Garmin Nuvi 40 Free Map Updates
Marylouise Colleen
I've had my Montana 700i for less than 6 months & have a big trip next week. When I tried to update maps in Garmin Express, I get a red error message that it failed to update. I've watched troubleshooting videos and have tried everything I can think of.
I deleted everything from the device, did a factory restart and tried to put the track I need for next week on there and the waypoints won't load and old tracks that I thought would delete are still showing in the collections manager. And Express still won't update. So frustrated. I've spent hours trying to figure it out. Watched countless videos and just so confused.
This is a common issue with Garmin Express and many of their newest Garmin GPSr, including the Montana 7x0, the GPSMAP 65, and GPSMAP 66 series...
Nothin you can do to fix it, we all have to wait for Garmin to resolve the many issues currently present....
When I updated the maps on my 700i, it seemed to hang at about 70% and / or complain about lack of storage. After playing around with JaVaWa _en.html and moving maps from device to SD card and back again, I suddenly had a lot more free space on my device and the updates worked.
My 700i did the same thing last week. In addition, it failed to recognize the removable media after the big red error in Garmin Express. After much fiddling and reformatting various micro SD cards I managed to get it to recognize one again (the trick, I think, was to install the freshly formatted card then plug it into garmin express and disconnect a few times, after which it saw the card). Then I tried again to install the map, again got the red error, and again the removabl media became inaccessible.
I sure wish Garmin would fess up to having internal software quality issues, at least if they said something like it was cuz of covid or whatever I could understand. I use my device daily and the loss of storage on the microSD is really damaging my ability to use the divice.
I also saw the effect noted by somebody else that the internal storage seems to get consumed way out of proportion to the maps actually installed. In fact that's what forced me onto the microSD card in the first place.
I'd also love a feature where I could freeze everything from updating once it works: No updates to express, explore, the device, nothing. Then I could at least rest easy that it'll work until I choose to risk updates.
I called Garmin support. 4 minutes later they called back, did some magic in Garmin Express to get the log files to their developers to see what happened, and done. Total call length like 10 minutes. That seems like pretty good support, so far at least. The tech said probably a few days to figure it out, depending on how complicated it is. He also implied we should let them know formally via the support phone line about problems like this, since they don't really watch forums but they do look for trends in their support calls. So, if we all report issues like this immediately, they will become aware of trends and hopefully get a good response/fix in place.
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While true it states this will only apply to Australian and New Zealand models, it would not surprise me at all if North American models will be included in the no-more-updated-maps shortly after that.
The absolute oldest I'd use would be the nuvi 2597LMT, a 2013 model. Using anything older than that is where I really notice the age of a older Garmin GPS. Slow searching, slow map drawing, slow route calculation and so on.
Take the nuvi 50LM, originally released in 2011, and one of the best models Garmin ever made. It's really basic and has no smartphone connectivity and no traffic support, but is ultra-legible and is an incredible basic GPS navigator.
What amount of time qualifies as the useful lifetime of a device? That's never been answered. Is that Garmin's fault? Not really. At the time they introduced Lifetime Maps, it's probably true nobody at Garmin ever thought anybody would still be using the same nuvi 10 years later. There was even documentation written that said if you didn't update your device at least once every 2 years, no more free map updates.
Per use of the word lifetime, all I can say there is Garmin should have never used that word, but they did and the damage is done there. They're going to get flak for ending support on 10+ year old "lifetime" products and that's just the way it is.
The July '23 date is the first I've seen where Garmin finally announced end-of-support for a particular line of automotive GPS products. So yes, Garmin has finally documented a date, and it's good in the way they did it. A date was announced several months in the future that gives the user ample time to back up their favorites and switch over to a newer model.
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It is important to note that Suzuki dealers and Suzuki Australia Pty Ltd cannot be responsible for the content of the map software. As this data is supplied by a third party, we cannot guarantee that all roads, highways etc. will be correctly shown on their Suzuki's Navigation Unit display.
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