Upgrade of Garmin cards

Peter H. Coffin schrieb:

I have only a SD card.
It is a micro SD card from Scandisk in a SD Adapter.
The card has 2 GB.

On the Card, nothing is written from Garmin, so it seems to me
a normal SD Card. But it is from Garmin because i bought it at a
official electronic store (Conrad) in Germany. The cover is garmin.

I do not know , what a "Garmin SD Card" is it a special HW like a Sony
Dual Pro memory card? Or is a "garmin SD Card" also only a regualr SD
Card with a copyprotection or writeprotecion.

The problem is.
I do not know, if I buy the upgrade option if this upgrade option is
related to my garmin unit whithin all SW Maps what I have or is this
SW upgrade related to ONE SW e.g the Europe Map which is loaded on my
unit.

I will ask Garmin directly here in Germany but I do not know if I
will get an answer.

My understanding is:
If I buy the unit eternal upgrade option for my unit, that it must be
possible to update all !! maps what I bought for my unit. Not only this one
which is loaded into my unit per default but also the maps on "Garmin SD Cards"
whatever this means. So if I buy this upgrade option "for livetime of my unit"
I wnat only to buy maps independent how many maps and then it must be
possible to upgrade all these maps for free further for my unit.

Regards
BGE

boris gerlach wrote:


Quoting directly from Garmins site "The updates you receive under the
subscription will be updates to the same geographic map data originally
included with your Garmin product when originally purchased." So the only
maps that you can get a LifeTime subscription of are those that came with
your unit originally. Not extra maps that you have bought later. See
http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/cache/offonce/us/maps/numaps-lifetime The
only ones who can use the LifeTime subscription for both Europe and US are
the ones who bought a unit with both maps preloaded, for example the Nüvi
670.

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Hasse

However, if you purchased an "original" set, you can subscribe for "lifetime"
upgrades of that set for the gps on which it was installed.

In my case, my gps's came with the NA map sets. I subsequently purchased an
original Europe set for one unit and I was able to subscribe to lifetime sets
for both Europe and NA for the unit on which I use them.

The key is having an original set associated with the unit.
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Carl Heinz
cfheinz57@charter.net
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Carl Heinz wrote:

OK thats better than what they say on the web site. But you bought the
additional set as an download or on a DVD? Not an SD-card as the OP?

--
Hasse

I ordered the DVD and then paid for the unlock when it arrived. Don't know if
Garmin still does this. When I went to the lifetime updates, I ordered the
NA/Europe combined package. This was only available from Garmin when I bought
it. However, it was only available on the unit for which I had both the
original sets. In this case, it's a 2720. Updates for both are provided via
download. Since the SD is, as I understand it, locked to the card and not the
GPS, this may not be an option for everyone. When Garmin first started
selling devices without DVD's, customers could request a DVD from Garmin.
Don't know if this is still true and, also, I have no direct experience with
Garmin loaded SD's.

My present batch consists of the 2720, 7200, and 76Cx. I have lifetime
NA/Europe for the 2720, NA for the 7200, and, since I just use the 76Cx for
back tracking while on foot, I no longer update the map sets for it. As an
aside, the maps for the 76Cx date back to the time when Garmin permitted a
second device to be unlocked. I stopped updating it when Garmin changed their
policy which so that they no longer allowed updates to devices which had
second device unlocks.
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Carl Heinz
cfheinz57@charter.net
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