Turn off POI Alert
Mon, 02/04/2008 - 8:40am
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16 years
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Thanks very much for any help.
On a nuvi 760, how does one turn off a POI alert when it is sounding? I know where the setting is in the system tools, but I'm asking if it is possible to silence an alert, but not change a system setting. It seems to me one would just tap the screen, but that didn't work.
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Nope. You can't do that. You just have to listen to it or turn them off completely.
Alerts
Nope. You can't do that. You just have to listen to it or turn them off completely.
I have wished that my Magellan had alarms on the internal POIs. Now I'm glad that it DOESN'T.
Be careful what you wish for !!!
Magellan Maestro 4250// MIO C310X
Absolutely. Driving on the
Absolutely. Driving on the highway late at night and the thing starts beeping. I'm still not sure what the POI was or where it came from.
I cannot believe people listen to that annoying beep. It even showed a red bar at the top of the screen, which I kept pressing to no avail. I had to dig my way through setting options to turn it off.
If I had paid $500 less for it, I might have tossed it out the window.
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Well, if you are getting an alert that you aren't sure where the alert came from, perhaps you have a problem with your POI file names.
Numbers in the file name (ie 1, 2, 3, etc) will produce speed alerts. So, if you have a file named Starbucks1.csv or 7-11.csv, you will end up with alerts that you might not have intended.
If you don't want alerts on your files, I'd recommend not setting alerts, turning the alerts off on your unit, or shortening the alert distances.
Remember, it won't alert unless you tell it to alert.
That red bar...
Absolutely. Driving on the highway late at night and the thing starts beeping. I'm still not sure what the POI was or where it came from.
I cannot believe people listen to that annoying beep. It even showed a red bar at the top of the screen, which I kept pressing to no avail. I had to dig my way through setting options to turn it off.
If I had paid $500 less for it, I might have tossed it out the window.
...is what tells you what the alert is for. Read the text in the red bar and then you WILL know what the alert is for.
Rick - Nüvi 260 - eTrex Summit HC
You're absolutely right.
However, while driving on a highway at 11:00 PM with my daughter in the backseat, I couldn't lean over to read what it said. We had no idea what it was and I was just trying to turn it off.
Your implied point is well taken. I am a moron. However, it still seems to me that one should be able to pretty easily (i.e., with one touch) turn off the alert once one has been alerted.
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No, no, no. You aren't a moron. Didn't mean to imply that. Just trying to explain the way that it currently works.
One way to turn off the alert with one touch in that situation would be to hit the power button and turn the unit off until you passed the location.
Motorcycle Mama ...
I had not created any POI's intentionally.
The route we traveled passed through an area covered by a MadMap I had installed the day before. I wasn't following a MadMap route, though. I guess the MadMap installation adds POI's with alerts even if you're not following one of the MadMap routes. I don't see how to tell what MadMap POI's have alerts. I guess it's all or none via the global settings for the unit.
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I think, but I'm not 100% sure, but I think that the POIs in MapMaps are loaded as TourGuide points. That might have been the proximity alert you were getting.