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Episode: 922
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Title: HPR0922: Updating a Garmin GPS for free
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0922/hpr0922.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 04:59:23
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Hello everyone, this is Little Box and this is another HPR episode that I'm doing this time
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it's on how to update your Garmin GPS to get the newest maps which has of now are the 2012
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maps.
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I just want to put a little warning out there, I'm not honing this method, I'm just reporting
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it, I've read about it on numerous sites and saw the steps and procedures and I thought
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that everybody might want to check this out.
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I do have some sources, there is some hack labs, www.hacklabs.com slash 2011 slash Garmin's
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Dash or hyphen 2012, hyphen map, hyphen upstate, that will describe the procedure.
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There is a YouTube video which I will have all these sources in my show notes and then
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the torrent file that I recommend is from the Powered Bay and that is also in my show
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notes.
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It's a long, long address so I don't really want to say it but basically I've been noticing
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on the web you know various articles of how to do this for free and the only thing you
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really need is a torrent, piece of software that does torrenting, I used a U-torrent like
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our Transmission and basically you have to search for Garmin City Navigator 2012.10
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and torrent file or you can look for 2012.20 torrent file.
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I again have links to both of those on my show notes.
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So basically the steps are you connect your device to the computer, it mounts it as
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an external drive so you go into the newbie or the Garmin, it will have a blue triangle
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icon and take Garmin on it, you go into it and there is a make a backup of a file called
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gmapprom.image.img to your computer, just copy it off on your desktop, the ones that
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I've seen are about 1.2 gigabytes so it does take a while to copy off and then you want
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to delete that gmapprom.img file from the device after you make the backup and I also deleted
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any unused language files, there are tons and tons of files on there for different countries,
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different languages, you don't need them unless you want them on there, I just kept the
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English ones, the American English ones and that freed up some extra space too because
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the gmapprom.image that you're putting on your Garmin is actually bigger than the one
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that was there so you need to play with some space and free up some space. After you delete
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all of your unused files and the gmapprom.image, next just go to your recycle bin and empty it,
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that way all the contents are actually off of the device. Once you're done doing that,
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copy the new gmapprom.image to the device and if you happen to download it and it's something
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named something else, just rename it to gmapprom.img and put it on the device's root menu basically
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or under the Garmin menu, sorry, and that does again take about 20 minutes or 20 to 30 minutes
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so it's a 1.5 gigabyte file, the ones that I've seen. Once that's done,
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say free, eject the device and then it'll restart and you go to your map info by tools,
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settings, map and then map info and you should see that you have the 2012.10 or .20 maps on it
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and that's it. So there you have it. This has been another HPR, so buy a little box.
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