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

**Neil** · 20th October 2015, 02:33 AM

Sorry, you actually edited your post while i was replying to it. This is what my reply referred to:

Originally Posted by alexclaytor

This thread is my freakin saviour!! I have a DNX9990HD that I'm buying a map for the country I'm moving to for! Now I know how to load it!!!!

I'm going to most likely buy my map from here:

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That should come in the right files and formats to do this tutorial right?

Thanks!!!!!

Alex

I didn't mean that you'd be 'better off' buying the card with the gmapsupp.img already on it per se. Only that the download doesn't contain the img itself, just the means to create it. It's not hard to use MapInstall at all: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ].

Originally Posted by alexclaytor

Gotcha. So would I be better off buying this?

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but on SD card?

Now, about your edited post:

Originally Posted by alexclaytor

This thread is my freakin saviour!! I have a DNX9990HD that I'm buying a map for the country I'm moving to for! Now I know how to load it!!!!

I downloaded from here: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] But I'm confused. There is a gmapsupp.img file and OpenMapChest Caribbean 2015.09.16 I extracted. I see no ASR2 files like your tutorial mentions. Do I drag the gmapsupp.img file onto gimgunlock.exe? When I do nothing happens. Not sure what to do.

Thanks!!!!!

Alex

The archive you've downloaded contains both the PC installer and an already compiled gmapsupp.img for Garmin OSM Caribbean which it seems includes Anguilla but also a whole lot of other parts of the Caribbean you'll likely not need. Going by the GMapTool info below it seems it's unlocked already. You could just install the map data to your PC using the .EXE and choose only Anguilla and make a tiny gmapsupp.img yourself with MapInstall.

Originally Posted by FireFox58

Garmin OSM Caribbean (Routable) Update September 2015

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OSM Caribbean 09-2015 (Routable).rar (136.498 MB)
Archive content:
- MapSource Installer (.EXE)
- IMG (gmapsupp.img)
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**alexclaytor** · 20th October 2015, 05:32 PM

Thanks for the info! For now I just bought Anguilla on the SD from gpstravelmaps just to make things easier plus I'll have the card for my other Garmin stand alone navs too.

**justluv** · 29th January 2016, 04:50 PM

Thank for this post !
CONFIRM working on DNX9990HD .
I used usb and now I have 2017.10 map on interal memory.
* Dont need the Pnx file ,just create the Pnx folder
* Create 2 blank txt file and rename to unl and gma file .
After read 15 pages of this tut I still cant download the 2 file unl and gma,also I cant download the old 2014 map,so I decided to try with the usb to copy map to unit,if I fail,I still can copy it to my SD card,but it WORK, 10 mins loading from 10%-99% Im just so ready for my unit to brick or "error".But it work.
I updated firmware and bluetooth to the newest firmware like month ago (new year 2016),that why I thought it not gonna pass the gma protect,but may be Im lucky.
The base map before update is 2012.10 .Normally I just copy new map and put it in SD.
I download 2017.10 map from [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] post #2 from kenta2
.Create all the folder like in post 27,download all the new file like G2S,SID,JCV...,I also remove my SD card that had 2016.10 map before I put the unit in stand by and update.
Thank again and hope it help,now I can use my SD for speedcam

1/29/2016

**thalex** · 27th June 2017, 08:13 PM

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

**Haliassos** · 11th August 2017, 04:58 PM

Do you mean EU Unicode as US is only NT?

**buddyboy087** · 11th August 2017, 10:59 PM

Originally Posted by Haliassos

Do you mean EU Unicode as US is only NT?

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.

**thalex** · 15th August 2017, 09:37 PM

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.

**thalex** · 20th December 2017, 11:18 AM

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

**Butters** · 20th December 2017, 11:25 AM

@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.