Windows 10

[Mr Derek]

I bought a Navi V to go with my shiny new(ish) GS. When I first connected it to Garmin Express it told me it needed a map update (for a new unit?) that wouldn't fit on the unit and therefore necessitated the purchase of a micro sd card, which I bought and fitted, but only after researching here to find that the card slot is hidden under the battery. WTF? I suppose it's for watertightness, but a clue in the pathetic handbook would have helped.

After several failed attempts to update, using the same system that recently updated my car satnav with no problems, we tried it on my wife's Windows 7 computer. Wahey!!

I don't know who is worse. Garmin for hiding the card slot, BMW for selling a unit that needs an immediate update or Microsoft for being generally shit and introducing a new system that doesn't work as well as an old one.

So, if you are having problems with windows 10 and garmin do what I did and buy a farking map

 

[Lord Snooty]

I'm on Windows 10 and have not experienced any update issues on my Garmin 660. Not being complacent though as you never know with Microsoft from one minute to the next.

 

[The Grey One]

I bought a Navi V to go with my shiny new(ish) GS. When I first connected it to Garmin Express it told me it needed a map update (for a new unit?) that wouldn't fit on the unit and therefore necessitated the purchase of a micro sd card, which I bought and fitted, but only after researching here to find that the card slot is hidden under the battery. WTF? I suppose it's for watertightness, but a clue in the pathetic handbook would have helped.

After several failed attempts to update, using the same system that recently updated my car satnav with no problems, we tried it on my wife's Windows 7 computer. Wahey!!

I don't know who is worse. Garmin for hiding the card slot, BMW for selling a unit that needs an immediate update or Microsoft for being generally shit and introducing a new system that doesn't work as well as an old one.

So, if you are having problems with windows 10 and garmin do what I did and buy a farking map

So how do you think BMW could avoid the possibility of an update being issued between the device being packaged and you fitting it? And complaining about a device when you obviously didn't bother to read the manual makes you sound like a spoilt child. Here is a link for you. On line manuals are the norm these days, you get them with all sorts of things. A little real reasearch and you might have found it for yourself. I don't think Windows 10 is a problem, I and many others have used it several times to update our Garmin devices. But you just carry on blaming everyone you can think of, that will surely fix the problem.

John

 

[paul08]

So how do you think BMW could avoid the possibility of an update being issued between the device being packaged and you fitting it? And complaining about a device when you obviously didn't bother to read the manual makes you sound like a spoilt child. Here is a link for you. On line manuals are the norm these days, you get them with all sorts of things. A little real reasearch and you might have found it for yourself. I don't think Windows 10 is a problem, I and many others have used it several times to update our Garmin devices. But you just carry on blaming everyone you can think of, that will surely fix the problem.

John

I have to agree with john (Grey One). My only "complaint" would be that I do not like the fact that just about every device now relies on you accessing an online manual rather than a paper version. Being an old-school sort of person, I still like to sit down and read a paper manual (preferably with the device in front of me) and an online manual just does not cut it for me

 

[Dwaind]

Hi, After much trawling the internet I arrived here. I have a BMW Navigator V and a shiny new Dell XPS 15 running Windows 10, I have tried everything and the Navigator will not connect to the laptop, it charges, but won't connect. I know its not the GPS unit or cable as it connects to my work Dell laptop and my wife's netbook, neither running Windows 10. So I can only conclude that Windows 10 doesn't like it. BTW everything else I plug into the USB ports work fine, having said that the Garmin Virb Elite is a bit temperamental.

 

[Ex-Call Centre Chimp]

Hi, After much trawling the internet I arrived here. I have a BMW Navigator V and a shiny new Dell XPS 15 running Windows 10, I have tried everything and the Navigator will not connect to the laptop, it charges, but won't connect. I know its not the GPS unit or cable as it connects to my work Dell laptop and my wife's netbook, neither running Windows 10. So I can only conclude that Windows 10 doesn't like it. BTW everything else I plug into the USB ports work fine, having said that the Garmin Virb Elite is a bit temperamental.

I had the same with my new laptop (also Windows 10) & my Nav V when plugging it into a USB port that other devices work through. The Nav V worked fine in a different port on the same laptop though.

 

[Tomcat]

Hi, After much trawling the internet I arrived here. I have a BMW Navigator V and a shiny new Dell XPS 15 running Windows 10, I have tried everything and the Navigator will not connect to the laptop, it charges, but won't connect. I know its not the GPS unit or cable as it connects to my work Dell laptop and my wife's netbook, neither running Windows 10. So I can only conclude that Windows 10 doesn't like it. BTW everything else I plug into the USB ports work fine, having said that the Garmin Virb Elite is a bit temperamental.

You could try putting the Nav V into 'mass storage mode'. This shouldn't be necessary and other people seem to have had no trouble linking the Nav V to Win10 but it might just help in your case. It solved a problem for me when connecting my Nav V to my Win 7 laptop. BTW, having set my Nav V to mass storage mode, I just leave it set that way but I do a proper Windows 'eject' from the USB port rather than simply pulling the cable out when I've finished with the connection.

http://www.motofans.be/gps/55-bmw-n...r-v-mass-storage-mode-vs-mtp-auto-detect-mode

 

[The Grey One]

You could try putting the Nav V into 'mass storage mode'. This shouldn't be necessary and other people seem to have had no trouble linking the Nav V to Win10 but it might just help in your case. It solved a problem for me when connecting my Nav V to my Win 7 laptop. BTW, having set my Nav V to mass storage mode, I just leave it set that way but I do a proper Windows 'eject' from the USB port rather than simply pulling the cable out when I've finished with the connection.

http://www.motofans.be/gps/55-bmw-n...r-v-mass-storage-mode-vs-mtp-auto-detect-mode

Putting the Nav V into mass storage mode also means you can use it with Mapsource as well as Basecamp, same applies to other later generation devices

John

 

[Dwaind]

Hi,

I tried Mass storage mode. and logging a call with Dell, I was extremely pleased and surprised at the level of support, I logged the call as a personal user, not as an employee, which I am. They couldn't fix it, even though they did offer to try to recreate the problem in the lab, they even called back twice to see if it had been fixed or to escalate the problem. I told them not to bother. So what I did was buy a 4 port USB hub from Amazon, plugged it in to the laptop, plugged in the Navigator V and bingo it all worked. So there must be an anomaly with the USB port on the system board. I will have a chat with the UK product specialist tomorrow to make him aware. Apart from the £10.99 for the hub I am now a happy boy.