With the latest firmware that was just released, it allows the Synctool inside the GPS to install and initialize. I tried it out, it wrote some information to my drive then I plugged into my laptop and opened Naviextras toolbox. It detected the system was an AVIC-8000 and that the maps were out of date. The latest maps available are still a year old, 2013Q4. The maps preinstalled were 2013Q2. Something else I noted, it says my update subscription only lasts until October 27th, 2014. This is odd because we are supposed to get 90 days as part of the latest map guarantee program. Initially