I Have broke my I3 loading POI. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beerbellybill999

It has the latest firmware and V8 map.

I loaded just the speed camera POI and thet worked fine but I also wanted other POI like Argos etc. I combined two databases together with a total size of (2.12MB(3.82MB size on disk)).

I loaded this up using POI loader but when I tryed to access the custom points the I3 froze. I did a system reset but this didn't help. I also tried to reload just the Speed camara POI but this just keeps reseting the unit.

I can only asume I have a currupt file or there is a max POI size that I can load.

Is there any way I can delete the POI file?

I have rung Garmin and they have suggested that I return the unit for repair but I would like to try and sort it out myself if possible

Any help would be greatly appreciated

I don't have a transflash reader. I do have an sd reader but you don't seem to be able to buy the transflash to SD adapters(in this country anyway). they only come with a transflash card and garmin don't supply this with the unit.

Pocketgps

Ash10 · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Feb 19, 2005 Posts: 478

The POIs are held on the TransFlash (which incidently has about 100MB free, so 2MB of POI shouldn't be a problem) - take the card out and see if your i3 will start up with just the base maps.

Beerbellybill999 · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:18 am Post subject:

I have tried a full reset but no joy.(reset does not remove POI).I tried to load only a few working POI files hower PIO loader gives an error message that it can't connect as unit resets itself prematurely I also removed the card and it would let me reinstall 2.7 but still no joy on reboot. They only way I can see to fix this is to try and delete the POI off the card but I can't read it.

Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ash10 · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Feb 19, 2005 Posts: 478

Sounds like you need someone with a TransFlash card reader - whereabouts in the UK are you?

Beerbellybill999 · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 1:33 pm Post subject:

I am in the Merseyside area if anyone can help?

thanx in advance

Lester_Burnham · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 17, 2005 Posts: 618

Can't you just connect up to your PC, run the poiloader with a blank CSV, clear them and start again?

Beerbellybill999 · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:24 pm Post subject:

I have tried this but unit resets as soon as poi loader tries to transfer and therefore error message fro PIO loader

Pocketgps · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:18 pm Post subject:

Not sure if this is of any help, but this says its a

USB2 Transflash/microSD Card Reader / Pen Drive - £5.49 +P&P

HERE

Pocketgps · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:33 pm Post subject:

Beerbellybill999 · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:25 am Post subject:

thanks very much. that pendrive/card reader was just what I was looking for. I tried all different searches to no avail.

Pocketgps · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 2:46 am Post subject: Re: Card Reader

MaFt · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:59 am Post subject:

maybe the transflash card is broked?

oddsock · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject:

I bought one of these from mobymemory and it worked ok with Xp . I used it to back up the card from the i3 and then disconnected it using "safely remove hardware" . The next time I plugged it in I got the "USB Device Not Recognized" message. I tried it on 2 other computers with XP and got the same error message.I will be interested in the reply from the company to the previous posters question to them .

Dave

Pocketgps · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject:

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