Universal Firmware Patcher for Protected Garmin Devices

hello, need help patching drivesmart 51, 3.80 software. thanks

update : done with first post guide

Hello, can you help me with Drive 61 LMT? How i can find hwid?

Maxim4ez wrote:Hello, can you help me with Drive 61 LMT? How i can find hwid?

see the PM

Hi,

I have Garmin Drive 50 with 5.20 software and HWID 2267, I have problem to find DriveandDriveSmart40_50_520.gcd.
Can anyone help here?
Or could I update on 5.70 and then patch firmware?

Thank you in advance

starmanbl wrote:Hi,

I have Garmin Drive 50 with 5.20 software and HWID 2267, ......

see the PM

tank you very much, the patch is OK on my drivesmart 61 LMT-s

I have a Garmin drive 50 lmt.
hardward id is 2267 based on the <PartNumber>006-B2267-00</PartNumber>
<SoftwareVersion>560</SoftwareVersion>
<Description>Drive 50</Description>

admiral wrote:I have a Garmin drive 50 lmt.
hardward id is 2267 based on the <PartNumber>006-B2267-00</PartNumber>
<SoftwareVersion>560</SoftwareVersion>
<Description>Drive 50</Description>

You have PM

I have been trying to get the firmware updated, but no luck so far.
Would anyone be so kind as to help me out? Greatly appreciated!
(Philipych?kolokythas?)

Garmin Drive 51, 2803

<PartNumber>006-B2803-00</PartNumber>
<SoftwareVersion>240</SoftwareVersion>
<Description>Garmin Drive 51</Description>

thanks

—edit: I can’t seem to find which FW to use, as this device is nowhere on the lists.

ok, figured it out...
it takes some time, but its worth it.

So the issue was: getting a FW unlocked and flashed to a Garmin device which is not in the known lists... while using windows tools on a Mac. (you can also do the following using windows).

-First, find your device type on the device. GarminDevice.xml
-Find out that your device is not listed on the known HWID lists.
-Try to find it somewhere else online
-Either find it here ([Please Register or Login to download file] ) or follow this guide to download your latest FW onto a USB stick ([Please Register or Login to download file] )
-Now you have the FW you want to patch, but you can only do this with windows .exe's. Download Virtualbox for Mac and a Win7 image from Microsoft ([Please Register or Login to download file] )
-Download the patcher from first post of this thread
-Download RGNTool from its authors website (google for RGN_Tool)
-Execute all steps in the tutorial from this thread in the VirtualBox guest (share drives to copy paste all files back and forth)
-Connect the Garmin and select in Virtualbox that you want to share this device as USB device in (install Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack to share usb device)
-Find out that virtual box is too slow to catch up with the short time of the boot loader of the Garmin.
-Find a hotel nearby with public computer, install Garmin drivers, run update.exe
-....
-profit

So, managed to get a firmware patched from a device which was not on the list. But only with the help from a windows computer.

Other tutorial used for reference: [Please Register or Login to download file]

USERDEPUSER wrote:I can’t seem to find which FW to use, as this device is nowhere on the lists.

Don't use the legacy Patcher and outdated FW list.
The current version of the Patcher is 1.30 and there is the FW list as of 15-06-18.

Hi I have a Drive 61 I'm looking to patch - the important info appears to be below however I don't have a GUPDATE.GCD file in my .system folder is important or does it appear when applying the "modified" firmware discussed here
<PartNumber>006-B2587-00</PartNumber>
<SoftwareVersion>390</SoftwareVersion>
<Description>Garmin Drive 61</Description>

Thanks &
Regards for a very helpful forum

Would be very grateful for help patching :

HWID 1758

<PartNumber>006-B1758-00</PartNumber>

<SoftwareVersion>880</SoftwareVersion>

<Description>nüvi 2569</Description>


Thank you !

Works fine on my Etrex Touch 35 firmware 3.70.
Thanks !

I could not see Topo Germany V8 on my Etrex Touch 35, after having patched it now I can see this map.
Here is how I proceeded, my Touch 35 was already with the latest firmware 3.70, so I downgraded the version of the GPS with the 3.60, I patched the version 3.70 and I installed it.
I do not use Updater.exe (Win 10 refuses to launch it and tells me it's dangerous) I connect my Touch 35 to the PC with the USB cable, I see the GPS in the explorer (I configured the USB in MTP mode in "system" on the GPS) and I copy the firmware in the Garmin folder.

Looking to patch a Garmin Drive 51 LM. I believe the HWID is 2586 and software version is 4.00. Can someone confirm this based on the info from the XML file below, and post a link for the latest patcher version?

Thanks!

<PartNumber>006-B2586-00</PartNumber>

<SoftwareVersion>400</SoftwareVersion>

<Description>Garmin Drive 51</Description>