Garmin talk

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This may be a wild stab in the dark, but let me ask with the hope that someone out there knows the answer.

I connected by nuvi 680 to its base today. Normally this action causes my nuvi to turn on when I start my car or otherwise supply power to the 12V adapter/MSN-Direct antenna -- but not today. The LED in the power adapter lights up.

What is the best new Nuvi out there right now ?

does anyone here know of a way to save and load tracks (bread crumbs )with the nuvi 265wt?

every gps I have will let me save my tracks to the SD card except this GARMIN nuvi 265wt or i can not figure out how to save the tracks.
i bought this due to price and screen size and am real pleased it has a much larger internal memory than the others.

I noticed that on my Nuvi 765t (and I'm sure not only on this model), searching by category is very fast, but searching by name takes forever. That is, if I try to find the nearby ski resort by tying its name, it takes about 2 minutes, but if I navigate by categories, it's found in seconds. Wondering, is this by design, or maybe some indexing is broken in the unit and could be fixed?

I seem to recall somewhere a modification of some sort that would allow the Garmin Nuvi to output NMEA data. Does anybody happen to recall a URL for that?

is it me or do you guys find it odd that when we have a planned route, you can see where traffic is depending upon if the car icon on your screen is green, yellow, red, etc. But, in order to actually see where the traffic is, you have to take your eyes off the wheel and do a search to find out what is going on..

I was just curious if there are any significant differences between the major manufacturers of GPS units? Or are they all pretty much the same thing.

Hi, I bought a new nuvi 2250 and it's good. It has speed cameras as POI preloaded into it as well as 2 alert sounds a single tone and a continuous tone.

I want to change 1 alert sound into a custom sound, how do I do this?

My car charger for my 260w died and was wondering why a standard mini USB charger makes the unit think it is connected to a PC.I asume it is the way it's wired.I have so many mini USB adapters I just hate to buy the Garmin replacement if I don't have to.

Another lister mentioned having the battery replaced as well as the touch screen to keep their old Garmin going.

I love my older Garmin.

Where would one go to have the battery replaced? How much does this sort of thing cost? Can I do it myself?

thank you

Thought I’d share this with you. Being bored with winter and awaiting maps to load, I created some custom splash screens.
This was done for my Nuvi 2460LMT with the 5” screen. I pulled up one of the 2460’s included jpg’s and discovered the default resolution was 480 X 232..

my screen is frozen up...anyone got ideas...thanks

Is there a way to set my 260W to show the entire length of a highway, e.g., Route 192 in Santa Barbara County, CA, USA, in the same manner as the gps will outline the route from one specific spot to another? I understand I could accomplish the task if I knew a specific address at each end of the road, but I don't....

Thanks in advance for your thoughts!

well I left the office around rush hour so I finally hit some traffic on one of our major highways in Toronto today. Before I left I checked for traffic none, but once I hit a typical area for traffic I did get the Yellow posting upon hitting the troubled spot, and just a bit North of there Red....all in all it was bang on as to what the gps indicated.

On my Nuvi 2350LMT, new update to version 3.50 is available, I contacted Garmin about the following update:
Added Dealer Database updates through map update tools for OEM devices.

Garmin response is, this update is for Garmin devices installed in automobiles from the factory, and they told me this update is not for the Garmin 2350LMT.

Hi,

Have had my M3 for a few years and just recently wanted to add some POI files but am having the darnest time.

Have the POI loader but it does not find my M3 so it loads the POI file into the SD card where I have my map. M3 does not even see it.

What am I doing wrong or can POI files be used?

Thanks

John

I down loaded the Rest Area file on this site using PO Loader. The loader says it loaded the file succesfully with the correct number of POI's. But I can not see the file under my Extras or Favorites group. Any suggestions?

Hi, I received a new 3490 and the first thing that I did was update it to the latest firmware over the weekend when I first received it, and everything worked like clockwork. Since then, i've gotten a mini SD card and inserted it (not to really put anything on it at the moment, but just to have that "open" hole plugged in so to speak).

Which is the best setting to use, Faster Time or Shorter Distance? Lately when using my unit it appears to shows unusual routes, on a trip that I take often, coming home it wanted me to take a route that I have never seen before, and it was not a good one. Do I need to set the unit back to the default setting? (I have installed the most updated maps)