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theblueowl · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 8

Yes have done this but this does not help as the street names still do not appear on the map but did before, maybe I should put this down to a bad experience Sad

or if anyone has any other ideas as I am now at a loss as to why this would happen. I believe that the streetpilot has an internal memory is this true? if so can this be cleared the I could go to Garmins web site and download using their web updater program or am I just being stupid:?:

Any help is much appreciated and thank you for your time in advance.

Shane

Crying or Very sad

theblueowl · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 8

:D Great news all is well in the world of the Streetpilot c310.

Have spoken to Garmin this morning who talked me through a hard reset of my sat nav not easy though as it requires patience and a lot of finger pressure Laughing Out Loud

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Have now got all my low level street names back now and system is working great. Although they did try saying that I needed to pay £40 for map version V9. No way I said the software should be good enough.

He then went away and came back stating good news have a resolve for you and then proceeded to talk me through a Master reset only thing is I have lost my POI's and addresses but that’s not really an issue.

Not sure is im allowed to post instructions on how to perform a master reset for the streetpilot range so I will wait to see if this is ok with the forum admin before I do.

Anyhow thanks to those who tried to help

Regards

Shane n
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mikealder · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 2:41 pm Post subject:

Shane, I would post the instructions up if you can, they will help others that find themselves in the same position - Mike

theblueowl · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 8

Here are instructions on how to perform a full hard reset for Garmin StreetPilot range. Don’t confuse this with the reset where you just take the facia off and press the reset button, as this is a manufacture reset:

I will try to explain as best as I can and if anyone requires further help please email me.

1. Make a note of any POI's including personal addresses, as these will be erased.

2. Ensure that the unit is switched off.

Now for the fun part as this is trial and error and may take a few attempts to get it right. This is not kind to the fingers ether as hard pressure is required (yes hard and I mean hard) the Garmin technician described that he was using the blunt end of a pen? But it can be done with your fingers as I did.

3. With the unit turned OFF press very hard in the bottom right hand corner of the screen and keep pressing ( do not release the pressure.)

4 Now press the on button quickly or until the unit light just powers up ( Please note that you must release the on button quickly just as the unit powers otherwise the unit will just boot as normal ) DO NOT TAKE YOUR FINGER OFF THE SCREEN AS THIS IS IMPORTANT.
If done correctly you should receive a message on screen stating Do You Wish To Reset. At this point you can remove your finger from the screen and select ( YES )

You will now be presented with start up menu settings i.e. Language Country and so on.

Congratulations your Garmin GPS system should be reset and ready to go.

This is not the easiest thing to do as it took me a while whilst on the phone but I got there in the end and I couldn’t be happier.

Hope this info is of help to those who may need it

Shane

P.S Addition to reset procedures have found that if you use a Pencil with an eraser on the end that this works well for pressing the screen

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theblueowl · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 8

Not sure why,

just did as I was told by the technician if you have any doubts regarding this statement feel free to call Garmin and ask them.

Idea

Once again though have found if you use a pencil with an eraser on the end it works every time. Exclamation

PhilHornby

theblueowl · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 8

Well ok you’ll all find you own way of doing this. Although my C310 will not reset unless hard pressure is applied maybe that changed this with later models I don’t know:

I have no issues with the C310 and all mapping is available as it was when purchased.

If you think my information was useless THEN DONT USE IT Exclamation

Some people are never satisfied. 8O

simon78 · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:39 pm Post subject:

Hi just been reading all the posts about copying from the original i3 sd card to another card.
I have managed to do this simply by inserting my i3 sd card in my sd card adaptor, opening up windows explorer and dragging the file called garmin to my desktop and then repeating the process with my new 512mb sd card.

I have used the new card in my i3 successfully in navagation mode and map view mode.

Onedrew · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:08 am Post subject:

I have two i3s. One had V8 and one v9, both on 256mb Micro SDs. I copied the entire contents of the V9 card onto a new Sandisk 512mb card, gave the 512mb card the same name as the V9 card, bunged the 512mb card into the older machine in place of the V8 card. It all works perfectly with the older machine now routing along roads that did not show before eg A505 Baldock bypass, which is great.

No special software was used, just drag and drop the contents of the v9 card into a PC folder then drag and drop from PC on to the 512mb card and rename the 512mb card to the same name as the V9 card.

I haven't noticed any mention about renaming new cards to match the name of the original installed cards. Maybe this makes a difference? Maybe I have been lucky.

Have just purchased a third i3 from Motorworld for £79.99 which has no Micro SD card as it is a newer model with the map built in. Does anyone know a method of copying the map or even the POIs from this on to a PC? Or copying Voices to the newest machine, as I want to use my custom 'Camera bongs only' voice on the new machines (for which thanks must go to Ash10).

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