marchie
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We have 2 x Camper 780 Satnavs arising from the M/Home arriving with a duff Multimedia Unit in April 2021 [bought one as a 'temporary' solution pending the Multimedia Unit repair, which proved impossible so the Dealer sent me an Avtex Camper Two version!]
I had purchased a 32Gb micro SDHC for the Garmin 780 [Satnav Internal Memory has 13.8Gb used of the original 16Gb] in 2022 and had about 24.8Gb free from the original 28.8Gb, so assumed that that would be enough for the Map Update. I also planned to downoad the WildCamping POI Files. The Map Update crashed throughout the day on Tuesday on several occasions, and again yesterday after a 3 hour+ snail pace download attempt. I had checked with Garmin Support that I could use a larger capacity micro SDHC Card and they emailed an Instruction Sheet stating that the 780 can handle cards from 4Gb to 256Gb, so Tuesday morning I bought a 64Gb micro SDHC Card and followed the Garmin Instructions to format the Card in the laptop
The formatting went ok, but, when I tried to use the 64Gb Card in the Garmin 780, the satnav couldn't find it, and I got a message 'insert a Card between 4Gb and 32Gb'. Garmin Tech Support were adamant that a 64Gb Card would be no problem! After yesterday morning's failure with the existing 32Gb micro SD, I trotted back to Argos and ought 2 more 32Gb Cards ['Weren't you in yesterday for a Card?'!]. Inserted the new 32Gb Card in the Garmin 780 and about 5-10 minutes coughing and spluttering very slow update, until it sprang into life, moving from about 7% complete to 50% complete in a few seconds! 15 minutes later, the Map Update was fully installed!
Repeated the process with the 2nd new 32Gb Card and the Avtex 780 [also about 13.8Gb Internal Memory usage] went straight to a 27% complete message, and finished the Installation in under 10 minutes! I copied the original 32Gb micro SDHC Card from the Garmin 780 to my Samsung SSD, and then formatted he SDHC to act as a new, 'clean' Card for the next update. Easy, eventually!
The Garmin Technical Support advice and their Manual is wrong; I wasted £11..99 on the 64Gb Card and 2 x 18 mile journies to buy new 32Gb Cards, and the repeated 'Loading Update' failures ate over 22Gb of my Monthly Data Allowance which had renewed only 4 days earlier, so I had to stump up £15 for an additional 15Gb Data Top Up! I haven't dared to try downloading the WildCamping POI's yet; don't think my heart can take it ...
Steve
I had purchased a 32Gb micro SDHC for the Garmin 780 [Satnav Internal Memory has 13.8Gb used of the original 16Gb] in 2022 and had about 24.8Gb free from the original 28.8Gb, so assumed that that would be enough for the Map Update. I also planned to downoad the WildCamping POI Files. The Map Update crashed throughout the day on Tuesday on several occasions, and again yesterday after a 3 hour+ snail pace download attempt. I had checked with Garmin Support that I could use a larger capacity micro SDHC Card and they emailed an Instruction Sheet stating that the 780 can handle cards from 4Gb to 256Gb, so Tuesday morning I bought a 64Gb micro SDHC Card and followed the Garmin Instructions to format the Card in the laptop
The formatting went ok, but, when I tried to use the 64Gb Card in the Garmin 780, the satnav couldn't find it, and I got a message 'insert a Card between 4Gb and 32Gb'. Garmin Tech Support were adamant that a 64Gb Card would be no problem! After yesterday morning's failure with the existing 32Gb micro SD, I trotted back to Argos and ought 2 more 32Gb Cards ['Weren't you in yesterday for a Card?'!]. Inserted the new 32Gb Card in the Garmin 780 and about 5-10 minutes coughing and spluttering very slow update, until it sprang into life, moving from about 7% complete to 50% complete in a few seconds! 15 minutes later, the Map Update was fully installed!
Repeated the process with the 2nd new 32Gb Card and the Avtex 780 [also about 13.8Gb Internal Memory usage] went straight to a 27% complete message, and finished the Installation in under 10 minutes! I copied the original 32Gb micro SDHC Card from the Garmin 780 to my Samsung SSD, and then formatted he SDHC to act as a new, 'clean' Card for the next update. Easy, eventually!
The Garmin Technical Support advice and their Manual is wrong; I wasted £11..99 on the 64Gb Card and 2 x 18 mile journies to buy new 32Gb Cards, and the repeated 'Loading Update' failures ate over 22Gb of my Monthly Data Allowance which had renewed only 4 days earlier, so I had to stump up £15 for an additional 15Gb Data Top Up! I haven't dared to try downloading the WildCamping POI's yet; don't think my heart can take it ...
Steve
