nav DVD

[ukrkoz]

there is no reason to do it here but maybe, just maybe someone from Toyota reads these posts.

Dear Toyota, I want to express my disgust with your 6.01 Nav DVD. Or whatever it is OEM DVD for 2007 models.

Company that made you that DVD should be paying YOU for promoting their crappy product. not you paying THEM for the job done.

I went to see a patient of mine yesterday. He lives up north in Lynnwood, right off freeway, I work in south Seattle. Historically, it's a straight I-5 drive, enter/exit, drive to destination.

Up past north Seattle, your DVD guidance drove me off I-5, put me on a road PARALLEL to I-5, FOR SEVEN MILES, then put me BACK ON I-5, let me drive on freeway for about 2 more miles, PUT ME OFF I-5 AGAIN, GUIDED ME PARALLEL TO IT FOR ANOTHER 2.5 MILES, JUST TO PUT ME BACK ON I-5 AGAIN.

We have 3 GPSs and this nav system. This is the most ridiculous nav software I have seen so far. If destination is within a mile or so range from where you enter it, nav will say "destination is close by, check with map"? Is this some sort of a nav people common practical joke, to provide you with nav and advise to check with map?

Double the insult with DVD based nav, that can NOT be updated and users are forced to keep buying DVDs that are outdated by the time they are issued anyway, as it takes about a year to make one.

Totally disgusted.

oh, yes, and you are most welcome to follow with "my nav works great" posts.

[fishing freak]

buy a tom tom or garmin... they cost about what the dvd does... and life time updates

[Aptos Driver]

Originally Posted by fishing freak

buy a tom tom or garmin... they cost about what the dvd does... and life time updates

I recently got a voice-activated Garmin 2360 to use in my (non-NAV) '07 RAV4. It works well and is mostly spot-on re. destinations. Oh, and it has lifetime map updates and ad-supported lifetime traffic and -costs around $260 -- very cheap compared to the cost of a factory-installed NAV system and ongoing DVD updates.

[84Cressida]

Our Camry's NAV has been screwing the pooch so hard lately. It's been taking us off of freeways and taking us through town or long ways to get to places.

[danealle]

You should never have to buy a new disc. Just download and burn the most recent one from demonoid.me currently version 10.1

I agree that the camry nav is a piece o' crap but at least I don't pay for update discs.

[BBALLREF]

Danealle,

I found the 9.1 and 10.1 Gen 5 versions online as well and I downloaded them as a zip file. I just extracted each iso file and I'm trying to compress them together to fit on a dual layer DVD. Is that the proper sequence to get the data on one disk or am I missing something.

[danealle]

I don't think so. Why would you want to compress 2 different versions together?

If you have the complete 10.1 ISO file why do you want the 9.1 at all?

Just burn the 10.1 to a dual layer DVD and you'll have the latest version.

[BBALLREF]

No no, I'm not trying to compress them together, I just happened to have both versions that I downloaded last night from a site in case one was incomplete or corrupt. Let me explain better and maybe you can tell me where I'm going wrong.

I found the Gen 5 9.1 for my 2008 Camry hybrid last night. I downloaded 7 links which was in a rar format and they were 716,800KB per link. I burned them to a regular DVD to transfer them to a faster computer. I downloaded a WinRar program to extract the iso and mds files from each link and gave them a separate name part 1, part 2, ect to part 7. These files are in a separate subfolder and each iso file are 7.37GB each. I read somewhere on a forum for in order for the NAV unit to recognize the DVD, all the iso files have to be on the DVD. Am I correct on that notion and is the mds files a factor as well? As I am typing this message to you, I am in the process of trying to compress all 7 iso files into one file and I will attempt to burn that file to the dual layer DVD.

As for the 10.1 version, I found that one last night on the same forum, but a different topic and it had 51 links I had to download, but they were only 97MB each. I'm wondering if I'm doing the 9.1 version correct and if it works, then I will do the 10.1 later when i get time. Now if I'm totally off base, then please put me on the right track so I can make this happen. If you need my personal email address to send me something, then i can supply that to you, just let me know and thanks for the help.

[sidestick]

These DVD's are very hard to get to work. I've heard that if you use imgburn (free), memoriex double layer +R ($19 Walmart) it will work. Change the book type to DVD-ROM.

There is some good info out there. Just google search it. I found some good info at a sight called demonoid.

[BBALLREF]

Thanks sidestick, I will try the link when I get home from work. I have the Sony DVD+R DL. I only need one disc, right?

[sidestick]

Originally Posted by BBALLREF

Thanks sidestick, I will try the link when I get home from work. I have the Sony DVD+R DL. I only need one disc, right?

Yep, One disk. After you burn it go to your car and take out the old one and slide in the new one and pray! You will know if it works or not in about 1 min. Burn it on the slowest speed also.

[danealle]

Make sure that you got the complete download. I'm not sure that downloading links and compressing will work. I downloaded it as a torrent all in one piece. (took a long time) The 10.1 version is 7.68 gb. If any files are missing it won't work. Also, if any files fail to burn to the DVD it won't work. Burn at the slowest possible speed and do a disc verification afterwards to see if any files failed to burn. You only need the ISO file, no mds file necessary.

I got it to work with Verbatim DVD and Nero software.

I am told that using a Mac to do the burn is best...didn't try it though, good luck.