V28 has been released and is now available

DaPenetrator · #11 09-21-2006, 02:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Dataready

That is exactly what I was talking about in a post erlier in this thread...
V 28 found here is the european stuff, when I loaded ver 27.1 from here it
put the nav in Euro mode and I lost Emergency, code, Aux Ventilation and BMW Assist VIN. To make the point clearer, US $tealers have a different V28 that will upload and update the the NAV (OS so to speak) but will leave the active state of the OBC alone including Emergency, Aux ventilation, Code and BMW assist. Feet will stay the same and the mesuring appears to be more accurate when the system points to a turn or an address. I had to pay close to a $ 150 to find that out. So once again, do not rush into upgrade if you want your US nav to stay in US...
Special care if your car is leased... they want it back the way you got it or you will pay again for the fix.

It's my understanding that Nav OSes are global releases. That fact that all the Nav computers are manufactured in Europe (Germany, France, etc.) and that the ones installed in and shipped to North America have been encoded for the NA markets is the problem (or not). Afterall you're driving a German (European) designed, engineered, and built vehicle, not a Detroit special.

Since the Navs are native Euro there is always a chance that any ROM flashing will throw a system back into it's native state (ie. Euro) and would therefore have to be recoded for whichever market it was coded to work in orginally. The same is true of any device capable of Flash ROM Updating (ie, cell phones, PDAs, computers, MP3 players, etc.).

As we all know these updates were designed to be done at the dealership were as they could recode them on the spot if one was accidentially thrown back to native Euro; in addition to them charging you upwards of 1 hour or more in labor cost for the update alone. As a customer getting this done thru the dealer, you wouldn't be the wiser if the update failed and had to reloaded and then the system recoded, unless of course it was overlooked and left in Euro when you picked up your vehicle.

We should all be grateful that we can obtain these updates (OSes and Maps) thru the advances of technology without having to pay $199.00 for maps or $150+ for OS upgrades. If done properly and with quality materials (CDs, DVDs, clean downloads, etc.) these updates generally work flawlessly as intended. But keep in mind that nothing is 100% foul proof. There will always to be that small percentage of units that fail and will need to be recoded. Still, look at how many people report back that their systems updated without any problems and are very pleased and grateful.

Not to be directed to DataReady specifically, but to anyone who complains about their system failing or having to be recoded after a failed update....

So you pay $150.00 to have you system recoded this time... how many times before then have you saved $150.00 when it worked or saved $199.00 when you didn't have to buy updated map disks.

It's a chance you take doing this. If you don't want to take it... don't do it! I'm sure the dealer and NavTeq will be happy to take your money instead.