Garmin talk

why does my nuvi give 2 diff mileages ? when i go to my fav it gives a mileage and when i go to the turn by turn the mileage is diff ? from my home to branson in turn by turn its 689mi but in my fav it says 403mi any help?

just recived my garmin 650 but the speker doesn't work, it worked for a secend and then just stoped. i tried to connect headphones and i could hear anything. does somebody know what could be the problem.
thank you

I have on my nuvi 660 the free north american map i got from the mail. tonight i was looking for the westin hotel in national harbor, md. looking at my maps, the city nor the streets exist!
I just got this map update maybe 5 months ago (2008 version perhaps?).. sucks!

Here are two questions for which I seek answers:

I recently purchased a Nuvi 850 from TVNav. I posed a question about its track log specifications in Darell's Yahoo group and thought it might be of interest to the group here.

Newbie here.

It appears that if I'm en route to a destination and for instance I stop for food and shut down my 260 it "sometimes" remembers the route when I power back on. Is there a certain shutdown sequence one must go through to ensure it does?

I've tried this several ways:

- Turn off ignintion and let Garmin shut down on it's own
- Touch "Turn Off" when prompted

Downloading of POI and Icons the same as my Nuvi 350? Thank you

How do I download Icons? I download POIs OK but not Icons.

Thank you

I HAVE A C580 AND AM PRETTY MUCH BRAINDEAD WITH TECHNOLOGY-BUT I DOWNLOADED REDLIGHTS,WALLMARTS AND RESTSTOPS FROM THE SITE AND THE REDLIGHTS SEEMS TO WORK GREAT BUT NOTHING HAPPENS WITH THE OTHERS-AFTER LOOKING FOR WHAT SEEMS LIKE HOURS FOR AN ANSWER I'VE DECIDED TO RISK IT AND ASK FOR HELP,SO ANYTHING WOULD BE GREATLY APPRICEATED ALSO HOW DO I ADD SOUNDS OR ICONS WITH THEM?

The Nuvi 350, for both the normal (non-Tourguide) proximity alerts and Tourguide proximity alerts, plays the associated MP3 file at least 4 times, and not necessariy back to back, before it finally quits. Very annoying. These are NOT speed alerts, only proximity alerts. I have "Single Tone" checked, however this seems to have no effect.

Dont know how many have seen this. But to me it sounds like a IPhone.. Or close to it. Sounds kinda neat.

Can someone tell me if Garmin 250W GPS can be charged by connecting it to the PC via a USB cable? I notice that when you connect the GPS to the PC it automatically turns on, but not sure if unit gets charged. Thanks.

Hi all,

I have Garmin 650 but still using 2008 map and I have a question that do I need to buy a new map to update my GPS map? Is it still give me the right direction?

Thanks for you advices.

I am obviously new to the Garmin GPS (760) arena and can't figure out 3 things: 1) how do I key in a normal destination (i.e. to Denver from Dallas) and include Rest Areas POI at the same time?

Could one of you tech savy users create .bmp files for Staples and Wingstop?

Thanks,
rtaggi

It seems we have a new vehicle.

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

I noticed that some of the POI's show up in the middle of the road, now if its a back road two lane thats fine. An expample of what I am talking about is the Starbucks POI's all seem to be in the middle of the highway. At a busy intersetion with 4 lanes of traffice and 4 shopping plaza'a on each of the intersetions, locating the POI can be quite a problem.

If you have one set on Custom POIs stored on the Internal Memory of a Garmin unit and another set of POIs on a SD Card how does the Unit display them? Are both sets of Custom POIs "grouped together" and listed as One set of Custom POIs or are the listed Separately?

Thanks

I can't see the road I'm currently driving on. I know you can with TomTom and Magellan and I was wondering if I am missing something on the 205W.
Thanks

anyone else have to get a wired fm transmitter due to dropages with the wireless fm or is it just the nuvi 760?

I bought a monster fm transmitter and love it

cosmo4u