Phone Book List Options

I can't think of a way off the top of my head. The phone book is the only list I know of in the Nuvi line that is not address based.

As to building the base with addresses, that is possible if you have them in an email program that can output the list in a CSV file. You would take the email output and store it as a custom POI after geocoding to get coordinates.

Any tricks for 2 people at same address with cell phones?

Use the person's name as the POI Name, the addresses can be duplicated. It would be the names that I would be interested in.

Just one caution, this would only be for outgoing calls as there is no phone book for the unit to reference when it detects an incoming call.

My first phone wouldn't show the address book all the time.I noticed you had to leave it connected for a while.Also on webupdater on the second page check for other updates.Check and see if a Bluetooth update is there by chance.

Your unit has the ability to have categories for favorites.So you could make category for phone book and put all contacts there.The only problem based on the coordinates it will show the closest 50 to you.Not sure what order you would get if all coordinates the same .You could use Extra Poi Editor to make your contact list and save as a gpx file.Rename to temp.gpx and place file next to current.gpx located in the Garmin folder on your unit.Or using saving to Garmin favorites directly from EPE.

Not if you do a search by name Charles.

I thought of that.Not sure you want to be going 70 mph and searching by name.At least don't want them close to me on the road.Of cource if you got someone riding shotgun it would be ok.

I was searching some info on the web today about this.Someone posted the same problem about phone book but said they got the voice prompt to work.Doesn't sound righ to me.Just wonder if OP turned the voice prompt on from phone to gps.

There's one thing Charlesd45 and I haven't been real clear on. If you want to dial the person from the Nuvi, the file has to be saved as a GPX. The easiest way to do this is with Turboccc's great tool Extra_POI_Editor or EPE for short.

It can take the input file in almost any format (as long as it is one of the spreadsheet formats) and spit out a GPX that will enable the unit to dial the contact's phone number. Under options select M-Column and tell EPE which column has what data. Since EPE skips blank columns during a file read, don't put the lat/lon in the first 2.

Sometimes based on how the file is set up.You have to play ith the columns.I found that if you set the file up with the commas in correct location EPE will put everything in correct data field.I have a few that I plan to re-structure.

Not sure if this is on same line about leaving Longitude and Latitude blank.File will open in EPE but will not load to gps with Poi loader unless the coordinates are there.

I have not built a POI yet. Looks like I will read a little more than give EPE a try. Is this something that I could put on a SD card and experiment? Still trying to learn which files control what options on my Garmin. Is their a good guide which lists what files can be played with and others not to disturb? I like to mod things but still cautious. I want to understand more before writing data to my new 1390. I have already made a virgin copy of all files in preparation.

Charles,

The input to EPE can be in any order as long as the position of each element is defined on the M Column CSV Field screen. perhaps the biggest difference in the way you and I create files is I use EPE to geocode. From your previous posts it appears as if you obtain the coordinates and enter them into the file before creating the GPX.

Get a better phone............

If you are looking to try building a file from scratch, I would take one that is already built and use it as a model.

Start with a CSV and get familiar with how that is laid out and try your hand at making a small one for your personal use. It will probably take you a few tries, so don't get discouraged.

Once you have an idea how to do a CSV, then I would start playing with EPE. Make certain you download the installer version so you get all the needed support files.

As you are in the SF Bay area, you need to set the options and preferences in EPE for US users. Probably the two most important user preferences are setting the editor to Imperial/US leaving the file read and write as metric. Set the encoding to UTF-8.

Under M Column CSV fields in Options I have a default GPX format where I use 9 columns or fields. In order these are - for me - POI Name, Address, City, State, Post Code, Phone, Latitude, Longitude, and Comment. Now this doesn't mean I don't have all my files exactly the same, it's just that I'm trying to standardize my files so they all have the same basic information in my source spreadsheets I load into EPE. Some files have more information, others have less but my new files contain at least these 9 fields.

That is mostly the way I do it now.I use Google Maps,Google Earth and sometimes Bing Maps to build the file .You get all the info at one time once you pull up the location or name.A lot less copy and paste involved.Once completed I run it through EPE to make any changes.Or to add more information and to build a alert in the file if I desire one.I mostly use Google Earth now.So yes we both have different approaches with same end results.I have used EPE to help out on existing files to get the data in the corect field location.Found by getting the commas in the correct locations for column c using excel.I can load the info to EPE and the data will be in the correct field.

Thanks to you all for response's.