nuvi 35x7 and 35x8 (GCD File) new firmware 3.80 released

 

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=5967
Changes made from version 3.30 to 3.80:
- Enhanced School Zone Alerts coverage and functionality.
- Enhanced Trip Data map tool to allow further customization and to include routing data fields.
-Added support for the new Wrong-Way Driver / Dangerous Traffic alerts, including a new map tool and a corresponding audible message. This feature may not be available in all markets.
- Fixed issue with real-time safety cameras being disabled by default.
- Improved the Signpost feature with larger fonts.
- Fixed issue that prevented device from correctly returning to Main Menu while on external power.
- Fixed issue with incorrect letter capitalization for map items containing dashes.
- Fixed issue with device offering to update certain files after they were previously installed.
- Fixed issue with certain language keyboards missing buttons to enter the postal code.
- Fixed issue with DEM shading.
- Fixed issue that prevented the device from correctly exiting Demo mode.

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Interesting

Owners doing the update: Please report on what you find regarding

Enhanced School Zone Alerts coverage and functionality.

Minor detail

Is the "Signpost" feature the upper left area that shows info on the upcoming turn/direction? I did notice on our Labor Day trip that the font there was larger and I didn't like it b/c now the "mi" miles abbreviation looks like it barely fits in the little oval. Looks shoddy, I liked the smaller font for the abbreviation better.

#firstworldproblems
#garminnitpicking

wink

Thanks for the info. I will

Thanks for the info. I will check my unit's later today.

School zone coverage.

CraigW wrote:

Owners doing the update: Please report on what you find regarding

Enhanced School Zone Alerts coverage and functionality.

So, if school zone coverage is increased by a firmware update and not a map update, it would imply that the school zone information is not in the map file. Is school zone data a separate file (like Junction Views)?

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Is

alandb wrote:
CraigW wrote:

Owners doing the update: Please report on what you find regarding

Enhanced School Zone Alerts coverage and functionality.

So, if school zone coverage is increased by a firmware update and not a map update, it would imply that the school zone information is not in the map file. Is school zone data a separate file (like Junction Views)?

Is "enhanced" coverage the same a "increased" coverage?

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Good question.

Not sure how you could "enhance" coverage without increasing it though.

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Alan - Android Auto, DriveLuxe 51LMT-S, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, Nuvi 3597LMTHD, Oregon 550T, Nuvi 855, Nuvi 755T, Lowrance Endura Sierra, Bosch Nyon

I suppose

I suppose getting a warning a quarter miles sooner than you used to would be an enhancement without increasing the coverage.

The BIGGER issue for me is that this update currently simply doesn't work!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've tried Garmin Express, Webupdater, and myDashboard with the 3597 in MTP and Mass Storage mode and haven't yet been able to get the firmware to install. It appears to download properly and then:

- Garmin Express says it installed correctly which of course it hasn't since I haven't yet rebooted the device. It also then shows the firmware is UP TO DATE with VERSION 3.30, NOT 3.80.

- WebUpdater downloads the firmware update and then says there is a problem communicating with the Garmin server and then lets me continue to download other software updates if I wish. Rebooting the device show no update was done.

- MyDashboard download the firmware update and pops up the screen that says to remove the device from the USB cable, reboot it, and then attach it again. When I reboot the device it just comes up with the Where To screen and checking Device Info shows 3.30 still installed.

Can Garmin ever get this stuff right. mad mad mad

UPDATE - three hours and many attempts later the update finally was installed correctly.

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Nuvi 350, 760, 1695LM, 3790LMT, 2460LMT, 3597LMTHD, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, DriveSmart 61, Garmin Drive 52, Garmin Backup Camera 40 and TomTom XXL540s.

Possibilities

alandb wrote:

Not sure how you could "enhance" coverage without increasing it though.

One possibility (which rame1012 found here: http://www.poi-factory.com/node/37674 and KD5XB found at: http://www.poi-factory.com/node/37386) is a school zone time-of-day feature as he discovered about a year ago for a VERY select number of school zones in Louisiana.

It took a lot of time before some of us concluded that rame1012 was correct (read that "not looney tunes")--and even then, we could not find out how it worked. It was not part of Cyclops, did not appear to be a custom gpi file, etc.

If you read through the rame1012 thread, it doesn't start to get interesting until the latter half of p2 and p3.

Went to pick up the grand

Went to pick up the grand daughter from school and now my 3597 alerts me to school zones after the 3.80 firmware update.

That's great

TnPapa wrote:

Went to pick up the grand daughter from school and now my 3597 alerts me to school zones after the 3.80 firmware update.

Wonderful news.

I assume your results are around Nashville TN. Yes?

We'd appreciate future reports from you and anyone else seeing school zone alerts:

1) Are alerts now occurring for most/all schools or are the alerts only appearing for a few schools? (Other 35x7, 35x8, 2xx7 & 2xx8 users--please let us know what you're seeing, too)

2) When you get the built-in school zone alert, are they just occurring during school hours or are they 24/7 when you drive by?

As I posted in a different

As I posted in a different thread..I get one school zone alert after the update..crossing the Conowingo Dam where theres only a school for seagulls...im using a 2597 unit..and cant tell what changes were made

Try this

lamplighter1 wrote:

As I posted in a different thread..I get one school zone alert after the update..crossing the Conowingo Dam where theres only a school for seagulls...im using a 2597 unit..and cant tell what changes were made

See if you can get your coordinates (or something close) when going over the dam.

Then we could look to see if there are school zone coordinates close by - and ask why.

More info needed

lamplighter1 wrote:

As I posted in a different thread..I get one school zone alert after the update..crossing the Conowingo Dam where theres only a school for seagulls...im using a 2597 unit..and cant tell what changes were made

In your other thread, you state that you downloaded and are using a Custom POI for School Zones installed to your nuvi with POI Loader.

The info in this thread is for School Zone alerts occurring in some nuvi models with the latest firmware that are added to the nuvi by Garmin's updates.

Is your "Dam School Alert" a Garmin alert or a Custom POI alert?

The Only School Zone

Alert I ever gotten was in Lafayette, La.

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School Zone alert works on

School Zone alert works on my 3597 with the latest 3.8 firmware. I drive through 3-4 school zones around my neighborhood and they all warned me.

Your nuvi?

rthibodaux wrote:

The Only School Zone
Alert I ever gotten was in Lafayette, La.

Are you reporting on findings with a nuvi model ending in 7 or 8? This new school zone feature is likely tied only to these very new models.

Unless you've added to your corral of devices, I only see your "Garmin 855/3790LMT/2595LMT/3590LMT" devices and these are not part of the enhanced school zone alerts recently announced.

Quote: School Zone alert

Quote:

School Zone alert works on my 3597 with the latest 3.8 firmware. I drive through 3-4 school zones around my neighborhood and they all warned me.

I applied this firmware to my 3597. But I am in Canada. Have not seen any difference. May be School Zone alerts work in US only..

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Thanks

Thanks

I Was Using My

3590LMT and it was in Port Allen, La across the river from Baton Rouge, not Lafayette.

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