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Old Dec 18, 2007 | 11:00 PM
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PCM firmware upgrades

Anyone have a way to upgrade the PCM firmware software version from version1 to version 3 ?
 
Old Jan 1, 2008 | 01:58 PM
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is 3 the latest? Also how do you find out what firmware version your PCM is?
 
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You have to push two PCM buttons together to get this special screen to show up. Is it nav and Main? I forgot. I'll check and post later.

I had to have the dealer update mine due to bad mp3 playback functionality at one point.
 
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Ok, I pressed main + info and I got a few lines and it says SW 3.2. Does this mean the firmware is 3.2???? What is the latest version?

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I have SW 3.0 right now...



Seems that you have a newer version. Let's try to get someone do this with an 07/08 car.
 

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Porsche is twisting my brain into a pretzel. I don't see anyone selling 3.2 on ebay so I'm assuming PCM and SW are different items. All the new maps from 2006+ have PCM 2.1 and all the older(2005-) have 3.0 labeled on it. I'm getting all this info from ebay from what the sellers have posted. I heard with the newer firmware you can search by zipcode and I don't have that functionality so I'm assuming my version is old. Like I said my NAV says SW 3.2 so I guess it couldn't be the latest because if it was why don't I have the zipcode search option???

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well my dealer try to update my firmware from v1.0 to 3.0 and in turn killed my amp. They are replacing it with a new amp. i have no audio for the last week since it's the holiday season
 
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Originally Posted by scuzy
well my dealer try to update my firmware from v1.0 to 3.0 and in turn killed my amp. They are replacing it with a new amp. i have no audio for the last week since it's the holiday season
You need one of these ..



I put one in for the week it took to fix an amp (on another car).
 
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I have version 4.0

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Originally Posted by 2006997C4SCab
I have version 4.0

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What version of the NAV MAP DVD do you have? And if and when did you get an update on the NAV? thanks
 
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The DVD is 05/ 2006
 
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