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Thats a train change. You arent suppose to do them. People use mib2 tool for standard unit. Experts on the Skoda site here. Major software hack. There are other people that hack the software and that doesnt work. Basically the software fixes were on each train so Vag didnt envisage the user jumping trains. 2*, 3*, 4* etc. They are the trains, changing trains isnt suppose to be what you can do and also doing firmware updates as DIY isnt another one. Come mib3 you are definitely shafted although people dig little holes for themselves. You are suppose to stay on the 2* train.

There are commercial ones. There are also knock off ones but the issue with those you dont know how timely they are. Pocket GPS World is a subscription service which gives you the coordinates POIs from user reports. Fixed and mobile. You then have to import those into your unit. I did a Seat resource on that which requires a bit of work using Poinspector. The developer of that has had that program developed for a number of years now from RNS, to mib1 and mib2. You might find a pre processed file ready to upload in the Pocket GPS World database. The old days VW provided an online service to import user POIs. That got scrubbed so standalone programs are the order of the day now. There is also an Excel one about. Poinspector gives you the map. Will edit links in. https://poinspect0r.blogspot.com/?m=1 https://www.seatcupra.net/forums/resources/uploading-speed-camera-safety-camera-user-pois.12/ https://pocketgpsworld.com/subscription.php The last link contains the source POIs. Alternative as I said you will find commercial European POIs published.

The gap above the 450 means its running with navigation FeC but not of the brand. Runs fine though. Means @MartiniB the compatibility list is true but may need a navigation FeC edit for other than a Skoda.

Subject to my final check https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/537850-columbus-map-update-2026-2027-mib2-high/#findComment-5996602 It's not identified by the txt files I looked. The key it's missing the part numbered which might be on the screen and definitely on another information screen when I check later. So I'm back to driving the car as a Skoda again.❣️ Skoda Lifetime Navigation FeC for the Mib2 High (Europe 08300008) That code goes into the Addfec list. 5 years ago when this all happened before if it's happened again.

Indeed, that's what I did with my Seat several years back when this turned up. Why it worked for me. 😀 It's this project: https://github.com/Mr-MIBonk/M.I.B._More-Incredible-Bash You load it in the red menu with that edit. On the post on the other board where it's taking about the txt file of the part number not being there, it's a red herring (British expression as a false story) the txt looks fine to me that doesn't reflect the FeCs. Final test when I'm up. I know when the engine is running and I go into an information screen where it's using Škoda FeCs only, it shows a blank line for the infotainment part when it isn't using the host one. What you need to make your unit work like a Skoda is to have 08300008 in your addFeC list in addition. 5 years ago now since I did this. Those using AIO software would need to find where the FeCs go in and edit and re-install or use the link above. If they do the dirty again we may need this 023000EE (the Audi life long navigation Fec if it becomes Audi only). I was given assistance before since the software above has to match up with firmware installed. At that stage the patch had not been written for the firmware I was using. It was written for me and is now part of the Mr Bonk stuff. That's the only wrinkle. It tells you if your firmware isn't identified.

I think @MartiniB knows that. On the links above, it's shaded differently, at least in Firefox. That's pending those being found. Mind you, the shading could be because I've already hit those links. But yes, we know only the European ones have been identified. The Škoda portal if you go in with your Škoda VIN shows you the links that they are supporting, that is how they were originally identified since it suddenly showed the next map release and those are the file links.

I see the Motor Talk link is suggesting that VW is missing the FeC. Something like this happened before where they missed out a navigation FeC for a brand if that is the case. Mr Bonk's mib tools on github came in handy. I run with the Skoda and Seat ones. If that's the case VW owners need to add the other brands. I wasnt planning to use mib tools again, but didnt delete it just in case release games were played again. Decided last time someone didnt go to the meeting, so the FeC got deleted in the release 🙃. During lock down one of the six month releases didnt support one of the brands. & on the German Ateca thread: >> The DBInfo.txt file in the folder \Mib2\NavDB\DBInfo\0\default unfortunately shows us – as already suspected in other forums – that only the FECs for Skoda, Audi, Bentley, and Porsche are included. Those who can patch the unit themselves are now clearly at an advantage. << In SWDL if that's the case you see an N against the navigation attributes. Think its the navdb one if I remember right or all of them. Vag people if that's the case they need to check that. I visually checked for the Y's on each attribute so knew it would install. I will check that tomorrow see what's missing. I'm fine mine also runs as a Skoda mib2 high as well after the past event. When it doesn't see the navigation FeC against the brand another screen screen misses the model out of the unit. Techi guys helped me out with mib tools before setting it up. So yes if they were to tighten the release to just one brand it's what you do. Must have been another meeting someone didnt go to 🤣.

The normal success screen. Summer has come early, although it doesn't feel like it outside 😉.

