New Nav map available in Skoda update portal

[Lucki]

Thanks vEnOm_oz!

I now have something appear for my VIN on the Skoda update portal, whereas there was nothing earlier this morning.

The current installed version is ROW 2014/2015 and looks like there is now a ROW 2015 version appear on the portal.

Although I am surprised why it is not showing a later version than ROW 2015, and also says my subscription has expired 25/05/2015 - just 2 months after I took delivery of the car brand new!!!

Looks like there's more to go before a full resolution...

[Smart1]

Yes, i was told at a service i had last week that new maps are available from the update portal. Guess what, still 2014 map and subscription expired the week i got the car.

[mazstar1980]

I made an email Enquiry and got a call this morning. Basically, there is an update due mid-November to early December. The portal is not going to be used in Australia but they want to make it easier to update maps for AU customers then it is currently, apparently it is time consuming for dealers to do it. Not only will maps be updated but it seems there is a significant system update planned. The CSR couldn't say if it would be DIY or through dealer though not if there would be cost.

Sounds good but the only issue is whether a big system update would play funny with any VAGCOM mods such as traffic activation which is not standard in Skoda. Hold tight but I've heard this before although he was pretty confident and certain. Impressed with customer service.

[Smart1]

I was told that when the update comes, traffic alerts would be rolled into it.

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[woofy]

It will likely not be happening, but I've been hoping that bluetooth carplay would get enabled at some point. It was always built into the spec and the iPhone iOS9 activated it on the phones but haven't heard of any systems actually using it.

[Lucki]

Well, I am not holding my breath that the muppets at VW can do something/anything on this subject!!! It has taken them only 2 years to get this far.

They just don't even have the courtesy to reply to my emails anymore, and that includes the servicing dealer Peninusula VW/Skoda. I have been copying the MD of Skoda on this topic too... and guess what? Nothing from his team either. So the poor customer service must stem from top - down.

Fairly certain this will be my last VAG car in our family.

I made an email Enquiry and got a call this morning. Basically, there is an update due mid-November to early December. The portal is not going to be used in Australia but they want to make it easier to update maps for AU customers then it is currently, apparently it is time consuming for dealers to do it. Not only will maps be updated but it seems there is a significant system update planned. The CSR couldn't say if it would be DIY or through dealer though not if there would be cost.

Sounds good but the only issue is whether a big system update would play funny with any VAGCOM mods such as traffic activation which is not standard in Skoda. Hold tight but I've heard this before although he was pretty confident and certain. Impressed with customer service.

[gadget007a]

I made an email Enquiry and got a call this morning. Basically, there is an update due mid-November to early December. The portal is not going to be used in Australia but they want to make it easier to update maps for AU customers then it is currently, apparently it is time consuming for dealers to do it. Not only will maps be updated but it seems there is a significant system update planned. The CSR couldn't say if it would be DIY or through dealer though not if there would be cost.

Sounds good but the only issue is whether a big system update would play funny with any VAGCOM mods such as traffic activation which is not standard in Skoda. Hold tight but I've heard this before although he was pretty confident and certain. Impressed with customer service.

I just received the same call from Skoda customer care stating that there is an update for end Nov early December which will be through the dealership which will require a software update to "align" all of the systems.

[pjam73]

I just received the same call from Skoda customer care stating that there is an update for end Nov early December which will be through the dealership which will require a software update to "align" all of the systems.

When I picked up my new Octavia on Friday I asked the saleman about this rumoured upgrade. He hadn't heard anything about it, but then did say that it tallies with a '25th November' date the service manager has pinned on his wall (or something like that)...

[afterdarker]

It has taken them years to do an update and not one person on this forum to my knowledge has ever managed a successful map update.

[Jondalar]

I've certainly managed a successful map update myself and I'm sure others have too, via the Skoda Portal, but perhaps that's not what you meant?

[QUOTE=afterdarker;1205224]It has taken them years to do an update and not one person on this forum to my knowledge has ever managed a successful map update.[/QUOTE

[afterdarker]

I've certainly managed a successful map update myself and I'm sure others have too, via the Skoda Portal, but perhaps that's not what you

Thanks Jondalar. I am genuinely glad to hear it, as all I've seen and heard previously were failures and complaints.

So, the dreaded Skoda portal. Could you be so kind as to give a brief "how to?" As in what info you need to get onto it (passwords VIN numbers etc) and what downloads can be got. It is not as if Skoda or VAG give you any guidance on this at all - they don't, and usually don't know themselves. It is all one of the proverbial black arts.

I own a 2015 Octavia RS & have always been annoyed by lack of speed camera warnings, traffic info, & map updates in standard nav system. As no doubt most owners are.

[Jondalar]

I'm sure it's already been done in another thread, but basically all you do is go to the Skoda Update Portal Update portal enter your VIN and then download a huge ~20Gb file, took almost a day for me. You then have to unzip/extract it which takes some time also, copy to a correctly formatted 32GB SD card (car won't recognise larger I believe) and then insert the card in the car and tell it to check for an update. (System, System Setup. Update Software) There is a tutorial video and instructions on the Update Portal site.

Cheers,
Karl

Thanks Jondalar. I am genuinely glad to hear it, as all I've seen and heard previously were failures and complaints.

So, the dreaded Skoda portal. Could you be so kind as to give a brief "how to?" As in what info you need to get onto it (passwords VIN numbers etc) and what downloads can be got. It is not as if Skoda or VAG give you any guidance on this at all - they don't, and usually don't know themselves. It is all one of the proverbial black arts.

I own a 2015 Octavia RS & have always been annoyed by lack of speed camera warnings, traffic info, & map updates in standard nav system. As no doubt most owners are.

[pjam73]

I got a bit annoyed by the time in the car itself so I would recommend starting the car and going for a 40min drive while it does its thing. The download took forever and I have 115Mbits at home.

Being in the IT/programming business I thought I'd see why it seems to take so long to download for us Australians. It turns out it's not the Skoda server (which appears to be in the US, the IP is owned by Verizon), but the routing from the server down to Australia. I used a server we have in a Microsoft datacentre in Ireland and downloaded the 22GB file in about an hour! Average download speed was around 69Mbit/s (6.92MB/s). At the same time I was downloading it to our office in Melbourne and it's averaging 0.3MB/s.

It seems if you use a Windows PC to go to the update portal you get offered a download manager to run that will manage (and presumably restart/resume) the download. Using a Mac you just get a link to the file. I tried using wget on a Mac but when the connection dropped it wasn't able to resume, so I gave up.

The file I got for my April 2016 build RS is HIGH12_P58_MRM_2016_2017.zip.

Now I just need to get the file from Ireland to Melbourne...and wait for the SD card I ordered from 'Sydney' (more like Hong Kong given estimated delivery is 2 weeks away) to arrive. By then the dealers may well have an update available.

[woofy]

Yeah using our Mac at home was hopeless, it drops the connection and you restart all over again. I used a 64GB card but had to finesse it, nothing to do with the size I think but more the formatting I think from memory.

[Jondalar]

Yeah I am on gigabit ethernet right on the AARnet backbone and getting 400KB/s download, speedtest.net gives 96.95 Mb/s download speed for my connection...

BTW the November updates are what I am downloading, now says next update available in May.