Firmware updates for RNS510 units in Australia/NZ

[FJ Steve]

You said you had a A unit, which, when upgraded via FW will read as a version D.

Whatever the unit believes it is, it is STILL an A unit. I have an A unit and cannot go higher than 3810. Have tried 3970, 4020 using a gazillion different burning methods. Ba-bow. No dice.

Trust me...3810/V5 maps/Personal Poi's and personal Splash Screen is more bling than you need. 4020 is not giving you any more bang for buck.

[kamold]

thank you so much for the answer,
yes my Map is still loading ( Westen Europe Map ) , GPs is fine 10/12 Sat,
when i tried to eject the DVD its warned me the map is on the process and i will break the process,
so i will have to wait untill all is finished,

How big is the Europe west map DVD?
It is possible that there is not enough space on the map partition and it is getting stuck. Also how big is your hdd?

These custom firmware images were created specifically for Australia and New Zealand users whose map data is only 600mb or so.

If we find that the partition for the map data is too small with 90/5/5 ratio I can make a new custom script to change to 80/15/5 or similar in order to allow enough room for your map data.

[kamold]

You said you had a A unit which now reads as a higher/later version (D?).

Whatever the unit believes it is, it is STILL an A unit. I have an A unit and cannot go higher than 3810. Have tried 3970, 4020 using a gazillion different burning methods. Ba-bow. No dice.

Trust me...3810/V5 maps/Personal Poi's and personal Splash Screen is more bling than you need. 4020 is not giving you any more bang for buck.

FJ Steve speaks the truth. Follow his advice...

[Kindros]

You said you had a A unit, which, when upgraded via FW will read as a version D.

Whatever the unit believes it is, it is STILL an A unit. I have an A unit and cannot go higher than 3810. Have tried 3970, 4020 using a gazillion different burning methods. Ba-bow. No dice.

Trust me...3810/V5 maps/Personal Poi's and personal Splash Screen is more bling than you need. 4020 is not giving you any more bang for buck.

awesome, ok, well with that in mind, with the gradual upgrade, is upgrading like twice fine, once to 2664, then to 3810?
Also, do I need to worry about this for 2664 update:
Extract files PQTABLE and SKTABLE from image (use magiciso or ultraiso). Files can be found from path: \VUCI\B101\RNSMIDEC\PROG
Switch the filenames by just renaming SKTABLE to PQTABLE and vice versa
Overwrite the renamed files back to image and save the image. Burn this image to DVD or CD.
Load or reload the Firmware to your RNS-510 using the steps below.
Voilá… buttons are back!
I am a Skoda owner, but im not 100% whether it is referencing for BT module buttons, or every skoda ownder should do it regardless.

And Do I need to know about this for any reason on the 3810 update:
Revision A, B and C revision units

These units will become SW revision D after the upgrade however when coding the unit using VCDS you will receive the error
“Coding Rejected, Error 31: Request Out of Range”
Before saving the new coding manually add a 10th byte (00) at the end before pressing “Do It” as per the example below

9 byte coding (A/B/C SW revisions):
020104000400001100

10 byte coding (D SW revision):
02010400040000110000

[jamerson]

Bazinga...just realised he is from Germany. Yep...the Europe maps are so big, they issue an East and a West edition.

thank you guys for the help,
will get back to you about this when the map is fully on the HDD,

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How big is the Europe west map DVD?
It is possible that there is not enough space on the map partition and it is getting stuck. Also how big is your hdd?

These custom firmware images were created specifically for Australia and New Zealand users whose map data is only 600mb or so.

If we find that the partition for the map data is too small with 90/5/5 ratio I can make a new custom script to change to 80/15/5 or similar in order to allow enough room for your map data.

the European Map is 4GB ISO, my HDD as i beleive is 30GB, according to the below info, and there is 26 GB free still
Support Status : HDD supported
Tempstatus : Degraded
Power Status : ok
TEmpstatus : --
HDD read size 30005821440
Number of partition = 3 Partition
Volfile system = filesystem_f..
Volumsite- 26977769928
Remaine size = 26977751040
Firmware version = F4rjas03
Model = Hitachi HEJ425030

is there is away to figure out the process status? like how many % is it right now?

[tonymy01]

thank you guys for the help,
is there is away to figure out the process status? like how many % is it right now?

I would say with a 4G ISO, and only 5% full HDD space reserved for maps in this Aussie modded version of the f/w, that it will not be any good for you (assume you have a 40G HDD, that will only be 2G partition for maps, not enough for Europe more than likely). If your HDD is 30G, that is only 1.5G partition size for maps. I guess Volkswagen came up with the partitioning scheme with Europe in mind, but for Australia, we don't need anywhere near the kind of space reserved for maps (or POIs), hence the 90/5/5 split for the Aussie (modified) firmwares.

[jamerson]

I would say with a 4G ISO, and only 5% full HDD space reserved for maps in this Aussie modded version of the f/w, that it will not be any good for you (assume you have a 40G HDD, that will only be 2G partition for maps, not enough for Europe more than likely). If your HDD is 30G, that is only 1.5G partition size for maps. I guess Volkswagen came up with the partitioning scheme with Europe in mind, but for Australia, we don't need anywhere near the kind of space reserved for maps (or POIs), hence the 90/5/5 split for the Aussie (modified) firmwares.

is it possible that someone can help to recreate the new Firmware for Europe to have space on the HDD for the map and POI?

[FJ Steve]

is it possible that someone can help to recreate the new Firmware for Europe to have space on the HDD for the map and POI?

I believe Kamold indicated that he would work on something for you (in a previous post).
Here:

How big is the Europe west map DVD?
It is possible that there is not enough space on the map partition and it is getting stuck. Also how big is your hdd?

These custom firmware images were created specifically for Australia and New Zealand users whose map data is only 600mb or so.

If we find that the partition for the map data is too small with 90/5/5 ratio I can make a new custom script to change to 80/15/5 or similar in order to allow enough room for your map data.

[jamerson]

I believe Kamold indicated that he would work on something for you (in a previous post).
Here:

he will save my life if he will do this,
thank you so much guys

waiting for Kamold answer!

[kamold]

he will save my life if he will do this,
thank you so much guys

waiting for Kamold answer!

Please stand by.....

As the original post mentions, these custom firmware images were designed for Australia and New Zealand users.
We have a pretty small road network compared with Western Europe, so the map disk is under 1GB of data. Therefor we are able to use more HDD space for music.

JohnC will provide us with some modified files and I will update the guide in the first post.
We will use 75% of space for music, 20% for map data and 5% for POI database.