Newbie Question Garmin 200w
Sun, 01/20/2008 - 8:44pm
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16 years
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Hello to everyone. Just purchased my 200w and it looks like a real winner. I should be able to get alot of good stuff from this site as well. May be jumping the gun here, but haven't found any sort of file or folder in the unit for voices. Really haven't had the time to play with it while in the car, but a search at home found nothing. What am I missing?
200 does not have tts
It only has basic voice prompts, not text to speech - and the non-tts voice selection is limited.
*Keith* MacBook Pro *wifi iPad(2012) w/BadElf GPS & iPhone6 + Navigon*
Guess thats where my problem
Guess thats where my problem is. I can't even find anything on it for ANY type of voice. It does have a voice for the prompts, but thats it.
the manual, such that it is can be had at:
http://www8.garmin.com/manuals/nuvi250W-NA_QuickStartManual....
*Keith* MacBook Pro *wifi iPad(2012) w/BadElf GPS & iPhone6 + Navigon*
Just curious
Has anyone tried hacking the 200 to add a TTS Jill voice?
As far as I know there are
As far as I know there are no hacks for the Nüvi series. The OS is proprietary to Garmin, so none of the usual ideas will get you anything. I think they save themselves a lot of grief for warranty and support issues that way. Harder for the average user to screw things up.
Rick - Nüvi 260 - eTrex Summit HC
There ARE hacks...
As far as I know there are no hacks for the Nüvi series. The OS is proprietary to Garmin, so none of the usual ideas will get you anything. I think they save themselves a lot of grief for warranty and support issues that way. Harder for the average user to screw things up.
Actually, there are some hacks. If you are on the map screen click the lower left-hand gauge (if you are not navigating this is the speedometer) this will take you to the trip odometers and such. from this screen push and hold the speedometer for a while and you are taken to a "secret" screen. As far as I can tell, there is really nothing special here. For another hack, on the main screen where it says "where to" and "map" you will see the battery gauge (if it is not plugged in), push and hold this for some time and you are taken to a number of different test pages, one of the pages even has a frequency tester where you play any frequency you want at just about any volume. I have one more but I am not sure it qualifies as a hack. From the main screen again push and hold the signal bar for a few seconds. this will take you to the satellites page which will tell which satellites you are getting signals from and exactly how strong they are. Hope you find these helpful!