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hucker
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:15 am    Post subject: View contents of transflash card?? Reply with quote

When I plugged the i3 into my USB port, I expected to see a drive appear in windows explorer (much the same as with my digital camera). Is there no way of manually seeing what is on the memory stick? Seen as it is such a tiny memory card, it won't fit in my memory card reader :-(
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You need a sd/transflash card adapter, then it will fit in your card reader.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

MELennium wrote:
You need a sd/transflash card adapter, then it will fit in your card reader.


Hmmm I suppose so. Would I actually be able to do anything that I can't now?

You'd think the i3 could serve as a card reader :-(
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I tried it. No you can't do much at all, except note that theres about 70Gb free. Seems only Map data, Voice files, POIs and a security key are stored on the card. You should never run out of space for POIs.
Settings, favourites and the software are all stored on the Garmin I3 internally.
If you back up the transflash card to another SD card and try using it the Garmin I3 will complain you did not use the Garmin POI updater and refuse to read the media. This may be something to do with than security key file, it has unusual attributes. No create time, no modified time etc.


Card looks like this:

/card/garmin/voice/English_British_.vpm + other .vpm lang files in same dir.
/GARMIN/gmapsupp.img (maps 156892Kb)
/GARMIN/gmapsupp.unl (security file)
/GARMIN/Poi/Poi.gpi (POIs all in one file)
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

gcb wrote:
If you back up the transflash card to another SD card and try using it the Garmin I3 will complain you did not use the Garmin POI updater and refuse to read the media. This may be something to do with than security key file, it has unusual attributes. No create time, no modified time etc.


That is insane. I'm off to ask Garmin what they're playing at. I lost a Magellan unit cause the memory got wiped. I do not want that to happen to the Garmin.
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 9:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes you can back up your transflash card and yes the i3 will read it and yes it does work fine

i used a transflash adapter card
copy and paste the folder called garmin to your desk top
then put in blank transflash card in to the card adapter
copy and paste the garmin folder to the blank card
put in to your i3
at first it says use cd to install software or somit like this just press the back button and thats it it works fine
well it does for me anyway
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's very odd that you can just cancel the warning.

I may have to give it a try. It does mean buying a transflash card and an adapter, but I suppose it's better than ending up with another dead GPS!
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

transflash card and an adapter COST £26 AT BIG W
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

RODTROTTER wrote:
transflash card and an adapter COST £26 AT BIG W


Well intercourse the penguin, memory is cheap nowadays. Dunno what Big W is, but I'll find somewhere.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tried it but it does not work properley. It does as rodtrotter says but it does not show map detail when navigating, it basically just shows the odd road. Also you lose part of your menus such as address, intersections & you have non of the Garmin poi's but it shows your own ones you downloaded. When you go to settings / map / mapsource it is blank. Well this is what mine did anyway.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

256 card and adaptor costs £20.19 inc post. from mobymemory, advert on this site.

<url="http://www.mobymemory.com/about.asp#">click here</url>
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 12:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmmm, some people say it works and some say it doesn't. There must be a way to exactly duplicate a memory card in the same way clonecd exactly duplicates a cd.

What are Garmin trying to do anyway? You can't pirate a memory card, you need to have bought the i3 unit to use it!
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MELennium wrote:
Tried it but it does not work properley. It does as rodtrotter says but it does not show map detail when navigating, it basically just shows the odd road. Also you lose part of your menus such as address, intersections & you have non of the Garmin poi's but it shows your own ones you downloaded. When you go to settings / map / mapsource it is blank. Well this is what mine did anyway.


Just tried it here, getting exactly the same as well, i must admit it is very annoying that this transflash card cant be backed up.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 3:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a utility somewhere once that could adjust create/modify time etc. Can't remember if it could REMOVE it though.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hucker wrote:
Hmmmm, some people say it works and some say it doesn't. There must be a way to exactly duplicate a memory card in the same way clonecd exactly duplicates a cd.

What are Garmin trying to do anyway? You can't pirate a memory card, you need to have bought the i3 unit to use it!


But you could certainly pirate maps of other regions.
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