Alphawolf Posted August 17, 2003 Share Posted August 17, 2003 I have been hearing rumors of some folks that are opening up their V's and re-soldering in a 128mb memory chip...Anyone hear of this before and have any insights? "Never take a sunset for granted. Stop what you are doing and enjoy it. You never know when it may be your last" Quote Link to comment
Tahoe Skier5000 Posted August 17, 2003 Share Posted August 17, 2003 say good bye warranty. ----------------------------------------------------------- Garmin V Garmin III+ Quote Link to comment
+wickedsprint Posted August 17, 2003 Share Posted August 17, 2003 Where did you hear about this rumor...totally worth voiding the memory, besides, worse case scenario you pay like the flat rate for a refurb Quote Link to comment
+RobAGD Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 Well one small problem with that is you would have to hack the ROM and fireware so it knows there is more memory. At least this is what a few of my HW hacking buddies have said. I have heard of this for PPC devices where they stuff 256mb of memory in some of the HP and Compaq Pocket PC's I would be intrested as the 19mb is a joke for the DC area, If they let me drop out POI then I would be a lot happier with 19 and in metro area you have way too many POI's in a very dence area. -Robert Quote Link to comment
+GOT GPS? Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 If Garmin offered a 32 meg upgrade for the GPS, I would send it in, also they need to make it possible to upload maps into the gps without the POI. Quote Link to comment
+Team DEMP Posted August 18, 2003 Share Posted August 18, 2003 There's been a thread in the newsgroups on this. Here's a link to it on Google Groups - GPS V Memory Upgrade Quote Link to comment
+elsinga Posted August 20, 2003 Share Posted August 20, 2003 It involves desoldering the 32MB memorychip inside, reading it's contents, programming it to a 128MB chip and soldering it inside the V. This is done now and looks promising. In between either you need to reprogram the 128Mb chip to set it's size so Mapsource knows how large it is, or patch Mapsource to tell it how large your V's memory is. This is currently tested. So, all looks good, but there s no final product yet. -- Robert Elsinga =8-) geocaching (at) elsinga.org Quote Link to comment
+RobAGD Posted August 21, 2003 Share Posted August 21, 2003 I would be all over this in a heart beat if it works out. Only think that MIGHT make me give up my V is a Color version with SD memory. But hell if this is reasonable enough I would still get it What about upping the Waypoint limit to 1000 ? -Robert Quote Link to comment
+jollybgood Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 Okay, so I'm confused. A lot of people smarter than me on the GPSV yahoo group claim the GPSV has a 32 meg chip in it NOW. Unfortuantely he firmware only uses/recognizes 19 meg for some reason. If the unit can be hacked to read/recognize a 128 meg chip then why couldn't it be hacked to make full use of the 32 meg chip already installed? Jolly R. Blackburn http://kenzerco.com "Never declare war on a man who buys his ink by the gallon." Quote Link to comment
kb9nvh Posted August 22, 2003 Share Posted August 22, 2003 There's 13 meg of basemap in there already leavign you with 19. Quote Link to comment
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