Garmin talk

I just gave my wife my nuvi 765t to replace her older Magellen RoadMate 2000.

Even though the Garmin is heads above the Magellen in most every way, the one item she still wants is the "DING!" tone that her Magellen plays when you are at your next turn or exit. She kinda tunes out the spoken words of the GPS while driving and relies on that tone to bring her attention back to the GPS.

I was unhappy with the limited voices supplied with my Garmin GPS. After a call to tech support I was happily suprised with their offer to send me 4 addition voices which I have used.

So, I have always had several cell phones that I can just switch around at will. The bonus of having a phone that acted like a slick little Garmin GPS was good too. But... in the case of the US, T-Mobile based Garmin A50, aka the Garminfone, it seems like a huge mistake.

I would like a Garmin, or PC mapping application, that would allow me to choose scenic highways. So far, no luck. I keep a atlas on hand and have to choose way points. Anyone have recommendations...be kind .

Has either Barnes & Noble or Borders been looked at recently? I note that both are either closing stores or looking for a buyer.

Fred

I would like to do a hard reset on my 1490LMT. How do I do the reset? what files do I need to back up? and how do I back them up? Please point me to the already created topic if one exists. I did not find it if it does? Thx

The myTrends feature on my Garmin 3760 kicked in recently, exactly 4 weeks from the date I started using it.

In addition to predicting my intended destinations based on day of week and starting time, the routes it now suggests follow my usual pathway instead of stubbornly sticking to the routes that it used to suggest.

Happy camper here!

I visited Garmin's website with my 750 hooked up and My Garmin said that there was a software update. So I downloaded it and when the installation had finished I checked my version. I now have (GASP) 4.9.....hey wait a minute...that's the version I have been running. Garmin didn't say which software it was updating, I just assumed it was going to be the OS.

Anybody having problems with their 1490T taking a very long time to calculate a route to the destination. Not sure if it is having problems figuring out where it is after turn on or just needs a long time to process the info. Not sure if it is pulling data from the memory stick or internal device memory.

Today as I was driving, my nuvi 855 kept displaying an error message "Check Traffic Receiver" or similar. The message took the whole screen and would only clear by touching the error message to acknowledge. Then five seconds later it would repeat.

I have no idea what to check the traffic receiver for, and it was too dangerous to fiddle it while driving, so I shut everything down.

I was reading Gary Hayman's articles on creating custom poi's. He has a screenshot of the gps unit that shows a red bar instead of a green bar at the top of the screen. I have written a few different poi"s w/proximity alerts, but I do not get a red bar on any one of them. Does anyone know if the red bar is model specifc?

I tried to update the maps on my Zumo 450 today. Garmin tells me my unit is registered to someone else. I bought it on Ebay and have no way to contact the previous owner to have them delete their registration on Garmin's site. Is there any way to update this thing?

I've never used any other nav systems than Garmin's. A few years ago, I upgraded from a Nuvi 360 to a 765T. Bigger display and more features, but satellite acquisition noticeably slower. Routing changes also seem to confuse the 765T more than the 360.

It seems crazy to spend $80 for lifetime map upgrades (my maps are out of date)so I started looking at a new Garmin in the LMT version.

Could use a bit of help here from my POI brethren.

I have uploaded the speed camera POI file but all I get is the beeps, not the wav file sound I also uploaded.

What I did:

1. Downloaded the files (POI, bmp and wav)

2. Made sure all 3 files are named the same. (No double extensions)

3. Uploaded with POI loader in manual mode. Speed set to 0.

Rath *TIA*

Talking with a friend via email right now that has a 1300LM. It doesn't display any categories under his Favorites. He an attempt to fix it he did his updates and did a hard reset and still can't get it to display any categories under Favorites. It goes directly to the saved locations when he taps Favorites.

Any thoughts I can pass along?

I haven't ever seen anything else other than the one line 'Custom POIs' under the 'Where To? - Extras' icon.

Anybody know what else can show up here and how it gets there or is it just a wasted step to get to the POIs?

Hello,

Me again. What are the recommended jpg file sizes for attaching to my favorites?

I am almost afraid to aske the second part of this post, since I searched and found quite the long list of comments on the subject. I want to copy my favorites to my mom's gps, what is the best way? They are both 255W.

Thanks!!

Before "myDashboard" loads at the Garmin website, users are asked: "To improve future Garmin products, do you give us permission to collect, process and use anonymous data from your device as detailed in our Products and Applications Privacy Statement?"

This may be a strange question, but my hand held Garmin Colorado 400c has a Sun and Moon rise/set tool which comes in very handy and is used for my job all the time. My Garmin Nuvi unit doesn't seem to have this function. Is there a newer Garmin Nuvi unit that has this function or is there a way to load it into to my Garmin Nuvi?

Does anyone know if the McDonalds POI's would show if they have Wi-Fi or not?
Thanks,