NEW SOFTWARE VER 3.3 FOR I3

sanaar · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 27, 2006 Posts: 53

Just received an e-mail from Garmin advising ver 3.3 has been released.
Not willing to be a guinea pig, so will wait a while before I upgrade.
Too many bad experiences in the past with supposed updates.
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garmin nuvi 250
garmin i3 ver2.7
city navigator v8 (indexed and routeable)
city navigator v9 (indexed and routeable
metroguide north america v6(indexed and routeable)

snowboardcriminal · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:15 am Post subject:

Here are the changes that are listed in the Garmin site.

Changes made from version 3.20 to 3.30:

Added support for US Daylight Saving Time change
Added support for Brazilian Portugues voice language
Set default country and state/region using current position for address searches
Corrected address searching in some European cities using City Navigator NT version 9
Corrected some display issues for third party (MPC) maps

But does it work, and no mention of fixes for the freezing problems on version 3.20.

Who is going to try Question

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Don't eat yellow snow
i3, on the middle of the dash, works just fine!

There are things that I know and you don't know, there are things that you know that i don't know, but always remember there is much that we both don't know.

PaulB2005 · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:42 am Post subject:

Yeah i might....

PaulB2005 · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:54 am Post subject:

Loaded - will report back later....

PaulB2005 · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject:

Oh dear...

Just for info - my problems with all the post-2.7 firmwares have been white screens, slow map updates in Map Mode and erratic behaviour in Map Mode. All seems to be well when actually Navigating. I believe this is a problem experienced by more than a few people here too)

Only tested 3.30 in Map Mode...

Just 2 miles down the road and the i3 shows me still at a previous junction. The road names at the top of the screen and the speed a correct but I'm 0.5 mile ahead of where it shows me. Eventually it caught up and then i came to a fork in the road. It took the right and i3 went left.... for quite a way. Then caught up.

Got a few more runs to do today so I'll test again but seems the same old crappy Map Mode bugs exist. Can't be bothered to e-mail Garmin because they'll tell me

a) to reset the i3
b) reload the firmware
c) to reset the i3 and reload the firmware
d) its down to poor signal
e) they have no knowledge of the problem previous to my e-mail

In response to the above

a) doesn't work
b) doesn't work
c) doesn't work
d) No it's not. Signal is fine and if it was the signal why does the 2.7 firmware not do this? Especially on the same routes? And why are the speed and road names shown correctly?
e) Yes they do because i (and i believe others) have told them of this before.

snowboardcriminal · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:20 pm Post subject:

I will stick with what ive got then!

Cheers paul
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Don't eat yellow snow
i3, on the middle of the dash, works just fine!

There are things that I know and you don't know, there are things that you know that i don't know, but always remember there is much that we both don't know.

MaFt · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 2:25 pm Post subject:

"Set default country and state/region using current position for address searches "

FINALLY!!!

PaulB2005 · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject:

White screen, freeze, white screen, missing turns, and now travelling along at 45 degrees to my direction of travel.

Back to 2.7......

nitelife · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject:

here we go again... Rolling Eyes

MaFt · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject:

i wonder how well the firmware works on the newer units (internal memory) and if they are concentrating on these devices and forgetting about us long-timers?!

MaFt

trevf · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 174

PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:03 am Post subject:

trevf - are those NAVIGATED miles or just passive MAP mode miles? Problems only seems to exist in MAP Mode. Navigating doesn't seem to have a problem.

steveapp · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 02, 2005 Posts: 15

Have been using 3.3 for a couple of days, same route being navigated gives no problems, leave in map only and oh dear, jams and delays - roads just ending - not worth the fuss :-( Back to 2.70 when I can find the flipping thing as the version i had on my pc corrupted when i tried Vista (and removed it not long after!)

Thinking of moving more permanently to smart2go as my mobile (an MDA Vario) is close to tomtom and free for map mode, though you pay for navigation...

Stephen

www.dur.ac.uk/s.g.applegarth

Anita · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: To Confirm Paulb

trevf · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 24, 2006 Posts: 174

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