OEM Nav replacement

[felixgun]

I thought all 2012 nav units were hard drive based?

 

[THE YETI]

I thought all 2012 nav units were hard drive based?

They are. I'm confirming that's what he got.

 

[AaronIROCZ]

Hot damn! That's a deal. Was that for the hard drive unit?

Yup.

 

[THE YETI]

Yup.

Stellar price. Ill call him this week.

 

[boogy886]

I got my 2012 GM OEM Nav unit from Greg at CPS audio Video (707) 588-9300 for 1550.00, which includes the wiring conversion harness, XM antenna extension, usb adapter, gps antenna, and I opted for the video harness so I can supply video to my headrest monitors. Also he preprograms the units so they are almost plug and play, I just had to tap into my camera wiring and vss wire.

Conversion harness? It's not plug and play?

 

[THE YETI]

Conversion harness? It's not plug and play?

no its not plug and play. 2012 was different than 07-11

 

[boogy886]

no its not plug and play. 2012 was different than 07-11

What all is different about it? My wife has an 09 Yukon Denali and her mother just got a 2012. I thought the screen resolution was better, and that is the main reason she wants it. There's a hard drive, I assume you can store music on it?

I've read in a few other threads that folks have had dealers re-flash their units, would that give the updated looks, or do I need to spend the $1500 and get her the 2012 unit?

 

[AaronIROCZ]

What all is different about it? My wife has an 09 Yukon Denali and her mother just got a 2012. I thought the screen resolution was better, and that is the main reason she wants it. There's a hard drive, I assume you can store music on it?

I've read in a few other threads that folks have had dealers re-flash their units, would that give the updated looks, or do I need to spend the $1500 and get her the 2012 unit?

Yes you can store music on the hard drive via a usb drive. As far as I know if you want the 2012 look you will have to upgrade to the 2012 hard disc nav unit, although I cannot confirm this as I have not seen what reflashed 2011 and older units look like.

 

[savegas52]

I have a 2010 Denali with the Bose Center Point sound, rear entertaiment and back up camera. Also I have the hands free bluetooth and Onstar.

The issue I am having is that I just don't care for the actual nav portion of the system. I have a $75.00 Tom Tom gps that provides more information than the OEM unit. I get more data direction, ETA, time to next turn, etc.

I am looking at replacing the unit with a Rosen (centerpoint) unit. Since this is the only one that I have found that will work with everything that I have and I do want to keep all the other features in place and I want to keep that factory look.

Am I just asking too much from the OEM unit or could someone provide something else that would work? I thought about buying the update disc but I believe it will only update the maps and not the "form factor" of the nav unit itself. I don't have to go with the Rosen unit, but I dont want to give anything up either.
Any advice will be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

I am currently checking out the Android unit by Otto Navi

http://ottonavi.com/product/chevrol...ts-07-12-android-multimedia-navigation-system