I am a little confused regarding the ISO file.
I have the V28 MDF and MDS files that unzipped and ready to mount on Alcohol 120%.

what do I do from this point or I am already a few steps too far?

 

Mr Edly,

Could you PLEASE tell me where I can get the updates you were hosting since the link is dead. My email is jack@triad.rr.com if you can send it to me I will be very grateful.

Thanks,

Jack

 

I'm wanting the british chick's voice too, but i can't find the version for my car to download... that link from the first post didnt work..

mines is the 4-1/70. uses a dvd 2004 mcs

Please someone help me!!!

minh81n@yahoo.com

 

You would be better off recoding the nav for that rather than hacking the firmware.

http://www.x5world.com/navigation-sy...-released.html

Look at the link above. I have done this with my MINI and it works great.

 

This site has V29.1 firmware: http://www.simplymini.info/

A 2004 MCS may be new enough that you might already have British voice. Look under your settings menu and see if there is a selection for language. In newer DVD units, 3 voices (languages) are loaded and you can select which one you want in settings menu. For USA spec, the selections are US English, GB English, and Spanish. If you don't see a language selection, you probably have the older DVD unit, and to get British voice you would need to hack the CD image before loading the firmware.

 

Thanks RKW.... Yes, I have both the Latest firmware and the lastest NavCoder.

If you haven't looked at that product it is well worth it and if you have a few guys/gals with nav MINI's around, it might be worth you guys buying one of the IBUS modules from Rolf Resler.

http://www.reslers.de/

This is what is needed to connect your PC to the IBus system and use that app to recode your NAV. Well worth it and it works great.

 

In the Language part it says...
USA E F

i guess that's USA (english), E (espanol), F(french) =\

any other options?

 

GB (Great Britain), I (Italian), DE or G (German)...

There are a tone of voices and the region doesn't really matters as that is a seperate entry.

 

haha, nooo nooo, i meant any other options are far as getting the britian lady on my navi? hehe i'll try the Verion 29... hopefully that works!

oh yea.. and I dont know any other navi owners, let alone, mini cooper owners here in Austin, TX that would get together and get that IBUS module.. =) hehe sounds like it would be niceeeeee

 

The only options for changing the voice are.

1. Hack the firmware.
2. Recode the NAV.
3. Go to the dealer for recoding.

FYI... Keep Austin weird!

I love Austin.

 

I don't know what's going on here. I have a 9/2005 build MCC and I successively loaded V26 to V29 as they were released. I never changed or hacked the firmware and it always loaded USA, GB, and E for my languages. I had assumed that all US delivered cars are set to the same region code (which determines which languages get loaded by default) but I must be wrong about this. The surest way to get GB voice would be to hack the firmware files.

 

Nope and Nope..

Most of the US cars have French, English and Spanish as their selection. Some of the older NAVs had the GB. You are just lucky.

As for hacking, the surest way to do it is to simply recode the system. Hacking files in a nav can render it inop if you are not sure what you are doing. Rmember this is the firmware that runs it, so you are hacking an OS.

Recoding the NAV is very easy with Kiwijochen's software and a small IBus interface. I have done it as others have. I added German to mine.

 

I'm new to the Mini. I just bought a 2005 with SAT NAV. The car is missing the disk. Can anyone tell me what is the latest version that works on an '05' ?

 

2007-1

You can get it from BMW or www.navteq.com

 

Actually, the latest right now is 2007.2.

FPM - generally NavTeq releases 2 updates map discs per year (one every 6 months, of course), at $199 each. Of course, for that price, it's worth remembering that upgrading is optional.

The two versions are always named with the year number and then either .1 or .2 (sometimes you'll see -1 or -2 instead).

 

Does anyone have one of these CDs that is already made which contains the Perspective and the British Voice? 2005 NAV with DVD

I am tech challanged
Thanks

 

I can send you V29 with British voice. The perspective feature was introduced in V27 so I believe 29 should work.

 

please see private message
thks

 

I thought the '05s came with the British voice option...

 

Most of the USA-bound ones did, I imagine it's possible that some of them might not have (more likely the earlier 05 builds).

As mentioned earlier in this thread, every single 1st Gen MINI can be easily switched over to have "official" GB voice or any other supported language option, provided you have a laptop and a serial or USB I-BUS adapter. I bought an adapter and I've already used it to help several MINI-owning friends out.

 

I know it's 4 years too late, but thanks OctaneGuy! I just upgraded my '04 MC nav system to version 30 and enabled the British voice using the method he describes. Worked like a charm. Only, I had to use the in-laws' computer to do it since the programs he recommends are PC-only and I'm a mac user. If anyone has a good (free) .iso editing program for mac OS, that'd be great for those of us out there...

 

I think that toast works on mac.

 

Woo Hoo! My '06 w/ a 12/05 build date has the US/GB/E language options so it was a simple menu change to get the British female voice.

I'd rather be lucky than good; it's too much work to be good....

 

I found a 2003 on e-bay. Does anyone have a 2007 for sale?

 

If any of you are coming to MOTD, save yourself the hassle of messing with modified/hacked NavOS discs and let me recode your Nav to have the GB language choice natively. I'm doing it for free for anyone at MOTD that asks.

Even if you already have the British voice on your Nav via the modified/hacked NavOS discs, it's a good idea to recode it, because that way you will be able to upgrade the NavOS now or in the future, using the regular, unmodified upgrade disc, and keep the languages you wanted.

It will be as though your Nav came from the factory with those languages.