Garmin talk

Hello Everyone,

Does anyone know if the LOCATION / Angle where you have the traffic receiver for the Nuvi 660 located will affect the signal? I recently added a splitter to my power outlet in my truck so that I could have two sockets open (1 for my phone and the other for the Nuvi)and it seems like since I did this my traffic updates have been less frequent?! Anyone have any take on this?

I have a Garmin streetpilot c330. It accepts custom POI's. When I put the POI's on the GPS I can see them, But they are not visible on the SD card . Does it save to the Garmins Internal memory, or the SD card?

Hello,
I have a Nuvi 680 and was wondering if you can load more than one POI file onto the unit. It seems that when I load a new file, the old one is overwritten. Is this normal? For example I was trying to load a speed trap POI file, and then a Choice Hotel POI file. When I'm done, it always seems to be the last POI file that I loaded that ends up on the unit.

I recently returned from the Dominican Republic. I love driving there but I must caution anyone that does not have nerves of steel and 360 degree vision not to engage in the life threatening practice of driving there unless you have experience driving in other Latin American countries where the are no rules of the road that are ever enforced.

well at the advise of Best Buy personnel I purchased the DVD upgrade 2008 NT to try and get Canada on my nuvi 200

and his advise was bogus and does not work. So I am out the 80 some bucks it cost me to have this done.

Anyone need this I can let you have if to half price since it did not work for me.

my email address is todhunter5@att.net

Greetings

After making some bluetooth changes on my Nuvi 760, suddendly I notice Webupdater offering an undate "GPS Chipset G" This first occurred just today. Is anyone else seeing this also? I'm a bit afraid to load it. BTW my unit indicates it has SIRF InstanFix technology, so I assume it has the SIRF chipset.

Thanks

I have a Garmin Streetpilot c330. It ALWAYS has some kind of problem locking on to sattelites. I will start driving and i takes 5 minutes to figure out were it is at .sometimes it is at my last location. When it does lock onto a satellite it dosen't hold it for very long. I mean it will find a satellite and 10 minutes later you will hear "Lost sattelite reception .

I can see that my Garmin knows were the rest areas ,but why won't it tell me the adress or the telephone number. The thing is when i load the point of intrest the phone number is already in the spreadsheet

I understand that it helps for places that were recently built , but why isn't this stuff already in my garmin

is there a way to put the map north america nt 2008 on my pc. just in case i need to upload it to my gps device in the future

Does anyone know what the EXTDATA folder is
on my Garmin device?

Bummer! I have a Garmin StreetPilot C530 - and I love it. Fortunately for me, I've kept it current with the latest updates from Garmin and Navteq; but when I went to the Garmin Web site for the C530 just now, I found that they've removed it. You can't get there from here!

My GO-720 lasted me exactly nine days. I took the map update that Tomtom HOME offered me ... and that was the last time the device worked. I decided to cut my losses and returned the device to the store where I bought it, paid the price difference and got the Garmin. Thought the maps in the Tomtom were defective anyway ...

I am wondering if anybody here knows if I were to get an ATSC convertor box, could I watch over the air digital broadcast television by using a Garmin Nuvi 5000 GPS as the display device?
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=134&pID=11547

I am trying to change the splash screen on a 7200. When I hook up the usb I see The audio, Mp3 and a Garmim image file. What do I use to get to the splash screen file?

I just saw a Nuvi 750 yesterday at Sam's and I noticed that the Screen's and menu's appear to be a little nicer. Is there a way to update the 660 with the new look? I figure it isn't possible but I thought I would ask.

There will be times when I will need to charge my unit in Europe outside of the car. Does this model have dual voltage or do I need a power converter? I was assuming it had the dual voltage since it came with pre-loaded European maps and a plug adaper but don't want to take a chance on blowing it.

does anyone know how to get rid of the splash screen on the c530 when you first boot it up ( the one that states you accept)

thanks

Newbie here...sorry I can't find an answer via searching....

I read spec sheets for Nuvi 200 and it says max # of custom POI's = 500. Is this assuming no SD card? Is this max POI count limitation eliminated when you add an SD card and leave it in the unit? I assume you can load the card with custom POI's using a PC with certain software app and then plug it in the Nuvi.

A general question. I have a new Zumo and when I look for "fuel" it only shows about 1/2 of the stations that exist locally. Stations that have been here for 5-15 years don't show up. Why is that?