Just bought a Garmin nuvi 3790T and have alot of questions

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Originally Posted by aekhong [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

Hi navlem,
I still wonder why you have (Sg/My) gupdate.gcd file in your Taiwan unit.
Did you buy it from Garmin dealer?
Why did you have swv 2.50 at first ? (2.50 is swv of US firmware)
Is it possible that ., the shop converted US unit to other region ?

Could you please go into inventory page to check boot HWID ?
Normally it should be the real hwid of the unit.

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I bought mine from the IT Show in Taiwan. Which supposed to be the official Garmin dealer.

My HWID is "B1259"

Hope I got it right.

So should I update my GPS using the new 2.10 Taiwan Firmware? Or will doing that brick my unit?

Frankly, I believe you got a Singapore device. I guess the IT show u are referring to, was in July and at this time, the 3790 was not available in TW.
But Garmin TW produces also the SG/MAL devices. Have to check which HWID has the TW device

The IT show I was referring to, was the one in December.

HWID 1259 is correct for TW 3790, still a mystery how u can have FW 2.50 for that device.
Are u sure its this is not referring to a different FW of another component?
Maybe you can upload a screenshot of your inventory page to show the FW versions. So far I would not recommend that you install FW 2.10.
Another possibility, maybe u can upload your garmindevice.xml to a filehoster and send the link by PN. I would like to have a look on this

Please go to inventory page to see what "HWID-SWV" is .


Boot BLK B.HWID - SWV
System B HWID-SWV

The original unit have to get the same swv number both boot&system.
:)

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Originally Posted by tom1807 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

HWID 1259 is correct for TW 3790, still a mystery how u can have FW 2.50 for that device.
Are u sure its this is not referring to a different FW of another component?
Maybe you can upload a screenshot of your inventory page to show the FW versions. So far I would not recommend that you install FW 2.10.
Another possibility, maybe u can upload your garmindevice.xml to a filehoster and send the link by PN. I would like to have a look on this

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Sent you a PM with the link of the garmindevice.xml

I hope you will finally solve the mystery for me :)

And mystery solved.
You have a TW Nuvi 3790 with FW 2.00

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<PartNumber>006-B1259-00</PartNumber><SoftwareVersion>200</SoftwareVersion>

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1259 is the HWID, 200 is the Firmwareversion. You can update to SG/MAL 2.50 or TW 2.10. I think no big differences

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Originally Posted by tom1807 [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

And mystery solved.
You have a TW Nuvi 3790 with FW 2.00

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<PartNumber>006-B1259-00</PartNumber><SoftwareVersion>200</SoftwareVersion>

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1259 is the HWID, 200 is the Firmwareversion. You can update to SG/MAL 2.50 or TW 2.10. I think no big differences

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So how come my GCD file is SG/MY instead of Taiwan?