Does anyone have map updates for Magellan Maestro 4250 and instructions how to update chip? Thanks
I just went to their web site and did not see anything regarding an update for the firm ware. Also would be interested in how to be able to use a SD card I have in the unit. Please post any info you have. Thanks
I found it yesterday, but not without difficulty. You probably have to login to the site and register your 4250 before you can download this update. Go to http://www.magellangps.com/ , click on Support, enter the info for your 4250 under Product Support & Updates then click Submit. Scroll down almost to the bottom of the resulting 4250 Support page and under Updates/Upgrades click on Maestro 4250 Firmware Update 3.34. Follow the instructions on this page to download and install the update. As a AAA member I tried to enroll in the AAA special offer while registering my 4250 and got into a vicious register-enroll-login-register-enroll-login-... cycle which somehow I escaped on about the 4th cycle through. Their website design isn't any better than the rest of their customer support. It's almost an 80 MB download. I installed it without incident but haven't had a chance to test it yet. At least it doesn't seem to have broken anything. Thanks to Mac or I wouldn't have even known to look for it or had the patience to hunt it down. Jerry
Jerry, Thanks for the help so far. I have a 2 GB SD card in my 4250. I have plugged the GPS into the USB port on my PC. It shows as a drive formatted FAT32 and the space as 1.9 GB. with 520 MG free. Is this space the space on the GPS unit or my SD card. I am not sure what needs to be done so that information can be downloaded to the card. There are a number of exe files in the various folders but when I click on them I get a message that they are not valid Win_32 executable files. Again thanks,
You can use the 4250 SD/MMC card slot for Enhanced POIs (see User Manual pg. 30) and for backing up and restoring your personal settings (pg. 71).
What you see is the GPS hard drive; your SD card should have almost 2 GB free, right? There may be a way to see the SD info via the USB connection of your GPS, but I don't know how to do it. Perhaps someone else can step in and tell us if they know a way. To backup and restore your personal settings (see my other reply) just insert the card into your GPS slot and go to Backup and Restore under User Options (on page 2 of the Main Menu). .. For Enhanced POIs (the other SD card use) it looks like you load the POIs onto the SD card using a card slot on your computer and then insert the card into your 4250. This process differs from my RoadMate 700/760 where you load Enhanced POIs from your computer directly onto the GPS hard drive via the USB connection. In either case you have to install the Enhanced POI Manager on your PC. Loading Enhanced POIs is a cumbersome process that, for my purposes, isn't worth the trouble. I would strongly advise against clicking on any .exe files in your GPS unit. You also need to read the firmware instructions carefully and follow them to the letter; more than one person has destroyed their GPS unit when updating firmware. Jerry
Thanks once more. My online manual must be smaller than yours as i only go to page 64. However, I found what you were pointing to. When you put the SD card in a memory reader should you be able to see the files and folders that were backed up? I have not registered my 4250 yet. Could you post the firmware fix? I am on v2.24 HW-3 thanks.
Jerry again thanks for the update. I will keep checking to see if anyone else can answer the last question. I so far see what must be the units memory but nothing on the SD card. I will keep trying to learn how to work this thing. It does not matter with the exe files as none are executeable under Win32. oldman
Download the manual by clicking the link at the top of the 4250 Support page (same page that has the firmware update link at the bottom). This version is more recent than the copy on your 4250 CD. No way ol' buddy - it's almost 80 MB. You have to download it from the Magellan site. Sorry! Jerry
I have found that the POI Editor was good for entering the coordinates and the parameters in preparation in trying some geocaching. Maybe there is another way of getting the coordinates in there, but it worked okay for me, but agree a bit cumbersome.
Oldman, does the SD card show up in My Computer on your system? The SD card doesn't show up on my system: Dell XPS410 Windows Vista Home Premium (*not* updated to SP1) Maestro 4250 (F/W updated to 3.34, HW-3) Toshiba 2 GB SD card I'm not sure how the SD card is formatted because I don't currently have a card reader (one is on order), but the Maestro 4250 Backup & Restore feature seemed to like it OK. Anybody have any guesses as to why the SD doesn't show up? Jerry
I think that's what I said already. It shows up IN MY COMPUTER......... better ?? Then that pretty much indicates a problem somewhere. That would tend to indicate that the problem is with Vista (surprise!). Have you tried to save a user POI file to see if it offers the SD card as a destination? ................or is that where this discussion started ????? ;-)
I wasn't questioning what you said, I was just asking Oldman if the SD showed up on his system. [You aren't Oldman under an alias are you?]. His initial post seemed to indicate that he couldn't see the SD. If he still can't see it and is still on Maestro F/W 2.24 then that probably eliminates my upgrade to F/W 3.34 as a suspect. I have lots of USB drives on this system, including a thumb drive (FAT), hard drives (NTFS & FAT32), and a ready boost drive with 2 partitions (CDFS & FAT). Vista shows and handles them all OK, although I agree it sucks in many ways. I suspect the Maestro but have no evidence to support that suspicion. I heard that Magellan had problems with the USB interface on some of their earliest RoadMate 700 models so it wouldn't surprise me if the 4250 had USB problems. Do you have a Maestro 4250 and, if so, is it on F/W 2.24 or 3.34? Nope - it started when Oldman asked if the 2 GB drive he saw was the Maestro hard drive or the SD card and I informed him it was the Maestro hard drive (which is also 2 GB). I haven't installed Maestro POI manager on my Vista machine. I used the RM 700/760 POI manager on a now defunct XP machine but didn't get much benefit from it. I've had several applications hose my Vista machine and don't like to install anything unless I really need it. You pose an interesting experiment though. Thanks for your input and any further thoughts you might have. Jerry
Oops. You confused me by quoting MY message and then asking HIM a question........and I thought maybe you were from the UK (Oldman.....British slang.....never mind!!) ;-)
I was asking for his *response to your post* so I just continued the conversational thread. Sorry for the confusion but thanks for the humor as well as the addition to my vocabulary Jerry P.S. (intended for Oldman and all other interested parties and not intended to confuse Who Me?) I think the SD card is invisible on your PC by design (or lack thereof). Here's an extract from the Maestro 4250 User Manual that implies that you have to load the POIs onto the card *before* you put the card in the Maestro SD slot: Loading a POI File 1. Save a POI file created with the POI Manager to an SD/MMC card and install the card in the SD/MMC slot on the left side of the Magellan Maestro. For those of you who have Maestro 4250s, no you are not dyslexic - the SD/MMC card slot is on the right, not the left, side of the unit
Hi guys, Sorry have not checked this in a couple of days. Here is the latest. My FW has been updated to the latest release. I finally registered the unit. With the SD card in the unit I see a FAT32 drive but I believe that is the RAM in the unit. This was while the unit was connected to a USB port on my Vista box. I did a backup to the SD card and it seemed to work. I then removed the SD card and inserted it into my Mediagear card reader. The Reader was first connected to my XP box but the SD card is not seen. I then moved the reader to the Vista box but the card still was not seen. I am sure the card reader works since I inserted a CF card from my digital camera and was able to see the pictures. Any one have any ideas as to how to see what might be on the SD card? Thanks guys,
I have a card reader arriving Mon or Tue. If your issue is still unresolved I'll post what I find out. Jerry
You might find that the files on your SD are "Hidden". I am not familiar with your unit, but you might check to see if your OS is set up to view hidden and system files. In both XP and Vista, these are usually off by default. You will find the switch under My Computer - (any drive) - Tools - Folder Options - View - Hidden Files. Hope that helps. Dave
