Garmin talk

part of the reason I bought the 765T, was the ability to create custom POI's, especially utilizing the radius alert feature of the TourGuide alert.

anyone here have a new 765T?

or perhaps experienced your nuvi rebooting itself while in operation in the cradle while driving?

mine has done it three times, in the little over three weeks that I have owned it, though not within the last week.

and I am not referring to it rebooting following an update of any kind while attached to my PC with the USB cable...this happened while driving.

Newer versions of Garmin POI Loader (v 2.4.0 or higher) have an option to uninstall all custom POI's from your GPS.

After selecting your GPS device, look for this option on the page that follows:

Remove all previously installed custom POI's from your device

Using this feature does not remove the built-in POIs that were pre-installed on your GPS.

The latest Christmas theme vehicle in the Garmin Garage is a Wish List.

http://www8.garmin.com/vehicles/product.html?vName=wishlist

It's a shopping cart. I know it's been a tough economy, but good grief!

Hello everyone.

I've looked everywhere, but don't see anything about storing additional vehicle files on an SD card. Do vehicle files have to be stored in internal storage?

Thank you in advance!

Now that I have a Garmin that can hold the new maps I actually care about them. How do I get the new maps for free through Garmin

This was my first 'time zone' trip and I was a little surprised at my Nuvi 200. I went from Georgia to TN and expected the Nuvi to change the time back an hour, but it did not. Is this normal? Cell phones change, so why didn't the gps?

I have been using my Garmin Nuvi 260 for about a year now. I have never had a bad thing to say up until lately

Is a speed camera always on and only snaps a photo of the approaching car's front or back license plate when the driver exceeds 5% of the speed limit? How are away does the camera take a photo?

The same with the redlight camera (always on)?

Well It had to happen sometime. We finally broke down and bought a nuvi 5000 on a Black Friday sale. It ws originally 625.00 and it was 400.00 I beleive. My question is Is the FM traffic receiver worth its due

I bought Nuvi 760 from Costco Canada today but when I tried to enable Traffic updates, I got the message to enter FM Traffic reciver id on www.garmin.com/fmtraffic to get code to enable it.

But when I go to Garmin web site, it is asking me to purchase lifetime subscription.

How do I activate free 3 months subscription?
I will appreciate your advice.

I have only had my Garmin nuvi for a few days, but it seems that when it is on vehicle power, it never powers down. I had a Magellan that could sense inactivity (that it was not moving) and would power down after 20 minutes. Is there a way to configure the Garmin in a similar manner?

Radio Shack had a great price on the 250W on Black Friday and I picked one up. Have had SP III and 2610 in the past. First impression, nice graphics, nice to have 2009 map and POI download capability. Functionality is nowhere near as good as 2610 but it only cost me 1/4 of what I paid for the 2610. Only had it one day, we'll see how it goes.

Will I get Audible alerts from Custom POI's even though my GPS does not have a MP3 player?

I purchased a nuvi 265 wt Friday and want to clean out the files I don't need.Done backup in case of any problems.Deleted the voices and vehicles that were not needed.I see one folder for text.I see everything in there except English.Any reason this file can not be deleted?

How do you load custom POIs into Mapsource?

Without the GPS attached, tried two things but was unsuccessful. (1) Used POI Loader to generate a file (apparently with gdi extension) for Mapsource but the POIs don't seem to be loaded. (2) Again used POI Loader but selected a gdi file as the output. However, Mapsource couldn't load this gdi file. It seems to want a gdb file.

Tim

I wonder where I am going wrong here. I use the Garmin Nuvi660.
I have two files i.e. TourGuide Church.gpx & TourGuide Church.jpg in a folder named Places.
I have loaded them via POILoader.

In simulation, when I arrive at the waypoint destination to which I have attached the
.jpg file nothing happens apart from saying that I have arrived. No photo???

Thanks

Bern

I've loaded a number of custom POI's and have noticed there seems to be a limit of 52 poi's. This occured with the loading of Diners, Driveins, and Dives. Also with McDonalds restaurants. After opening up the.csv files there were many more than the 52 locations. I loaded them with POI Loader. They were loaded to the device and not a SD card.
thanks
eddie

I really like how Garmin GPS devices work. I know that they have had GPS PDAs in the past, but they did not have wifi. I know that Asus and Pharos make GPS PDAs with wifi. I am just wondering if we will ever see a Garmin device of any sort with built in wifi. If I wanted one now, I think that the closest I could come is to buy a used Garmin PDA and add wifi.

hello all i am new here.i got a nuvi 350 2 weeks ago and have to go to chapel hill nc because of wife sickness from boone nc. have you all got any tips and also can you load google maps on nuvi 350.thank you.