Thread: Enable features in your nuvi 12xx, 13xx and 14xx - JCV, LA, TTS

TRIVIA

If Garmin had to do a "Low Level Interrogation" of the device we would not be able to cheat by using "Flash disk" instead of device.
Serial devices of course work with proper low level communication between the device and the Garmin Software.

/ENDTRIVIA

It's a given that we're all agreed on Garmin's programs via usb only looking as far as the GarminDevice.xml for the info it needs and for the very reason you've stated. I think what is the issue here is what info does MapUpdater/GE then use from the xml. It obviously 'reads' the Model Description, but does it then use that info to determine which additional files to dl to the device? [in Strephon's case the JCV file for his 1300 with splash of 1340-50]. I suspect it does, by looking further into the xml to see if the path for jcv is present and maybe further. Maybe there needs to be some synergy between the files paths, the Model Description/ID and even other info. So would Strephon be given the JCV file if he edited his modded splash 1300's xml to show his Model Description as 'nuvi 1390' for instance?

Originally Posted by Neil

So would Strephon be given the JCV file if he edited his modded splash 1300's xml to show his Model Description as 'nuvi 1390' for instance?

It is not true way. Be wait answer from Strephon...

I do a more strange things and have a positive result! Please do not ask me about this things! I do not want to anger the gods and be expulsion from Edens as result

Originally Posted by Giomen

It is not true way. Be wait answer from Strephon...

I do a more strange things and have a positive result! Please do not ask me about this things! I do not want to anger the gods and be expulsion from Edens as result

Wait for what answer? Neil's got the right splash.

Answer about what problem you have with patched Nuvi 1300 after update with JCV?

Yes, and i do know what you mean Giomen therefore we two shall not speak further of it on pain of hot pokers and expulsion from Paradise .... Other than to say: That question was rhetorical BTW.

I don't have any problems with the 1300. All the features work, including junction view. I simply do not receive a junction view file with the map when the map updates, and even if I did it would be replaced by the Garmin-provided full JCV file. Garmin skimped on the memory for these units in the US as I'm sure most of us are aware, and Garmin provides the full file for direct download from its servers as a response to repeated complaints about lost junction views.

I do not know about this bug! I did not have such problem still...

Of course you didn't. European and Asian units presumably have additional memory and features not found in the US units. In the US, 1xxx devices have 2GB of internal storage which is no longer sufficient to store the entire map of the United States or North America. Devices like the 1350 and 1390 added Junction View, but those devices are now getting 50MB Junction View files on downloading a map update because of the space constraints.

For me at least, the fact I don't automatically receive a Junction View file when I update a map isn't a problem. I'd rather have the 700MB+ junction view file with its 60,000 images versus a 50MB file with perhaps a tenth that amount.