As title, is anyone running v10 maps on their Columbus with 4020 or earlier firmware please. I have read conflicting advice as to whether the new maps run on older firmware.

Thanks

Adam

I am running V10 in my 2010 Superb, not sure what firmware but it was never updated.

Thanks for this. Grateful if you could press and hold setup for several seconds and select version information please. It will tell you in there if you could post back?

Cheers

Adam

2010 Columbus will be somewhere between 276x to 389x if they were on the latest firmware coming out of the factory.

4020 wasn't released until later in 2011.

I am running v10 maps on 4020 firmware! works flawlessly and have custom PIOs. I must say though I have 4020a firmware, its a modded firmware

Lovely thanks.  Will be looking at updating soon I think.

 

Adam

maps will run ok on all firmwares

all you are updating is the map data

I have done some more digging on this and found out for the older 30GB HDD Columbus units, there may be a problem with some of the 3810/4020 firmwares not quite having a big enough partition for newer maps. Firmwares with the partitions in the ratio 70:25:5 allow 7.5GB for the map partition, which once you account for space occupied on the partition for system files etc, is only just bigger than the 5.5GB needed for the maps.  Apparently even though there is more than 5.5GB free, there is not quite enough additional space for the copy operation to take place and the operation may then stop near the end without quite completing.

 

The solution appears to be adjusting the firmware partitions to 60:35:5 which gives a healthy 10GB for the map partition and still leaves a notional 18GB (actually 16.5GB once you allow for system files) for the music.  There is more about this on www.rnsfirmware.com including the adjusted firmware, and I've just successfully loaded the 60:35:5 version to my head unit. It is identical in functionality to the 70:25:5 I had on there before (in fact the downloaded file size is the same so I suspect the only difference is the configuration of the partitions).

 

Adam

V10 on 4020 here, no problems...

Adam,

It is possible to download a firmware, modify the partition distribution ratio, burn a disk and use that.

There is a tutorial on an Australian forum linked to from the page about upgrading the HD to a SSD.

I'm on my phone so can't find the link at present.

Thanks kb, the adjusted firmware exists on rnsfirmware.com already. It worked fine for me but my problems started when I subsequently formatted the map partition...