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I encountered the following problem with a Mio Moov 200 (N177) GPS device: wanted to upgrade the software, and doesn’t even crossed my mind that modifying some files on the GPS device internal memory will cause the LOSE of the USB connection. Completely, fully lost.

I searched a lot, and nowhere to find a solution. It was basically a piece of junk after this.

I was really really upset, and decided never to buy a Mio GPS in my life. NEVER.

I know I didn’t messed up with the hardware, didn’t flashed any memory and it is not correct from a brand name company to allow this to happen. I mean how fucked up is to copy some files to the GPS device and this causing to be inaccessible through the USB port?  I know a few things, about how to install programs, and NEVER ever saw something similar. I made a backup, so after fucking up the system files  I supposed to be able at least recovering from the back up… yeah right, but for that I needed the access through the usb port.

I have a GOOD NEWS.

There is a way to fix it, only one way that worked, it is a very brutal one, not recommended for anyone.  It was not my “brilliant mind” who discovered this, I just was lucky to know a language, and read some board where the solution was presented. It is a “hardcore” reset, shorting some stuff inside the gps.

Will come back later with the solution, and remember if you made the huge mistake to buy a Mio GPS, don`t try to upgrade your program, because you can easily end up messing up your device badly.

It is really a shame, and I am pretty sure Mio knows about this “bug”, and they don`t care to fix it. We were told by the local Mio service, that “they need to change the motherboard of the GPS” and that will cost a lot.. yeah right, BULLSHIT, they just short some circuits and the “motherboard is changed”.

I was considering buying a MIO device, but after this, I won`t touch it for sure. I suggest you to read a lot about how many people are having this issue!  Other than this they are good GPS devices, working properly, but FORGET to upgrade it on your own, just buy the damn software and maps because you wil end up with a piece of junk. Or you know some electronics and fix it the “hardcore” way.

I would like that every time I create a new wordpress blog on my WPMU system, it has a second default page. I managed to fix the issue with the about page, to change it to something else I want instead of the “dumb” about text, and its working properly, but now I would like to add a “contact” page, with a contact form on it.

For this the first thing I tried to do is to put the contact form plugin into the mu plugins folder. Unfortunately it doesn’t work, it has some settings and because the settings are not where the plugin searches for it, I would need to change to much for the plugin to work. I skiped this step, and I told myself, that I will activate the plugin, its easier to activate a plugin, and have a working page with the form, than activating the plugin, adding the page and adding the code to the page to display the contact form too.

To make this work, I need to add the following code to wpmu-functions.php:

// Second page

	$wpdb->insert( $wpdb->posts, array(

		'post_author' => $user_id,

		'post_date' => $now,

		'post_date_gmt' => $now_gmt,

		'post_content' => __('Content of new page.'),

		'post_excerpt' => '',

		'post_title' => __('Second Page'),

		'post_name' => __('second-page'),

		'post_modified' => $now,

		'post_modified_gmt' => $now_gmt,

		'post_status' => 'publish',

		'post_type' => 'page',

		'to_ping' => '',

		'pinged' => '',

		'post_content_filtered' => ''

	) );

This is the “hard coded” way, and as I continued reading on wpmu support pages, they have found some other solutions too. Here is a link for more solutions on this topic. Somebody actually made a plugin for it, and there is a suggestion to use New Blog Defaults plugin with the blog templates addition.

I tried this too, but somehow it was not what I was looking for, personally I didn’t really liked this solution, but the idea is good. It was just to much workaround for me with this one.