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Home Location Lost

 
Sun, 07/26/2009 - 9:34pm

I've had an issue with my 770 where the Home location is lost. This has happened twice to me - each about a month apart. When I press 'Where To?' and then Home the unit tells me my home location is not set. However my Home location is still in the favourites.

I have to delete my original favourite (so that there aren't 2 Home favourites) and then re-set my home location.

Just wondering if anyone else has ever had this issue.

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nüvi 770
Mon, 07/27/2009 - 7:32am

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A couple of days ago I tried to Go Home and my 760 told me that the home location was not set. However, Home was still in Favorites.

I used Tools, My Data to set the Home location using the existing favorite. Later on I reset Home to "Use current location" because it's been slightly off ever since importing it from my old 680 favorites.

There are now two home locations in Favorites - "Home" and "HOME". From an old backup of current.gpx, I've determined that HOME is the old home location that "disappeared". Strange.

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Nüvi 2595LMT
Mon, 07/27/2009 - 8:22am

Which SW

Which software and maps version are you using? Have not had the problem with my 760 using 2.6.

Daniel

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Garmin StreetPilot c580 & Nuvi 760 - Member 32160 - Traveling in Kansas
Mon, 07/27/2009 - 10:46am

Home Location Lost

I have all the latest updates for the 770.

I noticed exactly the same issue as WAASup. A Home and then a HOME. I didn't realize that I could reset the Home location from my favourites. I will do that next time.

Not sure if it was because I didn't use my nuvi for about a week or what might have caused the issue.

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nüvi 770
Mon, 07/27/2009 - 2:45pm

Have Firmware V4.60

but will be updating to 4.80 soon smile

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Nüvi 2595LMT
Mon, 07/27/2009 - 2:52pm

4.80

I already have 4.80, so don't expect it to fix this specific issue.

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nüvi 770
Tue, 07/28/2009 - 7:39am

Same thing with my 760

dw_gps wrote:

I have all the latest updates for the 770.

I noticed exactly the same issue as WAASup. A Home and then a HOME. I didn't realize that I could reset the Home location from my favourites. I will do that next time.

Not sure if it was because I didn't use my nuvi for about a week or what might have caused the issue.

In my case, I'm pretty sure it was caused by MapSource. I was building a road trip in MapSource so I was adding Waypoints and Routes. I had to import Home first so I had my starting point. When I downloaded everything back, it saved a HOME so I now had a Home and a HOME in my favorites. When I deleted one of the duplicate home entries, it turned out that that was the one that the Nuvi was using as the official "home" location. I might have this backwards, where "HOME" is the Nuvi-created home location and "Home" was just the MapSource duplicate waypoint. It's hard to tell...