Garmin talk

When I got my 3790 there was an icon to push for money saving offers. I was a beginner with the device trying out all the options. So now I can't figure out how to turn them off. They're for Best Western, Shell gasoline (enriched with nitrogen!), Red Lobster and I think The Olive Garden.

If you actually press on the ad, you get a search results screen of nearest locations.

I recently downloaded the complete listing of the Harley-Davidson dealerships in the United States along w/ the HD icon & the voice prompt indicating I'm approaching a dealership. I dumped them into my Garmin Nuvi 760 & found the HD dealership listing under the custom POI's.

Back in January, I installed a workaround on the web site to address problems with POI Loader 2.6.0.

Here is my post back at that time:

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/31969?page=2#comment-226201

Now that POI Loader 2.6.1 has been out for a while, I've decided to remove the workaround, which had some side-effects such as truncation issues.

Do businesses pay to have their business searchable? Sort of like a Yellow Pages but on the GPS? Where does a GPS draw content from for things like
- department stores,
- Public parks,
- churches,
- some doctors offices

At my last job I would use my Zumo to save new routes I'd use on the job. Just turn the unit on and drive. The next day, (for some reason it wouldn't allowing saving the same day) I would save and name the route.I had several saved.

I just purchased a NUVI 1300. The restaurant POI's for the area are very inaccurate. Many have closed, others to not appear. How do I report these to Garmin. The 1300 allows me to rate or report them for deletion, but not edit them.

I am looking at the new Garmin for truck drivers. When would be a good time to get one and get the free mapes update for 2012. jolleyr

My new nuvi has the free lifetime traffic, When I go to the traffic button I'm told to go to garmin.com/fmtraffic to register, along with the number of my receiver. According to what I saw on Garmin's site you don't have to register for the free reporting... and the web addy takes me to a screen to buy traffic subscriptions.

My Nuvi 1350 displays & makes a sound in areas which are designated at 4 mph (walking?) zones. This is in addition to the alerts for both redlight & speed cameras. I had this happen driving in downtown Washington, DC & it was enormously annoying.

Is there a way to turn off those walking zone alerts without affecting the redlight & speed camera alerts?

If so, how.
Thanks.
Fred

I just updated my 255W with the most recent maps.

Noticed this morning I no longer had Mapsource in my Garmin folder.

Did the map update cause me to loose it or what?

Does anyone know what the graph colors on the satellite screen represent? The satellite signal meters can be either solid blue or transparent.

It appears that solid blue is required for navigation, but what does a transparent bar with a high signal strength represent?

I have a Nuvi 350 and a 765T. The 765T battery will only run the GPS for a short period of time compared to the 350. Is this a characteristic of the 765 or do I have a defective battery? It has been this way from the start. I would like to hear from other 765 owners. Thanks for any help.

For the longest time, my Nuvi 350 has been routing directions to avoid left turns. Often, the directions will send us ahead of a left turn to route us into a U-turn and then a right turn.

I have been using a Garmin for several years. I used my non-smart phone for navigation once but purchased a garmin before my next road trip. I like this sites red light camera info and wonder do the smart phones give the same warning?

Changes from version 5.20 to version 5.30:

Fixed an error that caused some third-party maps to draw incorrectly.

Download:
http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4551

I can't install the Communicator Plugin. I get an error,"This application failed to start because the application is configured incorrectly. Reinstall the application."

I've found one other reference to this problem in search, but no resolution. Has anyone had this problem and resolved it?

As I mentioned in another post, I gave my Garmin 260W to my 20 year old son when I purchased a Chevy Equinox last year with a built in NAV system, which works pretty good.

Sorry if I am naive but is there a limit to the number of items in a CSV file that can be converted to a POI file. I ask this because I have a CSV file of 160 items that only partially converts to GPX OR at least my Garmin will only allow me to see some of the POIs. I've used the POI loader on both CSV files and GPX files (from the same CSV file) without success. Any ideas?

Loaded all my custom poi's onto this unit. All works except no sound. Little bit of reading, my suspicions were correct...it don't like mp3 files. Grabbed all the wav files and reloaded. Poiloader tells me now unable to convert speedtrap.wav to the proper format therefore audio was not transferred. Got that for all of them. Kind of at a loss here. How do I fix this?

Thanks

Just downloaded and installed new firmware. Not sure when it was released but I know it had to have been the last few days.

Some updates/fixes
fixed blue tooth volume problems,
different voices fixes,
fixed crashes when downloading large routes
the was a fix in the screen brightness