Guys new here please take it easy on me

I have a columbus nav system i am thick as ****e i need it to accept a bigger sd card can some please help me a idoits guide will be great or if anyone is in pboro can help dont want to brick it and cant afford a repair or new unit

There is a way but you will have to update the firmware in your Columbus. That can be trickey, took me a few attempts. If you can't do that then remmber that the Columbus has about 20 GB of memory on the hard drive and you can get your music onto a few 2GB SD cards and then download onto the hard drive. It worked for me.

Ian

How big a card are you using?

If 2Gb is the biggest it will accept then you will need to upgrade the firmware. Lots of threads on here about doing that and sources of firmware files (modified or not).

If your Columbus can accept larger cards and SDHC as well as SD cards, then you should be able to go to 32gb on an SDHC. Anything works, but go for a reputable brand such as SanDisk, Kingston, etc. and don't buy from eBay (too many dodgy dealers of SD card). Try this one, more than good enough, 16Gb and reliable seller at reasonable price.

Mine only takes 2gig

Be honest dont have the knowledge or balls for it so going to give it a miss. Thanks for all the help

If the Columbus was factory fitted, ask the dealer about updates and get them to do it.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

Sorry to hijack this thread, but is there a max read speed that Columbus will handle from a SDHC card? I know it can only read mp3/WMA from the SD card slot, but I'm thinking in order to get data onto the hard drive, e.g. if I used a UHS SDHC card with 45MB/s would the unit be able to read it that quickly?

I'm fairly sure it only reads MP3 files not WMA and that is is USB 2.0 protocol based so speeds will not be great.

I have not noticed any significant difference using SanDisk Class 4 or Class 10 cards.

Thanks KBPhoto. I did think it was odd that it would read wma, but that's what it says in the latest manual.

I'll stick with my normal SDHC card then. The manual does also say that to transfer 100 songs of average (3-5 minute length) onto the HDD would take approx. 40 minutes - hence I wanted to check if a faster card would be quicker, as that is a l o n g time...

I only have a cheep slow card and it transfers a lot faster than that.

It will play WMA files, but not if they had DRM (Digital Rights Management) set on them.