680 MSN Update

 

I see there is a new update for the 680 MSN available. Just did mine.

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nüvi 680, 265t, 295W, iFinder H2o

Takes a while!

Just did mine, thanks for the tip.

Downloading from the WWWeb to the 680 didn't take very long.

Glad I put it back in the car tonight, though!

Updating the MSN receiver took a few minutes (at least 2 songs from the iPod), and then it took another few minutes for the MSN receiver to figure out what planet it was on!

When I left it, it had found gas prices again, but was still looking for traffic. Should be up-to-date in the morning (or so I hope).

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Nuvi 2460, 680, DATUM Tymserve 2100, Trimble Thunderbolt, Ham radio, Macintosh, Linux, Windows

Update is for the MSN receiver, not the 680

jonzim, your 680 is not updated, this is new firmware for your MSN Direct receiver to add support for the new flight and radar features.

These features are only supported on the newer 2x5 and 7x5 Nuvi models. If you updated your receiver and then used it with one of these models, you would see the flight and radar information.

Details for the GDB 50 receiver update:

Changes from version 2.80 to version 3.20:
Added support for flight status and weather radar. See garmin.msndirect.com for compatible devices.
Improved download performance.

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Nüvi 2595LMT

Thanks for the info WAASup.

Thanks for the info WAASup. I wasn't aware of that fact. I had just went into the WebUpdate and saw there was new MSN firmware for my 680 and assumed that it would be some type of improvement, or fix.

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nüvi 680, 265t, 295W, iFinder H2o

Improved MSN Download Performance with V3.20

jonzim, I missed the last bullet in the V3.20 release notes that claims to improve MSN download performance.

I updated the GDB 50 firmware v3.20 (MSN V3) with our nuvi 680 tonight. I reset the GDB 50, and afterwards MSN activation was wiped out so I had to reactivate our subscription. The 680 started receiving Toronto GTA traffic data about 8 minutes later. The packet reception rate increased 3x-4x (30-40 second interval vs 2 minutes before V 3.20). It's hard to tell if the data (traffic/weather/movies) is populated any faster than before.

Even though the 680 does not support the new flight/radar features, the data packets are now flowing much faster.

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Nüvi 2595LMT

Reactivation, diagnosing service issues...

After I did the update, I noticed I was getting gas prices and weather, but no traffic, so I figured that the receiver somehow lost the magic bean that lets it connect to MSN...

Went to msndirect and reactivated -- and presto, traffic!

Well, the traffic was already there, it's just the GPS was illing to tell me about it again...

So that's a useful triage pattern when things aren't working -- no traffic? do you have gas prices and/or weather? If not, then it might be the receiver. But if you're getting weather, gas, but no traffic, it's a subscription issue.

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Nuvi 2460, 680, DATUM Tymserve 2100, Trimble Thunderbolt, Ham radio, Macintosh, Linux, Windows

Same here, no traffic info.

Same here, no traffic info. Did a re-activate and everything is fine now.

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nüvi 680, 265t, 295W, iFinder H2o