Good News .. new versions (Garmin Mobile PC w/2010 maps ..)

I have had a look through this thread as I am interested to update my Garmin Mobile PC maps. It is some while since I last posted. I am running 5.00.60g with City Navigator Europe NT and City Navigator North America NT maps - by the way, is there a newer software version of Mobile PC and if so how do you get it (I am aware of several irritating bugs that I work around which Garmin do not appear to be fixing)? I had to buy two 20X GPS heads and I start Mobile PC with a batch file that loads either the Europe or US maps into GMAPPROM.IMG. The maps are City Navigator Europe NT 2008 and City Navigator North America NT 2009. I have newer versions of both of these running in my Nuvi 775T so I would like to update Mobile PC to keep it in sync. I have not seen any Mobile PC software for sale for some time now so I had assumed that Garmin had given it up. I am interested to hear that you can buy it now with City Navigator North America NT 2010 - the only concern I have is whether a new software only version would work with my existing 20X heads? I had a load of trouble with Mobile PC maps registered to one head before - I was unable to get both the Europe and North America maps to work with one 20X which is why I am the proud owner of two - I don't want to buy any more!!!

I was considering buying updates to the City Navigator maps before I read your posts. I had read that it was best for Mobile PC to buy new (non-update) versions of the City Navigator NT maps and install these but I have not moved forward so far in case this doesn't work and I just waste my money buying maps I cannot use.

Any advice would be much appreciated. I have found it completely useless asking for help from the UK Garmin Support in Southampton - I think they know considerably less about it than I do and I am certainly no expert.

Julian.

. I was wondering whether I should buy new (non-update) versions of the

I hope that this does not make a 'duplicate' post. My first attempt seems to have gotten lost. What did I doo!!

Garmin's 2010.20 'free' map download is now installed on my Notebook under XP Home. Why?

The thanks go to Todd Wade (Advanced Certified Software Support Specialist) at Garmin.

The download was blocked due to insufficient space on the hard drive. Todd informed me that I needed at least three times the 2.2 GB size of the download on my C: drive. I scrounged up 7.8 GB out of my 40 GB drive and that was that. Also --- the download manager also worked as it should with the additional space.

Of course, given my track record, that was not to be the end of it. I could not get the software to install. Explicitly following the on screen instructions I consistently ran into the following error message after I clicked on 'Install'...

Why? In the sequence of steps I was instructed to ...

1. Turn on your Garmin GPS
2. Connect your Garmin GPS to your computer using a USB cable.
3. Click Next.

As long as I did exactly that, I received the error message. Again Todd figured out the problem. Do not do 'exactly' that. Do not connect the Garmin GPS to your computer.

So doing the 'opposite' ... Not connecting the Garmin GPS to my computer allowed the installation to complete.

I told Todd via email this:
Todd's reply was:
The new map added 100 MB to the old map.

That's it for me. Until something else pops up I'm out of here.

Take care folks.

Rod

So are there any other updates with the new maps? I'm using iGuidance right now in the car and want to switch to Garmin (so it's more wife friendly - she has a Nuvi in her car) for my CarPC. The biggest issue so far has been no OSK without having to do a bunch of work to use some aftermarket software to get an OSK.

The latest version of Mobile PC, 5.00.60 is almost a year old and does not include an OSK. The update discussed in this thread is only to the map.

Terry