Updating the inbuilt Mib3 Satnav Offline

[leonmax96]

Also if you can, use usb stick with LED indicator

Mine still stuck at 23.6. Downloaded the file and had 2 x 2 hours drive yesterday....
So far it has not worked for me

 

[Peterboetter]

OK, I will give it another try. Have done this 2 times before without any problems...
There is an LED indicator in the stick

 

[cairus]

If you read the instructions from Seat regarding the offline map update, you would read that it takes several days

 

[Tell]

I'd make it exfat that the default solid state file system. NTFS is the HD one. 7 zip to be on the safe side as you say, the built in unzip programs are slower and can mess up the unzip.

Lastly but not least, no Mac involved ?. CleanMyDrive if so on it to dust down the Mac garbage. That's done once the files are copied onto the drive before you head out to the car.

I did do some tests and exfat is faster than NTFS. It came up when mib2 high download was exceeding the SD card. Which was the best format for USB. Answer Exfat.

 

[KoNG]

Worked for me thanks

 

[Tell]

The rest of the November 2024 release for world has now been identified if you live in those parts, designated 24.06:

RoW

# Asia 4.1 Gb

Škoda portal: https://infotainment-cdn.skoda-auto.com/base/maps/OI_P129_MRM_ASIA_202448_Offline_Update.zip

# Australia 1.8 Gb
Škoda portal: https://infotainment-cdn.skoda-auto.com/base/maps/OI_P129_MRM_AUS_202448_Offline_Update.zip

# Chile 496 Mb
Škoda portal: https://infotainment-cdn.skoda-auto.com/base/maps/OI_P129_MRM_CHILE_202448_Offline_Update.zip

# India 7.6 Gb
Škoda portal: https://infotainment-cdn.skoda-auto.com/base/maps/OI_P129_MRM_INDIA_202448_Offline_Update.zip

# Israel 244 Mb
Škoda portal: https://infotainment-cdn.skoda-auto.com/base/maps/OI_P129_MRM_ISR_202448_Offline_Update.zip

# North Africa 1.5 Gb

Škoda portal: https://infotainment-cdn.skoda-auto.com/base/maps/OI_P129_MRM_NA_202448_Offline_Update.zip

# Turkey 1.6 Gb
Škoda portal: https://infotainment-cdn.skoda-auto.com/base/maps/OI_P129_MRM_TUR_202448_Offline_Update.zip

# Gulf Region 1.9 Gb
Škoda portal: https://infotainment-cdn.skoda-auto.com/base/maps/OI_P129_MRM_AGCC2_202448_Offline_Update.zip

# South Africa 1.5 Gb
Škoda portal: https://infotainment-cdn.skoda-auto.com/base/maps/OI_P129_MRM_SA_202448_Offline_Update.zip

# South America 8.2 Gb
Škoda portal: https://infotainment-cdn.skoda-auto.com/base/maps/OI_P129_MRM_SAM_202448_Offline_Update.zip




======= coverage =======


# Gulf Region
Bahrain, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

# South Africa
Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Reunion, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe

# South America
Argentina, Bahamas, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique,
Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela

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Thanks to the diligent work of MartiniB.

Revised post swapping to the Skoda versions... turned out the VW version for RoW were problematic. No change in the European November 2024 release (24.06).

 

[Tell]

Technical Note - Derivation of the YY.DD as shown on the Infotainment Screen

I have now been told how to read that YY.DD date off the files after putting out my request for some time for a bright spark into these Mib3 files. It's been delivered. If you don't want to load up the file you can look up what year the and periods the files relate to. It's important with MIB3 files you don't alter the contents because you can't they are signed and they will refuse to load. So no tampering with the files like mib2 standard maps.

Anyhow, this is how you do it thanks to C34 on the Briskoda site... only two posts popped up to tell me. You need to install DB Browser for SQLite. This has an extension in it to read the NDS Associate files, the normal SQL Lite brower that is popular won't. Install the MSI of DB Browser for SQLite in the link above.

We now use C34's text... In this example on the file
Update OI_P119_EU_202425_Offline_Update.zip contains data from 23.12 (YY.MM).

You can check this for example in the MIB31_EU.ROOT/3D/PRODUCT.NDS file. This is a SQLite database, you can find this information in the updateRegionTable table.





You open the table up and have a look. Does help if you have database experience . On the VW file, for 2024/25 I got this:

View attachment 43716

So that is they, for the technically minded of where the YY.MM is stored in the files. Handy if you come across one and not sure. That's how you nose about those files not that you need to... or you can just trust websites like this.

Just a side note for those that are use to looking inside the files for release information. Dropped down here due to edit size in original post.