Dealing with a 1490T's Shortcomings
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13 years
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Hi all,
I recently purchased one of these things based on reviews, they should also link to the problems I think but anyway. I am on my 2nd unit in 2 weeks finding both to have the same issues.
Upon further research it seems other brands and models have their own issues and I feel it is what you're prepared to live with as to which one you end up with.
On to the topic.
I primarily wanted a handsfree unit with a large screen. So far so good.
1. With this unit I have found that occasionally the voice loses its way and tries to catch up by talking faster whilst annoying a reset fixes this. So it is livable.
2. The handsfree is adequate but occasionally thinks it is connected when the phone is in reach yet it cant control the phone. Again a reset fixes this but there is clearly a bluetooth issue.
3. There is no address book showing (the Garmin site shows this will be the case with the Eseries phones. Unfortunately I cant find another unit around this price at where I bought it from which offers the BT handsfree and will work with the Eseries phones.
I have addressed this by devloping an application which will translate my phone contacts to a GPX file. I then drop the GPX file into the Garmin folder and the contacts appear in the favourites.
the problem with this method is that I need coordinates for the contacts some of which I can do the rest are simply people which I am forced to use central coordinates in Adelaide (South Australia) CBD. Again this works fine. It is 2 extra clicks to get into it compared to the address book but it does work in a fashion.
Now I did notice that when I first wrote the app I used 0,0 but nothing was showing up so I guessed I was out of range but I am curious as to what is the range where a POI will not show up being considered too far and if there is a way of ALWAYS having them show up, I know the reasons for hiding irrelevant ones but I am at a loss in addressing this.
So I was wondering how others are dealing with any of these issues.
Thanks for reading
Evan
0,0 coordinates
Now I did notice that when I first wrote the app I used 0,0 but nothing was showing up so I guessed I was out of range but I am curious as to what is the range where a POI will not show up being considered too far and if there is a way of ALWAYS having them show up
Coordinates of 0,0 are legitimate coordinates. It is a point on the equator in the Atlantic Ocean, south off the coast of Ghana. Latitude range goes from S 90.0 to N 90.0 (or -90 to +90). Longitude goes from W 180 to E 180 (or -180 to +180).
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The '+' is assumed with coords, unless prefaced by a '-'.
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0,0
Now I did notice that when I first wrote the app I used 0,0 but nothing was showing up so I guessed I was out of range but I am curious as to what is the range where a POI will not show up being considered too far and if there is a way of ALWAYS having them show up
Coordinates of 0,0 are legitimate coordinates. It is a point on the equator in the Atlantic Ocean, south off the coast of Ghana. Latitude range goes from S 90.0 to N 90.0 (or -90 to +90). Longitude goes from W 180 to E 180 (or -180 to +180).
Indeed they are, hence my intended use for them but it appears that POIs arent visible with this value unless I am somewhere near it I guess.
Does anyone know what this threshold would be?
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Have you tried using the 'TourGuide' naming convention yet?
That sets a radius around the POI of your choice.
nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK
GPX or CSV....thought this
GPX or CSV....thought this Garmin took CSV?
It takes both
I initia;lly generated POI for Soccer club grounds (2 kids both play)
But poi csv cant specify additional details tags like phone number etc.
So for VCF contacts I used GPX format and simply copied it into the GPX folder and they turned up as favourites avoiding 1 or 2 clicks to get to them.
They all show up as they are local contacts and numbers but if I go out of range then I am not so certain they will be available.
I will look into the radius option, but these XML things annoy me no end.