVX, XVID, MPEG4, JPG, MP3, WMA, WMV files to the root of the SD card.

4. Download TCPMP aka HPC GNU MEDIA PLAYER and unzip everything at the root of the SD card, name the folder HPC MEDIA PLAYER. It plays almost all popular audio and video files including DIVX, XVID, MP4, MP3, YouTube flash FLV, MP3, WMA, WMV, MPG. Download link:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8BFP7T2N

5. Download Destinator 8 GPS application and the maps of your area. I found maps of almost every country in the world. Unzip everything under the DESTINATOR folder which resides at the root of the SD card. Replace the original \Destinator\UserData\GPSTMC.ini file with the one below. Unzip the maps under the DESTINATOR folder. It is alright to have map sub-folder names like SOUTH (AR LA MS OK TX). Destinator 8 application and ini file patch download links:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IQEFTI26
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KJW55J0T
Maps download links:
USA Roads (45 MB) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VFGR5XIJ
Southeast (108 MB) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XMJ7TIKI
South (96 MB) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZKD808ME
Mountain (62 MB) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QTCV2W21
Midwest (105 MB) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DDNSX2JC
Pacific (82 MB) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M8FE8CMQ
East Central (86 MB) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A7LE1J1Y
Mid Atlantic (64 MB) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WBZZ5WPN
Northeast (65 MB) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PSU6WKKI
Canada (57 MB) http://rapidshare.com/files/179247947/Canada.rar

6. After unzipping everything, on the SD card's root you should have Filemance.exe, softbutton.exe, 10 DLL files and 1 ini and 1 inf file. You should also have 2 folders at the root of the SD card. These 2 folders are HPC MEDIA PLAYER and DESTINATOR.

7. Under the DESTINATOR folder of the SD card, you should have the map sub-folders such as USAROADS and SOUTH (AR LA MS OK TX) and other sub-folders such as LANGUAGE, SKIN, USERDATA, VOICE along with the destinator.exe file and helper DLL and ini files.

8. Under the HPC MEDIA PLAYER folder of the SD card, you should have about 41 files.

9. Now restart the 3225 GPS unit with the SD card in the card slot. Let everything load. You will get a little popup from softbutton stating that 3 applications are about to automatically start. HPC Media Player, FileManCE and Destinator are going to start automatically. You can close FileManCE if you do not use it.

10. The softbutton will create a blue icon that will stay on top. Destinator8 will need a minute to lock atleast 4 satellites before it automatically shows your current location on planet earth. The female voice will prompt you. Use the demo function in Destinator8 to check out the features. You can switch, run or kill applications using softbutton. Load a audio/video file on the TCPMP aka HPC media player.

11. You have successfully unbricked the Magellan Maestro 3225 unit. I do not deserve any credit. This is just a compilation of stuff I have gathered from many different sites.

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