Only one unlock allowed

[yamonda1]

I have a Street Pilot 2610 and bought North America NT cd and installed it only to find this unit does not support Basecamp so then I bought a 660 ..... but I had already used up the unlock code

Satnaveasy, who now trade under the Globalgps banner, and Garmin all say fuck you

anyone got a keygen

 

[DrFarkoff]

What about this thread

http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php?t=336790

Check my Post in it use the link I have up and select the tiles you want and you can get a Garmin installer No unlock needed

 

[yamonda1]

Checking it now Doc, thanks

 

[Bumpkin]

I have a Street Pilot 2610 and bought North America NT cd and installed it only to find this unit does not support Basecamp so then I bought a 660 ..... but I had already used up the unlock code

There's a few things wrong with that statement...

• The 2610 will never work with NT mapping
• Unlock codes are not transferable between Garmin GPSs, each code is tied to a specific GPS unit and one version of the mapping data
• I can't see how you could buy NT mapping for a 2610 and be provided with an unlock code
• The 660 should have come with pre-installed mapping and be eligible for registration of a myGarmin account, this would reveal the unlock code for that device/mapping combination.

Whilst OpenStreetMap data will work with both your 2610 and the 660 it won't provide full functionality on the 660. It'll navigate OK, maybe slightly differently to Garmin/Navteq mapping data, not necessarily worse, just differently. There will be certain, not critical, functions that won't work though.

The alternative is to buy a Lifetime subscription for the 660 from Handtec, you will need a myGarmin account to activate and use this for updates though. Reading between the lines I'm assuming you don't have one of these though. Maybe your 660 is 2nd hand and the seller didn't, or wasn't able to, provide details or de-register the Zumo with Garmin

Garmin should be able to help get the device registered to you all the same, they try to contact the previous owner and if they don't get a response after a few days will de-register the Zumo allowing you to register it in your name. Usually they are pretty helpful.

Of course, if you bought the thing in a pub off a shady geezer then Garmin will quite rightly block you from any updates and have nothing to do with you.

 

[yamonda1]

There's a few things wrong with that statement...

• The 2610 will never work with NT mapping
• Unlock codes are not transferable between Garmin GPSs, each code is tied to a specific GPS unit and one version of the mapping data
• I can't see how you could buy NT mapping for a 2610 and be provided with an unlock code
• The 660 should have come with pre-installed mapping and be eligible for registration of a myGarmin account, this would reveal the unlock code for that device/mapping combination.

Whilst OpenStreetMap data will work with both your 2610 and the 660 it won't provide full functionality on the 660. It'll navigate OK, maybe slightly differently to Garmin/Navteq mapping data, not necessarily worse, just differently. There will be certain, not critical, functions that won't work though.

The alternative is to buy a Lifetime subscription for the 660 from Handtec, you will need a myGarmin account to activate and use this for updates though. Reading between the lines I'm assuming you don't have one of these though. Maybe your 660 is 2nd hand and the seller didn't, or wasn't able to, provide details or de-register the Zumo with Garmin

Garmin should be able to help get the device registered to you all the same, they try to contact the previous owner and if they don't get a response after a few days will de-register the Zumo allowing you to register it in your name. Usually they are pretty helpful.

Of course, if you bought the thing in a pub off a shady geezer then Garmin will quite rightly block you from any updates and have nothing to do with you.

and there's a few things wrong with that one too ...

Foolish perhaps but I didn't know 2610 wouldn't take NT maps ..
The NT map was on a CD and had an unlock code and was not purchased in a pub from a shady geezer, I'd have thought my reference to Satnaveasy may have been a clue ..
The 660 came with unlocked European maps .. I'd have thought my reference to Garmin may have been a clue ..
I have Lifetime updates ..
The 660 is registered to me ..

Any help appreciated but patronising snide comments like the above just fuck off !!

 

[Kritou]

I have to say that I have always found Bumpkin's advice to be well thought out, concise, even if a trifle punctilious. I suspect his reference to shady geezer was aimed more at the provenance of the 660 than the mapping disc - but I could be wrong!

 

[The Grey One]

I have to say that I have always found Bumpkin's advice to be well thought out, concise, even if a trifle punctilious. I suspect his reference to shady geezer was aimed more at the provenance of the 660 than the mapping disc - but I could be wrong!

Me too, and he seems always willing to help. I think if you read what he says you will find he said "if you bought the thing in a pub off a shady geezer" Hardly cause to use gutter language in response. Unless of course that's how you did get it.

Some of us are grateful for the likes of Bumpkin and would like such people to continue to post and share their knowledge.

John

 

[Bumpkin]

and there's a few things wrong with that one too ...

Foolish perhaps but I didn't know 2610 wouldn't take NT maps ..
The NT map was on a CD and had an unlock code and was not purchased in a pub from a shady geezer, I'd have thought my reference to Satnaveasy may have been a clue ..
The 660 came with unlocked European maps .. I'd have thought my reference to Garmin may have been a clue ..
I have Lifetime updates ..
The 660 is registered to me ..

Any help appreciated but patronising snide comments like the above just fuck off !!

As said, only trying to help out.

The reference to a shady geezer in a pub was indeed referring to the 660, not the NT disk and was intended to connect to the fact that Garmin had told you, in your words (most likely not theirs), "fuck you"... I have never been, or heard of anyone being, brushed off by Garmin in that manner. That and your original post seemed to infer that you were trying to use the copy of NT that you had somehow bought for the 2610 on the 660. This lead me to make the assumption that it was possible (hence the if) that you had inadvertently purchased a stolen/blacklisted unit. That not being the case please accept an apology.

Whilst it was true that in the days of the 2610 you could indeed obtain a 2nd unlock for another Garmin unit owned by yourself without charge that stopped due to a takeover of Navteq by Nokia in 2007 and the subsequent tightening up of the contract to supply mapping data to Garmin.

The 2610 will only support the non NT mapping which was last released as City Nav 2009 alongside the similarly named City Nav 2009 NT version. NT came out in 2008 ISTR. Garmin no longer support the unit or the mapping so you either have to bizarrely break the law by using a keygen (though some, given Garmin washing their hands of it, would see it as justifiable) or go with third party mapping.

City Nav 2009, if you can find a non NT copy (don't confuse with City Nav v9 which was 2007, they changed the naming convention for 2008), will obviously be out of date (more like 5 years than 4 given the lead times). OpenStreetMap, however, is current (probably more so than the current offering from Garmin), freely available and without any of the hassle of unlock codes. The only downside is that it's quite large in terms of file size for a given area. With the 2610 you only have 2GB to play with though being on CF cards you could split a bigger tour across a few cards I suppose.

However with the 660 and lifetime mapping you don't really need to be concerned.

 

[yamonda1]

Hands up from me Bumpkin no apology required ... it's been a frustrating day is all and you were my outlet, at least via computer ....