I know on the Garmin website it says you can’t take the maps off their pre-loaded SD Card but I’ve seen on here that people have done it. Has anyone done this? Can you put them on another larger SD card or even the internal memory?
Thanks,
-Vree
Most of those people did not buy their Garmin maps from Garmin
Yes you can use it on your own card. I use Garmin on my 8gb card.
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Yes you can use it on your own card. I use Garmin on my 8gb card.
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OK, cool, so I should just buy the pre-loaded card and then transfer it?
Yes you can do that. However Garmin will not recognize the maps on the new card (larger) outright and you need to generate an unlock code using a map unlocker. You can search for that in the forum. you'll need to create 2 files gm.unl and sw.unl and put it in the garmin folder on the SD Card. then Garmin should pick it up.
All the SD cards have an integral ID number, that is what Garmin looks for... The ID of the card matches the ID registered in the app.
There are ways of generating new unlock keys, but that bordering on violating this site's piracy terms... it is definately against Garmin's.
anything beyond this lies with Google
move all mobile xt to SD?
is it possible to run mobile xt from the SD card to save space on the phone?
i installed aka transfered Garmin XT onto my 8g SD
and i run it from SD, on first run it will always install a few reg settings, but i have hard reset my ppc several times, but as long as i run queppc.exe from the garmin folder in my SD it wont require an install.
also all you have to do is install garmin onto your SD card, and put your code into the folder. theres not special SD codes, or anything of that nature.. i say this as i have moved it from card to card, as long as the sw.unl is in the folder it works.
then i use garmin desktop software to backup my waypoints.
another note, the folder 2577 is not needed for anything. what this folder does is when you INSERT your SD card, it reads whats in that folder and runs it. this is not garmin specific, its USB stick all the way to flash drive tricks.
I believe talking about this is against the rules since there was another topic similar to this that was closed. I will recommend that you use Google.
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I have installed Tomtom Nav 6 on my XDA IIS, I did it all from a 2gig SD card. Tomtom will only read maps if I put them in the 'storage' folder in the internal memory. It won't read them from the SD card, any ideas???
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I installed mine on 2gig SD card as well, and when doing manage maps, it shows the map without problem (didn't do anything special)
The maps are at the root folder on the SD card
(e.g. \Storage Card\Canada-Alaska)
I have this problem with the voices, but the maps work fine.
LGX said:
I have installed Tomtom Nav 6 on my XDA IIS, I did it all from a 2gig SD card. Tomtom will only read maps if I put them in the 'storage' folder in the internal memory. It won't read them from the SD card, any ideas???
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Hi.. don't know for sure about tomtom6. but in 5.2 there is a file in "my documents\tomtom" called "CurrentMap.dat"
This must be modified to point to the correct location of your map. ie
\Storage Card\Australia-Map\
Btw... what maps do you have?
Hope this helps
Lutz
I have the GB map...I have kind of 'fixed' it now. I used a regeditor and renamed my SD card to 'storage' and now it picks up the maps.
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I have this problem with the voices, but the maps work fine.
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I had this strange problem. After reflashing OS I installed TT6 and .cap voices, but they wouldn't show up in TT6. From memory I end up Hard Reseting PDA again. This fix voice problem.
hello,
first: very good page, with a lot of infos and bombastic apps.
but i'm a newbie, i read a lot, but couldn't find a post recommend to my question. also my english isnt very good
my problem: i bought my herald without a memory card. so i installed the apps i found&liked (touchflo,flashlite,kaiserhomeplugin,htc cube clone;total commander;google maps,scitebackup) in the ram of my ppc.
but today i bought a micro sd card. now i would like to move my apps to the card.
questions: can i cut&paste the apps in the folder "programms" to a folder in my card, with the total commender. or isnt this allowed because of the registry or something like that? maybe problem with the .ink files?!
is it better to uninstall all programms. and install them new,this time directly to the sdcard?
thanks for your helps
greetings...
you can try copy paste
just like on pc's some will run others will not
though mind you things like today items and other always
running programs should not be put on the sd card
as they are much slower then storage
thank u
My SD card runs them as fast as the main memory, but I wouldn't install things that are running all the time in it. So, don't install things like the cube on the card. You should uninstall and reinstall the programs into the proper memory storage. It's easier and less problematic that way.
