Garmin talk

A lot of members are always saying they would like to have certain features on their GPS. Submit them here. Who knows we may get it. http://www8.garmin.com/contactUs/ideas/

Just saw on Garmins Facebook page that they are telling people to send emails to social.support@garmin.com.

The email address they told me is product.support@garmin.com

Anyone have experience with the first email address?

Nuvi 24x5 and 25x5 (GCD File) Software Version 7.00 Released today. Here is the changelog:

Changes made from version 6.60 to 7.00:
Fixed several route-calculation errors.
Fixed several navigation-related errors.
Fixed several search-related issues.
Fixed several map display errors.
Fixed several ASR errors.
Fixed several SmartPhone Link errors.

Change History
Changes made from version 6.60 to 7.00:

Fixed several route-calculation errors.
Fixed several navigation-related errors.
Fixed several search-related errors.
Fixed several map display errors.
Fixed several ASR errors.
Fixed several SmartPhone Link errors.
Fixed several locale-specific keyboard and display-related errors.

Hello out there..

Question about FM Transmitter 465t... Are their any settings we can change to make it more effective ?

I did read some posts "FM Transmitter Strength FIX" checked it out on my 465T... I could not see how it applied..

Any guidance is greatly appreciated.. Have a wonderful Day/Week..

I just recently purchased the lifetime update for my Garmin Nuvi 680. (I broke it)... Trying to get it fixed. But was thinking I'd just update my sons Garmin. It won't let me. It tells me that this isn't the unit the map upgrade was purchased for. Can you transfer it to another unit?

Thanks!
Cathy

On a trip to Northern Spain 10 days ago, the route downloaded from Mapsource to the 660 amongst other weird directions it said take exit from autoroute, u turn at bottom of slip road (off ramp) go back up the off ramp obviously against the flow of traffic!!!!!!! and rejoin the autoroute where it just told me to exit. how crazy is that!!

That's odd. Yesterday I submitted a FAQ on how to report map errors. Today, a FAQ showed up on the Recent Posts by someone else from 5 years ago.

Wonder what happened?

Just bought a garmin 1490. have had a lorance gps, navigon gps, and magellan gps.
of all 4 brands only the magellan gps when asked "Where is the closes police to my home location" came back with correct location.

all other brands come back with the same answer wich is 17 miles and further.
none of the local police depts. come up.
does anyone have an answer to this and who can correct it.

I'm a confused newbie here after owning 5 previous Garmin products. I'm now the unhappy owner of a nuvi 50. I just used POILoader for the first time and downloaded 1 file. After completing the download I've lost all of the factory installed POIs! I must have done something wrong.

In the map mode, Garmin shows the name of the street you're driving on by not in the destination mode like TomTom does. Why doesn't Garmin do that as well and has Garmin addressed this in the past and decided it was too expensive to revise their maps?

I purchased the POI Factory's Speed Alert Camera csv file last week and while driving this morning in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, I noticed quite a few 7 km/h speed alerts on my Nuvi 1490LMT screen. Yes, 7 km/h! I opened the csv file and I was unable to locate which lines say 7 km/h.

The speedometer on my 1350 has been getting stuck. It will display the speed for a while and it becomes stuck at one speed for a while.

When I push on the "speed xxmph" it briefly displays the current speed and switches to full screen dashboard view.

In dashboard view, speedometer works.

Go back to the main map view and speedometer is stuck until I power cycle.

Hello,

I know that GPX files use XML schemas to generate. I have been trying to generate GPX files from google maps directions for more than two destinations/waypoints. I want to develop a gpx file that uses the extensions just like the POI files in this POI factory website.

Can someone please give me an explanation? or point me in the right direction to get started?

Thank you.

Just got a nuvi 50LM and was able to download the lifetime map tool (I think), and was definitely able to add all the POIs (including the camera files) from my old nuvi 205 to the 50LM.

I downloaded the POI for walmart and Sams Club on my Garmin 2350LMT. When I got about .4 tenths of a mile or .2 tenths of a mile an alert comes up on the screen showing speed alert. Is this the alert for Walmart. I noticed this at different Walmarts in different towns.

Any way to create a log file suitable for tracking mileage so I can use it for business use on my Federal Tax return?

Thanks

I read a bunch of FAQs and visited "Tricks, Tips, Work Arounds, Hints, Secrets and Ideas" and can generate csv and bmp files that work, but I cannot seem to get a sound file to work.

My POI Loader rejects wav files and mp3 don't play.
I suspect this model does not support mp3. True?

I've tried SOX etc and all the sound I get is the Proximity Alart beep.

I am new to Garmin GPS. This morning I was driving to a programmed Destination when the male voice instructed me to make a left hand turn and then immediately a right hand turn. If I had done that, I would have driven into the grassy area of a local school. The right turn I should really be taking was 75 m away! This had happened to me with TomToms also.

In the Destination mode, there's a magenta stripe and an orange stripe to the left of it. The magenta stripe hides almost the entire POI icons such that it's quite difficult to make out what they are, however the POI icons appear above the orange stripe which is fantastic. Why didn't Garmin place the POI icons just to the right of the magenta bar? Is there a POI Factory fix to this? Thanks.