Garmin talk

Hello, just joined and thrilled to have found this site. I have a quick question. Does anyone have experience with Kenwood GPS (Garmin) car head units? The tutorial for loading POI's onto my GPS unit says that I need to connect the GPS device to a computer, but I cannot do that with my unit. It does however have a USB female connection. Is there a tutorial on how to load POI files using a USB?

Hello,

I have a Nuvi 3490 LMT and I am having an issue with my Red_ Light_Camera.bmp icon flickering back and forth with a white square background when it is displayed as an alert on the map.

Any thoughts would be helpful,

Thank you,

Tgrds

I created a POI file, with only 31 POI locations. "It says only 32 symbols are allowed per category. Please reorganize your symbols and rerun POI Loader"

I have a Nuvi 1490 with snowmobile maps loaded on an SD Card.

Does anyone know how to embed a custom vehicle (.SRF) in a map (gmapsupp.img) so when the map (ie selected layer in Settings>Map>Info) loads, it automatically loads the custom vehicle?

I have the vehicle loaded on the card,...

Thanks for any suggestions..

Darren

We have a new tutorial created by shershingpois that describes how to change the built-in POI icons on a Garmin.

He used turboccc's SymbolExtractor and kunix's GarminCure3 to replace some of the less interesting icons with his own graphics.

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Nuvi 660; I have the garmen & gpx folders but no current.gpx file to transfer from this garmin to my new 54LM. Why can't anything read the file? All that is in the gpx folder is GarminExpressImport....no .gpx files anywhere....help

I have a nuvi 1300 which lost maps for no apparent reason.
I connect with a USB cable and it connects as drive F:\.

I only see the following and files(no map file??):
.System\
\Diag
\Logs
\sqlite
GPX\
Curretn.gpx

\Archive\593.gpx

Total size of all these folders is about 5.33 MB.

Properties for F drive show as follows:
Used Space; 1.60 GB

Just curious if you could load US maps onto a Nuvi model only available in Asia. For example the Nuvi 3592 sold in Asia is available with their integrated drive recorder, or dash cam. Garmin tells me no idea when or it it will! Be sold here. IMHO, this is.a great feature whose time is come and garmin is losing out on a lucrative income stream by not moving it to the US MARKET.

Hallo again.

This time i wonder if there is an easy way to look at all of the pois in a file in my garmin?

As it is now i can easily see the 50 nearest poi and to look at the rest of the poi in my file i have to search for them with their names.
Is there any setting that can bee adjusted so i can look att all of my poi in my garmin? not just the 50 closest.

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Just read about this one and it seems to be a new model in the USA but the number seems to have been used in Europe already.
https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/prod150565.html

Looks interesting but would like to hear reviews first, not sure if it is already shipping or not.

Just downloaded the new Garmin map onto my computer now there is no find options, find nearest places and comes back with no items found even when I click right over something. Map is City Nav 2014.3 Version 17.30 Windows XP Garmin 2360LMT any ideas

Regards
Frank T

While I was uploading some custom POIs on my Garmin nuvi 2597LMT, I took a peek into the various file folders on the unit's internal storage. There appear to be a tremendous number of foreign language files, themes and other various files I don not think I would never ever need/use. At a glance the files appear to consume a considerable amount of the unit's internal storage.

About a month ago, my nuvi 765t was stolen, so I bought a nuvi 3490lmt that came with HD traffic from Navteq. I ended up buying a clear channel traffic subscription to supplement traffic reporting because I live in Baton Rouge, LA, which is not covered by Navteq, but is covered by Clear Channel.

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I updated to 2014.30 it downloaded the map files to the SD card the JCV showed 0 bites, I change the JCV to VCVX anyway.

Hi All,

I am new to this and this is my first post, I have come into a problem with my new Garmin 3597LMT

When i opened my Garmin and turned it on the traffic updates wouldn't work, so i went to a friend with this and he formatted the whole thing! I was furious to find that not just have i had troubles with the traffic now i have nothing!

I have 2595LMT and a 255WT. My POI files with alerts work on both, but on the older 255WT, the icons marking the POIs do not show up unless I get the alert. Is there a way to make icons show on the map all the time form POI files?

Thanks in advance!

I'm planning on replacing my Nuvi 765 due to random rebooting and a number of other problems. The one feature that I will miss is the MP3 player.

I'm aware that Garmin no longer offers an MP3 player. Will the current Nuvi models such as the 2497LMT with Bluetooth sync with an iPhone and play music/podcasts through the Nuvi speaker?

Thanks in advance!