Cobra Electronics 7700 PRO GPS

Hi all my name is Linda my boyfriend Tom is the trucker and I am new to all this so please excuse my interruption. I have been watching this post for some time while investigation the options for his Cobra 7700. He is not very computer savvy and his unit had never had any firmware updates. Having done all of those it still wasn't giving him the items he wanted mostly which was mile markers and state lines. We have been doing side by side comparisons of the Rand McNally and the Cobra 7750 and I just thought it crazy to spend another $400 so I called Cobra this morning and got a very pleasant surprise. I was told that his 7700 could be mailed in for $167 and be upgraded to the 7750. They would return it within 10 days and would have exactly those two items plus about 50 more. This option makes much more sense. I have no idea why this information isn't made public. Hope this helps some of you out there. I am still learning the truckers life and find it most interesting. Thanks for this forum.

 

finally got map update followed instructions that came with it -- update was almost finished when it showed a error ( error copy file err :5 ) now what ?????????

 

now when the unit is turned on the screen shows ( error incorrect map data please update map data ) help

 

good news 7700 is now working copied map of SD Card onto DVD loaded it via my computer
Also address backup program mentioned in above posts will restore all of your address i had 150 and it put them all back in

 

Mine was acting up on Sunday. Constantly locking up. It has done it in the past when I was going from Briley Parkway to stops in Clarksville TN. It would lock up just before the ramp or exit to get on I-24W.

Yesterday it quit working all together. All it will do now is light up with the pic of the big truck and go no further.

This unit was 1 year old in April this year.

Another thing it does when coming out of Camden TN to Nashville on 641 it calls I-40 I-140 and shows I-140 on the display.

Leaving BP on 51st street to go East on I-40 it tries to route you up to Charlotte Pike. When you cross under the interstate Alabama Ave is a direct shot to the on ramp going East.

Going from Nashville to Old County House road in White Bluff if you get off on exit 182 it will try and route you all the way into Dickson to the hwy 70-hwy 96 intersection rather than direct you to White Bluff road. (way out of the way) If you take White Bluff road it will attempt to turn you around. This is on the truck setting or the car setting.

 

map update missing street
Had a delivery for Honda Canada address is 180 Honda blvd Markham Ontario type it into GPS and to my surprise lol gps has no such address so i checked my old map quest 2010 edition that has it thank god got to Honda asked if they had just moved -- to my surprise again LOL they have been there 4 years so has the road How come its not in this brand new update that just cost me $79