Street pilot 2720 gps

I bought a used garmin street pilot 2720 gps. I updated with the numap version I purchased at best buy. Now it says my maps are locked. I contacted Garmin and they said they could not help me since I was not the original purchaser of the gps. Is there any way to unlock the maps without going thru Garmin.
Thanks,
Jim

jimlangford wrote:
I bought a used garmin street pilot 2720 gps. I updated with the numap version I purchased at best buy. Now it says my maps are locked. I contacted Garmin and they said they could not help me since I was not the original purchaser of the gps. Is there any way to unlock the maps without going thru Garmin.
Thanks,
Jim
Nope - Garmin is the only person who can provide unlock codes for maps.
However, it seems slightly odd - The fact that you are the original purchaser of the map upgrade should have permitted you to do this. The maps would then be locked to the unit. There might be some weird interaction between a numap upgrade purchased by the previous user maybe?
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