View contents of transflash card??

hucker · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 30, 2005 Posts: 97

When I plugged the i3 into my USB port, I expected to see a drive appear in windows explorer (much the same as with my digital camera). Is there no way of manually seeing what is on the memory stick? Seen as it is such a tiny memory card, it won't fit in my memory card reader :-(

MELennium · Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2005 1:08 am Post subject:

You need a sd/transflash card adapter, then it will fit in your card reader.

hucker · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 30, 2005 Posts: 97

gcb · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 24, 2005 Posts: 151

I tried it. No you can't do much at all, except note that theres about 70Gb free. Seems only Map data, Voice files, POIs and a security key are stored on the card. You should never run out of space for POIs.
Settings, favourites and the software are all stored on the Garmin I3 internally.
If you back up the transflash card to another SD card and try using it the Garmin I3 will complain you did not use the Garmin POI updater and refuse to read the media. This may be something to do with than security key file, it has unusual attributes. No create time, no modified time etc.

Card looks like this:

/card/garmin/voice/English_British_.vpm + other .vpm lang files in same dir.
/GARMIN/gmapsupp.img (maps 156892Kb)
/GARMIN/gmapsupp.unl (security file)
/GARMIN/Poi/Poi.gpi (POIs all in one file)

hucker · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 30, 2005 Posts: 97

RODTROTTER · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 30, 2005 Posts: 175

yes you can back up your transflash card and yes the i3 will read it and yes it does work fine

i used a transflash adapter card
copy and paste the folder called garmin to your desk top
then put in blank transflash card in to the card adapter
copy and paste the garmin folder to the blank card
put in to your i3
at first it says use cd to install software or somit like this just press the back button and thats it it works fine
well it does for me anyway

hucker · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 30, 2005 Posts: 97

That's very odd that you can just cancel the warning.

I may have to give it a try. It does mean buying a transflash card and an adapter, but I suppose it's better than ending up with another dead GPS!

RODTROTTER · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 30, 2005 Posts: 175

transflash card and an adapter COST £26 AT BIG W

hucker · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 30, 2005 Posts: 97

MELennium · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:18 am Post subject:

Tried it but it does not work properley. It does as rodtrotter says but it does not show map detail when navigating, it basically just shows the odd road. Also you lose part of your menus such as address, intersections & you have non of the Garmin poi's but it shows your own ones you downloaded. When you go to settings / map / mapsource it is blank. Well this is what mine did anyway.

rother · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:18 am Post subject:

256 card and adaptor costs £20.19 inc post. from mobymemory, advert on this site.

<url="http://www.mobymemory.com/about.asp#">click here</url>

hucker · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 30, 2005 Posts: 97

Hmmmm, some people say it works and some say it doesn't. There must be a way to exactly duplicate a memory card in the same way clonecd exactly duplicates a cd.

What are Garmin trying to do anyway? You can't pirate a memory card, you need to have bought the i3 unit to use it!

ps73uk · Regular Visitor Joined: Jun 15, 2005 Posts: 116

hucker · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 30, 2005 Posts: 97

I had a utility somewhere once that could adjust create/modify time etc. Can't remember if it could REMOVE it though.

dougconran · Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2005 9:03 pm Post subject:

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