Garmin talk

I am thinking of purchasing a lifetime subscription to either Premium Traffic Subscription by Navteq – North America or Premium Traffic Subscription by Clear Channel – North America
Witch should I by.Is one better than the other or are they the same

Thanks

Ron

Just connected my nuvi 760 to Garmin an I receive an unidentified firmware update. I downloaded 4.90 a week after it came out and Garmin verified it as it was listed along with 2010.30 maps. It just showed that I had an update, it was not voices or anything like that. Anyone else get that or know what it was?

Do you have a Nuvi 1490t and do you have problems typing on the keyboard. I have problems with several keys but the letter "A" seems the worst. I have tried touching the "A" key with every part of my index finger and most of the time it won't take.
Any ideas?

A buddy of mine has been looking for a gps.
He was talking about a few others..but I convinced him to go with a garmin.

Got a call from him while he was at Fry's..they wanted 349 for the 765t. (He said he had to call his gadget consultant.. )
I told em NO!! Tiger direct has it for 209. Price match it!
They said they would...but no 'manager' to 'approve it'.

I've read a lot about the touchscreen issues with the 765 since I was considering this model for a few weeks, and I purchased one yesterday evening. I've already noticed the issue when keying an address. I went to press the top right and it pressed something two keys down.

Just a new question from a Newbie. Does the 205W support POI with ICONS and MP3's? If there is a site with information ... please send me to it.

Thanks !!!

LouieLouie

I'd loaded this site's red light camera file into my nuvi 350 and gave it a test. I approached an intersection I knew had a camera, and it gave me the alert.

But on a return trip, the GPS was silent. Why would it give me an alert westbound though the intersection, but not eastbound through the same one?

I know this is a dumb question but what to the poi's with sounds do? I been looking but haven't came acrossed it yet, any links to this subject would be appreciated to save you typing time. Thanks

whats better garmin 1390 or 755,I try and contact garmin, you have to wait all day

I went out for a walk with my Nuvi 350--not because I needed it, but because, well, it's a fun gadget.

I set it to Pedestrian mode and entered a destination.

Anyone know why Garmin isn't making new GPS Vehicles?

hello,

does 275 model play alert sounds (MP3, WAV) for POI ?

cannot find such information anywhere and would like to know if my GPS will play a sound alery for certains POIs ?

when loading POI files I always include BMP bitmap file and alert sound file (MP3 or WAV), all files named same (except extension of course). still haven't heard that yet.

thanks for info.

O.K. I give up.

How do you covert these excel poi downloads to garmin gpi files?

Please.

Has anyone tried using a Nuvi (preferably a 760) in a cockpit? Thanks.

I've just purchased the 265WT; I've updated the firmware, but haven't registered it yet, because I wanted to try it out first.

I plugged the cord into the car's lighter receptacle, installed the unit into the friction pad mount, and set out on a trip to a nearby city, a distance of about 60 miles.

I own a nuvi 680 and a nuvi 265t. I have purchased two numap lifetime cards, one for each unit. Do I have to download a map for each unit when there is an upgradeed map available? Is there any way to download one map and load it on to both units? I also sent this question to Garmin, but thought I would pose the same question here to see how some of you handle it.

This past weekend I was TRYING to download the latest maps on my Nuvi 255W. But my computer kept saying "finding device"? For some reason it was not recognizing my unit.any suggestions?

http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4665

Changes made from version 2.30 to 3.00:

* Decreased the frequency that advertisements are displayed.
* Changed to hide old advertisements that could still be showing when the user left the map page.
* Enhanced the functionality of the ecoRoute application.

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this or not. What program do you suggest use to creat custom icons that are not in the library? I've done it before for my handheld but I'm just starting with my first Nuvi.

I can tell with all the custom POI's this is going to be an addiction.....

Mike

Hi All,

I thought I'd throw this out and see if anyone had this problem.

I have a microSD card in with a ton of POIs ( I think I had it up to 118,000 installed on the card with multiple POI files. ). I do not install them onto the Garmin as a preference. Recently I did the web update for the unit so it updated the system software.