Garmin talk

I'm not sure as to when this change may have occurred but I happened to notice Garmin content that my nuvi 2689 LMT has to have a microSD card that is 16 GB minimum. Specifically Garmin's site reads "A microSD card with at least 16 GB of space must be used when updating the maps on a device."

Hell everyone,

I have noticed that Garmin Smart Link IOS app crashes when loading Live traffic map. It works fine with List View. This app was last updated 4 years ago by Garmin. I am not sure if they will still be interested to fix it?

Recently created a driving holiday plan using Garmin PC Basecamp and Route Planner. All went well but the time planned at each waypoint in Basecamp was not transferred to my Garmin Drivesmart 66.

Routes planned using Trip Planner on my older 2555LMT always worked fine. Figured on a newer device my experience would have been better.

POILoader completed the install of .csv and .bmp for the chicken restaurant POI file I downloaded. I am certain. I can see the .bmp of the restaurant on my gps map. I also had a .wav file in the My POIs folder which matched the name of the .csv file. I have no reason to believe it was not downloaded. Sox.exe was in the same folder as POILoader.exe.

Recently (few months?) my DS 65 is throwing all kinds of new speed and school zone alarms. One area a couple of blocks away will bring in a school zone alarm (miles from a school). Also getting frequent reduced speed zones.. down to 30 km in a normal 60 zone.. 60 in a 80 zone. New speed stays for a bit and then reverts to what it should be.

Hello everyone,

On the Garmin Drive 51 within map view, is there a way to hide or not to show all your saved wavepoint pins. I look under settings - map layers and I there is no map layer that is for saved wavepoints which I can disabled.

Thanks

I just connected my Zumo XT and got a notification of a map update. Hooray I hear everyone cry. When I look I see "Update: IOverlander Worldwide POIs 2025.40" and "Install : City Navigator US & Canada 2025.10"

I check in Basecamp and it shows I have "City Navigator North America NT 2025.1

The Garmin Drive app works reasonably well with/on my DS65 But.. could use a new feature that I'm sure is: a) possible and b) desirable. Where would one suggest it?

Seems keeping track of where trains are by showing a train icon would help driver avoid, if possible, having to wait for a train. Something the Google map/traffic page could consider as well.

Just got an update for Garmin Express for Mac version 7.23.0.0.
Installed with no problems. Looks like 7.23.0.0 for Windows too.

Mac Release Notes Link:
https://forums.garmin.com/apps-software/mac-windows-software...

Windows Release Notes Link:

My Garmin 52 keeps telling me "A Slippery Road has been reported". The location is on the Cross County Parkway West in Yonkers between the exit for the Hutch (HRP) and the exit for the Bronx River Parkway. It is not raining, the weather is clear. I do not see any extra traffic or construction that would trigger the warning. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? Thanks for any input.

Hi everyone. I bought a DriveSmart 65 at the start of the year. I successfully downloaded 3 POI files to it last week. I am driving around with the expectation of a ping when I drive by a certain chicken establishment. Not pinging. Volume is up. What am I doing wrong?

Time for a new Map Waiting thread Yet??

Hello

I just chatted with Garmin because my photolive icon greyed out and the app is now missing from the apps area. They told me they're discontinuing the app. I've only had the drivesmart 55 a month. I thought photolive was such a cool feature. Pretty sad Garmin are disconting such a great feature.

Edit 04/17/2025

We have two DriveSmart 65's. Both have issues with the speed camera file. I get the icon stuck up in the right hand top corner. We traveled out of state last week and i ended up with three of them under the icon. They will not go away until i shutdown the garmins and restart. This is from day one. I don't load the speed camera file anymore. Anyone else have those issues?

Hi,

MyGarmin Drivesmart 55 got reset by mistake.(kid played with it, .

Is there anyway to retrieve the lost saved places, saved trips etc?

About a month ago, received an email from Garmin that account would be deleted if not used.
At that time I checked our password file, and did not see an entry for Garmin website.
Today I get another indicating account will be deleted in 3 days if I don’t login.
So I tried, guessing. No Go!
So I asked to be emailed new password link and used email sent to me.

In June '23 I reported the above problem and I believe that I was not the first. Today I received an email indicating that there is a new version and all is well. I think I noticed this perhaps >1 month ago. Noticing means recognizing the absence of Drive near the top of the list in Battery Usage in Android Settings.

I recently purchased a DriveSmart 76 EX. I updated it with the latest maps and the firmware (v6.80) was already the latest. But there is a bug in the firmware. When I am on an active route, the green bar at the top of the screen does not show the name or exit associated with the next action. It just says "Driving West" (or whatever direction you are driving).

After my last update on my Nuvi 3597, I lost my home page. I went to input an address and the whole page is missing. It seems that all of my saved POIs are missing too. Does anyone know how to get it back.

I have a new Garmin and I am trying to get POI's from here, but they will not load to the Garmin, what am I missing?