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How to instal .img map to your Device
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:07 am
by ahmedhakeemi
Salam,
I need help guys....
im travelling to The US next month. i've a copy of US Map given to me from a fren. it's a .img file.
I tried putting the file into my SD card and change the name to gmapsupp.img, when i inserted the card to my Garmin 205w, it seems like garmin couldnt recognize it.
Pls help. thanks
Re: How to instal .img map to your Device
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:13 am
by zamad
Did you put the gmapsupp.img file in the SD card/Garmin folder?
Re: How to instal .img map to your Device
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:26 am
by ahmedhakeemi
zamad wrote:Did you put the gmapsupp.img file in the SD card/Garmin folder?
i tried putting the file into Garmin folder in the device's memory and also putting the file in a SDcard. Both dont work, it says, "Cant unlock maps"
appreciate ur help
Re: How to instal .img map to your Device
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 5:34 am
by zamad
Aah! The map given by your friend to you is 'locked' to his PND and therefore not useable on your device.
Re: How to instal .img map to your Device
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 2:04 pm
by ahmedhakeemi
is there anything i can do to get it unlock?
Re: How to instal .img map to your Device
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:24 pm
by silverbeauty
ahmedhakeemi wrote:is there anything i can do to get it unlock?
Please respect forum rule #6
Re: How to instal .img map to your Device
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 10:54 pm
by Inggo
ahmedhakeemi wrote:is there anything i can do to get it unlock?
can, to unlock you must visit to
www.garmin.com and pay the license to get unlock key.
in other word you must pay to garmin.