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Maestro 4250 - backing it up?
carpeperdiem
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I am enjoying my new 4250. Exceeds my expectations.
To back it up (that is, back up address book, saved routes, custom POIs) the book says to do a dump to an SD card. OK. Easy enough -- but how large an SD Card do I need/want? Will 1gig do the job? Address book data, some routes and a hundred custom POIs can't possibly take more than a few megabytes? Yes?
HOWEVER - can I simply plug it in and backup to a folder on my local hard drive (via usb cable?) I tried to do this -- no luck. It appears that the only backup/restore functions are via the SD card.
SO -- what size SD card do you think I need? If 1gig is overkill, then all the better.
[opinion: it's really too bad Magellan didn't allow a direct dump to a folder on a local PC via USB]
If anyone has a hack to allow this, I'm all ears.
To back it up (that is, back up address book, saved routes, custom POIs) the book says to do a dump to an SD card. OK. Easy enough -- but how large an SD Card do I need/want? Will 1gig do the job? Address book data, some routes and a hundred custom POIs can't possibly take more than a few megabytes? Yes?
HOWEVER - can I simply plug it in and backup to a folder on my local hard drive (via usb cable?) I tried to do this -- no luck. It appears that the only backup/restore functions are via the SD card.
SO -- what size SD card do you think I need? If 1gig is overkill, then all the better.
[opinion: it's really too bad Magellan didn't allow a direct dump to a folder on a local PC via USB]
If anyone has a hack to allow this, I'm all ears.
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My firmware version is: 2.24
Hardware version: -3
Product ID 746
Hmmm.. I guess I will be contacting Magellan after all... damn. This was looking good...
Can someone with a new 4250 confirm the USB issue please? Thanks.
Sandy
So .....
Sandy
Firmware Version: 2.24
Hardware version: -3
Product ID: 746
I am using Win XP
Sandy
I took the 4250 to a real winxp machine (as opposed to intel/mac running winxp in parallels) and yes, the 4250 shows up as a drive.
It's a hardware issue. My 4250 appears to not be mac compatible.
I tested on:
Intel mac: MacBook Pro Core2Duo (2.33) running MacOSX 10.4.11 - no
Intel mac: MacBook Pro Core2Duo (2.33) running WinXP SP2 - no
Mac g5 desktop (PPC) dual 2.7 running MacOSX 10.4.9 - no
Dell P4 (USB 1.x only) - yes
AMD athlon 64 X2 custom built - yes
Upon first analysis of these results - it looks like 4250 and mac hardware do not get along... but I have no issues with plug-n-play with any other USB device (that is, 100% of USB devices will mount on my mac hardware -- including all flash media/pen drive, camera, hard drive, scanner, etc) - only 4250 will not.
I will bet my GPS that the reason the 4250 doesn't play nice with mac is that it doesn't have the correct firmware settings -- it currently has a "PROTOTYPE" empty setting... so the mac won't see it. The PC hardware appears to be more forgiving.
This is reason enough for me to return it.
Buh-bye. Magellan (for now -- hopefully they'll fix this).
PS -- the CD-ROM with the documentation tries to be mac compatible, but it's not. It includes a readme for mac users... but the links are all dead. It is clear that they want to be mac compatible, but don't know how to do it. Maybe they should pay someone for a day and they can learn all there is to know. Yes. It's not complicated.
Sandy
*MIO 310x
*Garmin Roadmate
*Magellan 3250
*TomTom 720
*just ordered a 4250
As my wife says - "...never satisfied!"
Anyway... although the MIO didn't have TTS or Bluetooth, I liked it's interfaces, POIs and overall features. My wife and I used the MIO on an 8000-mile national parks adventure this fall - It worked very well. HOWEVER, I "Traded up" for TTS and BT for Hands-free dialing.
The Garmin was a bust; didn't like the interfaces or map quality and was able to "retrieve" my MIO after 1 day!
Next went to 3250 when I upgraded my phone. It was OK but speaker was not adequate for hands-free use.
TomTom 720 was very good all around for BT, EXCEPT all POIs have the US international country code (011) prefix which makes them USELESS when you try to use them!!! To top it off, I was told "...sorry for the inconvenience, but that's the way it is"!
The TT was immediately returned!
Expect to get 4250 next week!
Update: I just read your other post. If your map & POI files have both US and Canada (or another country), I do not see the point of having a POI without a country code. It wouldn't work for our Canadian friends.......
Of course TomTom could sell separate units in Canada & the US and maintain separate POI files..........
We are talking bluetooth enabled dialing -- and most mobile phones (all?) only require 10-digits to dial USA/Canada.
I just read some further posts on this. (Seems they are all over the place in here.) TomTom says they do this as they are not a US company. That makes sense as in Europe, you could be literally calling down the block and need a different country code.
As an experiment, I just dialed the 011 prefix and then my office phone on my AT&T cell and it knew to disregard the country code. It would seem to me the issue is really with the cell provider (or possibly the phone settings) and not the POI file............
So there is no sure way to do this...
BUT -- most carriers will take a 10 digit number in the US and dial it.
This is where some bluetooth prefs would be useful. Since the phone numbers are coming FROM the gps, the phone's prefs shouldn't matter -- the gps should be smart enough to dial the correct digits for the paired phone (as prefs set by the user).
Agreed?
I'm having the same problems with mine as far as PROTOTYPE and not regnizing the devise as a USB device. It says on the box that it is compatable with Vista. Could this be my problem?
Patruns,
You mentioned you got it to work with Vista. any help would be appreciated.
robcrip
I agree this isn't as elegant as TomTom could make it. Perhaps they suspect there are a number of people with phones of a different country code that are going to use it in the USA. In which case if it didn't send the country code I suspect the call might fail.
But with that scenario they are making it work for a small fraction of people while breaking it for a larger portion of people who don't have the phone preferences set properly or who have phones that otherwise don't know what to do with the country code.
Dumbed down for Europe.
I tried this with my 4250 with no luck. I waited for the blue screen, and then plugged it in and i got the USB message on the screen. Then it tried to download the driver software and could not find it, and it did not show as a drive.
I did get it to work on my laptop with XP though. I would just prefer to use my desktop for ease of use. Thanks for the help.
Thanks for the info. I guess I will just have to wait for Magellan to release the update for Vista.
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