Thread: 2xxx and 3xxx series enable features application

I bought a refurb Nuvi 3490LMT (US maps). Updated maps right out of the box via Garmin Express. It also updated software to v8.20. Loaded empty enable/diable.xml files + UpdateDeviceConfig.xml. After restart only UpdateDeviceConfig.xml was gone and there were no media and video player buttons on the apps page. From my experience with another 3490 unit I know that trick worked with software v6.20. So I decided to revert to an older software version. The oldest I could find was 6.30 (from here

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). Now I have my players. So beware of software version 8.20 (and possibly other versions 7 and 8) because of the players issue. It seems like Garmin is becoming more and more like Apple (e.g., adding .gma on top of .unl). I wouldn't be surprised if in the future we'll have to jailbreak Garmin devices.
One other issue with update to v8.20. GTM traffic did not update to 3.1 and remained at 2.1. Traffic receiver quite frequently and at length entered into "receiving traffic updates".