Kenwood DNX9990HD: Loading 2014.30 Maps on Internal Memory - It Works!

I just installed 2018.10 NT Unicode. No problem (normal function). I noticed that the icons have changed. JCV works for anybody? None of the versions I have tried works.

EDIT. I mean it works from SD external card, I don't think internal card has the capacity

Do you mean EU Unicode as US is only NT?

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Originally Posted by Haliassos [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

Do you mean EU Unicode as US is only NT?

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I suppose you're asking if corresponding US Garmin map is Unicode or not? The answer is that Garmin has never made a unicode-compatible City Navigator for North America. For full Europe, both Unicode and 'non-unicode' versions are available for CNs, i.e. NTU and NT. The demand for mapping that can handle non-latin characters is much higher in Europe than elsewhere, simply because many European languages use Cyrillic and cyrillic-like characters e.g. Russian, Polish, Latvian and as you'be be well-aware, Greek. Pan-Africa was a map that was issued solely in NTU but has been discontinued, maybe there are a few others.

Yes Europe. However Greek are Greeklish. And I am not very happy with the details and street names presenting on the map. On my previous Kenwood DNX, had a very interesting feature, it showed the name of the next cross street. And a lot of more detail.

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Originally Posted by janch [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

So if I understand correctly (I rode the whole thread) DNX7230DAB can read unlocked map directly from SD card and doesn't need the map transfer into the internal flash?

So the file structure on SD should like this:

X:\GARMIN

| GMAP3D.IMG
| GMAPSUPP.IMG
+---\JCV
| xxxxxx.JCV

thanks in advance!

edit: I'll can answer to myself. Yes it's working directly form SD card on DNX7230DAB :)

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It also works in DNX7220 using 4 GB SD card, CNE NT img file 1.8 GB. Updated firmware first to 2.80

EDIT, I noticed that when you have guided driving, junction view works

@thalex
Yes, JCV only works when navigating and that's intentional. When you think about it, it would make no sense to have junction views show for 'moving map' without navigation.

Just like to add that JCV's are navigation guide. That is, it help telling you where to go. So it needs a route to do that.

Hmm OK. on my other car that has GPS built in, it shows junction view, in normal operation.

Sure, but I bet it's not running GARMIN's software like your Kenwood unit.