Garmin talk

I have a Nuvi 350 which recently won't fully charge. It has two green bars at the top, operates fine but no amount of charging using either the auto connector or the stepped down 120 volt charging line will bring more green to the state of charge. Methinks it is the battery after a reasonable life. I like the 350 & want to continue to use it.

This may be a dumb question, or at least - obviously answered.... but: When I see prices around $100 for what is obviously a fairly basic model, like the 265wt for $99 at best buy during christmas and now at staples for around the same price (or less with coupon)... why would anyone want or need one of the $300-$600 units?

My information bar was at the bottom, now it has shifted to the right side of the screen. I have an 1490T, is this after an update or did I do something? I liked it better on the bottom, takes too much screen room on the side. Anybody else have this problem? or have a solution?

Staples has the 265WT for $99.99 starting 2-20-11.

If you use the $20 coupon here:

http://tinyurl.com/4qumjzy

The price is $79.99.

hello ,i have searched the forums and cant find a reason why my 255w all of sudden quit working....weather it is plugged in or not.any ideas would be greatful..thanks

I have faithfully following the Beginners steps to get my Garmin set up.

Step one and Step two were fairly easy.

Now I got to step three. I tried to download a POI file and have problems.

is there a way to set distance alerts to the poi file itself (the whole file)without going thru each one ..... i know poi loader in manel mode can do this but i would like to set them and then do just a auto load with all the alerts in them ......thanks

Anybody have a 1300LM that can answer this for me. One of my riding friends is very none technical. Tried to talk him through installing a micro SD card with POIs into his 1300LM over the phone. He said he doesn't see a "Do Not ask me again" check box on the SKIP screen when the unit is booting so he has to hit SKIP everytime he turns it on.

Just got an email from Costco.

$249.99 after $30 OFF

Garmin nuvi 3750 4.3" GPS with Carrying Case

nüRoute™ Technology with trafficTrends™, myTrends™,
ecoRoute™ & Lane Assist
Item # 554091

I am new to this GPS system. I just bought a Garmin Nuvi 255W. I downloaded the latest maps when I bought it.

Now, how much space is left for downloading of files from POI? Could we overload the GPS? Could downloading large files eventually slow down the GPS while in use?

Thanks for any enlightenment someone can provide.

I have a couple of suggestions for new features for the Garmin nuvi and I can not find the appropriate web link on the Garmin site to input these ideas...I must be missing some link.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
T

Well, a friend just dropped off a 2350LMT for me to play with - noting that I am extremely partial to the older GUI, I didn't (and still don't) have much hope for the product.

The unit won't be mine (I would want a 2360, but this was an early sample and all he had).

I did my weekly speed/redlight camera POI update and also checked Garmin WebUpdater. There is an update v. 5.0 to the system software.

I can't seem to find a definate answer as to whether or not the numap lifetime will work with the 295w. Has anyone seen it in writing? I am considering making the purchace once I know for sure. Thanks.

HELP: Can I re-download a portion of the updated map. I normally use My Dashboard which downloads to my pc and the gps. Since I had to use My Map this time, just the map downloaded to the gps and not my pc. I know I didn't click on option. My mistake, Now I want to download map into my pc. Can it be done.

is there any way to extract or look at the sepret files from a GUPDATE.GCD......

Two quick obsetvations after downloading and installing 2011.4:

1. My address in Mapsource is still mislocated. My house number is 16. When I search for #16 in Mapsource, it shows a location several houses down the street. My house in Mapsource shows up as #44. Checking the Navteq site, its dead on, with the pionter on my back porch in satellite view.

Does anyone know when this update is coming? 2011.4 has been out for 24 hours now and is old news. This is the internet/information age where things happen more rapidly than ever. If Egypt and Tunisia can overthrow enitre governments in a few weeks, shouldn't we expect to get map updates at least that fast?

Before Garmin went to the "new" map install process several releases ago, I used to download the "whole" map update (2011.10 was the last one like this). Then I would connect my GPS to my 1st PC and run the install.

I have a 765T that had a 3D map file until I updated the map selecting "The 49 States" 2011.40.

Anyone else with this unit get a 3D file?