Copy & Paste map onto SD card.

 

My Nuvi 360 came preloaded with a 2008 NT map, and I don't want to mess around or delete anything in it. Now I can update to the free NT 2009 map but in the process it'll overwrite the 2008 map and also will update the unit's firmware to the lastest one which I don't want.

Can I copy the NT 2009 map from my Nuvi 350 and paste it into the SD card on the Nuvi 360 and rename it from gmapprom.img to gmapsupp.img and use the wordpad and creat the Garmin 360 unlock map code from Garmin website?
I guess what I'm trying to say is retain the old map in the garmin unit while the get new map into the SD card.

I don't think so

The short answer is no, you can't. The maps are unit specific. Since you are using an update disc, the program will be looking for an existing map to update when you start, so loading it directly to the SD card won't work either.

However, this is a novel approach to the problem and I would like to hear what others think about it.

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Glenn - Southern MD; SP C330 / Nuvi 750 / Nuvi 265WT

you can't

Unless you can get a new unlock code from Garmin...

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. -Sophocles snɥɔnıɥdoɐ aka ʎɹɐƃ

Copy your 360 drive to your hard drive...i.e. do a backup

Then you will have all your 2008 files... Then use your 360's update to copy 2009NT to your sd card instead of your 360.... That's just a different approach to do the same thing.......

BTW MapSource would be a good program to do this...

iconman wrote:

My Nuvi 360 came preloaded with a 2008 NT map, and I don't want to mess around or delete anything in it. Now I can update to the free NT 2009 map but in the process it'll overwrite the 2008 map and also will update the unit's firmware to the lastest one which I don't want.

Can I copy the NT 2009 map from my Nuvi 350 and paste it into the SD card on the Nuvi 360 and rename it from gmapprom.img to gmapsupp.img and use the wordpad and creat the Garmin 360 unlock map code from Garmin website?
I guess what I'm trying to say is retain the old map in the garmin unit while the get new map into the SD card.

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. -Sophocles snɥɔnıɥdoɐ aka ʎɹɐƃ

Also if you haven't already read it

Read this post about Mapsource:

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/14051?page=1

It will help you installing MapSource and installing 2009NT into mapsource prior to installing it on your SD card...

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. -Sophocles snɥɔnıɥdoɐ aka ʎɹɐƃ

I don't have the update

I don't have the update disk, I just downloaded the NT 2009 map off Garmin website and yes it came with the unlock code. I remember that MapSource was not involved when I did the update for the Nuvi 350.

Then I "think" this should work...

iconman wrote:

I don't have the update disk, I just downloaded the NT 2009 map off Garmin website and yes it came with the unlock code. I remember that MapSource was not involved when I did the update for the Nuvi 350.

Backup your device; copy all the filed from your 360 to your hard drive... Then install MapSource:
http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=209, then run the update you downloaded. It will also install a set of the maps in MapSource.

Then copy all of your original files from your hard drive back to your gps...

With MapSource you can now copy the 2009 maps to your SD card....

I'm in the process of trying this wait a while and I will post the results...

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It is terrible to speak well and be wrong. -Sophocles snɥɔnıɥdoɐ aka ʎɹɐƃ

Install it to your computer

Install it to your computer with mapsource then load it to the SD card. In doing this, you will also be able to load individual states if you wish.

It would have been easier to keep all this in your orginal post instead of creating a new one? http://www.poi-factory.com/node/14649

Copy & Paste map onto SD card.

You first have unlock the software, install it on your PC. Then run the install map. You can install the Map on a SD card (1gb better yet 2GB)Then install the SD card in the GPS. Go to Maps in the Menu on the GPS and select the 2009 nt software.
It work for me on my C550

Just Curious

Just curious but if you run both 08 and 09 at the same time, wouldn't the nuvi lock up if you drove down a street that was on one map and not the other? Not the map itself but the TTS? One would be recalculating while the other would be giving directions? confused

Well I thought incorrectly...

This is something I have been wondering about since I got my nuvi 760, if I could return it to the way it was when I received it by backing up the nuvi’s folders and files to my hard drive and then copy them back….

I had backed up the original files and folders that were on my nuvi 760 when I received it.

I first backed up my present installation
I then deleted all files and folders from the nuvi
I then copied the original files that came on the nuvi 760

The results are as follows:
Prior to deleting 2009NT:
Software v 3.00
Audio v 1.90
GPS Software v 3.00s
Bluetooth v 3.10

After installing original files and folders:
Software v 3.00
Audio v 1.90
GPS Software v 3.00s
Bluetooth v 3.10

After installing reinstalling 2009NT files:
Software v 3.00
Audio v 1.90
GPS Software v 3.00s
Bluetooth v 3.10

So it appears as I had read previously, you can not return to a previous software version, you can only return to the previous set of maps….

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You can return to a previous version of the unit firmware by downloading the file for the version you want (if you don't already have it) and running the firmware file. You will get a message indicating that you are installing an older version, but you can proceed past that.

Firmware versions can be found here.

http://www.gpsinformation.org/perry/

You can downgrade the

You can downgrade the software version but you can't do the same with the GPS Software version.
My nuvi 350 with the old GPS version was getting a more accurate signal from the satillites, since after Webupdater updated the firmware my accurate drop from the average 15ft to around 25+ feet.

Software version

How do I find out what version I had before I did the upgrade? My phonebook worked before the upgarde and now it work and Garmin wont give me the RMA to send it back.

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There's no way to find out which version you had before you upgraded other that if you had checked before hand and remembered what it was or wrote it down.

The only thing you can to is to try some of the previous versions for your model and see if they work.

As an aside, typically phonebook issues are phone issues and not GPS unit issues.

perhaps...

"my accurate drop from the average 15ft to around 25+ feet"

Perhaps it's just calculating inaccuracy more correctly. You really can't know what accuracy you're getting unless you compare the reading with both versions to an ngs marker, adjusted for datum.

http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_radius.prl
http://gpsinformation.net/main/ngs-accuracy.txt