Garmin talk

loaded my favorites into the new 2350LMT. Pressed one of them, a Hess station, and the 2350LMT said unable to calculate route. Combine that with the nice green traffic circle as I headed into bumper to bumper traffic jams 2 days in a row, this unit is a winner winner chicken dinner! C'mon Google, shoot this dead horse called Garmin already.....

This is a great web site and I have loaded many files on both of my
Garmin's, but I can't get the redbox file to load. I have the latest POI
Loader, v 2.6.1.0, and it stops at 0% complete on the reading data files
screen. I have a 1gb micro SD card in my 2450 with over 900mb free, all my
poi files are on the card. I downloaded the file again and get the same

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With trafficTrends, your nuvi 2350LMT automatically learns daytime trends for traffic flow to improve your routes and better predict your estimated time of arrival.

I am currently in Ireland with my Garmin 1300. I have been unable to lock onto satellites even though the unit shows up to 8 satellites and has at one time indicated locking onto 3 of them without "finding" its own location. Is there anything I can try that might help me lock on?
I have not had any problem with the unit in the US.

New version 2.5.1 releasewd June 14, 2011.
Anyone tried it yet?
here is the link:
http://www8.garmin.com/support/agree.jsp?id=931&utm_source=f...

I used my NUVI 350 on a Jet Blue flight today from NY to FL.
I asked the pilot if it was ok and was told no problem. He didn't think it would pick up a signal as it could not be used till electronic items could be turned on.

I'm just curious. Is any one else having problems with the zumo 660? The Produst Support guy seems to think I've just been unlucky so far. Product Support says that there are no know problems with the zumo 660.

I received mine for Christmas and in March had Garmin exchange it for a new one. Yesterday evening I called Product Support again and I have another new exchange coming overnight.

Late last week I downloaded my lifetime maps upgrade and also the software upgrade to 4.9. No problem with download on either. However, a couple of days after I was in my car and wanted to make a phone call. As usual I tapped the phone icon to bring up the phone book with the numbers from my phone (the Bluetooth is working correctly). The phone book did not appear.

My nuvi 660's speaker decided to imitate tissue paper wrapped over a hair comb and is difficult to understand. My wife and kids bought the 3790LMT for Father's Day (although my wife has used it every day in her exhausting commute).

Yesterday Garmin announced that they are buying Navigon and run it as an independent division. Navigon is a private company, son only one set of stockholder approvals is needed. Probably won't take much in terms of regulatory approval.

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/06/14/2950868/garmin-acquires...

Didn't see this posted here.

Interesting quote from the article:

Garmin, Navigon and Dutch manufacturer TomTom, the European leader, have all seen their prospects hurt by the smartphone. Many consumers are forgoing purchases of handheld GPS devices and relying on applications in their phones instead.

I have read the threads on the Phantom Alert service and was wondering if people are happy with the service? If you use a Garmin then how are the updates handled? Do you need to connect to their website regularly or would it be better to have this on a smartphone? If it is a user driven database then who is going to input a movable speedtrap?

Hi Everybody:

Just got back from a trip to Oregon, had set up my Garmin 650 for rest stop alerts at 5280 feet using the manual entry for the POI Loader. Well it only worked when you were in the rest area parking lot! It used to work exactly at the 1 mile mark. I have the sound of the toliet flushing, I changed from the sound "rest stop ahead". Any ideas?

Regards,

Norm

If you have one of these, look in the .system\SQLite for me please. See if you have a file named local_poi.db, then check what the modification date on it is. Mine says 12/31/2018. Looks to me like its a data base file, so deleting it might not be the right thing to do.

I have a 885t that I bought used from Amazon late last year. I really like the voice control. I got my free 3 month trial of MSN which really lasted closer to 6 months but I let it run out. I was wondering if they dropped the price again so I went to the MSN Direct website and discovered they made it free through the end of the service.

I think I read about somone having this same issue a while back, but I can't find it now. About 4 months ago I turned off all traffic alerts and notifications on my 765. I have the MSN receiver and still use the weather and othr features, at least till the end of the year. I wanted to re-enable the traffic alerts and now can not figure out how to do that.

I have a 7200 which I use in the Truck vehicle routing. Since the last update my routes are nuts. I always check them with a truckers atlas. More than several of the road it has directly me to turn onto are small residential roads. After several years of use this is the first time I can say consistently the proposed routing is off. Has anyone else noticed this.?

Hot outside, 90+ degrees and the MSN weather radar has been showing snow for precip (blue) instead of rain. Been doing that since Winter, never changed to rain (shades of green and red). Is it like this in every city? Everything else via the MSN receiver works (stocks, forecast, gas prices, etc).

A list of hotels came up, and the GPS completely locked up. Had to pull the plug and reboot it. So this is what Garmin has been up to in R&D over the last 3 years since I got the 660? LOL

I remember when the 660 was brand-new, it locked up for seemingly no reason either. It's probably just where I live I guess.

When downloading poi's from POI Factory to load on my Nuvi 1490T, which type of file should I use? Which one is better? Or does it really matter?