GARMIN StreetPilot 2610 Firmware Upgrades |
Firmware: V4.80 - V4.70 - V4.60 - V4.50 - V4.40 - V4.30 - V4.20 - V3.90 - V3.80 - V3.70 - V3.60 - V3.50 - V3.40 - V3.20 - V3.00 - V2.90 -
V2.80 - V2.70 - V2.60 - V2.50 - V2.40 - V2.30
The following lists of changes are based on information provided by GARMIN. Changes or improvements which we consider important or especially useful are shown highlighted.
To view the current firmware version, complete the following steps:
- Power on your StreetPilot 2610.
- Press the MENU button twice to get to the Info menu.
- Tap on "System Info Page". The current firmware version will be displayed.
- Tap on OK to go back to the previous page.
Each upgrade replaces the complete firmware in the GPS, which means you need to install only the version you wish to apply. There is no need to install any previous versions.
- Corrected a problem that could skip via points and go straight to the destination when using City Navigator North America v8.0.
- Corrected a problem that could cause a shutdown when doing a POI find-by-name with City Navigator North America v8.0.
- Corrected a problem with the odometer field on the main map that caused the mileage number to blank when over 9,999 miles or kilometers.
- Corrected a problem that prevented the search results page from updating while moving.
Firmware Upgrade V4.80 (Self-extracting ZIP-file, requires a PC and a connection cable, 1.6 MB)
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- Corrected '11' and '1' in the French and French Canadian voices.
- Allow trip log distance to wrap back to zero when it overflows.
- Improved consistency between trip log and odometer distances.
- Improved compatibility with some CF cards.
Firmware Upgrade V4.70 (Not available for download)
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- Improved WAAS search and selection process to be smarter in its handling of multiple SBAS service providers, overlapping service volumes, and exceptional conditions.
- Corrected a problem that could cause the Mileage Log distance to become corrupted, resulting in a distance that is displayed as all underscores.
Firmware Upgrade V4.60 (Not available for download)
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- Corrected loss of route after Route Recalculation when the 'Ask My Preference' routing option is set to 'No'.
- Corrected loss of mileage data between power cycles.
Firmware Upgrade V4.50 (Not available for download)
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- Improved route transfers from MapSource with multiple via points.
- Added ability to disable remote control input: From any page, press the 'Menu' key, then select 'Options'. Select the 'General' tab, then press the 'Menu' key. Select 'Disable Remote'.
- Added support for Portuguese and Canadian French audio languages.
Firmware Upgrade V4.40 (Not available for download)
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- Changing a saved route's name no longer causes a possible reboot.
- Find Exit feature now shows the complete list of services for a given exit.
- Removed extra text that was shown in some rare situations after the end of textual turn instructions.
- 'None Found' is no longer returned when searching for an intersection of two identically named streets.
- Corrected Italian translation of 'Public Sport Airport'.
- Odometer value no longer displays an incorrect value when configured to small narrow tabs if the odometer value exceeds 999.
- The small address overlay tab now wraps to two lines.
Firmware Upgrade V4.30 (Not available for download)
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- Improved synchronization of spoken and displayed turn distance.
- Corrected shutdown problem that occurred when saved route names contained the "ß" ("ss") character.
- The 'Allow U-Turns' setting sometimes resulted in unnecessary u-turns.
- Improved Dutch translation of the word 'Minor'.
- Seasonally closed roads are now used if the road is open during the date that the route is created. Previously, all seasonal roads were avoided.
Firmware Upgrade V4.20 (Not available for download)
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- Corrected routing within the central London toll area when using MapSource European City Navigator V6 cartography.
Firmware Upgrade V3.90 (Not available for download)
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- Problems corrected:
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- Address searches which were limited to a city could fail if the map consisted of exactly 32 cities.
- The minutes symbol (') was sometimes omitted on latitude / longitude displays.
- In some rare conditions, an extra route section was shown on the Turn Review page.
- Corrected compatibility issue with Kingston compact flash cards.
Firmware Upgrade V3.80 (Not available for download)
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- Problems corrected:
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- The HOME waypoint's altitude was incorrect when viewed in MapSource.
- Via points within a route were sometimes removed from the route during an off-route recalculation.
Firmware Upgrade V3.70 (Not available for download)
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- Problems corrected:
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- Detail indicator under zoom scale on turn review pages was not always correct.
- Reviewing map features near the end of a search results list could cause the wrong information to be displayed.
Firmware Upgrade V3.60 (Not available for download)
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- Problems corrected:
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- Improved compatibility with certain CF cards.
- Deleting a waypoint could leave an empty item in the Recent Finds list.
- The distance and bearing shown while using the "Measure Distance" and "Show Map" functions were sometimes incorrect.
- Nearest City searches defaulted to the basemap in Europe.
- Nearest search results were sometimes sorted incorrectly.
- Avoid Highways/Toll Roads didn't work for some long routes.
- Find, Services, Auto Fuel, by Name sometimes did not allow text entry.
- The detour function was broken.
- Find, Exits could sometimes display exits behind the vehicle.
- Route recalculations activated from the 'This Route Does Not Match Available Maps' prompt removed vias from the route.
- Routes calculated or recalculated while moving did not always evaluate turns that were near the vehicle.
- New features:
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- 1. Added support for new features in the upcoming MapSource City Navigator release.
Firmware Upgrade V3.50 (Not available for download)
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- Problems corrected:
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- Recalculating a route didn't prompt for calculation method.
- Certain finds along a route did not return complete results.
- The previous route could not be saved.
- The unit could become unresponsive when using the remote control on the Route page while moving with safe mode enabled.
- The route page could show an incorrect destination after activating a saved route.
- POI and waypoint symbols with a red cross were changed to use a blue cross to avoid confusion.
