Thread: Honda Goldwing 2006-2008 Navi GPS Firmware Update Versions 4.60 & 4.70

I have a 06 Wing and updated the firmware to 4.60 installed the 2012.40 img file and like everybody else I got the grayed out keyboard. So I copied my old map file to it and was going to switch between cards to use the search option that way. I then copied the file gmapprom.img to a another card so that I would have the updated maps. Well all the smaller roads did not appear I tried another download and got the same thing. For some reason I pulled the card with the unit still on and renamed the file to gmapsupp.img and reinstalled it into the unit while it was still on. It showed the little window Loading Maps and guess what everything works with the new maps no grayed out keyboard. Have not a clue to what happened but maybe someone else can duplicate it and figure it out. Hope this is helpful to someone

Originally Posted by Vonbeck

........ Have not a clue to what happened but maybe someone else can duplicate it and figure it out. Hope this is helpful to someone

@Vonbeck
Some of the best discoveries are made accidentally, lol. It would seem that 'hot plugging' the map card maybe enables something to allow the new map to be fully compatible with the fw update and thus fully enable search(?). If you could verify that this 'enabling' is permanent for the new map, i.e. that hot plugging does not have to be repeated after the unit is powered down and rebooted, that would appear to confirm some kind of fw initializing. Either way, if this is not a one-off fluke and works with any NT map, it's a nice find champ.