Question RE i3 transflash cards

adam808 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 31, 2006 Posts: 12

Hi again !

I have had a plonk round the forum to try & answer this, but what i'm seeing is confusing me....!!

The 256mb transflash in my i3:

can i buy a another blank card & back up my OEM transcard (with the map data / app i 'legally' own as the purchaser of the i3)

OR IS THE OEM CARD 'LOCKED' TO THE i3 UNIT AND CANNOT BE SUBSTITUTED WITH ANOTHER????

If the above is TRUE, then could i back up my OEM card to my PC's HDD, then re-burn the data back to the OEM transflash if required?

The reason i ask is that I have managed to download some maps & wanna have a 'play' but don't wanna ruin what garmin have already put on the card.

Thanks in advance
Adam

mikealder · Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject:

You can copy the data to the PC and save it there for future, the data can be copied back to the original card only, you cannot use a different card with the data copied to it, this simply refuses to work - Mike

adam808 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 31, 2006 Posts: 12

thnak you !

in a way thats good = i don't have to buy another flash card

in a way thats bad = i need to have the bottle to change the contents of the garmin card & i wont know i can make it go back again until i have too....

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Presumably if one were to call garmin & say

"hi, i've been dicking about with your media card to install maps i got from the internet & i've ruined it, can i have another please?"

they wouldn't be so sympathetic?

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incidently i had a issue with my card, that resulted in me having to take it back to the shop & they simply gave me another one from an i3 that i put in my original i3 & that worked fine, so what ever the card security is, it isn't unit specific (like a mac address would be for example)

MaFt

timber · Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:40 pm Post subject:

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