Thanks. I'll try to load it this afternoon. I use SWDL so if there is an issue I can dig myself out. That's if I need to reinstall a previous. As you say it was a VW where someone said an issue but may have been those teething issues people get with unzipping and Mac OS etc. It unzipped OK. Test PM.

Another update. We like them 👏. Try to load it up tomorrow. Have you got the link to the forum so I can see what is being discussed. @MartiniB onto sniffing out RoW. This one doesn't appear to be in the Skoda library via a VIN unlike the recent Mib2 standard. Any success pictures, I'll put up.

Hmmm could be this https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/518018-columbus-map-update-2024-mib12-high/page/5/#findComment-5856640 If you have a mib1 they pulled support for map updates. It was a combined release for mib1 & 2 then with the recent releases on, only mib2 is supported. If you get these in a mib1... reading the description above, feels a bit like what you are reporting. You need to revert to an earlier map that supports mib1 if its a mib1 unit. My push down memory pushed it a bit too far down. 😉 You'd think a mib1 high unit would trap a mib2 high only map file being loaded into it. If you are not sure what unit you have mibhelper web site may help. https://mib-helper.com/ You put your software train in and it tells you about your unit.

No but I dont live in Australia. Suggest you look at the Map Creator Here Maps site, register and exam the road(s) in question. They have probably been dropped or there is an open joint. It happens. There is a form of AI that tosses out stuff on inspection then humans check. If it's not spotted and its some desert road (feel like a desert in Australia) a non connecting road at a T junction say that has got split out it would then take the long way round if installed in the car. Think there is a glandulatory thing between their systems as well so things fall foul of that. Once using Map Creator any edits you do you need to come back and check a week later, then a week later to ensure it's stuck and not got separated. Suspect someone hasn't done that so you got an open junction. The bottom row in map creator on the right give you a set of tools to check for consistency to you run along those making sure names are shown, one way streets etc. It also highlights where double tracks are. Open joints you have to visually check. The HereWeGo app gives you an early preview of what has been passed from the developers database (that above) to production so if anything has been fixed and works in that but not released then you know it's been fixed. Some of us, limited few had all the rights to look at the developers database using all the backroom screens. They thought it would increase their productivity but was open to abuse by a limited few so withdrew the developers stuff. Use to be able to call up mobile phone tracks to determine whether roads existed by the passage of the track. Their own workings on road developments etc with were yet open. If you give the x,y coordinates of the start and stop positions I can look at it. Mind you if you are saying that its the whole of Australia that isnt working which you might be, that's a production problem that the Vag supplier has from the Here Maps files not a small cartography error. If you need to go back to a previous version of the Vag map releases you can find that on MartiniBs files but you will need to enable the developers mode on your mib2 high, vcds or Obdeleven and use SWDL screen in the developers mode. You can then load up a previous release. It's the backend tool to the unit. Its a long press of the menu button, one screen opens, keep pressing, second screen then you see swdl. But you will only get this behaviour if the developers mode is enabled. Then with the door open for continuous power start swdl off, do all, play around with the menu buttons. A few reboots during the update, 40 minutes later you should see OK etc across the attributes.... that's if you are up to fixing it yourself with a previous release else you will need a retrofitter or wait till Vag sort it out that's if 433 is completely screwed. PS re-reading feel like 433 is completely screwed unless its the FeCs but if it's a regular unit un touched by a retrofitter then it should work. The navigation FeCs come into it if they are not "life long" FeCs that does cause navigation to shut down. If it's a European import from a retrofitter or you have updated the firmware but that has given you European navigation FeCs, then you need to alter the FeCs to RoW. It came up once with an Australian poster where I got them to alter the FeCs and it started working. They had used the all in one firmware update which landed you with European FeCs. The mib2 high tool kit, there are two, allows you to alter the FeCs, I think I got them to do that to correct it. This one allows you to alter the FeCs https://github.com/Mr-MIBonk/M.I.B._More-Incredible-Bash Documentation in there of the FeCs. Then if yiu have used an AIO firmware update you can probably edit the FeCs in that using the documentation or run the Mr Bonk stuff. If its this somewhere on this site is my conversation with the Ozzie guy who had this issue. You will find it on a search... OK. Went in on the swdl screen. https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/518018-columbus-map-update-2024-mib12-high/page/3/#findComment-5829735 Its a conversation with @breaddownunder if you follow that through. May be your issue ?. Saying that if it once worked with RoW maps but has stopped with the update and it's a factory unit not fiddled with then it will be a faulty update if the whole of Australia doesn't work. Ok been round the houses as we say.

