Insignia GPS units are portable. They come preloaded with base maps of the United States. The high-end models provide real-time traffic and weather updates as well as gas prices and movie listings. To ensure that an Insignia GPS device is always accurate, the owner needs to load it with up-to-date maps from the manufacturer. Besides map updates, issues regular firmware updates for its GPS units. While updated maps make an Insignia GPS accurate for navigation, firmware updates keep the device running smoothly and may introduce new features.

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Updating the Maps on an Insignia GPS An Insignia GPS device does not connect to the Internet to get map updates. Therefore, updating the internal maps requires downloading the update on a PC and then moving it to the Insignia GPS unit. Get an Internet-connected PC and then open up a web browser on the. Download the Update Visit Insignia's website on the PC's web browser and navigate to the Support and Service section from the home page. Enter the name or SKU number of the Insignia GPS into the search tab to find all downloads related to the product. Scroll through the list of map updates for the GPS model and find the latest or preferred one. Download this update on the PC as a.zip file.

Transfer the Updated File Turn off the Insignia GPS and then remove the memory card from inside the unit. Slip this storage card into the memory card slot of the PC.

When you resume, your default browser—the application associated with HTML files—is used. If the file changed at the download site, you’ll be informed of that by a message when you resume download. If you started the download with Browser B, you’ll want to pick it up and complete it with Browser B. You can override use of the default browser, if desired, by using the “Open with” operating system functionality (for example, in Windows, right-click the file and select Open With).

If the computer does not have a memory card slot, get a. Get a card reader that supports multiple types of memory cards to ensure compatibility. Connect the card reader to the USB port of the computer and insert the memory card from the GPS unit into the appropriate slot on the reader. Wait for it to show up on the PC as an external storage device.

Upload the Update Right click the downloaded.zip file and unzip it into a folder. Copy or cut this folder and move it into the memory card connected to the PC. Once copied, safely remove the USB card reader from the PC and then remove the from the card reader.

Replace the card back in the Insignia GPS unit. Power on the device and wait for it to update its maps with the contents of the new folder.

Updating the Firmware of an Insignia GPS Updating the firmware of an Insignia GPS follows the same steps as updating its maps. However, the procedure for firmware updates differ slightly for copying downloaded files from the PC onto the GPS unit's memory card.

Download the Right File Go to Insignia's website from the browser of an Internet-connected PC and navigate to the Support and Service section. Find the model number of the Insignia GPS at the back of the unit and enter this number into the search tool. Download the.zip file of the firmware update for the unit onto the PC. Unzip the file into a folder. The name of the folder depends on the model of the Insignia GPS. For the Insignia NS-CNV10 or the Insignia NS-CNV20, the name of this firmware folder should be CNAV.

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If downloading firmware for the Insignia NS-CNV43, the folder name should be WLANavi480272. Update the GPS Firmware Navigate to the GPS's memory card from the PC and find the folder named the same as the unzipped folder of the downloaded firmware. Delete this folder on the memory card and replace it with the firmware folder on the PC. After copying the new firmware folder to the memory card, remove it and insert it back into the GPS unit.

Power on the unit and let it boot up. This takes longer than usual since it is the first time the GPS is accessing the new firmware. How to Buy an Insignia GPS on eBay You can find a good selection of Insignia GPS devices in the large inventory of car GPS units on. Use the search feature found on every page of the site to pull up the full inventory of GPS devices from this brand, by typing in related search terms. In addition to the GPS unit, you can also find accessories for mounting and charging your Insignia GPS. To find right Insignia GPS for your needs and budget, filter the search results by price, item delivery options, and condition.

I purchased a blu-ray player from Insignia (aka Best Buy's in-house producer) in 2008 for around $100 with the expectation that it would last for longer than a year. I was mistaken. About a month after I purchased the BDLIVE01, I began to notice some movies were unable to play on the device. In 2009, they provided a firmware update for the player, as it was evident that the enclosed firmware would not allow for proper playback of blu-ray discs. I rent a large number of movies from Redbox, etc, and it has now become evident that the blu-ray player is currently unable to play any of today's blu-ray discs. Insignia is now unwilling to provide any firmware updates, not even the 2009 update.

In a copy/paste'd statement from an Insignia customer service rep, it was conveyed that: '.your player may not be able to play some current titles or future releases that use new encoding methods.' And 'Believe me when I tell you that this is as frustrating to us as it is for you, since it is a change out of our hands, but keep in mind that the player will still continue.to play DVD discs, music CDs. And those blu-ray titles that can be decoded with the firmware already loaded into the player. ' Although blu-ray technology may have introduced some new encoding methods over the past 5 years, it is rather hard to believe the device I purchased was able to update its firmware a year after I purchased it, yet it is now unable to update its firmware at all now. The company's unwillingness to provide any firmware updates, as well as its numerous, vague comments as to why this is the case has led me to believe this is really about the money.

They are unwilling to provide any these updates as they want consumers to purchase the device over again, if not from them, at least from their parent company, Best Buy. I am now reluctant to purchase anything from a company this greedy and would also urge others to thing twice before purchasing anything from Insignia and expect it to last longer than a month. Personally, I'm shocked that Best Buy would support such a tactic and see a future not unlike Circuit City or Mickey Wards if they continue this path.