Nuvi 660 Questions

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A 2gb works well. No need to buy an expensive one. Just plain Jane basic SD card is your best bet. If you drive around with the 660 plugged into vehicle pwr it'll charge in no time. On the computer...I can't say.

I have tested 2GB card so far without any issue on Nuvi 660.
On my computer it took me an hour and half from zero to full charge.

My nuvi from Bestbuy also came with 2008 maps. I called Garmin and requested mapsource to manage extras on my pc.

It supports a 4gb card if you need one.

I use a 4gb card myself, holds a lot of music.

Would the Mapsource Trip and Waypoint Manager be the samething? I have this software that I used with GPSmap 60CSx.

I too just received my Nuvi 660 from the Black Friday sale at Best Buy.
It came with Fodor's Garmin Travel Guide North America SD Card. Is this normal, or did I get a bonus?
I love the 660 after having the 360 for a few months. I love the larger screen.
I didn't realize it had the FM unit built in. I got more than I expected!

From Garmin's FAQ:

2xx Series 2GB
350 2GB
360 and 370 4GB
6xx Series 4GB

RT

I think you may have recieved a bonus, I had to buy mine.

Good place to look for Garmin Products is:
http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/us
I have had mine for about 8 months as I walked passed it at a Sam's Club one day.

Just wanted to say thanks for all the responses. I now know what all my options are.

And yes The North America Travel guide is now included with the 660, I am not sure what other models it is included or at all.

Circuit City also has that bonus. Not that it means much, unless your a tourist. You paid $129 for the FM unit.
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I don't look at it that way, since I only paid $399 for the unit, instead of $600 to $800 at other stores.

I paid about $650.00 in August. And $479 for the 680 a couple of days ago.
My 660 stopped working, and I sent it back to Garmin and they sent me back a new one without the Fodors. I had to ask for it and they sent me the card.
You are right, if it was included I would take it.
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I received the Garmin Travel Guide but I can't figure out you load it on to the 660. I mean, I can put it in the storage slot on the unit but then I don't have anywhere to put my other storage card with my music, pictures, maps, etc. So how do you load it on to the unit itself without having to place in in the card slot?

And you will get an option to install, and be done.
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I was able to load it into the 660 that it came with but then thought I would also put it on my 680...it doesn't recognize it. Only works in the 660?

Put the card in the slot, then click on Travel Kit, then click on Travel Guide. Then it will ask you if you want to install it.

I did....but when I click on Travel Guide all it says is Garmin Travel Guide not present on unit for more information yata yata, yata...not given an optionn to install. Anyone have any other ideas?

I got the same BBuy deal on the 660 with the Fodor Travel Guide included. Wonder if you "reboot-restart" everything it would then install for you. As Rick said above it should install right from the card...mine did.

Jim

How do you reboot---restart? You just take the card and put it in the slot..I have already tunned it on and off. Maybe it wont let you put it in more than one unit..I'm trying to load in my 680 as well.

As I understand it only the unit it came with "free" will recognize it for load. So if you got it with the 660, as I did, it won't also work on your 680. Perhaps someone else has other ideas??

Jim

Let's hope so. Would be great to find a solutuon.

Need advice from experienced Nuvi 660. My new unit's volume on interstate is too low (even after crank it too maximum.) Any advice on how to make it louder.

Switch to the male voice. The female is too quiet.

Where to> Shopping> Nordstroms> Anything you want Honey.

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I fought for two days with a couple of new SanDisk 4GB and 8GB SDHC cards. I think any Micro SD card with a capacity larger than 2GB will probably be an SDHC. The cards worked fine in my 680, but would not work in my computers. The SanDisk tech support line was very unhelpful.

Reading between the lines, the 4GB and 8GB cards are High Capacity and seem to require a later model USB card reader that is SDHC compatible. They are probably incompatible with older devices (cell phones, gps, cameras) that are not SDHC rated. So, if you want to move the cards back and forth, make sure you have a compatible reader. The SanDisk tech support line was very unhelpful.

And, buy the cards where you can return them if you have a problem.

LOL----You have got to be joking. I've been looking for a woman like that all my life.

I have the 8GB Kingston card in the 650 and it is recognized by the unit.
You will need to buy a new reader as the old ones are not compatible with the new SDHC cards. If you don't want to spend the bucks till the price comes down, use the nuvi as a reader.

Stan

Bill, I threw a 4G card in my 680 (same as 660) with no issues.

I just purchased my 660 from Amazon.com. How do you know if you received with your unit the Travel Guide or not? When I click on Travel Guide it comes back with saying Sample...
Appreciate the help
John

you should have received it on a separate SD card.