Seems fine, I loaded up both the all Europe and the A2 version. Did the demo drive that the unit can do. Seemed OK. The files have increased in size since the July version posted on the top of the thread. Did a quick check to make sure it wasn't the same file but relabelled. It's still TomTom cartography so no change in TMC not working on the updates. On the positive side, those 20 mph speed limits are in the system. They have a "windows.net" in them as an example: https:/updateportalmaps.blob.core.windows.net/maps/STD2_2610_EU1_2026.zip Well I've used @MartiniB proforma of names and edited in what we'd expect.... happy days and all that wait for the official MartiniB links. They might not all pick up the files: # ECE AS(A1) 2026/27 VW portal: - - Škoda portal: https:/updateportalmaps.blob.core.windows.net/maps/STD2_2610_EU_AS_2026.zip # ECE 1 2026/27 VW portal: - - Škoda portal: https:/updateportalmaps.blob.core.windows.net/maps/STD2_2610_EU1_2026.zip # ECE 2 2026/27 VW portal: - - Škoda portal: https:/updateportalmaps.blob.core.windows.net/maps/STD2_2610_EU2_2026.zip # ECE 3 2026/27 VW portal: - - Škoda portal: https:/updateportalmaps.blob.core.windows.net/maps/STD2_2610_EU3_2026.zip # ECE 4 2026/27 VW portal: - - Škoda portal: https:/updateportalmaps.blob.core.windows.net/maps/STD2_2610_EU_DL1_2026.zip # ECE 5 2026/27 VW portal: - - Škoda portal: https:/updateportalmaps.blob.core.windows.net/maps/STD2_2610_EU_DL2_2026.zip # ECE 6 2026/27 VW portal: - - Škoda portal: https:/updateportalmaps.blob.core.windows.net/maps/STD2_2610_EU_DL3_2026.zip # ECE 7 2026/27 VW portal: - - Škoda portal: https:/updateportalmaps.blob.core.windows.net/maps/STD2_2610_EU_DL4_2026.zip Over to MartiniB.

Coded as 2610 on the download release which would be newer than the one @MartiniB has posted up and what I downloaded from that. I'll be told if I'm wrong 😉. The other one was ECE 26 this one is ECE 26 / 27. Will let MartiniB post up the file links but this is different to the one posted up in the summer. Will download the one that better pertains to the UK and test tomorrow. Downloading the all Europe one at the moment. Looks like they updated their library 🫡. Still life in the updates.

& on that we have had the November release so we are all uptodate as per @MartiniB 's links. One click back. Mib2 standard appeared early. Mib2 high about in the right window. Nothing new until the June releases before June fingers crossed on that one. https://www.briskoda.net/forums/forum/7-audio-electronics-and-security/

I thought it was all free for Skodas ?. Mapcare is a purchased thing for Seat and Audi. Its governed by the navigation FeC. Unlimited FeC is what you wanted if you haven't got it. The the mib2 high experts found that the brand navigation FeCs are interchangeable I'm blessed with the Skoda and Seat one. Mib Tools high on Github does the trick. You have to pick the right one. The Mr Bonk one. Even if you have the unlimited FeC for a different brand the update works since the update is multi brand. It was the occasion once that the Seat one got dropped on once release so helpful souls took me through the process with Mib Tools. The code for my firmware hadn't been written, so they wrote it. Software patch. The other way is you deploy an All in One (AIO) firmware update. That replaces the firmware and enables all the FeCs you might ever want. Another hobbyist solution. That is the one that Audi folk visiting here for map updates have in the main. Ditto Seat mib2 highs. That brings us on to when the maps wont be produced. The Audi TT went on using Mib2 high beyond 2020 according to @pcbbc which means updates should continue for a bit. Just a question of laying your hands on it. Never say never. Mib1 standard got a 2023 release sold by Audi so if there is a need for it, it will be produced. That version is available in the wild. We might have to buddy up with our Audi friends if they arent on lesser mortal sites 🧡. Those Audi folk with AIO firmware will be looking. Audi owners still pay so the signs of non production will appear there.

Yes Audi released a not so free mib1 update out of sequence to the free ones. A market must have existed. Mibsolution.one the board that comes and goes had the map on it. Seat folk on mib1 found they could use it using a workaround. I mentioned it on Briskoda and there was success with it. You will find that on a Briskoda thread where success was found. The Audi part code was 8V0060866S. Not sure whether there has been anymore releases. That was 2023 map file. Some three years after the last Vag release. Googling the partnumber you find it's still for sale. This is the SeatCupra navigation resource where you find links to users experience on Seat Mib1s https://www.seatcupra.net/forums/resources/updating-the-inbuilt-mib2-satnav-mib2-tricks-and-mib1.60/ If you take the link and taxi back to the rest of the text. It seemed that Seat mib1 firmware needed to be updated to the last release of mib1 for it to work. Release 480. The Skoda mib1 being discussed on the thread where it was tested had a similar release code 490 which is probably why it worked on Skoda. The Skoda success was here with the 2023 maps and firmware update https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/511425-amundsen-mib1-maps-update/page/2/#findComment-5904252 Back to the SeatCupra resource I linked above if your read between "DIY activities on the Mib1 standard unit was more..." to Mib3 covers the aspects on Seat's. Read above and round that Briskoda link you'll find more details. Its all there. So yes you can update the mib1 maps beyond 2020 to atleast 2023.

