Thread: Transform a Nuvi 37xx in a Nuvi 34xx for dummies

Thank you very much for your help voyager56!
I read about Garmin Lifetime Updater, but chose not to uninstall it and instead stopped its process and put it into Kaspersky's "jail" of untrusted apps. Maybe I should uninstall it, after all its easy to re-install. My USB cable is ok as the pc recognizes the Nuvi and offers to open windows explorer. As for the drivers, if the pc recognizes it, shouldn't it be installed already? I'll give your advice a try and uninstall GLU and check if I need to install any drivers for the GPS. I'll post my results...
Best regards!

errrr! Nop, zilch, nothing, nada 8-(
I uninstalled GLU, but don't even have an option to update nuvi's driver as latest is loaded, yet, nothing changed the scenario. My 3790 has the latest SW 4.70 e FW 2.60. Either this is the reason for my misfortune or the GarminUpdater 2.8.0 is corrupted, because it doesn't detect anything (sometimes i was holding my finger over the top-left of the screen for 15mins - well, if you're doing something else while you wait you don't get bored... just frustrated lol).
Can anyone give me links for new downloads for the updater and *.gcd that you successfully used for your conversion?

Originally Posted by webalf

errrr! Nop, zilch, nothing, nada 8-(
I uninstalled GLU, but don't even have an option to update nuvi's driver as latest is loaded, yet, nothing changed the scenario. My 3790 has the latest SW 4.70 e FW 2.60. Either this is the reason for my misfortune or the GarminUpdater 2.8.0 is corrupted, because it doesn't detect anything (sometimes i was holding my finger over the top-left of the screen for 15mins - well, if you're doing something else while you wait you don't get bored... just frustrated lol).
Can anyone give me links for new downloads for the updater and *.gcd that you successfully used for your conversion?

1. Execute updater.exe. Make sure you checked "USB device" on Updater.
2. Turn off Nuvi and disconnect USB cable from PC.
3. Connect Nuvi to PC using USB cable.
4. When Garmin logo appears put finger on the left upper corner on LCD screen and hold it.
5. When Nuvi goes in preboot mode it will be recognized by updater. Press OK on updater.

Hi voyager56!
yes, that's exactly the procedure that I've been following. Maybe this can sound weird for everyone that succeeded by doing this way, but it doesn't crank with my unit. I really am a very methodical guy and take my time to read everyone's experiences before advancing (also like to share my own experiments). That's why I think that perhaps my updater is corrupted, as all steps go ok and only this piece of sw doesn't recognize or "wink" to my 3790 and a few seconds later, though, both windows offers to open mass storage unit and anti-virus to check on it. I have both updater and generated rgn file in the same folder as well. I believe by all the readings that being an LMT edition has nothing to do with the mishap, so I'm losing my hope of making it.

@webalf
Try another computer, WinXP SP3

You can try this:

1. Execute updater.exe. Make sure you checked "USB device" on Updater.
2. Turn off Nuvi and disconnect USB cable from PC.
3. Put finger on the left upper corner on LCD screen and hold it.
4. With other hand connect Nuvi to PC using USB cable
5. When Nuvi goes in preboot mode it will be recognized by updater. Press OK on updater.

p.s.

You can also try on step 3. put finger in the midle of the screen and hold it.

@dasilvarsa, @voyager56, @lolypop000 & @x-trail:
Thank you very much for all the help & support. It was worth it! I made it!!!!! I followed all and each advise and you were all right. My problem everyone knows already what it was, so now here is the solution for others facing it to manage without plucking all your hair lol. Ok, step 1 - following x-trail's advice I sent kaspersky for a pack of *****ers at the corner store; step 2 - I kept my laptop's win7 beside me but this time I sat facing my old pc running XP (as per dasilvarsa's suggestion); step 3 - voyager56 was right, although my pc recognized the nuvi it never meant the drivers were installed (or updated, maybe?) - I'm not an expert in software to be honest, but as soon as I installed freshly downloaded drivers from garmin's website the updater recognized my nuvi right away; step 4 - followed lolypop000 procedure, like so many times I did before but this time the updater "flew" the application and in a few instants I had the software loaded in my "brand new" 3490. I already installed the logo as well and next steps will be working around the things that are missing (voice command and whatever I find as I still don't know the 34xx UI). Be back with updates.. I mean doubts, most likely lol!

Ok, so now I'm starting to get used to the 3490's UI. Features I don't have working are: voice command, 3d buildings view (had it ok on 3790 fw), mp3 & video players. I've read a lot, tried a lot of the problem solvers for others, but nothing! I read somewhere that one "enabled" the voice command feature... How to do it? Or what should I do?

Originally Posted by webalf

Ok, so now I'm starting to get used to the 3490's UI. Features I don't have working are: voice command, 3d buildings view (had it ok on 3790 fw), mp3 & video players. I've read a lot, tried a lot of the problem solvers for others, but nothing! I read somewhere that one "enabled" the voice command feature... How to do it? Or what should I do?

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To get the desired features available you must copy some of these *.xml files in /Garmin (example /Garmin/DeviceConfig_MP3_Enabled.xml) and restart your Nuvi .
Then check what do you have in .System\Diag\html supported features.