I bought a Garmin GPS from craigslist for $25. Life time map updates. In addition, I can plot my routes from Google earth then load them to the unit. This works extremely well when you are off road and there is no road whatsoever on any published maps. By looking at 3D Google Earth, I can plot a route along some trail or what looks like a trail and follow it on the Garmin. You can't do this with the Toyota head unit.

@Bonniem
$80 is a small price to pay. the way I got to know of these recovery tools was nearly losing all of my photos for a 2 week trip to UK and Ireland. Had a bad reader and thought they were al backed up but they were all corrupt, had to recover the files form the orig chips. I figure that I got back 95% of the photos when all said and done.

As long as the GoPro did not write new data to the SD card you might still have a shot at recovery, but that will depend on the Toyota using a standard filesystem (vfat, fat32, etc) so that the recovery tools understand how to process the layout of the data.

I agree that imaging a known good SD card is the fastest route forward with the highest likelihood of success. (short of buying a new chip.)

Good luck going forward!
Boort

Isn't that theft? I'm going to assume you were joking and that is not really your mentality.

You don't have to take it to copy it.

I think you will find that copying is theft also. You are taking something that you did not pay for from someone that has that information for sale. But if you are okay with that, more power to you.

If it's an 18 as stated below go into the dealer and asked to be flashed with the 2019 update. Should be under warranty and be free....should

does it means as long as it is under warranty, I may ask for a free update on the navigation?

I believe so (haven't tested it). But like it was written earlier they likely update every two years or so. They might try to tell you your's is good. At that point I would just say it wasn't working properly... or maybe lead with that. IDK up to you but don't feel bad for lying to a stealership.

Edit: just realized you're not op

You could check local pull-a-part see if they have any radios from 4Runners, or have smashed 4runners in inventory.

Not that it's any of my business... in fact I'm just bored.

But why take the moral high ground when it comes to dealing with a dealership?

You know how much we paid for the nav option? You know how much it costs to update the terrible system? It's robbery.

Not to mention the countless people underqualified for loans that they push through.

The shady shit dealerships and manufacturers do is beyond any ethical high ground.

"A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? Take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one."

But hey if you feel like your committing some mortal sin or whatever by all means don't do it. But I've prob spent over 100K over the years on toyota's alone. If I got to do some shit like copy a file to avoid paying 300 dollars for some product support on something we have already over paid for then so be it.

IMO for the cost of that update you could invest in a 1000x better head unit with lifetime support free.

Yes my truck is 18' I already purchased a used sd car from a member from his 2014 4runner. Maybe I will go to dealership and ask them to update it.
what do you think?

I say go for it. Just don't give them any reason to suspect you did something to it.

Hi, i just updated my navi software and just wanted to see if you guys have same current version.
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If you have a buddy with the sd card you want to duplicate, the following command (Linux, Mac OS X, Cygwin, Win 10 bash shell, ...) should allow you to make an exact bit-by-bit duplicate of one sd card onto another sd card (of the same size) regardless of the format used.

Be extra careful that you have input and output devices correctly identified or you will wipe out the good card by writing the bad card to the good card.

if - is the input block device
of - is the output block device
bs - is the block size (in this case 100 MB)
conv - is the conversion to apply to the copy

# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=100M conv=notrunc

Oh, and the # prompt means that you will have su'd to root or sudo'd the command. If you don't know what this means and are not comfortable with it, then don't try this and use another solution.

Review the dd man page for options available to you and be careful with commands like this - they can be catastrophic. You have been warned multiple times!

You probably should have used this method to make a backup of your OEM card prior to attempting any modifications. Just sayin...

That's audio software

for Navigation, on the navi screen, click option, then map data, then ... I guess