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      04-26-2012, 04:31 PM   #1
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Updating Your CIC Navigation Reasonably

Normally, for those of us with CIC navigation systems, this is a relatively expensive and time-consuming process. Usually costing around $400, and taking 3 hours to complete.

Who has time for that? Not me.

Updating Your CIC Navigation Reasonably

Things you'll need
  • A laptop (possibly)
  • 1 (2 if you want the process to take less time) 16gb USB flash sticks
  • The 2012 CIC Professional maps DVDs or a torrent of them
  • A BMW FSC authorization code

As for the DVDs, you can buy them from a local dealer, or from this dealer online http://www.trademotion.com/parts/ind...&siteid=214672.

Those should be the right discs, although I didn't use them.

I spent a few days getting the following torrent to use instead: http://www.demonoid.me/files/details...0012784238604/

As far as the FSC code, BMW usually wants you to pay around $300 to get one from a dealer, but you can contact ***************** and paypal him 60 Euros (roughly $81 on the day I did it) and send him your VIN, and he'll email you your code. The code is tied to your VIN, so you can't use someone else's code.

Having saved hundreds of dollars on our FSC code already, we now want to do this update is a reasonable amount of time. If you bought the DVDs, you can put them in your computer to get access to the files. If you got the torrent, you'll see all the DVD images like below:



Which you can mount on your computer to see the same files as if you had inserted a physical DVD:



Now, the idea is to make three folders on either your laptop, or desktop, computer, one for each disc contents, and a text file to remember what your FSC code is; such as below:



Then being the process of copying all the disc contents to their respective folders:



With all the update files on your computer, you can now put the contents of the disc 1 folder on your USB flash drive and go out to your car. Once there, simply plug the USB stick into the glove box USB port, and turn the ignition on (but you don't need to start the engine).



The CIC system will recognize the update files, and prompt you as such:



Click "Start Update", and then enter your FSC code on the next screen:



With the correct code entered, the car will begin copying the files over to the internal hard drive. This takes roughly 15 or so minutes per copied disc, so if you have two USB sticks, now is the perfect time to being copying the second discs contents to the other stick for when the first one is done.



If you ever lose the update screen, simply go back to the main navigation map view and press the "options" button and scroll down to find this menu item, which will take you back to the progress bar:



When the first stick is done, you'll see the following screen:



Insert your second USB stick, with the disc 2 contents on it now. If you only have one stick, the process will take longer, as copying the files to the stick takes as long as copying them to the car itself, effectively doubling the time it takes to shuffle the data around.

You'll see another screen when it's time to insert the disc 3 contents, which can be placed on the same stick you used for disc 1, which had its contents replaced while disc 2 was being copied to the car.

Eventually, after about 45 minutes, you'll see what you've been waiting for:



And the car will prompt you to restart the nav system:



That's it.


Here's where I started from:



And here's where I finished at:




I did this update over my lunch break at work and only cost me $100

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Luckily, the car is smart enough to remember where its update progress is, so even if you drive around, or the car turns off, when you turn it back on, it'll continue updating, as long as the same stick is still in the USB slot.

You can also use the nav system still while updating, as it copies the files to an update swap space on the hard drive while updating, and only changes the files when it restarts itself.
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      04-26-2012, 06:19 PM   #2
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Thanks for the USB info. I had seen where it could be done on one USB with Linux. But didn't want to wipe my USB.

+1 to ******* cost me $80 for the FSC

I burnt mine to three DVD+R/DL disk.



It took me two and half hours. Enough time to wash and wax the car.

The new POIs are a little off. There are randem stores at peoples houses. Unless it's something I don't know about.
Also night mode does not auto switch. And if you have on traffic you don't get a POI overlay.
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      04-26-2012, 06:22 PM   #3
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Also night mode does not auto switch. And if you have on traffic you don't get a POI overlay.
That would be a firmware issue, not a map one.

These maps might not even work on some CIC units if the firmware isn't up to date enough. I had mine updated probably 6 months ago.
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      04-26-2012, 06:25 PM   #4
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Mine is an 09. Has someone else updated and had POI problems.

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      04-27-2012, 06:27 AM   #5
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Nightmode

I only found the 7 series to have an auto night mode.
Maybe with your MY 11 they changed with the Connected Drive.

I setup my preset button 6 to switch to night mode. The picture is from a 7 series.


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      04-27-2012, 06:33 AM   #6
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I purchased the 2012 maps from the same person. Great service and excellent price.

Only downside for me is the POI are off, a lot of POI are missing in the search results too. Bit disappointed with this because I use the POI search function regularly.
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      04-27-2012, 06:40 AM   #7
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Glad to see it's not just me with the POI problems.
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Glad to see it's not just me with the POI problems.
I emailed him about it around 5 days ago and he said I was the first to complain about the maps. I also noticed some of the new roads that I drive on have not been included in the 2012 navigation maps either, even though the roads have been around for 12+ months

I can't complain too much for the money I paid, however, I wish I could somehow keep my old POI's!
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      04-30-2012, 01:20 AM   #9
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Regarding the FSC Code, is this something that can only be used once? Only be used for a certain year of maps?
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      05-01-2012, 07:18 PM   #10
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Regarding the FSC Code, is this something that can only be used once? Only be used for a certain year of maps?
Yes
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Is it the same process for 08 idrive 135i?
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      05-31-2012, 07:02 PM   #12
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Is it the same process for 08 idrive 135i?
I believe that's pre CIC hard-drive-based navigation.
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yea it use a single dvd
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yea it use a single dvd
I have the 2011 or 2012 update .iso image for the 08 idrive, just haven't done anything with it yet. I just don't know how I'd get it to ya.
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Long time lurker and first time poster here.

Thanks for the great instructions!

I tried to order part number 01990037287 for the maps this week, but I was told the part has been discontinued and my order was canceled.

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yea it use a single dvd
I have the 2011 or 2012 update .iso image for the 08 idrive, just haven't done anything with it yet. I just don't know how I'd get it to ya.
How did you get them? Torrent?
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firmware issue?
hey my firmware was so off the mark it threw the car in a tizzy!
the airbags went off line! NICE!
But as soon as that BMW installs the correct updated firmware...you know they want to charge you for that..how nuty is that!...I'll update. Sounds easy enough. Shame about the VIN thing. Talk about making life difficult for no reason!
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Is everyong having trouble with the POI after doing this. Im looking to update my maps...
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Have any of you that've had POI problems had it resolved with a firmware update? Is there a way to determine what firmware is running? I have a 2009 and would love to try this method as my maps are still 2009-era.
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+1 to this thread.

Worked for me updating from 2009 to 2012. However, after about 10-15 minutes the car would stop updating for me and each time I'd have to step through the full sequence, so I always needed disk 1 available on a usb key. If doing the update, I recommend having all the files on a 32gb memory stick or and a laptop to flip file names in the case the car goes into idle mode and has to re-kick the update process.
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Problem updating 2012 Map CIC

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Has anyone encountered the following error when trying to update CIC from USB? If so, whats the cause and fix?

Thank you in advance.
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You probably didnt get a complete copy of the nav data, and some checksum isn't validating.
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