Hacking GPS

"* This is the ""user manual"" that didn't come with any of the 30 million GPS receivers currently in use, showing readers how to modify, tweak, and hack their GPS to take it to new levels!
* Crazy-cool modifications include exploiting secret keycodes, revealing hidden features, building power cords and cables, hacking the battery and antenna, protecting a GPS from impact and falls, making a screen protector, and solar-powering a GPS
* Potential power users will take the function and performance of their GPS to a whole new level by hacking into the firmware and hacking into a PC connection with a GPS
* Fear not! Any potentially dangerous mod (to the device) is clearly labeled, with precautions listed that should be taken
* Game time! Readers can check out GPS games, check into hacking geocaching, and even use a GPS as a metal detector"

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Title of ebook: Hacking GPS
ISBN: 9780764598807
parent-ISBN: 9780764584244
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Internet download file size: 10265 kb
Pages: 358
Published: 03-2005
Released online for download: 03-11-2005
Author of eBook: Kingsley-Hughes, Kathie

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Hacking GPS

Chapter One

GPS Secrets

in this chapter

Performing hard and soft resets

Accessing diagnostic screens

It's fun to uncover something that you aren't supposed to know about-many software applications and movies on DVD contain what are known as "easter eggs." However, imagine finding something that you aren't supposed to find that turns out to be useful and informative.

In this chapter, we are going to hunt for GPS easter eggs, delving into the secrets that lie behind the standard menus on your GPS unit to find useful features and diagnostic screens that can give you information about your system and troubleshoot problems that you might have.

There's a lot of information to find-technical information, diagnostic information, and more.

Let's begin our tour of the secrets of GPS units.

Hidden Secrets

Most electronic devices contain hidden diagnostic screens or setup menus that are used by the manufacturer to diagnose faults and possibly remedy them. GPS receivers are no different, but because of their limited number of buttons, numerous complicated keystrokes are often needed to access such m ... read full excerpt from Hacking GPS ebook

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