Change USA Zone Maps offline START 50

VMX1200

Hi all
I have a Start 50 with lifetime USA maps which I use for holidays, the USA map is now too big for the device so is installed in Zones, my problem is I need more than one zone for a "road trip" and want to know if it is possible to download the zonal maps to a laptop and update without having to try and find a wifi hotspot which isn't ideal especially as the process takes so long

Thanks and apologies if this has already been addressed

dhn

Anything here?:
http://us.support.tomtom.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/12356/kw/zoned maps

Niall

@VMX1200

Unfortunately TomTom has confusing naming convention , the first two characters of the serial number give:-
In Europe
"VG">START 50, 8GB + micro-SDHC, MyDrive Connect NAV4
"VJ">START 50, 8GB + micro-SDHC, MyDrive Connect NAV4
"VR">START 50, 4GB + micro-SDHC, MyDrive Connect NAV4

In the US
"GU">START 50 (2012) / 55, 2GB, TomTom HOME
"GZ">START 50 (2012) / 55, 4GB, TomTom HOME

So we can take it that this is the one that uses TomTom Home therefore download each zone that you need for your journey, then after each download perform a manual backup as per https://www.tomtomforums.com/threads/how-to-backup-the-contents-of-your-unit-to-the-computer-and-how-to-restore-it.17864/ to a different computer folder each time. Then while in the US you can reverse the procedure to put each zone onto your device.

VMX1200

Thanks to both dhn and to Niall for replying

@Niall, this looks like an elegant solution although it looks like the backup wont work for for app 10.x or 11.x devices ..... I need to check