- Detours did not always function properly.
- Route preview pages didn't center correctly on the route when using the 'Prev' and 'Next' buttons.
- The unit could restart in certain cases after transferring a large number of routes from MapSource.
- New or changed features:
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- Improved Safe Mode user notification.
- Increased number of via points allowed per route to 250.
- Notify user if detail maps might be outdated.
- Changed appearance of map overlay tabs.
Firmware Upgrade V3.40 (Not available for download)
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- Problems corrected:
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- Waypoints with spaces in their name could not always be found correctly.
- Convenience stores and truck stops were not included when searching for Services... Auto Fuel.
- When switching from an off-road route to an along-road route, the off-road route could still be shown as the active route.
- When refining a street name, the body of the street name would sometimes not be displayed.
- Daylight Savings Time incorrectly interacted with UTC time.
- Features added:
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- Updated text translations.
Firmware Upgrade V3.20 (Not available for download)
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- Problems corrected:
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- Address searches limited to a postal code would occasionally return no results.
- The keyboard page did not allow enough characters to enter long street numbers.
- The keyboard page did not allow all available characters to be entered.
- Saved route names did not properly handle diacritics.
- Daylight Savings Time did not operate correctly in all time zones.
- Address finds where a prefix was specified could fail.
- Routes through roundabouts would sometimes be drawn incorrectly.
- Data tabs could be shown incorrectly in several cases.
- The 'Lost Satellite Reception' message was truncated incorrectly in certain tabs.
- The turn review page would display no map if the map that the route was created on was missing.
- The filter text was lost when switching find modes.
- Features added:
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- Display more colorful map symbols.
- WAAS position correction support.
- VIA manipulation, with both manual and automatic re-ordering.
- Find along current route.
- User-provided lists of areas and roads to avoid.
- Navigate HOME feature and FIND FIND keypress to activate this feature.
- Additional options for Custom Map Tab Setup.
- Preview of Saved Routes.
- User Preference adjustment for routing based on road classes.
- Allow grouping of maps by product family for enabling/disabling.
Firmware Upgrade V3.00 (Not available for download)
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- Corrected a problem with European City Navigator which could cause certain addresses to be missed when filtering by city or country.
- Corrected a problem that sometimes displayed an empty list when selecting a state or country to limit a search to.
- Allow automatic daylight savings time with 'Other' time zones.
- Corrected a shutdown problem that could occur when configuring map tabs if text language is set to 'Italian'.
- When routing, made change to highlight the destination point after arriving at that point.
Firmware Upgrade V2.90 (Not available for download)
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- Added Norwegian and Finnish audio support.
- Fixed a problem that could cause the 'Return to Start' operation to return to the wrong location.
- Corrected a problem which could cause the 'Limit To' list of countries in Europe to become corrupted.
- Corrected a problem which could cause the magenta route line to be drawn incorrectly when passing through roundabouts.
- Corrected a problem that caused intersection searches to sometimes fail if the order of the streets was reversed.
- Corrected a problem which could cause the unit to shut down when doing a street search which was limited to a state.
- Corrected a problem with European City Navigator which could cause certain addresses to not be found when limiting search to a city or country.
- Corrected a problem that caused the 'Lost Satellite Reception' message to not be announced on StreetPilot 2610s.
- Corrected a problem that prevented contour lines from being shown when using topographic map data.
- Corrected a problem that caused the horn symbol to not be saved when selected for a waypoint.
- Made change to highlight the destination point when routing after arriving at the destination point.
- Made change to stop routing after arriving at the destination and either remaining stopped for more than 5 minutes or moving away from the destination.
Firmware Upgrade V2.80 (Not available for download)
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- Corrected intermittent USB transfer failures when used with certain USB controllers.
Firmware Upgrade V2.70 (Not available for download)
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- Corrected a problem which could cause incorrect map centering when viewing address search results on the map.
- Fixed a shutdown problem that occurred when viewing an exit review page with a very large number of services available.
- Added notification when the number of matches from a search which is limited to a state returns more results than can be reported.
- Fixed a problem that caused the results of a 'find' to, in some cases, be corrupted.
- Fixed a problem that caused the unit to restart when a detour operation was canceled while the detour was still being calculated.
- Fixed a problem that caused the unit to become unresponsive when water leaked into USB connector.
- Fixed errors in Italian text translation.
Firmware Upgrade V2.60 (Not available for download)
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- Fixed a problem which could cause heading to remain fixed for a short period at power-on.
- Fixed a problem which could cause an automatic re-calc to occur when not required for some rare intersection geometries.
- Fixed a problem which could cause the tail portion of the turn arrow to be drawn without the head.
- Fixed a problem which could cause vehicle centering on the map to not work as a result of changing the tabs in/out state.
- Fixed a problem which could cause map tabs to disappear.
- Split the large Routing tab into two smaller ones for improved configurability.
- Added Satellite Status custom tab option.
Firmware Upgrade V2.50 (Not available for download)
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- Corrected a problem that could cause the detail maps to become corrupted when transferred over USB from MapSource.
Firmware Upgrade V2.40 (Not available for download)
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- Corrected a problem which could cause excessive pauses between audio clips.
- Automatically limit address and intersection searches to the current region.
- Improved responsiveness when finding POIs on large cards.
- Corrected a problem that could cause navigation instructions to be repeated when a route is first calculated.
- Fixed problem with updating exit page while moving.
- Don't auto-recalculate the route when GPS is shaded.
- Increased precision of spoken kilometer distances to tenths of a kilometer.
- Improved rounding of Dist to Turn number.
- Added the ability to review a route on the map from the route list.
- Improved some find operations when used with European City Navigator 5.
- Improved GPS tracking at extreme temperatures.
Firmware Upgrade V2.30 (Not available for download)
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