Thread: How to update maps on a street pilot 2720

Just try at another place with clear sky, got signal for all satellite
Thank you neil & ddabcd277

p.s
my homework now is find out which connector pinout for power supply
i will cut those cable and made a socket for it

Positive and Ground Connection
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it seems no regulator circuit near speaker enclosure
Now its time to cut it, still looking for good connector from battety to GPS though
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Originally Posted by Giomen

It is not really waterproof but you do not care about it. I forgot it in car before a ford forcing a many time. Just dried and cleaned from swamp slime and no problem. One moment what no voltage supply to it in this cases because all auto electrical circuits below roof certainly was disconnected.
P.S. Car adapter is not sealed and you can see yourself that is inside.

Thanks for your information, my little concern if inside those speaker enclosure have a electronic pcb or something like that
i will open it when i already have small screw driver

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Finally, i'm cutting DC adapter and grab some "hid ballast" socket because its waterproof
so i can interchange between AC power / Battery power
I had tested, red cable still Positive and Black is Ground
Dont forget to put a fuse, i take lazy ways (solder them directly)
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after a little finishing with heatshrink
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That's the sad news Mate. You can't see it using Windows tools, not as far as i know anyway. Not visible in My Computer/Windows Explorer/Disk Management. No drive letter allocated. These things are not at all like modern nuvis which are true mass storage devices [the recent ones can also be used in Media Transfer Protocol of course] and they also have a true 'preboot mode' for flashing. The 2720 has only one mode for transferring data [e.g. maps] and for flashing, no difference.

All I can tell you is to connect it with BaseCamp/MapInstall as if you intend to transfer a map image and check the free space that way:



The guys who used these things a lot in the 'old days' may have some other tricks though, but i really don't know much more about them than what you do now.

XP SP2?? Tut tut! We know why you don't want to upgrade to SP3 don't we?

Search for an old version of MI if you want, but you can also use Mapsource to see the available space and it should work with XP SP2. You need to go a bit further along with the phantom install though. Make sure you select more map data than will fit on the SP, say around 2GB. Any cumulative combination of gmap folder data you have on you PC will do, but the current version of all of NA is 1.99GB by itself. When you click 'Send to Device' it will baulk and tell you there's not enough space letting you know what's actually available. Mine has 1504.1MB:

Originally Posted by Neil

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Search for an old version of MI if you want, but you can also use Mapsource to see the available space and it should work with XP SP2. You need to go a bit further along with the phantom install though. Make sure you select more map data than will fit on the SP, say around 2GB. Any cumulative combination of gmap folder data you have on you PC will do, but the current version of all of NA is 1.99GB by itself. When you click 'Send to Device' it will baulk and tell you there's not enough space letting you know what's actually available. Mine has 1504.1MB:
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I'm unable to use it, it have same problem at installing Windows Media Player 11
i'm give up to use my Computer, so i go with my sister laptop with Windows 7
i already install those MapInstall and recognize SP2720, but is says no unlocked map has found in this device
where should i put those .img files so MI can see it ?

I think you might be misunderstanding what i suggested. You wanted to see available space on the SP:

Originally Posted by mbajing_deh

Hallo Neil
How to see avaiable space ? i have searching on SP2720 menus and did not find it .............

You already know what maps(s) you've loaded and what size they are. What are you actually wanting to achieve?

As for MS compatibility with SP2, there are quite old versions of MS still around. Version 6.13.7 will work with it from memory i think.

I've just tried the rgn50 update method again, and it doesn't seem to work. Nor does changing the basemap to Pacific version in rgn3.

Save yourself a lot of grief and use MapInstall to load your second map as gmapsupp.img from a PC version [gmap folder] or use [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] to load an already complied image file.

After extracting NavNet 2.54 map i can see a bunch of .img files
should i load all off them on "SendMap add files" option ?
what about SRT/MDR .img and .typ files
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