i've found a way to backup sd card to new card

mikealder · Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:38 pm Post subject:

While I appreciate your efforts in trying to prove this works one way or the other please do not ask for copies of maps to be sent via e-mail etc. this is against forum rules - Mike

elraco1 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 27, 2006 Posts: 35

i knew i'd put my foot in it somewhere along the line

Beerbellybill999 · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:01 am Post subject:

The cards are NOT unit specific. The map is specific to the card not the unit. A lot of reasarch was posted on this quite some time ago. The map had to match the secure area on the transflash card. No one has been able to copy the secure area until possibly now. Come on Eraco1 let us know. You can pm me if you want
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i3 2.70(went to 2.82,3.0,3.1 but downgraded) with V8 map on microSD card
Metroguide Europe V7 & V8 (routable and indexed)
Metroguide N America V6 (routable and indexed)

gcb · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 24, 2005 Posts: 151

It is not so much the Maps that are locked to a specific I3/C310 as the card. These cards are Secure Digital they are not called secure without a reason. Each card has a unique id which can be read by the any Garmin unit. It does appear that occasionally you find two i3 where you can swap the cards over or an SD card which you can copy your maps to. This seems to be because the way Garmin check the SD card is not precise.

If you have a Kingston card you can copy your maps to then you have been very lucky.

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

Must confess I'm a bit skeptical - but willing to be proved wrong.

I'd be interested purely as a means of backing up my own maps to another card. So that - for example - when my card was sent to Garmin for an upgrade to v8 maps, I could still use my i3.

elraco1 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 27, 2006 Posts: 35

i myst admit i get the feeling that what i have done is well believed, but all i am saying is that i have backed my card up to another card and it works perfectly, its the copyright thing i am worried about, but if i find out that the backed up card is unit specific then i will put the info on here,
just because i have backed my card up id doesn't mean to say that it will work for others,but i hope it does (reasons exlpained earlier)and to be honest with you i hoe that it is unit specific because if it's not i wont know what to do Question

but it would be nice to prove that it has been done.i'm gonna try sort it today one way or another.thanx elraco

zogman · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:55 am Post subject:

sorry elraco , i've been reading your posts and have got to the stage where i think this is a windup........prove me wrong in your next post mate...
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elraco1 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 27, 2006 Posts: 35

my last post should have read(is not well believed) and as for the last comment if you don't believe don't watch( sorry to get a bit shirty chaps but i wish i hadn't said anything now but if i quit on you now you will think i am a wind up merchant which i am certainly not!i am not even a computer wizz either just someone who likes to mess about with things when i've got a bit of time on my hands,

portman · Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:29 am Post subject:

I've tried my micro sd card in at least 4 different i3's and vice versa with the other cards and they have all worked, so pretty confident that the maps are not unit specific, as was pointed out a while ago, its the sd card id you need to copy which i assume you've acheived somehow elraco1.

welshgasman · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 17, 2006 Posts: 122

I'd really like to know this works before buying a 1GB TF card to use as backup and extra POIs. It is not a card I can use for anything else in my possession.

gcb · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 24, 2005 Posts: 151

zogman · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:04 pm Post subject:

nicely put gcb....if elraco doesn't respond to this positively then we will all know the reasons why..
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elraco1 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 27, 2006 Posts: 35

by the end of today possibly tomorrow you will know the outcome of my findings.but ot's alright all of you wanting to know how i did this and i am prepared to tell youbut as i requested earlier for a moderator to give permission for me to put info on here Not one has done so! this tells me that it's a little close to the bone,and i know they ate watching because i had a little telling off if you look previously.

i have just bought another card because i dont want to disturb old one so that i can prove to anyone who disbelieves that i have done this.and i am gonna try it again on this new card,

also i have found someone with another garmin gps and i am gonna try it today,

elraco1 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 27, 2006 Posts: 35

ok i have just confirmed to myself that i can copy these cards i have just copied original card again to a brand spanking new sandisc 512mb and it works exactly the same as original.

off to try in other gps now i will let you know results in a couple of hours

Beerbellybill999 · Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:35 pm Post subject:

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