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

Originally Posted by The Director

Just got new maps working on a DNX6960 (2010 unit). It had/has upgraded 2011 maps installed in the internal memory. Reading the DNX6960 manual it is vague to say the least regarding how to officially upgrade the maps. ...but I'm assuming there once was an app or technique available to get upgraded maps installed internally via a dedicated map update MicoSD port....
...for sh!ts and giggles, following Stickwell's lead, I copied an unlocked....
...Once I booted up the unit the map info shows it has the new 2019.10 map loaded. So it appears to be running from the MicoSD card. Would love to get the maps installed permanently so given that the unit is not yet installed in my car I may just take her apart to find the internal storage and try playing around with the map files there.

Thanks much to you and stickweld, I also just got my DNX6960 to replace its circa-2010 maps with 2023 data! In my case I only had a 32GB card so I FAT32 formatted it and put a Garmin directory on it and put those two 0-byte filenames you referenced in that Garmind directory and also a 2023.20 NT US/CA unlocked gmapsupp.img file also in that Garmin directory and BAM was all set!

I had also upgraded the units firmware to the 1.4.0

Does anyone know how much memory the internal unit has? In case I feel like taking it out and putting these maps on the internal unit?