2 hours ago, Stoofa said:

It'll be a separate partition - when you format any drive, you format just the partition you can see.

The partition is even more hidden than that, you need special software to even see it - which the SD Association are not about to give out on demand.

I was sure the restriction on the SD cards was made possible by the SD cards CID value.

Have we heard of anyone "corrupting" their SD card after formatting it using random tools, such as partitionmagic etc?

16 hours ago, Chrunchy said:

I was sure the restriction on the SD cards was made possible by the SD cards CID value.

Have we heard of anyone "corrupting" their SD card after formatting it using random tools, such as partitionmagic etc?

I format mine every time I update the maps (twice a year), so it's been done 7 times now with no problems.

58 minutes ago, PetrolDave said:

I format mine every time I update the maps (twice a year), so it's been done 7 times now with no problems.

 

Do do have any issues with your system, such as Time, Date and Year resetting itself and/or the lights not changing over should you wander over to the European Union. 

 

Because I get all of the above! 

 

I have to change everything manually. 

17 hours ago, Chrunchy said:

I was sure the restriction on the SD cards was made possible by the SD cards CID value.

 

Exactly this, I'm pretty sure there are no magic partitions or hidden data involved, it's just the SD CID that denotes a 'Skoda' SD card or not.

 

The SD CID should be one-time programmable in the factory, although some SD cards do have re-writable CID's (certain Saumsung varients for example) which makes them very handy. I used them in the past to put the RNS-310 map updates on larger SD cards to make more space for music :)

 

If I remember later, I can check....

5 hours ago, TheWanderer said:

Do do have any issues with your system, such as Time, Date and Year resetting itself and/or the lights not changing over should you wander over to the European Union.

No such issues with mine - the headlamp one doesn't apply as I have halogens not bi-Xenons.

Ah. I've got LED.

Hello @MartiniB could you able to share Amundsen MIB2 sdcard map file again for Australia vw-mapscdn.tdd.adacorcdn.…erMedia2_MRM3_1420_V12.7z no longer working please?

 

Thank you

44 minutes ago, originato said:

Hello @MartiniB could you able to share Amundsen MIB2 sdcard map file again for Australia vw-mapscdn.tdd.adacorcdn.…erMedia2_MRM3_1420_V12.7z no longer working please?

 

Thank you

 

Try here:

 

@originato

 

Here's a direct link for the Australian map that actually works:

 

https://navigation-maps.volkswagen.com/vw-maps/DiscoverMedia2_MRM3_1710_V14.7z

 

@langers2k

 

The  map link in the post that you linked to doesn't work. I think it's because the thread poster needs to change his links from http:// to https://

Edited 20 August, 20214 yr by bigade1

Thank you @bigade1 for the link

Just in case anyone was wondering, there is never any need to reformat an SD card. Just delete what's on there.