GarminDevice.xml observations

I have created two different Garmin Devices.

One is a 1G SD card that is in the card reader slot of one of my printers. On this SD card, I placed a copy of the GarminDevice.xml from my 765 into a folder called Garmin. I went into GarminDevice.xml using Notepad++ (with plugins for XML Tools and used the option "Pretty Print (XML only) - with like breaks"). Notepad++ then gave me an excellent representation of the .xml file.

Then, I changed the "nuvi 765" in the following

to "nuvi 765SD on F".

Since this "device" is, in essence, permanently a "removable" drive on my PC, all of the Garmin software will search for and find this "device".

I use "nuvi 765SD on F" a lot for testing whenever there is a problem with a POI file from poi-factory as claimed by one of our members. POI Loader immediately finds "nuvi 765SD on F" and, after I download the suspect file, I see if I can load the file.

Or, if I am playing around with a POI file of my own, I can test it out without going to the car to get the GPS. I can later transfer the .gpi file to the GPS once I get all the entries made.

I wondered what would happen if I tried other Garmin Software. I just did a test with WebUpdater on "nuvi 765SD on F". It told me that there were updates to voices. In particular, there was a later version (2.20) of "Jack" available because what I had was:

meaning that I had version 1.80

So, I selected to update Jack and WebUpdater created a Voice folder in the Garmin folder on "nuvi 765SD on F" and downloaded English_American_Jack.vpm to it.

Then I tried MapInstall. It found that I had City Navigator North America NT 2013.4 on my computer. It noticed that I had no maps on "nuvi 765SD on F" and offered to add some. I used the displayed map to get the two sections of one state and told MapInstall to proceed. It created two files

c22d12ff-34f1-4b29-ae04-2906cc54eea2.gma
gmapsupp.img

in the Garmin folder.

Next, I ran MapSource. Now "nuvi 765SD on F" had a GPX folder with several .gpx files in it.I asked MapSource to Transfer > Receive from Device > Waypoints and it told me there were no waypoints to receive. OK - I sort of expected that, so I went to the other "Garmin Device" I have (but have not yet detailed for you) and grabbed its "current.gpx" file and copied it to "nuvi 765SD on F". I ran the transfer again and all of the entries in Saved Places were transferred to MapSource.

On to Garmin Express, GE found the device and said there was a map update and three software updates ready to install - a hotfix, Jill and a time zone map. I pressed the "Install" button next to Jill, agreed to Terms and Conditions, and then GE downloaded BOTH Jill and the time zone map (which I thought was pretty presumptuous).

GE put English_American_Jill.vpm in the Voice folder and gmaptz.img in the Garmin Folder.

Wondered what would happen if I tried to do a map install. Sure enough I got the not enough space warning (recall it's only a 1G SD card). When it got to the "Choose a Region" screen, it hung. So, I backed out

When I went to the Device Tab of GE, I had 5 sub-tabs
Info
Help and Manuals
Transfer Saved Places
Back Up
Optional Updates

Under Help and Manuals, the Owner's manual choice opened up a PDF of the manual, which I could have saved to the computer (but did not since I already have it)

Under Transfer Saved Places, GE was offering to "Transfer Saved Places" to my "nuvi 765SD on F" from my "stick2595".

Under Optional Updates, I found there was a file "Proximity Alert Texts, All languages, GTT". This sounded interesting so I checked it and clicked the Add to Updates button and agreed to Terms and Conditions. Now, I had a D116900.zip file in the Garmin folder.

Stay tuned for what happens with my "stick2595" which is really a full backup of the 2595 on a 16G stick. I will say that, when I fooled with it several days ago, it was willing to do updates but asked me to attach my device. I am assuming that it was going to have to fool around with internal protected memory and recognized that it did not have the actual nuvi attached.

I am not really sure what usage we can make of pseudo devices, but it looks interesting.

By the way, let me talk about GE and what I need to do. There is an icon in the system tray which I just right-clicked and selected "Exit". Next, I fired up Autoruns and checked the three places where Garmin puts entries. The entry in the Logon tab was still unchecked (as I had unchecked it after the original GE install). The entry in Scheduled Tasks was still unchecked (as I had unchecked it after the original GE install). However the entry in the Services Tab had been rechecked - so I unchecked it again.