----==== V28 EUROPEAN DOWNLOAD LINK ====----

Hi!

If MEGAUPLOAD doesn't work or does not has accessible, then here for you a european wide bandwidth link:

www.bmwsw.uw.hu

password: v28

Sounds like you may have thrown your system into "Euro" mode as I don't think TMC is available in the US market yet (althought there's talk of it coming soon and many had hoped it would be a feature of v28).

Verify that you still have "Emergency" on your menu and also that you're still getting "feet" for close distances and not "yards".

If I missed something and "TMC" is in fact a option now, I apologize and would also like to know how it is accessed.

I just verified if Emergency is on the menu and it not there anymore, Also the scale is "yds" not in Feet"

Now what? :confused:

Thanks DaPenetrator for pointing thing out...

It on the input destination Screen, if you scroll down, But like daPenetrator said TMC is not avaliable in the US.

I think your only recourse now is to either live with it or pay a visit to the $tealer for Nav Recoding. Many owners choose to leave it this way as it has no affects on the opearation of the system, unless of you have BMW Assist. Assist will not work in "Euro" mode from my understanding and in that case recoding is neccessary to get Assist back. I'm not sure whether going back to a previous version and then upgrading again will work or not. I wouldn't think that would. Do a search on the topic. There have been many posts. Good Luck. Keep us posted.

The only way to return to the USA mode will be recoding of the NAV computer. Unfortunately, you will also probably need to recode the Assist (BT) TCU as well ..... for some reason when the NAV computer switches back to Euro mode the Assist TCU looses the VIN number which it needs. Its very odd.

Well, I downloaded BMW v28.rar from the OP's megaupload link and burned it to CD using the current version of Alcohol 120% with zero issues. It loaded up flawlessly into my car too. Thanks guys for posting this update!

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.

Also to be clear to everyone reading this thread. The NAV firmware updates are not country or region specific. This is only determined through coding!

I guess we need more folks to load V28 on the USA based systems to see if it resets to Euro. So far I guess we have 2 cases - Yes ?