Thread: Software to verify if a map is locked or unlocked?

Hi,

I'm new here to the forum. I have read a lot so I am trying to keep the usual questions out of the way. However... I have an important trip on Saturday morning and I am needing to get the "VUS030R" Map loaded to my GPSMAP 4210 Garming GPS Unit. I already downloaded the IMG File to my PC (963MB). However, I have read that the file is either locked or unlocked. By my understanding, locked meant that I had to use some sort of keygen and generate a .unl file to get the map working on my gps unit. And the unlocked meant that I simply loaded it to my SD Card and DONE.

However, I have a small handicap and the thing is that the boat is located 4 hours from where I am right now and I will probably not have any internet connection where the boat is, so I have no way of getting any serial numbers or any type of information from the GPS itself, so having a LOCKED version is worthless at this point. However... I found the software Fast IMG Unlocker and I downloaded version 2.1 (if I recall correctly). I saved a clean copy of the file in a separate folder as a backup solution in case anything went wrong with the unlocker.

Apparently all went well. However... now I am stuck with the doubt if the file is really unlocked and if it would work properly on my GPSMAP 4210 Garmin Unit. I also read a software called "gmaptool". I downloaded it as well. I analyzed both files (The Unlocked one from Fast IMG Unlocker and the Original Clean Version that I saved in a separate folder as a backup). I went ahead and clicked on "details" for both files.

Here was the result for the file that Fast IMG Unlocker "unlocked": (just a small part of the report)

File: C:/downloads/VUS030R.IMG, length 958005248
Header: 08.07.2011 05:58:40, DSKIMG, XOR 00, V 10.50, Ms 0
Mapset: VUS030R-Southeast Caribbean
fat: 1000h - 1200h - 28000h, block 16384
maps: 69, sub-files 70

Sub-file fat length
MARINAS MDR 1200h 45660
MARINAS SRT 1400h 968
00000064 GMP 1600h 73992452
GMP: TRE RGN LBL
map 7a924c (8032844)
PID 1, FID 487, region 1,41
date 19.06.2008 19:20:13
priority 28, parameters 0 2 31 3, transparent
levels [13,14,16,18,20,22,24], zoom [86,5,4,3,2,1,0]
N: 20.366592, S: 7.883978, W: -75.011344, E: -59.181461
GARMIN G-Map
Copyright 1995-2008 by GARMIN Corporation.
CP 1252, Western European
Bitmaps 492, size 73963899 (8)
00000065 GMP 3C00h 8962
GMP: TRE RGN LBL
map 7a924f (8032847)
PID 1, FID 487, region 1,41
date 19.06.2008 19:20:19
priority 28, parameters 0 2 31 3, transparent
levels [17,18,19,20,22], zoom [84,3,2,1,0]
N: 20.366592, S: 7.883892, W: -75.011387, E: -59.181461
GARMIN G-Map
Copyright 1995-2008 by GARMIN Corporation.
CP 1252, Western European

Here are the results for the file that I saved as backup (Original Clean Version):

File: C:/downloads/Garmin Test/VUS030R.IMG, length 958005248
Header: 19.06.2008 23:24:05, DSKIMG, XOR 00, V 10.50, Ms 0
Mapset: VUS030R-Southeast Caribbean
fat: 1000h - 1200h - 28000h, block 16384
maps: 69, sub-files 70

Sub-file fat length
MARINAS MDR 1200h 45660
MARINAS SRT 1400h 968
00000064 GMP 1600h 73992452
GMP: TRE RGN LBL
map 7a924c (8032844)
PID 1, FID 487, region 1,41
date 19.06.2008 19:20:13
priority 28, parameters 0 2 31 3, locked, transparent
N: 20.366592, S: 7.883978, W: -75.011344, E: -59.181461
GARMIN G-Map
Copyright 1995-2008 by GARMIN Corporation.
CP 1252, Western European
Bitmaps 492, size 73963899 (8)
00000065 GMP 3C00h 8962
GMP: TRE RGN LBL
map 7a924f (8032847)
PID 1, FID 487, region 1,41
date 19.06.2008 19:20:19
priority 28, parameters 0 2 31 3, locked, transparent
N: 20.366592, S: 7.883892, W: -75.011387, E: -59.181461
GARMIN G-Map
Copyright 1995-2008 by GARMIN Corporation.
CP 1252, Western European

From what I could see, the word "locked" does not appear anywhere in the "details" report from gmaptool in the file that I unlocked from Fast IMG Unlocker. However, since I am new to this I have no idea if my conclusions are in fact true. Here is what I am needing:

1. Someone to confirm is the steps that I did are the correct ones to have the map unlocked.
2. Are my conclusions related to the gmaptool correct? (that the file was unlocked?)If not, what software is there out there that I can use to confirm if a map is really locked or unlocked?
3. Someone to confirm what should be the filename of the map and where should it be located in the SD Card (e.g. E:/Garmin/filename.img) (Is "Garmin" the right folder name or can it be any folder name?)

Sorry for the long thread but I felt that if I can provide as much details as possible you will be able to help me more.

Thanks in Advance!