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Old Jun 3, 2019 | 08:28 PM
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I purchased the Nav update and attempted to install it today. The update started and showed the progress bar. I did not disconnect my phone (the instructions said the only thing you couldn't do during the update was navigation and weather) and got an incoming call. I did not answer the phone and when the call terminated the screen went back for a moment and the returned to the home screen. I didn't know what to do so I continued to drive around for over an hour and nothing happened. I finally drove home and stopped the car, removed the thumb drive, restarted the car, reinserted the thumb drive and NOTHING. I called GM and they said contact them through ONSTAR I did and they said I just recommended I go to my dealer.

Before I contact the dealer tomorrow I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if so what was the remedy?

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Old Jun 3, 2019 | 08:48 PM
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I had the same issue, which apparently is uncommon. No progress in the progress bar once it got stuck at some random %, like 35%... maybe higher once or twice. There really isn't anything to the procedure, and no way to do a factory reset as an end user like you would for a typical firmware fail. I tried over and over and finally took it to the dealer. I was also getting the paid Android Auto and MSRC updates at the same time so they did this for me no charge.

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I purchased the Nav update and attempted to install it today. The update started and showed the progress bar. I did not disconnect my phone (the instructions said the only thing you couldn't do during the update was navigation and weather) and got an incoming call. I did not answer the phone and when the call terminated the screen went back for a moment and the returned to the home screen. I didn't know what to do so I continued to drive around for over an hour and nothing happened. I finally drove home and stopped the car, removed the thumb drive, restarted the car, reinserted the thumb drive and NOTHING. I called GM and they said contact them through ONSTAR I did and they said I just recommended I go to my dealer.

Before I contact the dealer tomorrow I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and if so what was the remedy?

-Mickey

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Old Jun 3, 2019 | 08:51 PM
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This update procedure, which is the same on my 2018 Genesis G90, is PATHETIC in this day and age. What are they using as a processor, a 8088 chip?
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Originally Posted by CP
This update procedure, which is the same on my 2018 Genesis G90, is PATHETIC in this day and age. What are they using as a processor, a 8088 chip?
Nah, they're modern. They use a 6502
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Here's an update. Just to test I did the "confirmation" procedure...

...and the first Shake Shack listed was indeed at 660 Woodward Ave, Detroit, Michigan. So I guess the update was successful. Hmmmmm.



If anyone who hasn't done the update cares to do this procedure and see what they get, I'd appreciate it.


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One wonders what that procedure yielded before the update.
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Originally Posted by defaria
One wonders what that procedure yielded before the update.
I'm hoping the Shake Shack is a new POI that's been added to the update and therefor would be a good test to see if the update was indeed successful.

Update:A friend in Detroit told me the Shake Shack in downtown opened in February of 2017 so I'm assuming that POI wouldn't have been in my pre-updated navigation.

Any thoughts?

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