Afraid TMC is disappearing into the mists of time as far the mib2 standard. There won't always be mib2 standard map updates and a mute point as to when they may finish. You can have them with old maps when Here Maps was doing the cartography and the software surgery that @pcbbc showed. Mib2 high maps uptodate with the simple TMC group change to Inrix again as @pcbbc provided and they work dandy. On mib2 standard (Amundsen) using the old maps from several years ago you get caught out by road changes and those new 20mph speed limits. In the end as far as this household was concerned decided it was better to know the indicated road speed digitised onto the map, than old road speeds, with older map but with TMC. Least the driver said that (living in the land of 20mph in built up areas - which people liberally disobey). Keep the SD in the car just in case there is a change of mind so we have both alternatives. My car with mib2 high no issues with the VCDS code change (all on the threads here). New roads, new speeds and Inrix TMC in a Vag car 👍.

CleanMyDrive does get rid of the characters, there is also another way of setting filters which has the same effect.

The screen shows you are on 25.8. You are trying to update to 25.6 so obviously it will not update because 25.6 is not an update it's two months behind. The car comes with over the air updates which are free for a contracted period then you pay to have connected services extended, obviously you have an update. A basic test you do is to read that information screen of YY.MM and you only do the manual update which is what this is, if the manual update betters what you have and you have chosen to save money by not paying for connected services. Hence the manual update. Connect services are not available in all countries and in that case you use the manual update. Your dealer should be able to tell you when connect services for the car runs out or it's in the paper work. Personally I would always pay for connected services. Merry Xmas and Happy New Year.

You drag and drop all of the contents into a blank USB at the route level then you are done. Otherwise it's one of the niggly issues as referenced above. I'm hoping @MartiniB will jump in if Ive missed anything,

Why 7zip is preferred as that during the unzipping process other programs can slip in that off character that destroys the integrity check. It has to unpack exactly the same way as it was zipped. Notice MartiniB lists of two different European files in the above. The fix that helps some people is here: https://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/532756-mib3-map-updates-202502-06/page/3/#findComment-5970567 However, this might not be your issue. Presentation of the files exactly as expected is the key and you don't get any help from the unit if it doesn't read them. Unlike Mib2 standard, you can't pick and choose the internal files and mess about with the download. It just won't take it. The files are signed as a package, and that package is what it's expecting as it does that audit.

7zip is the Vag recommended way of doing it.

You do also get other issues if its not that. Some zipped files un pack at the wrong level so that pdf shows how it should be. Failing that you do get other issues which @MartiniB be has mentioned in the past. Basically the unit gets stuffed so you update the map with a previous history one then it takes the update. Weird. I dont have mib3.

If you look at the attachment on post 1 of here I attached all of the Vag pdfs on how to do it https://www.seatcupra.net/forums/threads/updating-the-inbuilt-mib3-satnav-offline.472408/#post-5030964 Vag sites loose some of the information as they reorganise the site. The Skoda map update pdf for mib3 is there. In the thread I reproduce MartiniBs map file links. Nudging it to start is covered but it will just pick it up once you push ignition then the process starts off. Similar to mib2 high map update it has a restart point if you turn off the ignition before its completed. So all of those on and offs sum to 40 minutes or so but get extended by the overlap time of the update. The fly in the ointment as mib2 high is that the unit will do a signature check on the integrity of the files on the USB before it will actually kick off the update. It wont say you have failed the integrity check, just wont do the update. The integrity check is failed if you dont present all files as required as per the pdf. No being clever. No edits. No nothing. No Macs. If you do use a Mac use CleanMydrive to remove Mac garbage from the file once the files are in the drive. Macs put some funny carriage, return line feed combination on to the files. The integrity check will look at the signature on the file do it's own thing and say these have been messed with, but won't tell you that. So file presentation is crucial and has to be exact. Some old 7zip programs can give an issue so updating 7zip is useful. The built in File Explorer of Window 10 / 11 can be used for the unzip. Another source of issues is not using exFat on the USB people have bees in their bonnet and want to use NTFS, dont. Another issue can be the use of usb a to usb c (anyhow the oval one) adapters. Some adapters are not fully wired for data just power. Why the Skoda recommends their Skoda one. Cupra recommends a Cupra badged one. Cheap ebay ones may not be fully wired. If you do need to use a USB a connection, get a reversible pen drive that has both on it or read the advert and make sure it says fully wired.