Garmin talk

Not that it is a big deal, but my Garmin Express is saying all three of my devices have a Software Update available. Specifically it is a time zone map update available. Details included:

Improved time zone maps for Mexico

Updated time zone information for various countries and regions

Updated Daylight Saving Time data for Mexico an Greenland

My most recent GPS for car navigation was a nuvi 3597. Suddenly it's become virtually useless for navigation.
- Having it navigate from home, I get verbal instructions on how to get out of my driveway and which direction to turn in at the end of the street. After that I get nothing verbal. The map shows which way to go, but the purple route track is usually not present.

CN EU 2024.10 NTU now available

Garmin Service

Has anybody here tried one of these, yet, with their Garmin data cable?

https://portablepowersupplies.co.uk/product/usb-data-blocker

Garmin has released a new Drive model, the 53.

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/1019429

It's available with and without traffic, and its map is the full North America plus a few Caribbean nations.

MSRP: $150

Its manual is specific only to the 53, a pleasant change compared to some manuals that cover multiple models with the advisory that some features only apply to some models:

BaseCamp software version 4.7.5 as of March 27, 2023
https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4435

Download (61.93 MB): https://download.garmin.com/software/BaseCamp_475.exe

Changes made from version 4.7.4 to 4.7.5:
Various stability and bug fixes

Just saw that Garmin Basecamp 4.8.13 for macOS is available for download. Change log says "Fixed compatibility issue with some devices".

https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4449

Mentioned a couple map versions ago, that Southbound of I40 in North Carolina, (Exit 20) on US 276, a few miles south is a newly added GPS aware road: Catamount Drive, a 1-2 lane gravel road that degrades to a dirt path through the middle a cattle pasture……. To a where a wooden corral fence blocks it ~1/4 mile down gravel/dirt road.. from access to the next available road: Return Drive.

Hello everyone,

Is it possible to do this, On Basecamp I have a List named Houston with all the Houston waypoints. I have another List named Dallas with all Dallas waypoints. When I upload both lists to Garmin Drive 51, all waypoints are in the same list. Can I separate out those waypoints into different list or folders within the "Saved" app so that I can distinguish the waypoints ?

All,

Do POI's uploaded to the 1090 show up as red entries on the 1090? I ask because I uploaded a bunch to my new 1090 and they don't appear as custom POI's in a new directory on the 1090. Thus, I don't know if they were uploaded or not. I speculate the red entries are the new additions but I don't know for certain.

Thanks for your comments/help.

tom

help;
newbe to gps must i load poi one by one from poi factory or are there complete sets of them

although I haven’t verified if that is the case. See content at https://www.thedrive.com/guides-and-gear/garmin-gps-satellit...

Ok.. stupid question time.

I've a 3597.

When it powers up, it connects to my cell phone via blue tooth.

In the top right corner of the 3597, there used to be the little Garmin link symbol, and in the top left corner of the Garmin was an image of the phone.

I was just checking out my Nuvi 2797LM when I pulled out the SD Card and noticed its only a 2g card. Do I need anything bigger.

My 780 RV is only showing white flags for the Custom POI locations. It use to show the associated icon (BMP). Not sure when it changed. It doesn't matter how close I zoom in, it is always the white flag.

Search Google and POI Factory, but could not find anything to help.I also reloaded the files with POI Loader.

BTW, my 770 RV still shows the associated BMP files.

Forgive me if i am in the wrong place but does the Garmin Drive Smart 76 power supply have a fuse. If so how do you open it...thanks Stan

I have a nuvi 1300 that works fine in every aspect of it being a GPS navigator.

The problem is it doesn't get along with Windows 10 Pro x64. It shows up as a USB Mass Storage device in the safely remove list. Disk Management shows the internal memory as an unallocated drive and the SD card as not initialized.

Garmin Express and the web updater cannot detect it.

but my GE is showing all my devices can be upgraded to Time Zone map version 32.00. The details are "Updated DST data for Mexico and Greenland."

In July 2022 you folks helped me get a custom POI (rest areas) with a proximity sound file alert installed on my Garmin XT. I have since turned off voice navigation because it was too intrusive to helmet-to-helmet communication. I'm sure this has killed the playing of the alert file.