Garmin talk

While testing various types of proximity alerts on my nuvi 755T today, I inadvertently brushed my finger across the map, putting it in fixed mode--the map would not scroll with my vehicle, but stayed put.

When a proximity alert that I was testing fired off, it filled the screen with a white notification window containing the "More" text that I had put in there.

Mandatory Software Update

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Today, Garmin released a free, mandatory GPS software update to correct a software issue that has been discovered to cause the nuvi 7x5 devices to repeatedly attempt to update GPS firmware, and then either shut down or no longer acquire GPS satellite signals.

http://garmin.blogs.com/my_weblog/2009/06/ask-garmin-free-ma...

I was expecting this as all of the series affected seem to be coded from the same base code...

I bought an 855 to use for hiking because I hate the small screens on the
Garmin Trail models.
Are any of you using a Nuvi 855 as a trail or hiking GPS?
If so, how do you handle the short battery time? Multiple batteries?
I know it's not weather proof but as I said, I wanted the big screen.
Have you found any other limitations?

I recently updated my 785t with the latest Garmin webupdater. the next time i connected with MSN and driving, the alert kept cycling, "updating firmware... press ok".. and then would lose signal. I kept having to re-boot. Last night, it would not power back on.

Garmin has issued an immediate recall of the affected units, they sent out UPS ticket and they are replacing.

Karen and Lee have been updated to 1.5 to 1.6 for Lee; corrected an instability when navigating certain types of routes. and Karen 1.8 to 1.9

If I have an existing POI file on my Garmin, can I update that file in the Garmin without removing the older one. Will a newer updated file, same POI name replace the older.

Hello,
I am considering buying an SD Card for my Nuvi 255w and was wondering about the capacity. My local reatiler has an SDHC (High-Capacity) card, "8GB SDHC Class 6 High-Speed Memory Card" for a good price.

Has anyone tried a card of this type and/or size?

Thanks,

...Muzz

I live in the USA and was going to take my Nuvi 760 with me to Switzerland and then to Italy. Does anyone know if the electrical connection from the USA will work in the European cars or do I need some kind of an adapter? Also, do the European Maps contain accurate and understandable directions both for points of interest and for driving? Thanks in advance.

With a nuvi 680 when uein g a VIA point , is there something you have to do after getting to your via point to get the nuvi to guide you on to your original destination, every time i have used a via point and leave the via point it wants to guide me back to the via point instead on to the main destination

(Forgive me for I have sinned. I cross posted this because it was buried at the bottom of a thread with a different subject and thus elicited no responses.)

Father's Day arrived along with a nice surprise: a Samsung NC-10 Netbook. Very slick, great screen, excellent keyboard, etc., bringing me one step closer to getting a Garmin Mobile PC with GPS 10, as you suggested.

See:

http://www.gpsmagazine.com/2009/06/confirmed_garmins_updated...

I got to experience OnStar Turn-by-Turn navigation yesterday. My new truck came with a complementary turn-by-turn navigation session and I finally got an opportunity to use it before it expired. The yearly cost is about $100/year more than the basic Safe & Sound package.

I've recently been annoyed by something my Nuvi 760 does. I'm constantly gettting 1mph and 2mph alerts while out driving the surface streets here in the LA area.

It SEEMS to often coincide with stop lights, but I gotta spend more time watching this close to see for sure....

so whjats that about?

I'm playing catch up on gpx files. When I try opening, the message "Window needs to know what program created it". Have now idea where to go from there. Have only used csv files in the past.

I purchased nuMaps Lifetime Update from Amazon (saved $20). I activated it on Garmin's web site and downloaded the update. That took about 1 hour. During the extraction phase, I got a message that the file was corrupted. Re-downloaded it (another hour) and used WinRar (Garmin's suggestion) to extract it. Again a message that the file is corrupted.

Hello!

Looking for a basic GPS and thinking of going with the 265WT, but wondering if the traffic updates are worth the increase in price. I've read where they are often times 30-60 minutes behind real time.

Are the 255W or 260W equally as good, just without the traffic?

Thanks.

I've got my new 265wt updated and ready to go. I have been reading the posts here and trying to figure out how to do the POI's. I would like to download School Zones for NC and SC if there is such a thing. I would like some kind of alarm or notice when I get near the zone.

OK - everybody else knows how to go off-road with a nuvi 780 but not me! I was riding on a railroad speeder excursion in West Virginia (see www.narcoa.org to learn what a RR speeder is and what a cool hobby it is!!!). We were running down the tracks but Garmin insisted on snapping back to the nearest road at every available opportunity. I finally found 'pedestrian' mode but that didn't do it.

Looking to upload all the Lowe's warehouse stores. Could not find them. New to this site.