V9 Maps

TimmehB · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 29, 2006 Posts: 5

Sorry, sorted it, couldn't find the map tool Embarassed

agapanthus · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 22, 2007 Posts: 1

I have an i3 from September 2005, which I'd never registered. It all worked fine, but I decided to update the maps as I wanted maps of France. I didn't have the yellow slip with the code on it, so I rang Garmin, who provided the number very promptly by email.

Armed with that, I registered the unit - giving the true purchase date. Although the i3 was over a year old, I was able to order the DVD on the website for free. :D It seems to be the date of registration that matters, not the date of purchase.

The only problem that I had during installation was when updating the firmware. My machine runs Vista, so I followed Garmin's instructions for that, but the machine bluescreened - fortunately before deleting the i3's operating system. Exclamation

The second time I tried was on XP and that was fine, so I'd advise not using Vista to do firmware updates for the time being.

Jane

nicka2 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 11, 2006 Posts: 3

I bought my i3 on 11Aug06 and registered it with Garmin the same day.

As this is 20 days before the new V9 maps were released, does that mean that I won't be able to upgrade for free, and will have to pay for an unlock code? Crying or Very sad

If so, that seems a bit mean - had I known, I'd have delayed registering for three weeks and thus qualified for the free upgrade.

Anyone have any experience of this or thoughts?

Many thanks

nicka2

swing · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:32 am Post subject:

Although you have missed out on a free upgrade, at the time you bought the unit you bought the latest maps, and Garmin had not announced the new maps. As such, you must have realised that at some point you would need to pay to upgrade to the next maps (when they came out), and therefore it's now your choice how quickly you spend the money to upgrade.

Garmin have to set the cutoff somewhere, and they do it based on registration date, which seems fair to me. Although some people have managed to get a free upgrade this year, all those units will be registered now, and they won't get a free upgrade next year of course.

Me? My unit was bought way too early for a free upgrade, so I accepted it, and paid the money (all £40) to get some great map improvements on roads I regularly travel on...
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:07 pm Post subject:

PaulB2005 · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:23 pm Post subject:

I've been putting it off for a while, i have the DVD and i've tried reading all 21 pages here. I've got the PDF with the screen shots and instructions for loading the maps. However a few questions.

1) I only want the UK maps and don't need the whole of Europe. Do i understand correctly i can do this?

2) My i3 has a 256 Mb Transflash card. Will this hold all the UK Maps and the 30,000 odd POIs (inc Safety Cameras) i currently load?

3) If i where to get a bigger card can i just replace the old one and then load the maps to it? Or do i have to prepare it in anyway?

4) Roughly how long does it take to transfer the maps?

missing_user · Joined: Aug 30, 2008 Posts: -7

PaulB2005 · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 8:54 pm Post subject:

strumble - cheers. I have the NT version. I just worried i'll fill the card with maps or only have room for 4 POIs or something....

Dizzley · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 29, 2007 Posts: 19

I just bought a Nuvi 310 (UK+IE) from Amazon last weekend. It has V8 map loaded. I've emailed Garmin to ask if I'm entitled to a free V9 upgrade.

I'll let you know how I go on.

Pete

tonybs9 · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 01, 2007 Posts: 3

I have a C510D which has v8 preloaded. I qualified for a free v9 update and the disk arrived today. I've loaded the new version of Mapsource onto my laptop (or loaded the new version into Mapsource - whichever Mapsource now shows both v8 and v9)

I've managed to update the maps on my SD card for my holiday in a couple of weeks, but I cant seem to update the unit itself. It doesnt want to overwrite the v8 maps on the unit with the new v9 maps from my laptop using Mapsource. If I receive from Device it downloads my Faves but no maps. If I go to upload the new UK maps onto the unit it says the mapset is xxmb and i only have xmb space left.

Nor will it do it using the option when the DVD autoloads of "Click to update your Garmin Nuvi or c5xx" .

Any suggestions?

Tony 8)

Dizzley · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 29, 2007 Posts: 19

VEGG · Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 2:48 pm Post subject:

Just to say thanks to this thread i have now had my free update disc and free unlock code for city nav nt europe v9 all works fine. :D took about 10 days for me to get the disc which is great as im off to france soon :D

A5tra_G · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 23, 2007 Posts: 14

Got mine today, upgraded my C310 fine, only put uk on for now which used about 140mb, plenty of space left on my 1gb card for the some of Europe later. When adding more maps will it delete the existing uk meaning I have to reinstall them?.

Dizzley · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 29, 2007 Posts: 19

So... do I have this right: the 310 I just bought can be upgraded free of charge to take the full set of Europe maps?

I'm very happy! :D I thought I had compromised and was stuck with just the UK maps.
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swing · Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject:

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