05-20-2017, 06:19 AM | #1 |
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Niggle 2: USB map updates via Windows only
Going to Spain and Portugal shortly so keen to ensure up to date maps. Took some time for me to find where on the website to access USB updates. But in speaking to Connected Drive customer support they revealed that the Update Manager which needs to be downloaded is Windows only. They gave me a link to use on iMac but that is for Parallels costing £57, with a Windows purchase then required, I believe.
I was aware of over-the-air updates for region. I thought that these were necessarily UK for me. The good news seems to be that I can apparently select from 6 regions. One of these includes Spain so I will try that, but do not know how I will know if successful. But Portugal is in none of the regions. But this is still all much better than some years ago when buying an update disk for a single region cost more than £100! |
05-20-2017, 07:11 AM | #2 |
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You can use virtual box from Oracle, it is a free virtual machine engine similar to parallels. Then you install windows (you can find an installer directly from Microsoft) in a vm, you don't need to provide a licence key during a grace period of several month, and from that vm you should be able to execute the update manager you need.
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05-20-2017, 08:57 AM | #4 |
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Forgive me for being stupid but can't you update the car through a phone link ?
Do the dealers update each service ? If they don't presumably they would if one asked nicely..... Sounds a bit complicated to me
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No they will not update a full map, it's 28G+ and takes hours to download @ 30M/sec onto a 64G USB.
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And yeah I know it is quite techy but not that complicated |
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07-12-2017, 02:46 AM | #7 |
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Just to follow up, they've released an OSX version of the map update software.
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