Whoever interested in.......... Magellan 3225 GPS

[ecolive]

Originally posted by: sontakke
I had no problem using WinXP. The GPS showed up as TFAT drive.

Few questions:-

1) Magellan has NO information about 3225 on their website. Even the search returned nothing.
2) Costco store told me that GPS has no return restriction. I am not sure I believe them.
3) If it is covered for 90 days, what happens after that? Magellan is one of the worst when it comes to customer support. If it were not for Costco, I would not even consider this GPS.
4) Anybody else getting very annoyed with "exit three five" instead of "exit thirty-five"?

- Vikas

The ONLY reference to the 3225 in the Magellan web site is in the REGISTRATION. It shows up in the drop down list as a selectable model during the registration process.

 

[ecolive]

As someone said before, the 6 million POI may be the combination of ALL POIs in the unit, US, Canada, Puerto Rico, etc. In any case, the ONLY way to use the 3225 is via Timekeeper's changes. The unit is almost useless with the original 1.3M POIs. You canot find the Costco you purchase it from...

 

[TimeKeeper]

@oldcrusty;

The Canadian POI I have off better model is only 17MB which is same size as regular 3225. sorry..

@Rossman

1. C330
2. Off ebay will be Nuvi 260
3. Nuvi 260

 

[DrFuzzles]

I keep getting a CRC error when I try to Extract the files with Winrar. I have both saved in the same folder, and didn't change the names. I used the lowercase and uppercase password. And I've downloaded it like 3 times already, the third time with IE and off the Mirror 3. I can't seem to figure out why it won't extract.

 

[TimeKeeper]

Originally posted by: DrFuzzles
I keep getting a CRC error when I try to Extract the files with Winrar. I have both saved in the same folder, and didn't change the names. I used the lowercase and uppercase password. And I've downloaded it like 3 times already, the third time with IE and off the Mirror 3. I can't seem to figure out why it won't extract.

sorry, have you try winrar 3.5 or newer version?

 

[oldcrusty]

Timekeeper,

Thanks anyway. I think we are going to keep the 3225 so, before I return the 3140 I think I will download what's on it and see if it is any better than what I have. Thanks again.

 

[imported_Dunnomuch]

Originally posted by: DrFuzzles
I keep getting a CRC error when I try to Extract the files with Winrar. I have both saved in the same folder, and didn't change the names. I used the lowercase and uppercase password. And I've downloaded it like 3 times already, the third time with IE and off the Mirror 3. I can't seem to figure out why it won't extract.

I used Unrar instead of Winrar. Password is all lower case.

Originally posted by: ecolive
4) Anybody else getting very annoyed with "exit three five" instead of "exit thirty-five"?

Um...no. You could just tell your GPS not to bother (do not announce exits).

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: TimeKeeper
@oldcrusty;

The Canadian POI I have off better model is only 17MB which is same size as regular 3225. sorry..

@Rossman

1. C330
2. Off ebay will be Nuvi 260
3. Nuvi 260

Thanks. I'll return my Garmin 650 to CostCo and will wait for a $250 deal on the nuvi 260.

 

[TimeKeeper]

I'll return my Garmin 650 to CostCo and will wait for a $250 deal on the nuvi 260.

Ebay

 

[the1percent]

Timekeeper,
I just emailed you concerning the files we discussed while you were on vacation.

Thanks,
Scott

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: TimeKeeper

I'll return my Garmin 650 to CostCo and will wait for a $250 deal on the nuvi 260.

Ebay

How much do you think I can get for it? It's brand new and never opened.

 

[TimeKeeper]

Originally posted by: RossMAN

Originally posted by: TimeKeeper

I'll return my Garmin 650 to CostCo and will wait for a $250 deal on the nuvi 260.

Ebay

How much do you think I can get for it? It's brand new and never opened.

I meant return the 650 and get 260 from ebay...haha.

 

[vinnie123]

I have successfully updated the US POI, even though it's kinda pointless since I am from Canada. The POI is pretty bad for Canadian residents.

Off topic question on the 3225:

How do you tell the GPS your current location.

For example, I enter the address of my destination, however it always starts me off at my home, and not where I'm currently at. I noticed in options you can set your current position but you have to manually enter it. What if I don't know where I am?

 

[imported_Dunnomuch]

Originally posted by: vinnie123
I have successfully updated the US POI, even though it's kinda pointless since I am from Canada. The POI is pretty bad for Canadian residents.

Off topic question on the 3225:

How do you tell the GPS your current location.

For example, I enter the address of my destination, however it always starts me off at my home, and not where I'm currently at. I noticed in options you can set your current position but you have to manually enter it. What if I don't know where I am?

Updating the US48 POI may make your unit more desirable in the future for eBay.

You should not need to tell your GPS where you are, it should tell you. Within 2-3 minutes after you turn your unit on (in reasonably clear skies) it should receive signals from enough satellites to determine your current position. The time required will be longer if you are among tall buildings or it is raining.

