nuMaps Lifetime update for North America available Nov 19 2009

Try rebooting your computer, and if you use FF with NoScript, allow all the page temporarily.

I am using Internet Explorer 8. Maybe I should try it again in Compatibility View?

However, the day before when I original registered and downloaded 2010.20 without any issues.

Try just downloading the file without the manager. That's what I do; just save the file.

I only use FireFox as my web browser and had no problems with the download manager. Took about two hrs from start to finish. Haven't used it yet, that will be the true test,

Which there was a way to delete this.

How do you download the file without the Download Manager? When I right-click on the download, to select save target, it gives me html.

You may want to check to see if the corrupted download is on your computer. If so, delete it before attempting another download.

If you have java script blocked in your browser (as I do), the pop-up window will give you an option to DL the file directly sans the Manager.

I finally realized the other "click here" within one of the screens. I had to try several times because the screen would flicker and move on too quickly. I have finally got the download started with the Download Manager. Estimated time 26 minutes. Thanks!

PS ... I checked the computer and there has been no completed or incompleted versions of the 2010.30.exe file.

Where ononlin can you view the updated changes?

Glad to hear you're on your way again!

Where online can I review the updated details?

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=253&pID=1456

Select the "View map" tab.

I have finally been able to successfully download 2010.30 without Download Manager … Thank you Juggernaut!!

Glad to be able to help.

Why all the fuzz about this 2010.30 version? I updated mine more than a month ago via free NuMaps. Does Lifetime NuMaps comes out later?

Did you really get the .30 version a month ago? Or did you have .10 and get .20? The .30 is the latest update available, and lifetime subscribers are getting that now.

I'll have to check the site to see if I still qualify for the map update. I purchased my Garmin in the summer.

Now that I have read this entire forum topic I now feel comfortable trying the update. I will do the firmware update as well. I have my fingers crossed.

how are the maps?

thanks for the info, wish Garmin would let us know.

Had no problems with download or update here.
Nuvi 660, used Vista Business 64 OS computer.
Didn't go any faster or slower than the last download or map update did.

P.S. IE V8 64 bit

MY MAPS TOOK 5 HOURS

I did my update last night. Took about an hour to download to my computer. Another to install on computer. And about two hours to finally finish installation to Nuvi 660.

Went to MyGarmin.com and was notified by the new version was available. Had to update my Download manager (strange since I had to update for .20 version as well). Ran download manager to extract and install all files.

Seem to work fine. I have not had a chance to try out the new map yet. I will be going to Tenn this week so it will be an interesting test.

You can check out the online interactive map of North America at https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=253&pID=1456#coverag... .

Click on the blue map for the detail.

My MapSource is already at 6.15.6.

Older versions of MapSource will be updated to the current version if they have not yet already been updated.

Map update 2010.20 also updated MapSource to ver 6.15.6. Installing this, just released, 2010.30 map updated, updates MapSource to ver 6.15.7, although I have no idea what is different in this latest MapSource release.

Thanks for the info...

will test the maps to night going go nevada to pick up family so will see how the new maps are working from apple valley to nevada

I bought my nuviMaps lifetime update for North America very recently for my new 855. Just activated it today.

Bad things so far:

1. If I reboot my PC with the 855 plugged in to a USB port, the boot hangs at the very first BIOS-like screen (and won't respond even to the basic BIOS keyboard commands). That is easy to solve--unplug the thing.
2. The "Launch" button on download manager did not in fact launch the downloaded garmin_rmu_cnnant2010_30-exe file. In fact it seemed to do nothing at all.
3. On first handlaunching the file by double-clicking it in a Windows Explorer window, it spent the six minutes extracting, then delivered an error window tagged 7-Zip complaining of an access denied error.
4. on my retries, I was much more rigorous in shutting down applications, including my firewall. On all of the next three tries, I have gotten past the extract phase, to the point where it tells me to power on and hook up my nuvi. Then it spends 2 minutes 40 seconds with a window tagged "Communicating with Internet" with contents "Connecting to server..." and a blue barber pole, before telling me "a communication error has occurred while communicating with the Garmin Server", advising me to try again later, and to contact tech support if the behavior continues.

Is anyone having success right now? (else maybe a server is down).

The download itself looked fine--took about fifty minutes, with a very constant download rate as portrayed in 40 second increments by Window Performance. I suppose the download rate was throttled by my Comcast service to less than the Garmin server was able to provide.

It can take several minutes before the launch displays anything while it is extracting and loading the installer. The file is very large, so the install can take as long or longer than the download. If you have Vista, it might help if you turn off UAC (User Account Control) ... just look it up in Windows Help and Support.

Mine is a Windows XP Pro system. Monitoring with Process Explorer showed nothing going on at all. By contrast the extraction activity when I launched manually was immediately apparent.

archae86,

#1 could be your BIOS settings set to boot off USB devices. Change your BIOS settings to boot off your HD or as you said, unplug Nuvi when booting.

What was the download rate you're getting? I'm getting somewhere between 100KB/sec to 300KB/sec over 3Mbps DSL line. 1st attempt was successful. Files extraction takes a few minutes to complete. It does require internet access as the update contacts Garmin server to verify (my zonealarm pops up for internet access permission).

You might want to remove all temporary files and start over with the file extraction.

I have only done this once before so am not completely familiar with the process. Does Garmin provide any kind of hash sum (e.g. md5sum) to certify the validity of the downloaded file(s). If not it might be a nice post to compute an md5sum for reference.

