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

I tried the 4.7 update on my 2007 bike and it only gets to the word "Loader". Waited at least 5 minutes and it did nothing. Reinstalled the 4.6 and that is still my firmware. Either this 4.7 firmware isn't the real deal (a fake) or Garmin made the software bike specific where it will only work on the bike it was intended for. Here is all I got to. check the image I sent. I think it is option #2. I think the GCD file is good.

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It's definitely not fake. Your 2007 is a US 'wing with the OEM nav unit it's HWID is 0265 and therefore should it accept the upgrade. I don't think the firmwares are incremental so you should be able to load 4.7 over anything lower than 4.6 but you could try do it in steps if you have 4.5 or lower in case the updates aren't cumulative. Maybe you need to reset it as described in [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] of this thread. All at your own risk of course.

Certainly shouldn't take 5 minutes to load, but sometimes a fw update will just stall for no reason at times with other Garmin units i've found. Aborting when it hangs like that, resetting the unit and trying again will often work. Strange you don't have a reset hole. Downgrading fw on most units will force a reset, but that's maybe not going to be possible as these units cannot be connected to a PC to use Updater.exe and flash an RGN file. AFAIK they can only have firmware flashed with GCD file on the card. It may be possible to fool it by renaming the older firmware as an higher version than the current one but that's untested on GW personally so i don't know how it would react. What version are you running now on it?

Umm, not sure that there's a problem with the 4.70 fw but maybe nobody else has said they can't get it to load. Unfortunately I don't have access to a 'wing to test anymore. There is another file named gupdate.gcd rared and uploaded in Post #365, but almost certainly it's the same file I downloaded and renamed correctly before attaching to our server. The hash files of the 2 files i have [gupdate(4.7).gcd and gupdate.gcd] are identical. If you got a bad download the rar should not have extracted without an error, but you could try the server file instead just in case.

No worries Ron, i thought that was probably the case [and hoping so, because the 2nd scenario wasn't a good one, lol]. No need to thank me for the memory lession, it's a bl**dy wonder i remembered at all.

You may be able to return the favour and test something for me. I don't have access to a GW so i'm unable to test a theory. On nuvi and similar units it's possible to have two different maps covering the same area but only one selected to use for navigation. However the POIs from both maps then will appear on the screen and therefore it's possible to select a poi from the deselected map and navigate to it on the active map. 'Unofficial' unlocked maps on GW Navi CF cannot be searched by POI because the keyboard greys out as you'd be aware from your reading. My theory is that perhaps having an 'official' map on the card with the unlocked map may just overcome this and allow search of a poi on the official map to then navigate to on the unlocked map.

If you're prepared to test, you'll need to combine a recent NT unlocked map with the old non-NT map which was on the CF card [hope you did a backup]. If you have gmap versions of both you can do that with MapInstall and select smaller areas only where you are [MB = Manitoba, maybe?] to send to a small CF card. If you have to combine the full images with [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] then you'll need a 4GB card. My StreetPilot 2610 needs to have one deselected manually, GW navi is loosely based on SP2610 so you'll probably have to uncheck the non-NT before testing.

If you're able to help but need some more assistance let me know.