Garmin talk

im not really big into the stocks or movies times (thats cool, but ur supposed to know what you want to watch before you get in the car)

but im asking the most important-- which provides better traffic between the two??

ill be asking a lot of 'stupid' questions within the next few days because i believe im getting near my choice.. i appreciate your help fellas.

i just thought about this..

what if the garmin unit actually PROMPTS an "authenticating password" every lets say.. 6 or so months? it asks you certain security questions that only the owner would know. or maybe some code gets emailed to the owner and that needs to be typed in the garmin so that it can be 'activated'.

i know the dealio now are the nuvi 800 models with their voice recognition blah blah. anyone know some type of timeline as to when prices get low?
im really looking into the 700 models. the 800 stuff seem kinda lonely to actually TALK to the thing (just me).. but its not like i drive a super car either (i drive a freakn corolla)...

One thing that I find annoying with my nuvi 350 is that instead of reading out the actual street names, it reads out the county route numbers.
Granted, these streets are county routes, it's confusing because most street signs don't mention this number.
Is there any way to change the settings so that it uses the street names instead?

I have a NUVI 760.
I just did my very first POI download/install. It was the Red Light/Speed camera ones. That leads to these questions which I hope you more experienced guys can answer:
1. There must be a limit as to how many POI's you can add. The Red Light/Speed camera ones totaled approximately 3,300 POI's. Am I approaching the limit?

Just got this email from Staples.

Presidents Day sale at Staples. Sunday, 2/15

Garmin® Nuvi™ 255W Portable GPS
$199.99 Reg. price $279.99
Item no. 751450

Online sale at staples.com

CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHAT THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING AN ACTIVE USER AND A GENERAL MAINTAINER? I AM CONFUSED
THANKS IN ADVANCE

Garmin Colorado 300 Bilingual Handheld GPS Navigator

Feb Fir the 13th

$249.99 50% off

I finally figured out how to do this. I'm not going to give detailed instructions but only enough information such that an advanced user should be able to figure out how to do this on their own.

Go to this site:
http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4105

View the page source.

Download the old region file (firmware) by changing "480" to "460" in the download link.

Basically, the unit is unable to "Find Traffic on Route".

Hi,

On your Nuvi 205w widescreen version, does the speed limit display on the same row level as the "speed - Menu - Arrival" icons or does the speed limit display higher than that row on the left hand side?

Note this question for the widescreen version only.

Thank you in advance

Hello,

I apologize if this has already been covered in another post, but I didn't see the answer anywhere.

I uploaded a number of pictures and MP3s to the SD card for my Nuvi 760. When I use the image viewer, the album covers appear along with the rest of my pictures.

Is there a way for the album art to appear on the MP3 player screen, but not appear on the picture viewer?

I paired my Nokia N95 yesterday and made few phone calls using my Nuvi 765T Bluetooth capabilities. I found out that phone volume is very low when you use blutooth. I use FM transmitter to play audio on my car speakers. But I was disappointed that phone volume was too low. I could not find anyplace to increase it. In mixer you have only two options, 1. Navigation audio 2. Media.

Have you ever got caught in a jam without your GPS?
Was on my way to work yesterday, left GPS home, major traffic jam do to accident, could of found different rout if only I had my GPS. Bad day!

I created a route on Mapquest and sent it to my Nuvi 750, then created a route from the .gpx file in My Data. The Nuvi recalculated that route.

Reading the forums, I found that no matter what route you choose by dragging on the Mapquest screen, the Nuvi recalculates it. The suggested alternative was to send waypoints, which I did.

I have a Garmin 265 and I downloaded the Google Earth #5. I can download my waypoints and routes to the computer. The waypoints show up on Google Earth as blue flags and they are all listed in the directory. However, the ROUTES do not show up. I've heard that the routes are seen as a different color on the highways traveled. How do I get the routes to show up? Thanks

Is it just me ... or has Garmin blog lost its focus?

Long ago I subscribed to the Garmin blog from the Garmin website to be emailed each new Garmin blog ... to keep up with Garmin GPS news ... You know, new products, services, vehicles, etc.

But lately, it seems like every Garmin Blog post is about Team Garmin racing bicycles.

Hi

When i set speed alert ( with its proximity distance ) in a gpx or csv file, will it alert me if i am not exceeding the allowed speed ?. if yes , then it will be annoying and useless alert.

thanks

GPS was fine this AM, on to work, powered off when I turned my car off at work. This afternoon -- NADA. Replugged cord in (green light glows so it's getting power), tried plugging in to computer w/USB cord -- NADA. Switched off/on about a dozen times --- NADA. Tried on battery only -- NADA.

If anyone is looking for the Garmin beanbag, try your local Circuit City. I was just there and they had them at 50% off (so, $20). Great deal if you are looking for one.