765 settings

 

Can someone please help me with some settings on the 765 that I recently picked up. I am trying the unit out and getting used to it here around home before we head out on a trip and I notice that to places I go all the time it takes me the long way around hence taking more time. When I go the way I normally would it recalculates and comes back with a shorter time. I have it set to "faster time" and see no other settings to change. What am I doing wrong? I don't always want to take the long route when I am in a location I am not familiar with. Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

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If you dont know where you're going, any road will get you there!!

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As an experiment, try setting it to shorter distance, and see if it matches what you would do.

That said, the unit will take it literally even if it means saving 100 meters! So, what will work well in one scenario will not be good in another.

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nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK

How far?

ckd2296 wrote:

Can someone please help me with some settings on the 765 that I recently picked up. I am trying the unit out and getting used to it here around home before we head out on a trip and I notice that to places I go all the time it takes me the long way around hence taking more time. When I go the way I normally would it recalculates and comes back with a shorter time. I have it set to "faster time" and see no other settings to change. What am I doing wrong? I don't always want to take the long route when I am in a location I am not familiar with. Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

How far of a route are you talking about? How many minutes is the route? Will the destination be on the left side of the street the way you go and will it be on the right if you follow the GPS directions? If the way you go is shorter but the speed limit is higher the way the GPS tells you to go then this could be your problem. I have seen cases where a high speed limit on a route that has many slow curves is chosen by the GPS but the actual time is actually slower than a longer route.

GPSs aren't perfect all the time. Check your route on Google Maps and see which way it takes you.

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Nuvi 2460LMT

how far

mmullins98 wrote:

How far of a route are you talking about? How many minutes is the route?

I have tried several routes ranging from 10 minutes to 30 minutes and it always gives me a different route than I would choose. This morning for example I was going somewhere approximately ten minutes and the route it gave me was one that took about 15 minutes.
I guess the long and the short of it is this, the unit still is smarter than me in a location I am not familiar with, even if it takes me five minutes longer.

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If you dont know where you're going, any road will get you there!!

FW version?

What's your current FW version?

The latest (and last) for the 7x5's is 4.0. If you have 3.8, leave it! If it's 3.9, upgrade it to 4.0 as the 3.9 version was very buggy.

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nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK

765t setings

I have a 765t. I sometimes take it with me just for giggles, and I do find that on roads I am familiar with it will want to take me one way today, and a different way tomorrow. I have changed the settings back and forth from Faster Time to Shorter Route, and for the most part Fast Time works the best. A GPS is just a tool, and it isnt perfect, so I take a paper map, or use Google Maps, and/or use Garmin's Map Source program to view and make the route go where I want it to go, then send it to my 765t as a custom route. To keep the GPS from recalculating the route, you will need to put in as many as a dozen waypoints per 1,000 miles of travel. Just think of the waypoints as mini destinations. This forces the GPS to go from waypoint to waypoint, going the route you want to go. This is probably not the answer fix you were hoping for, but what I told you is going to be your only viable options. On long trips, I use Mapsource, and spend about 30 minutes or so choosing the route I want to take, pegging the routes down with waypoints.

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Unless you are the lead sled dog, the view never changes. I is retard... every day is Saturday! I still use the Garmin 3590 LMT even tho I upgraded to the Garmin 61 LMT. Bigger screen is not always better in my opinion.

Trips

ckd2296 wrote:

Can someone please help me with some settings on the 765 that I recently picked up. I am trying the unit out and getting used to it here around home before we head out on a trip and I notice that to places I go all the time it takes me the long way around hence taking more time. When I go the way I normally would it recalculates and comes back with a shorter time. I have it set to "faster time" and see no other settings to change. What am I doing wrong? I don't always want to take the long route when I am in a location I am not familiar with. Any advice you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

My first comment is that trips are very different from around town. Note that your 765 got you to your location but just did not follow the route you thought was best.

"Best" is not always possible with a device that has lots of "gotchas" built-in. Why is this so? Well consider that Garmin does not control the map - that comes from another firm. Garmin uses the map data as best it can.

When I first got my 765, I played with it around town and I never could get the 765 to take me to a Walmart just over the Georgia line (lower sales tax there) along the route I had always taken. The 765 would take me a route that required me to go past where I would have made a turn. The 765 sent me further down the road I was on and then had me do two left turns to get me on the road where I could take a right turn into the Walmart parking lot. After much looking, I determined that the Navteq map did not recognize that I could sooner get onto the road on which Walmat was located and then make a left turn into Walmat at a major traffic light.

I found this only after routing myself to Walmart from different starting locations. Once I forced the GPS to be on the Walmart road and found that it still took me a half mile down the road until it knew I could make a legal "U-turn" and bring me back on the Walmart side, I realized that the "traffic light" (with not one but two left turn lanes into the Walmart parking lot) was not recognized by Navteq.

I actually got to talk to a lady at Navteq. We both looked at Google Earth and she agreed that the satelite view clearly showed left turn lanes.

I do not know if this has been fixed because I did not buy map updates.

Anyway, do not be too hard on your 765. It is not perfect. You may have found yourself in one of those "gotcha" situations like I did.

Not there?

jgermann wrote:

I do not know if this has been fixed because I did not buy map updates.

Anyway, do not be too hard on your 765. It is not perfect. You may have found yourself in one of those "gotcha" situations like I did.

Last evening I noticed something that was causing a problem and that was very interesting to me. A common overpass in the area the map showed it stopping right when it got to the freeway and starting on the other side. All the frontage roads are there, on-ramps, off ramps, but for some reason Navteq missed putting the overpass all the way over the freeway. This has been one of the problems because I quite often take this route over the freeway.

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If you dont know where you're going, any road will get you there!!

@ckd2296

Maybe that is your "gotcha".

When you find one of these, you can only shake your head and wonder how something like this could have been missed.

However, as I have commented in other threads, I remain constantly amazed at how good these things are and encourage those who seem to think that - because it is electronic - it should be perfect to give it a little slack.

Glad you found that and thanks for reporting it. All too often we do not know what really has happened.

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jgermann wrote:

Maybe that is your "gotcha".

When you find one of these, you can only shake your head and wonder how something like this could have been missed.

Believe it or not- it might be an "Easter Egg" type of deliberate error to allow providers of maps to catch thieves who steal map data and use it without compensating the owner.

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*Keith* MacBook Pro *wifi iPad(2012) w/BadElf GPS & iPhone6 + Navigon*