Looking in sundays adds Best Buy had 4gb Sandisk SD cards on sale. Plus I had a reward zone $20 certificate to use so I picked one up for $14.99.

Now I am in the process of learning how to load Custom POI's from the site onto my 660. Mainly the Redlight Cameras and the Icon. Trying both ways of loading to SD card as well as usb cable.

And to comment about the Travel Kit. Yes I recieved an SD card with my 660.

Just receive my Nuvi 660. Want to transfer my music to the spare 4GB I have. Will the GPS recognize it automatically and prompt to play the music from the 4GB SD card?.

I don't want to store the music on the GPS as its memory is very limited. Don't know how much? Does anyone know how much memory a 660 has?

I believe the 660 has 2gb, but about 1.5 is used up by the unit itself. I have 530,000 custom POI's loaded and still have 440mb left. The 660 will play the music in alphabetical order. If you want it different, you will have to create a playlist using a different program (Windows media player for one) and load it on the 660.

I also bought one from Best Buy, If you hook up your Nuvi to the computer highlight the drive and right click on it. I will show your memory, how much is used and whats left. This is done in a pie graph. I have my music on a 2Gig card and it will play off of that. Don't know about the 4 Gig for sure.

I use 4gb cards and they work fine in the 660.

press down on the top left of screen while turning on the unit will start the unit in recalibrate mode and it asks you if you want to start fresh and delete added information..say yes and u can reload a new batch of stuff from the sd cards...enjoy

I wanted to play mp3 in my nuvi 660. My car has antenna in the back, so i was not able to get clear voice through my car speaker. I purchased Cassette Adapter and connected it to headphone jack in 660.

Now I listen mp3, traffic direction through my car's speaker. It is great. No issue of low voice or any thing.

I connected my phone to nuvi and nuvi to speaker. So i receive phone call through car's speaker. I am loving this nuvi.

As soon as I inserted SD card with Fodor Travel Guide, nuvi asked me to install. I installed it and removed the SD card. I have whole Fodor Travel Guide in my nuvi under Extras.

I put another 2GB SD card full of mp3 songs.

Did you have any luck with your request for mapsource for your PC?

I am surprised. I have called Garmin Support almost 2 weeks back and representative told me he will ship CD immediately. After 3 weeks, no CD in mail. so I am going to call them back and see if their system shows any activity for my account.
I will post back my experience.

Thanks.

They way I loaded on the 680. Turn the unit off out of the car, insert the card and boot up. It will recognize a card and ask to install. Install it, and then look under where to/extras and it is there.

Hello everyone,I am new to POI Factory I,ve got a Garmin 660 and I,m having a difficult time getting my mp3,s into my sd card (2gb) I bought a program (WMAConvert)that converts WMA to MP3 files. (enables and to Convert copy right WMA Files,to MP3,s.The files go in perfect in the GPS Harddive,but no way can I get them in the SD Card. I have around 800 MB of unprotected WMA-MP3 files in the SD Card (So I know the card is allright!) Any Ideas? Thank You, Roger

I bought one from amazon but didn't get any SD Card with Fodor travel guide, should I call Garmin or Amazon & ask for one ??
does anyone have spare to loan ??

Hi rkares10,

What I do, is insert the SD card into my Nüvi 670 and then mount the unit. The icon for the Garmin "and" the SD card appear on my desktop. Then I double-click the SD card to open it and drag-n-drop my selected .mp3 files, onto the card. I put each artist in their own folder (no nested folders). I also have a mixed artist folder with my favorites in that folder. Just remember, you can't have any folders, inside a folder (nested folders).

HTH (hope that helps)

Regards.

Tailspin

Nüvi 670
Mac User

So, what do you see when you hit Browse on the GPS player and choose ALL? Do you not see the files? Can you see the files if you look at the SD card when the GPS is plugged into the computer? iTunes seems to do a good job of converting stuff to mp3's that work well with my 660. If you can see your current files with the computer, but the GPS either can't see them or can't play them, I'd try taking one song and converting via iTunes; drag it to the appropriate folder and see if it works. If it does work, dump the WMA-mp3 converter you used previously.

There's two volume settings, make sure each one is cranked all the way up.

The only thing is mp3, it wont play wma files, so convert them to mp3 and all should be ok.

this is what i do...

make sure all the volume controls on the nuvi are at 100%.. then assuming you have casette tape capabilities, get yourself a casette deck adaptor.

The OP wanted help with mp3 files (already converted from wma) that aren't playing. Also, note that he hasn't responded to questions asked 6 weeks ago.