Since I have not yet bought the lifetime updates I am hindered from doing it at this time.

It took about 50 minutes for the successful downloads--I think it was doing about 600k/second. I have Comcast cable.

Where does it put the temp files?

My current status is that I have downloaded the file twice, and have tried running it on three different computers a total of about seven times. It always stalls now at the "Communicating with Internet" box carrying "Connecting to Server..." text and a blue barber pole. After about 2 minutes 45 seconds, sometimes more, it reports that a communication error has occurred while communicating with the Garmin server, advises me to try again later, and contact tech support if the problem is persistent. I plan to call support today. And yes, I turned off my firewall (Comodo) and stopped about all the processes I could.

archae86

I had the same 7-Zip access denied error, and "Connecting to server..." problems.
I was using Comodo Firewall at the time and had to shut it down to eliminate the 7-Zip error.
I contacted Garmin about the "Connecting to server..." problem, and got the canned response to update my 760, even though I told them in the email the unit was already updated.
I have no clue what their doing at Garmin sometime. How can a communication error occur because the Nuvi is not updated?
The GPS connected OK to their server so the map download could start, but the server couldn't see the same unit at the start of the update!
I suspected the Comodo Firewall was still causing the communication problem, but setting the garmin_rmu_cnnant2010_30-exe file as an accepted application in Comodo, or shutting it down, did not fixed the problem.
The solution for me was to uninstall Comodo Firewall and reboot the PC. The map update ran great after that.

But rhythm1 probably hit it on the head. when i had my problem and Gary A suggested that i disable the firewall and when i did it worked fine. But if your like me i was running 2 firewalls so dont forget both of them if you are. 1 is the windows firewall and the 2nd was the antivirus firewall. In my case i am running norton. try that and see if it dont work.Look on page 2 about 3/4 of the way down the page.

I believe the map update works fine with Windows Firewall enabled. I think the problem is an outbound traffic issue with Comodo Firewall.

Never mind the temp files. I agree with rhythm1 and adcusnret. Sounds like your problem has something to do with firewall settings. Something on your PC is blocking outgoing traffic to Garmin server. Did you try it on a computer with internet connection but without any firewall installed?

Same here. I noticed when I was on the prowl for applications, processes, and services to shut down that even after I told COMODO to go away, it left a service called "COMODO Internet Security Helper Service" running. The services.msc interface did not provide the option to shut it down, unlike many other services. Process Explorer shows this as a cmdagent.exe process, and trying to shut it down there gets an "access denied" response.

But with the uninstall of COMODO carried out, the connecting to Server process completed in just a second or so, and the rest of copying to first the computer and then my nuvi 855 was uneventful.

But my copy of Mapsource was not updated, and Mapsource did not show either this or the previous 2010 North America maps (it did show several others, including a BlueChart I installed less than a month ago). The map data for the maps it could see were under c:\Garmin, while the 2010 NA stuff was under c:\Documents and settings\All Users\Application data.

I used the option in the copy of Mapsource I was running to look for Mapsource updates--downloaded 60 Mbytes, and the resulting revised copy of Mapsource could see both the older maps and the newer ones.

I offer this detail in case someone else happens to get that symptom, and am very grateful to rthymn1 for the COMODO uninstall advice. I had already spotted the still running service, but was not minded to undertake the pain of uninstall, reinstall, and reconfigure without your extra pointer that this likely would really solve the matter.

My 855 is very new, and I installed 2010.20 just a couple of weeks ago as my one free update. That one did not suffer this problem--so either 2010.30 does something different that COMODO blocks, or a COMODO update in the interim conflicts.

You are very welcome archae86.
I agree with you that the COMODO update last week is the problem.
I went with the free version of ZoneAlarm for my firewall. It displays a warning when outbound traffic to the Garmin server is detected, and properly opens the connection when you select to allow it.

I have been running ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite (paid) for several years and it has never blocked access to the Garmin website for any of my updates. It uses the same firewall as the free version.

Comodo doesn't prompt when something tries to access the internet? That's not good.

Btw, zonealarm free version (9.1.007.002) has just been released:
http://download.zonelabs.com/bin/free/information/znalm/zaRe...

It does, normally. There is something very odd about this specific combination. No real basis to allocate blame among Garmin and COMODO, but on track record of the two for other things--my bet is Garmin is more at fault.

I gave up on ZoneAlarm a year ago having run it for years when it had two separate issues within a few months which gave total loss of internet connectivity. (both were adverse reactions to Windows Updates).

FYI
Zonealarm free version 8.x prompts me when I run map update executable.

. . . and thanks to those who took one for the team. Lots of great info here.

That's why I don't set Windows updates to automatic. I had (and still do) ZoneAlarm when those problems occurred last year. I read about the problem and held off installing the Windows updates so I was never affected.

Not ZoneAlarm's fault - they can write programs that are backward compatible, but no one can write programs that are forward compatible.

gerrydrake - do you know if they fixed the bug where saving a gpx file always write out the same comments in both the "cmt" and "desc" fields?

I downloaded the nuMaps Lifetime update for North America recently. It took hours to download the update and then I could not get it to upload onto the nuvi. After many attempts (about 6), the map finally uploaded to the nuvi. Since I uploaded the map update, my POI search results are duplicated. I wrote to Garmin to get help in how to fix this problem and I am still waiting for a response.