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Re: Downloading new maps to 810

I need to put roughly 1.5 gigs of this download junk on my memory card just to view the street I live on?

Yikes.

Re: Downloading new maps to 810

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Originally Posted by Smothermunchie (Post 131898)

I need to put roughly 1.5 gigs of this download junk on my memory card just to view the street I live on?

Yikes.

Usually people need maps not to view the street they live on because most do know where they live. If you just need to view the street you live on, the map might be much smaller.

Re: Downloading new maps to 810

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Originally Posted by caseyd (Post 130819)

Hi there,

Over the past day I have tried to download a new map to my new 810 several times. The N810 was reflashed to the latest OS.

I've deleted all user guides other than English, all Images, Music, and removed all the maps but US West. ( it wouldn't allow me to delete the last map.)

The download from w/in Maps takes an amazing amount of time only to result in a failure message. As in 3 or 4 hours. Bluetooth is off, GSP acquisitin is off...

I just downloaded the maps just fine. Took about 5 minutes or so for the Canada/Alaska map.

It is quite possible that you got bitten by the internal flash memory corruption bug present in the earlier version of OS2008. I was having similar very strange effects due to that memory being intermittently read-only. If you find that with the file manager, you can't move files on and off the internal 2G memory, you might have to reformat the partition.

You can do this by plugging the N810 into your desktop via the USB cable and formatting the drive using the desktop as a FAT32 partition. You should be able to get most of your info off the card first though. I found that only a few files where corrupted beyond retrieveability. You will also have to reboot your N810 after as I found there was some ghost files left on the 2G partition due to the way the file manager caches its file listings.

Re: Downloading new maps to 810

Thanks all!

I will keep track of whats going on on the internal SD; I think I can reformat it from OSX as FAT32.

WRT to 'copying' shouldn;t a mv command work fine? I tried it from OS X command line and got a slew of errors with file flags ( weird ). I haven't yet tried the N810 command line mv.

but, I am not in california now, I'm in switzerland and I have maps! thanks to everyone. I even sometimes get a GPS lock: sweet.