Garmin talk

I have never used the route feature on my 1490 and I want to try now. However sometimes I only know I want the route after I have done it so is there a way to create once you get to destination and realize you want to save?

Busy learning the ins and outs of the WalMart special, the nuvi 1100.

The closest family member of the 1100 is the 1200 (just doesn't have the text-to-speech). Also, cannot import routes from the MapSource program.

Other than that, it's ok so far.

I bought the 1300T yesterday out of necessity. My 255W was stolen so I needed something quickly for my job. I "upgraded" to the 1300T because it has Lifetime Maps and Lifetime Traffic (ad supported to my chagrin). This was a snap decision made in-store so I had no idea I needed to look for the speed limit feature. For crying out loud it was on the $120 255W.

We have had 1490s for most of the year. Latest one stolen in Philly by an elbow smashing PS window. Setting up new one. Have had the problem of not knowing when the unit reroutes because she thinks that traffic is ahead. Used it many timnes when she wants you to leave an interstate or other primary road to go down a back road because (I guess) she thinks it is a shorter milage distance).

Is there a way to get out of the safe mode on my Garmin 1450T?

http://garmin.blogs.com/pr/2010/10/garmin-chirp-brings-geoca...

http://www.gpslodge.com/archives/034514.php

how do i download sounds from this websites?

I put some jpg pictures on a micro sd card. One set of pictures is OK: I had "compressed" them a bit so they would load easily onto another device, my cell phone.

But the pictures that were "normal," that is still about 4MB in size, show up as a group, but when I try to look at any ONE of them, the screen stays blank.

This seems to make the picture viewer of limited interest to me.

http://www.buy.com/prod/garmin-n-maps-lifetime-north-america...

I just got my NUvi 765T and i am a little unclear about using MSN Direct. (Yes, I know they will stop their service in Jan, 2012).

In old posts (2007-2009), someone said that the cables (FM receiver) for traffic and MSN were 2 different cables and the receiver for MSN has to be purchased.
It does not come with the 765T.

Is this still true?

I hope there are Garmim people that read this an do somthing about it. The 465T is rally nothing more then a standard Nuvi with a few added features pretaining to Heavy trucks in order to make it more appealing to us, the commercial tranportation market. It fails to measure up however.

I just sent a map from Mapquest to my 885 , it says it went thru but I can't find it. Does anyone know where it does go ?

Is it possible to selectively choose which POI have proximity alerts activated. I can only find an option to have proximity alerts for all custom POI turned on or off. RLCs and DDD locations might be nice but I don't need to know every time I'm about to pass a BoA.

Hello all, I have used findthebestroute.com to generate a route of 23 stops in the city, optimized for speed obviously. I exported the csv, but this is where I am stuck. How can I import the csv file generated and make a route that the gps will then follow.

Thanks for the help and sorry for what I'm sure is a basic question, I did try to search around first, promise!

In many threads, we have speculated how far off the road being traveled will a POI trigger a sound alert. I decided I would try to find out empirically.

My wife and I each have a Garmin nuvi 360 and I was wondering if there was a way to combine our favorites between the two. I want to sync them up so that they're the same. Using two different cars causes each one to have different favorites on them.

Thank you,
John

I have a 255WT with the GTM25 FM Traffic Receiver. Recently, the metal end that plugs into the back of the GPS was damaged. Being that the GTM25 is so expensive, could I snip the end off of a standard vehicle power cable and splice it on the end of the GTM25?

Recently, the "low battery" screen has been popping up on my Nuvi 765t when I am driving. The Nuvi seems fine but there appears to be something wrong with the power cable hooked up to the bean bag mount because it happens every time the Nuvi is moved or jostled. Today, it kept on giving the message "low battery" and even when I pressed "yes" to stay on, it powered off.

My 200W was in need of a map update. Stumbled on this on the Staples Website 265WT for 129.95.

http://www.staples.com/Garmin-nuvi-265WT-Portable-GPS/produc...

I just purchased a Nuvi 265wt last month.

I use it for making about 10 via stops and then taking me home.

I first enter my destination and then enter about 10 vias.
This seems to work fine except my route is far from optimized. It will route me in a route that takes me back & forth. I can tell from looking at a map that it is taking much longer than necessary.