Garmin talk

Hi All. GPS newbie here who bought a 1490T NIB yesterday. I did a lot of online research (including here) before buying. This is a great website!

On the last page of the Quickstart manual in the box, it says "To receive one free map update (if available), register your nuvi at [website] within 60 days OF ACQUIRING SATELLITES AND DRIVING WITH YOUR NUVI . . ."

Garmin: 'we'll have to make decisions within the next couple of quarters' on future of phone business

http://tinyurl.com/2a8b735

Stupid as this might sound. My apostrophe is grayed-out when i go into the bluetooth menu under Friendly name and try to edit the name. All others are available. Any one else have this also with their 7x5?

1 - Given the fact that while driving we should be texting (or dialing) less and using hands-free devices more, I am quite disappointed that the new Garmin Nuvi 3760 (and probably the 3790) doesn’t support the Bluetooth profile PBA (Phone Book Access) when paired with cell phones with that capability. We need to be pressing less buttons to make a call – not more.

I just completed a visit to Canada and Alaska. Both my Garmin and our traveling companion's Garmin showed the vehicle off of the road quite a bit while in the Northern areas of Canada and in Alaska. I have the latest updates to my system. Is this because of poor calculations way up North or are the data not as good as in the lower 48?

i want to know red light camera is what kind format ?

When I enter my code, the numbers are displayed. They do not change to asterisks until a few seconds after entering them. My 760 will not show the numbers at all. Each number entered is instantly replaced with an asterisk. I have deactivated and reactivated the security feature several times on the 1490 hoping that that would clear up the problem. it has not. Has anyone else seen this?

Using Mapsource I made a long trip and made waypoints to lock it down so that my garmin wouldnt recalculate a different route other than the way I wanted to go. I sent the file to my Garmin 765t, but never imported the route from the file because we decided to fly instead. Now, I want to delete this file, but dont see it on the Garmin, or on the file structure when connected to the computer.

As we have been predicting for some time, it appears that Garmin is in the process of moving the remaining models of the nuvi 7x5 series to the discontinued list. I noticed on their website that the 7x5's are now at the bottom of the automotive list ... under the 2x5's. If you click on any of them, they show as "Discontinued product".

There is another thread about the Garmin Nuvi battery recall at http://www.poi-factory.com/node/30316
- but it was getting hard to see how long it is taking Garmin to fix the units and get them back to their owners.

I have a Garmin 1350 for about a year, I just updated the map & have developed a new problem, It now sounds an alarm that I'm speeding.....Very annoying.....My question, has anyone else discovered this problem & how do I disable it.

Please..........Richard

OK. I downloaded a collection of POIs. I converted them to a .gpx file. I loaded them into Mapsource. They show up in the "Waypoints" tab on the left of the screen. But they won't display on the map! If I select a waypoint, and "show on map" the waypoint shows up on a blank map. Waypoints that I make myself in Mapsource show up OK. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

My 760 has for ages mispronounced "Left". American English Jill TTS says "Then turn laft" replacing the 'e' sounds with an 'a'

I have deleted the actual text file and redownloaded it from the garmin webupdater many times. Does anyone else hear it as 'laft'

I tried importing a TTS file from my 265 which is perfect, but it is not a compatible format.

I have a nuvi 855 and with the volume at a 100% it still seems to be too low...Is anyone experiencing the same? Is there any way to fix this?

I just recently started getting a "speed alert: 9 mph ahead" alert in one certain area of town. The alert shows up in a red box at the top of the display and "pings" every 10 second or so... very anoying when I'm listening to the radio and it keeps cutting out to play the notification sound.

In another post a couple of days ago I was asking about putting 2 separate maps on my unit. I got that answer. So after i loaded the second map on my unit i've noticed it's taking an awful long time to load the maps and to get to the Warning screen on start up. I am not loading the topo map just the 2011.20 2d and 3d. What happened? Space left on nuvi is 1.66 GB which is almost half.

If you use Garmin MapSource software, like I do, to manage your Saved Favorites, be careful when you transfer Saved Favorites from MapSource to Garminfone. I had saved files from my Garmin StreetPilot 2730, Nuvi 500, etc. and when I transferred them to my Garminfone, the Garminfone saved the file, but was unable to open the file and use the Saved Favorites.

Well it looks like what ever I do I can't seem to get rid of some of my Custom POIs. How do you just wipe it clean and just start over?

Has Garmin decided that the Street Pilot c550 is too old to keep the lifetime subscription of TTM alive? I purchased a subscription back in 2008 and now I can't get it on my machine.

I need to remove the disc mount from the dashboard. Any suggestions as to how/whether this can be done. Also what adhesive can be used to install it on another car.

With appreciation

John