Garmin 1450 LMT Problem vs. Magellan 3225

1. The nuvi 3xx/6xx series had what was called an "Attention Tone" which was a bong/tone that preceded the voice instruction. Users had the ability to enable/disable it through the user preferences. Garmin got rid of it since those early nuvis and it has not returned to any nuvi that I know of. Why? Only Garmin knows. They are great at getting rid of useful features to add other features that are not so useful.

2. You can set POI/proximity alerts on the nuvi to sound the same attention tone as described above when you get close to it with the default value being 1/4 mile. Note that even though this tone is available using POI/proximity alerts, it's NOT available as an attention tone as described above to precede the voice. The audio can be set to Single Tone, Continuous Tone and Off. I believe the setting can be accessed under Tools>Settings>Proximity Points. I also believe this setting affects only the built-in alert bong/tone and does not affect any customs sounds that may have been loaded.

You can not change the alert distance to a turn or route point.

You can create any sound file that you want - convert it to .wav format - and use that as your alert to red light cameras when you load the red light camera poi with POI Loader using that wav file as your sound alert. Just create the alert that you want - two bongs and a voice warning or whatever you can put together - but this is going to happen only once - or you could select continuous and it will keep alerting you until you pass the camera.

Take a look at this page:

http://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3/garmin.gps/pagepoi.03.htm#...

I have not personally tested any of these methods.

If you convert the .csv file to .gpx using Extra POI Editor (EPE), you can have both speed and distance alerts.