Help Replacement GPS unit and software registration
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I think you can use two GPS units with City Select. You'll need to go to Garmins page to unlock CS for the second unit.
Maybe your new GPS will come it's own maps?
Maybe your new GPS will come it's own maps?
richie
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Here you go an example about how nice the people at Garmin are. Normaly after reading their info the unlock code goes with the GPS if the gps is lost tough. Nice huh?
ktm520 said:
Why's that then? Did you drop your bike??
I would ring Garmin in Hampshire and tell them that you want to drop the registration on your broken unit and reregister the new unit. Avoid registering the new unit as a 2nd unit.
However, if the new unit comes with later maps etc, just register that and forget about the old unit altogether!
Greg
Me drop a bike surely not !
The arial was comletely decapitated after the incident with the tree.
I tried taking it apart to fix it.
Soldering iron in hand. I just couldn't make it work.
In the meantime I managed to break the battery terminal inside it.
I then left the soldering iron next to it, turned round caught the cable, ploughing the hot iron into the soft plastic case !
So I now have a gps that only works with an external antenna and has to be hard wired to the bikes battery and is no longer water tight.
Hence a quick phone call to the Insurance company.
so if anyone wants to buy the knackered GPS let me know !
The arial was comletely decapitated after the incident with the tree.
I tried taking it apart to fix it.
Soldering iron in hand. I just couldn't make it work.
In the meantime I managed to break the battery terminal inside it.
I then left the soldering iron next to it, turned round caught the cable, ploughing the hot iron into the soft plastic case !
So I now have a gps that only works with an external antenna and has to be hard wired to the bikes battery and is no longer water tight.
Hence a quick phone call to the Insurance company.
so if anyone wants to buy the knackered GPS let me know !
PanEuropean
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I kind of suspect - though I have no knowledge of this having been done - that if you send the remains of your destroyed GPSR back to Garmin, they will allow you to transfer the unlock code to a new GPSR. The reason I suspect this is that Garmin is a fairly customer-oriented company, and also, because it's really Navteq who are the ones that impose the 'licence code locked to GPSR serial number' protection system on what is Navteq's intellectual property. It certainly would be in Garmin's best interest to facilitate a serial number transfer - because that way, they sell another piece of hardware, and Garmin is primarily a hardware company, not a software (map) company.
My suggestion - and keep in mind this is just a shot in the dark - is that you write Garmin a nice letter, explaining what happened and that you intend to purchase a replacement GPSR, and asking them if they would be willing to transfer the licence for your existing cartography to your new unit if you send Garmin back the damaged GPSR.
Worth a try, only costs a stamp. Don't try to complicate matters by asking for your dead GPSR back, etc. - just keep it simple, you send them the dead GPSR, they send you a new (replacement) unlock code for your new GPSR. Plain and simple.
PanEuropean
My suggestion - and keep in mind this is just a shot in the dark - is that you write Garmin a nice letter, explaining what happened and that you intend to purchase a replacement GPSR, and asking them if they would be willing to transfer the licence for your existing cartography to your new unit if you send Garmin back the damaged GPSR.
Worth a try, only costs a stamp. Don't try to complicate matters by asking for your dead GPSR back, etc. - just keep it simple, you send them the dead GPSR, they send you a new (replacement) unlock code for your new GPSR. Plain and simple.
PanEuropean
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