You can move installed programs between MAIN or SD memory using POCKET MECHANIC (http://www.wizcode.com/)
I moved all the tmobile crap (hotspot login, tzones wap, etc..) and anything else I don't want to get rid of, but I never use onto my SD card.
How will we have to wait for a 10 or 12 gb Micro SD Card
I successfully unpacked my Garmin card to an 8GB Sandisk card I use in my phone. If you don't like switching cards all the time, there is a fairly simple procedure to copy the Garmin card to your own SD card. Google it. The software has worked perfectly since I implemented this work-around.
Here's my question for anybody who may know. It took about an hour to unpack my Garmin card to my Sandisk card. However, I just stepped up to a 16 GB Sandisk card. Will I have to go through that whole work-around procedure again to get Garmin to install on my new card due to its unique i.d. or is there some simpler method? I have looked for a thread on this subject. A link would be much appreciated if it exists.
Yes; the unique ID is tied to the CARD serial number; change cards, it becomes invalid.
I wonder if you can just update those two notepad documents.
To install I had to place two notepad documents on the card containing serial number information. I wonder if you can use Keygen to update just those two files and then copy it successfully to the new card.
Keygens are a banned topic here.
We're walking a fine line here. I think I'll error on the side of caution and close this thread.
We can use Vista\XP-SharedSDcard as Network folder in WinMo via VM_Network_Browser+Network_Folder.
May by you know some program for WinMo that can emulate this SDcard (or Network folder) as StorageCard for WinMo?
Have asked the same thing, searched, but failed
Although more or less similar options have been descibed at this forum, I'm also still look "exactly" for what you are asking.
Reason : TomTom and some Aviation Software that I run won't run unless they see something like \Storage Card (in whatever language)
We need to emulate the drive from Vista to WinMo, connecting isn't a problem... we know, it's the emulation that is need for the reason above.
The software isn't available for Vista, so I don't care the power drain of running vista, JUST for the SD card.
So connecting it as a network folder won't help, anyone with a trick to fool WinMo into thinking it's the local SD card ?
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Although more or less similar options have been descibed at this forum, I'm also still look "exactly" for what you are asking.
Reason : TomTom and some Aviation Software that I run won't run unless they see something like \Storage Card (in whatever language)
We need to emulate the drive from Vista to WinMo, connecting isn't a problem... we know, it's the emulation that is need for the reason above.
The software isn't available for Vista, so I don't care the power drain of running vista, JUST for the SD card.
So connecting it as a network folder won't help, anyone with a trick to fool WinMo into thinking it's the local SD card ?
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Hi mate did you find anything for this, agree with you tomtom needs to see a folder called \storage card for it to work.
SD card access still strongly desired!!
I too am also looking for access to the SD card so that I can load up my WM side with many many programs!
thought i nearly had it....
on my x1 with tomtom7 installed there is a file in navigator folder called currentmap
when i open this file in notepad i got map location @ \stoarge card
so what i thought i could do is just change that to network\ storage card etc etc
but it did not work..............
never mind hey
N2h said:
thought i nearly had it....
on my x1 with tomtom7 installed there is a file in navigator folder called currentmap
when i open this file in notepad i got map location @ \stoarge card
so what i thought i could do is just change that to network\ storage card etc etc
but it did not work..............
never mind hey
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We are rooting for you! keep at it!
I just got my Shift, so now I can start testing on my device too!
Hello,
Whenever my Kaiser's Media player accesses the new 8GB card for music on it, it hangs. When I remove the card the phone revives. What could be the problem. Thanks
Regards
Format the card, either with the phone, or in windows. Then pop it into the phone so it can build its own folder structure, and then reload your music. I had this issue when I first got my 8gb also.
Search and read up on MicroSDHC on wiki ... Also check if its formated as Fat32, download ie. pocket mechanic for this (Licensed but trial are free), you can see its format under card information. If all fail use the Xda-Dev Search Engine whit strings as: MicroSDHC reformat, tons of info and I bet your issue is in there somewhere