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Need help with my 1490 seeing the SD card POIs

 
Fri, 12/02/2011 - 12:16am

I have been trying to add POIs to my 1490 but didn't have enough space for all of them. Therefore I tried to use the SD card and haven't been able to get anywhere with that idea. I can use the POI loader program and get the POIs on the Sd but the garmin does not recognize the SD card files. Am I missing something?

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Fri, 12/02/2011 - 1:25am

Look at the poi file on the

Look at the poi file on the SD card and make sure it has a gpi extension.If not change it. See http://www.poi-factory.com/node/34543

You may want to look at this for loading custom pois. http://www.poi-factory.com/node/25721

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Fri, 12/02/2011 - 1:17pm

Thanks, that solved the

Thanks, that solved the problem.

I also found that after deleting unwanted files from the GPS main memory I am able to get all my POIs on the device.

Is there an advantage one way or the other of having the custom POIs in memory or on the SD card?

Fri, 12/02/2011 - 2:47pm

A while ago when I tried to

A while ago when I tried to place POIs on SD card, it kept on prompting me to import them to the memory. That became a nuisance and I gave up on it. I wonder whether they changed the firmware since then to overcome this.

Sat, 12/03/2011 - 8:28am

Thats a question I asked of Garmin

and the answer I got is "thats a great idea, we should look at it for future units". I had to explain to them it was already on units and you took it off.

I just deal with it because I like them on the card.

denis327 wrote:

A while ago when I tried to place POIs on SD card, it kept on prompting me to import them to the memory. That became a nuisance and I gave up on it. I wonder whether they changed the firmware since then to overcome this.

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Sat, 12/03/2011 - 11:26pm

Prompt still there

denis327 wrote:

A while ago when I tried to place POIs on SD card, it kept on prompting me to import them to the memory. That became a nuisance and I gave up on it. I wonder whether they changed the firmware since then to overcome this.

Nope, the prompt is there. I can't believe that Garmin would let a annoying thing like that happen. How amature!

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Are we there yet?
Sat, 12/03/2011 - 11:30pm

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I'm used to the annoyance.

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nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK
Sun, 12/04/2011 - 10:25am

POI's on SD Card

I keep all my poi's on my sd card. The few seconds that it take to ignore the prompt is not worth worring about. It takes longer to get a sat lock and load the trip. Just ignore it.

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