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 tried using the Map Downloader tool. I was told to use the micro Sd card in a stand-alone reader or to connect the device. Neither worked; I was told that the memory card needed to of had a Map written to it before the Map Downloader tool would talk to it
Most recently I upped the amount of virtual RAM and have set the whole sad circus in motion again.
Have I mis-understood how updating the Maps was supposed to proceed?
Try minimizing virtual ram instead of upping it. Because the space the Virtual ram uses on the SD card can't be used to store maps, it is to store applications that you have opened.
- Close the map app
then make sure there is enough space on the sd card. To delete everything on the sd card, including hidden files and folders:
- Open Xterm
- Type:
Code:
rm -rf /media/mmc1/*
Optionally remove/back up old settings:
- Open Xterm
- Type:
My download attempts fail as soon as I click on the download button. This happens on my N800 as well as on my N810. The Wayfinder download system must be seriously broken.
When you write 'sd' you mean the non-removable sd? as I have a blank 6gig card in the expansion bay....
Thanks, I may experiment with that later.
as it was I left this running last night in the expanded swap/virtual memory setup I posted earlier and found that the Alps had downloaded successfully.
our household net traffic is pretty heavy, perhaps sending everyone to bed and using the host during the late hours made it possible.
Note that if you move the maps directory
from your N810 internal MMC2
to a card stuck in the external MMC1 slot,
the Map app will find them just fine.
That leaves you the internal 2gig MMC2 for KDE or whatever.
( Hey, on that navicore page... "you can install ... without the windows installer! great !)
From reading the awsomely detailed notes I see that the directory structure of my download was not correct - at least the new mapdata directory was missing the _Germany & Alps bit. I'll go see if rernaming that subdir does the trick.
thanks fir the hint about moving the maps directory. that would be best; most triumphant hints there dubwise.
