BruceM Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Just a ‘be aware’ message. I bought a Cobra Electronics Snooper S5000 from the owner of a motorhome I’ve recently acquired. It turns out that it has a 4MB memory card which needs to be upgraded to 8MB to receive map updates as part of Cobra's ‘life time map updates’ guarantee. I contacted technical support who explained that it would cost £9.99 and it would just take a phone call to their sales office. Phoned Sales who have declined to carry out the £9.99 upgrade as I am not the original owner (apparently the guarantee only applies to him) so the 8MB card would cost £99. It's no doubt a legally valid approach and these guys have to make money somehow but it’s not great PR for their product range. Needless to say I’ll not upgrade and instead will stick to Google satnav and paper maps, the latter, for me at least, being more interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepe63xnotuse Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Hi.. I know nowt about satnavs, as never I've had one but do you need to go the "official" route to get a bigger memory card?.... Are there no other sources online that can be used? eg, https://www.mymemory.co.uk/compatible-memory/GPS/Snooper ..or would there be difficulties with it not be "recognised" ? (presumably, they wouldn't be selling 'em if there was?) ..just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceM Posted April 20, 2017 Author Share Posted April 20, 2017 Your last point is spot on. Getting hold of a compatible 8MB memory card is straightforward (ebay £5 delivered). The issue will be with the software and data configuration loaded onto the memory card. I suspect the Snooper satnav software configured on their 4MB card expects a 4MB data/software card. Consequently, cloning the card (4MB to 4MB) would work fine but transferring the data on to a card formatted to 8MB would be detected by Snooper as an error and fail (tried it). Other satnavs may operate differently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pepe63xnotuse Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Yeah, I thought it sounded too easy a solution for it to be viable.. :-D (..I've just noticed my previous thread...and looks as if I've written some of it using a mix of Apache and pirate!?.... " ..as never I've had one.. "? "..with it not be "recognised.."? :$ ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flicka Posted April 20, 2017 Share Posted April 20, 2017 Easy fix Bruce - ask previous owner if he will order for you ? After all he sold the Sat Nav being upfit fir purpose, lol. >:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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