2017 Maps Update

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You may have read elsewhere that Betsy was excited about new maps.

Head over here Update portal to check if there is an update available for your car. You’ll need your VIN to see if an update is available.

If there is an update available, and you want to install it, then read along for some tips as I stumble through the process.

Do the clickie thing on the web page for the link that you see in the green box that says “Download maps”.
Wait a little while for the download to complete. Now would be the perfect time to concrete that driveway or start writing the novel you’ve always wanted to write.
One other thing to do would be to buy (or find) an SD card to put the data on. It needs to be 32 gigabytes or more in capacity, and class 10 or better is recommended. I had a spare 64GB SanDisk Class 10 that was used for this process.

I enjoyed the company of Firefox for the download as it would resume the download correctly each time it stopped. Once the download was about 1/3 of the way through the connection maintained itself until completion.

Next is the first of the two tricky parts.
Format the SD card as an NTFS volume, not FAT, FAT32, or ExFat. I tried Fat32 first but things didn’t work. Then again, that might be because I didn’t do the second trick. But we’ll talk about that later.

Extract the single downloaded file to the SD card. This can take some time.
Once the extraction completes you will see one file and two folders on the SD Card.

metainfo2.txt
Mib1
Mib2


Place the SD Card into the Columbus unit inside the glovebox and start up the Infotainment unit. You can do this before a drive (remembering that the navigation system is unavailable during the update) or just sitting there draining your battery.

Press the Nav button on the side of the screen, then the Settings button located on-screen in the lower right corner.




Here’s where trick number two comes in.
Silly me then tapped the Version information button, then the Update (SD/USB) button at the bottom of the Version information screen.
This constantly resulted in a message that there were no updates found.
It turns out that this isn’t the button we are looking for (lousy Jedi mind tricks).
On the Navigation settings screen, tap the Manage memory button.




On the Manage memory screen tap Update “My POIs” (SD/USB).




You will be taken to an Update my POIs screen, with an Update button at the bottom.
Tap the Update button.

A screen should soon appear titled Software update, and show a message about Available data: NavDB Version 2017.




Tap the Next button at the bottom of the screen.
A Software update in progress… screen will appear with a fuel gauge and % complete number.




The bar took close to 40 minutes to reach 100%. From 94% onwards it seemed to take longer for each increment.
At the end of the process a message appears to indicate that the Software update is complete. Tap OK.




You should now see the new version information reported.

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