Possible solution for WebUpdater voice update bug

In addition, I have found the reason I mentioned above behind the "Text, Ukrainian, nuvi7xx" that is still being displayed after updating. It's a simple misspelling on Garmin's part...

The Ukrainian text file is in x:/Garmin/Text named Ukrainian.gtt. When updating the file, this same name is used in GarminDevice.xml along with Ukrainian.gtt. Within Ukrainian.gtt is also a part number/file name ID. Opening this file with WordPad reveals the error.

Ukrainain

SHOULD be:

Ukrainian

(You have to look pretty hard to see the typo)

Correcting the spelling and saving the file corrects this error.

Verified on my 760. When I use the "plug in to power on & connect" method, all of the Major/Minor (update) numbers for the voice files are 0 (zero). When I use "power on, boot then plug in", there is Major/Minor joy!

For example,

Daniel "plug in to power on":

  <PartNumber>006-D0525-00</PartNumber>
  <Version><Major>0</Major><Minor>0</Minor></Version>
  <Path>Garmin/Voice</Path>
  <FileName>English_British_Daniel.vpm</FileName>

Daniel "power on, boot then plug in":

  <PartNumber>006-D0525-00</PartNumber>
  <Version><Major>1</Major><Minor>30</Minor></Version>
  <Path>Garmin/Voice</Path>
  <FileName>English_British_Daniel.vpm</FileName>


How are you getting xml code to display as viewable xml code? I've tried the < code >< /code > tags with no effect.

Quoting your message and looking at the xml code you posted, it does not look like you just copied/pasted the code to the post. Did you manually type all this in or is there a software tool that will format the code in this way to display properly on the forum?

Thanks for your insight. Process you discovered works just great. Had always been so annoying to see the same items keep returning

Good catches, have you notified Garmin already?

Paul

thanks for sharing...I will be adopting that approach

Do you actually think they'd listen and fix it? I really doubt it.

They're too busy creating "new" GPS units along with buggy firmware code every 3-6 months...

Some of you guys should be working for Garmin instead of who does.....Thanks for the detective work.

if you're not already on the GARMIN payroll, you should be! They need you!!

Thanks for this latest techno-tip

I appreciate the heads up. I will try this when I get home.

Thanks for this. I appreciate the info and it works for me too.

Before pasting the XML code, I did a global replace of "<" with "&lt;" and ">" with "&gt;". Of course, I still had to wrap the XML with <code> and </code> to get fixed-font. It seems (as you've found out) Drupal doesn't ignore what's inside of <code>...

Thanks for figuring this out. I haven't seen the recurring voices on my 770, but I have seen the ukrainian text. Now I know how to get rid of it.

I followed your instructions but still couldn't get the updater to show that the voices were in fact updated. Then I removed my SD card from the slot, deleted GarminDevice.xml and powered on to Where To? and now everything is updated. Thank you for your suggestion!

It worked great with my nuvi 760

I believe you are spot on with that observation. If they would cut the "New Model" syndrome, and fix the bugs, they could let half the people go in "Support" and hire software people to fix the problems.

End result would be much happier customers. And they could cut prices by 50%.
What a concept!

Why would they cut prices to lower their profits?
Garmin has a fiducial responsibility to their shareholders, not future would-be customers.

Even deleted the HTML file

Like any software business, they have to have some level of bug tracking/fixing for the engineers not good enough to write new code- it's worth submitting a ticket to see what they do- worst case it'll cost you about two minutes to cut and paste the above description.

Paul

Yes, this process absolutely works as it has proven flawless after these many weeks. Thanks again!