IGO Primo 7' GPS Chineese 'MESBOX" issue

[Deleted member 38440]

IGO Primo 7' GPS Chineese 'MESBOX" issue

Have this problem every time I shut down GPS? MesBox.exe Cannot execute 'MESBOX' A critical component is either missing or is Failing to start due to low memory.
Anyone know how to fix this.
Many thanks
Graham

 

[Deleted member 71750]

If I remember rightly,I believe you have to exit the navigation app before you shut the unit down.

 

[QFour]

Unless you know your way round WinCE .. It could be any number reasons but possibly corrupt file. If iGO finishes it will exit iGO.exe and you will be back into WinCE. My old Alpine did not have an Exit button. When I added one you just finished up in WinCE with a User Interface and you could do what you liked to the system. As you don't have any backups or have no idea how its programmed is there a system reset that will reload the files that should be there. Have you added new maps or POI files or Speed Camera data. Could be you just don't have enough memory.

Speed camera data is in iGO/content/speedcamera delete all the files. IGO/content/userdata/poi delete all files .. This is all the data that you have probably added. You can also go to iGO/content/maps and delete all the maps you don't need.

If you don't understand any of the above then I respectfully suggest you find a container similar to the one at the top of this post.

 

[yeoblade]

Both my old NozaTec (now deceased) and current Xgody386 do/did this, I doubt you'll ever resolve it, I tried the recommended fixes unsuccessfully, including reloading original system files, moving everything to SD card, running only the country I was in files.........
The problem also popped up randomly, when, just when negotiating a complex junction
Live with it, or if you can't live without it! as QFour said

 

[QFour]

Instead of buying another cheap tablet style unit you could get a Samsung Tablet instead. You will then have something you can use for other purposes as well. We have just managed to get one of the later versions of iGO running on one of Yeoblade's old tablets. From what I hear it's working very well. I have similar setup on Samsung Tab S4 and have also updated Blaupunkt SatNav. If you do get something else make sure it's a genuine Android Device rather than a cobbled together WinCE system that is so out of date now.

 

[Kontiki]

Nozatec Truck Sat Nav Users UK

There is a facebook group just do a search on FB for Nozatec Truck Sat Nav Users UK. Apart from help they have the latest maps, files & POI's.

 

[wildebus]

This discussion and the mention of Facebook groups remind me of the discussion on the Chinese Heaters and a comment on the FB group for those.


In THAT case it was "are you buying a Heater or a Hobby" as you so often had to fiddle around so much to get it working you'd spend longer messing around with it then actually running it.

Looks to me like it is a "are you buying a Sat Nav or a Hobby" question with these as well with all this farting around doing this and that.

I am pleased I decided I just went for the boring option of just buying a Garmin, plugging it in and use it.

 

[yeoblade]

There is a facebook group just do a search on FB for Nozatec Truck Sat Nav Users UK. Apart from help they have the latest maps, files & POI's.

Yes and very useful it is too.

Strangely though, my Xgody along with all its problems, I still quite like using it:lol-053: However, a member on WC helped me set up an old Google tablet I had, to run similar software which is a lot more reliable/stable and I'll be try that in future.

 

[QFour]

There is a facebook group just do a search on FB for Nozatec Truck Sat Nav Users UK. Apart from help they have the latest maps, files & POI's.

Shhhhhhhh .. Don't tell everyone where we get our IGO Map updates from.

 

[wildebus]

That's an interesting point. iGo is by far the most configurable navigation software on the market, but the Nozatec or Xgody hardware simply doesn't have the resources to support extra tweaks and add-ons.

The £40 units don't need messing with, once they are properly set up and working. You just need to update the maps every few months (takes less than half an hour)

Generally, Nozatecs are well configured, apart from incomplete and out of date maps. Xgody have better hardware specs and maybe better (but still not specially good) build quality, but their software is badly configured. A good dealer would sort this out before sale, but at these prices, that is never going to happen.

If you buy the same software in a £900 Blauplunkt unit, it is well configured out of the box, and the user manual is supplied in paper.

If you are happy with your Garmin, that's great. There are so many ways that iGo is way better, but it takes time to learn the existence of some its features, let alone learn how to benefit from them.

I need to go from A to B and that is why I have a Sat Nav.
My Sat Nav tells me how to get from A to B. And usually, the route it gives me is the route I would go anyway (so the routing seems right).
What can be "way better" than than on a Sat Nav?

This is similar to another discussion point that comes up frequently on the VW Forum I use regarding Head Units, with some people extolling the need to get 8-core processors and this and that in order to listen to music. Geeze, a £20 radio will let you listen to music on a USB stick nowadays by just plugging it in. Why would you need to buy some over-complex, over-specified Android based system and spend your life on XDA Developers to update and configure it instread of just getting something you can just put in and enjoy?

I guess I have just spent enough of my past life doing this kind of thing professionally to be arsed to waste my time now messing around with configuring Sat Navs, Radios (and Computer OSes for that matter).
Each to their own, though.