 

[Bill Kunert]

If you enter an address to route to it should route from your current location and not your home address. This is assuming you are receiving enough satellites so it can give you a current location.

 

[EdwardLee]

Timekeeper - Just installed to my 3225 bought in costco. Works great. Thanks!

 

[EdwardLee]

Ekhan - Let winrar handle it for you. Just click on the 1st one and it will automatically pick up the 2nd one. Good luck!

 

[vinnie123]

Thanks for the responses guys.

As soon as I start driving it recalculates the route for me from where I'm at. It just doesn't do it right away if I'm at a stand still.

For example. Right now I am at work, I didnt have the unit on while I was driving here. Thus, if I hit the tow truck icon it says my current location is where my last destination was. If I start moving (in my car) it will then re-figure out where I'm at within 30 secs. Kinda annoying but live able.

 

[Kelemvor]

I think it was posted in this thread somewhere but here's where to go for th 3100 modifiers. They are working to hack it, crack it, etc and are making some good progress.

http://www.gpspassion.com/foru..._ID=102368&whichpage=1

 

[gonwk]

Hi folks,

Dunnomuch ... THANKS for your reply to my Q's.

Wish You All A Happy 2008 New Year!

G!

 

[scottlarock]

Here's a quick HOWTO for updating the POI only, which I'd imagine MOST of you are only interested in doing. (this works with the 3100 for sure)

1. Get yourself at least a 256MB SD card.
2. Backup your data as original instructions said.
(this probably doesn't have to happen, but why not do it anyways? Should fix some bugs people are having)
3. Install the new firmware 2.18
<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://www.magellangps.com/support/notes.asp?supportID=537">https://www.magellangps.com.......asp?supportID=537</a>


4. No need to copy anything from the MAP folder off of the drive from the 3100.
On the SD card, create a folder called "MAP"
Copy the new POI into that folder.
Modify the Media.cfg on the 3100's drive under the APP folder only line that needs to change is
# POI Map Data
\SDMMC Card\MAP

(I think it has to be a non breaking space used between the C's. So you might want to just download the file that david goeken posted on his website, and then
change all of his SDMMC Card back to HDD, except for the POI map Data line.)
http://goeken.homedns.org/Weat...Magellan3100/Media.cfg

that's it, you are done.

 

[BenJeremy]

For those with the 1200, we'll have to wait a bit, I guess. The POI database is too large to fit on the SD card, and you can't move the maps you NEED to operate the unit onto a generic card (at least for the moment) because there is some form of protection involved.

So we're stuck only being able to use a significantly smaller POI database.

I'd like to know where there are tools to compile the *.POI files used in the latest RoadMate series units - if anybody has details, I would like to hear from them. It does appear that there is a custom POI directory in the unit's built in 64MB flash, so there may be opportunities to instlal our own POIs, even if it's trimmed down from the 6 million.

 

[imported_Dunnomuch]

Originally posted by: BenJeremy
For those with the 1200, we'll have to wait a bit, I guess. The POI database is too large to fit on the SD card, and you can't move the maps you NEED to operate the unit onto a generic card (at least for the moment) because there is some form of protection involved.

So we're stuck only being able to use a significantly smaller POI database.

So you've tried the method detailed for the 3100 without success? Can the Roadmate 1200 only address a 256MB SD card or smaller?

 

[sidelite]

wow- this update in POI's makes my new 3225 so much more functional! Thanks a ton?

Related question: My wife has the 4040 model. Does this unit share a compatible file for the address book? I have a lot of addresses added and would like to share it with her to use on the 4040, but can't figure out the file name and/or if it would work if I copied it to her unit.

 

[BenJeremy]

The problem is that the RoadMate 1200 can't use it's maps on a generic card, and they are stored on a pre-loaded, protects 1GB card. There isn't enough space left on the card to add the larger POI database, and you can't move the maps to a different card because of the protection.

There isn't enough internal memory (only 64MB with 30MB free) to use the maps internally, either.

As far as the method for using the POI db on the 3100 series, that's different because you can apparently move stuff around and the main map data is stored internally.

At this point, I'd be content to be able to load my own POI data, and customize the existing databases. At least with that, I could load a big subset for the areas that interest me (i.e. a big database for southern California when I travel to San Diego).

The best solution is if I can get Magellan to give me the POI database details so I can create a nice tool for RoadMate users to do exactly that.

Since somebody on this forum pulled the metadata from the database, I assume there are tools for compiling and decompiling the data from the POI format. If somebody could help me with that, I'd love to put something together for everybody here (I'm a software engineer with 25 years experience, with extensive Windows CE experience, as well). TimeKeeper appears to have merged two databases, too, so the tools must be out there... as long as I can utilize them, or at least create files that can be used by them, we can open up all of the wonderful POI databases that are available.