dnx7240bt and apple mac

daddy2coull · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 16, 2010 Posts: 5

hi, i've just bought a kenwood dnx7240bt installed it and it works very well. the maps i have a 2009 so could do with updating along with the software, when i went on the kenwood website i found it's not compatible with an apple mac, can anybody help me?

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Darren · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 8:57 am Post subject:

Dunno why they are claiming it's not compatible? Garmin have POILoader for Mac and a Safari version of Communicator?

Have you run this to see if it offers updates for Kenwood units?

http://www8.garmin.com/products/communicator/
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:26 am Post subject:

To update the unit software you need the mac version of webupdater. However I'm not sure how this will work with these kenwood units.

Can you clarify which software you are trying to use with a mac?

cjay2412 · Lifetime Member Joined: Jun 30, 2008 Posts: 102

maps are updated via dvd rom what you need is KNA-MP12E rrp £149.99 however the 2011 version should be out soon so you may wish to wait

daddy2coull · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 16, 2010 Posts: 5

i meant the operating system on the kenwood headunit needs updating before any map downloads or installations.

cjay2412 · Lifetime Member Joined: Jun 30, 2008 Posts: 102

all kenwood updates can be found here http://www8.garmin.com/products/kenwood/

daddy2coull · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 16, 2010 Posts: 5

as i said, i am trying to update the operating system on the headunit. the system requirements state

System requirements:

1. IBM-compatible PC running Windows XP or later operating system and an available SD card reader.

i run an apple mac and the wife runs a pc with vista which also doesn't open the file that you download and need to run!!!

PaulB2005 · Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 8:22 pm Post subject:

I can't find the instructions on Garmins website so you'll have to tell me what you are supposed to do with be download as its a ZIP file so I guess you have to unzip the contents. What are you suppossed to do next?

daddy2coull · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 16, 2010 Posts: 5

from what i understand, you unzip the file and run it. then burn that to a cd and install it on the kenwood

PaulB2005 · Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:17 pm Post subject:

Without knowing what the instructions say EXACTLY it's going to be difficult to comment. If the file is a Windows Executable then you'll probably not get it to work under Mac OS.

It could be the file doesn't need to run but just needs to burnt to CD. The more you can tell us about the download and the instructions the better.

daddy2coull · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 16, 2010 Posts: 5

finally sorted the download, i put a copy of XP on my mac and ran it in bootcamp, i now have the latest software on my kenwood head unit,

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