Garmin talk

Suddenly my Garmin Nuvi 660 is having problems identifying nearby restaurants, gas stations, etc. For some reason it shows the nearest restaurant to be 90+ miles away, which is obviously incorrect.

I took off all custom POIs thinking that somehow they may have skewed something, a long shot but I thought I would eliminate a potential source of errors.

Can't get the 2.73 POI Loader setup file to run. Gives an MSI error:filenotfound during the install. Windows XP. Any ideas?

Yesterday morning I left home and the GPS showed the streets I was traveling on.

I parked the car for an hour leaving the GPS powered on. When I got back to my car the 2015.20 map was totally gone with no streets showing at all. The GPS was VERY warm from the sun.

The rest of the day no street map.

I had an old 2450LM and purchased this new 65LMT my favorite thing about the old 2450 was adding info on the screen when navigating i could put 4 custom boxes on the right EX TIME , DISTANCE, TIME TO VIA i cant do this one on the new 65lmt or am i missing a trick here....

I have an old Garmin nüvi 255 (circa 2009) that has been rather slow to start-up for a long time...unless it was last used within an hour or so of turning it back On. With a typical 'cold start' it took maybe 2-3 minutes to get to the point of it being ready to use. It spent most of its starting time with the green bar loading at the bottom of the screen.

I was told I could change the startup splash screen on my new Garmin 2797LMT and that all I had to do was place the jpg into the Pictures folder. My 2797LMT doesn't have a Pictures folder (I was also told to try the JPEG folder but again no-go). Can I just create the Pictures folder or is there more to it than that?

Thanks.

Hi Everyone,

We have 2 Garmin Nuvi 3597 units and one of them allows us to enter the following to navigate to a destination in this order as soon as we tap the Address icon:

House number
Street name
City

On the other unit a screen that asks us to select the City is shown.

I have several Garmins. They are Nuvi 500, Nuvi 360, Nuvi 350, and two Garminfones. In the past, I simply used Garmin Express to update the maps. Since the maps exceeded the memory capacity of the devices, I simply selected a portion of the US for each device.

Hi
Does Garmin express auto download the latest maps?
If so is there a way to stop this and let me decide when to download on a windows comp.
Thanks.... Cy

I do not know if this has been covered before but here is my way of fixing a problem installing the map to the PC.

After downloading 2015.20 and it installing fine to the GPS but not to the PC, I tried 3 times with GE to install to the PC. Each and everytime I got an error that it did not install sucessfully.

Every time I try to back up one of the 765's I have, Windows gives me an error and my 765 resets. This only happens on one unit. It just will not let me back it up. Any help would be appreciated.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/39873

Hi. I have a Garmin Nuvi 255w that how freezes or shuts down whenever a map is being drawn. It started after using Garmin Express to "update" the GPS. I've done all the hard reset ideas that I've read with no luck. I've now read how "happy" everyone is with the Garmin Express program, I have joined your group... live and learn.

Can you download a .gpx file to the Garmin Astro 220 and have it usable? I am tired of installing Geocaching locations one at a time. I can get them in a .gpx file that I can install all at one time.

Thanks

I don't have a sound file associated with the red light camera POI. However, when I near a red light intersection, it pings. I have it set for 350 feet. The problem is that it pings about 5 times and even after I pass the intersection. This is really annoying. A warning once or twice before the intersection would be sufficient. Is there any way to change this.

Hi guys

For your information, GE 3.2.17.0 is ready to download as today. I do not have any problem to downloaded, My Laptop Win 7 64x.
Don't blame me, I don't released,...was Garmin.....!!

Getting tire of seeing the "Go to Garmin... for updates" everytime my unit shuts down. Is there a way to change this splash screen?

I carelessly deleted my original 'English_American_Jill.vpm' file and have been unable to find a replacement. Does anyone have a link I can use to obtain one or possibly email it to me? Thanks.

This morning I kept getting a pop-up that said my Garmin Communicator was being blocked. Since I knew that it was not being blocked, I went to Garmin site and saw that update Version 4.2.0.0 was available.

I downloaded the update and double-clicked it. There was no indication that anything was happening except I could see the drive light blinking quite a bit.

I rarely see anything mentioned on here about the Garmin RINO line. The on-line reviews seem to be all over the board. Does anybody here have these and, if so, how well do they work for you?