Garmin talk

I'm approaching the end of my return window with Amazon and need to decide if this is the best unit for me. So far my 855 has restarted a couple of times, no big deal. I am concerned a bit that this might be a bigger problem in the heat of the summer. Hard to test this in our current cold weather.

My wife and I both have a Nuvi 1490T. I just did the 2011.3 map upgrade plus new software on both. On mine it worked fine. On hers it did the upgrades but deleted all her favorites (and default added 3 Garmin office locations...thanks for nothing!) What did I do wrong? It also defaulted the screen settings, the trafic icon, and a few other things back to factory specs.

Hi all..

I have a Nuvi 1300WT GPS. The 12v vehicle to GPS power cord is a GTM 25, which has a built in (in line) traffic receiver, located about 6 inches from the GPS power plug connector.

If you hold the traffic receiver horizontally (while looking at its thinnest edge, with the end that attaches to the GPS to your left), you will see a 1/8" hole approximately 1 3/4" from the left side.

I had my 1490T set to No U-Turns and was navigating to a set location. The location was on the left side of a divided road and I was on the right. There was a turn around less than 100 feet from the location - I rolled past the location to the turn around and the Garmin started re-routing me to a limited access parkway a mile ahead - not sure where to.

Has anyone had problems with their 3790 overheating? I've never had a problem with my other units but a couple of days ago mine shut down and when I tried restarting it (I wasn't able to for a while) I noticed it was very hot. I'm sure the heat was just from the it sitting in the sun, but I've never had that shut down a unit before in all my gps years.

I was driving with my Nuvi 350 when all of a sudden lost sat signal. I went to signal strength page and all signal bars gone. Later I found when I put the antenna down the signal bars come on with "GPS OFF" stated on the top of the page. This appears to be working backwards of antenna position. Has anyone ever seen this before and if so a possible fix.

Got a bunch of waypoints in an old Garmin 3600 that I would like to convert to custom POIs for my new 1390T. I cannot remember the name of the format Garmin uses for the location. Is there a way to convert that old format to latitude and longitude?

I just replaced my battery in my 250w nuvi .it wasn't to bad but the flat wire strips came undone from there anchors and I had no clue what was up, so with a magnifier and some fiddling I figured out the tiny little clips that lock the cables in and reassembled it and it works.The instructions did not say anything about them and they are real delicate and fiddly .

Interesting experience this past weekend. SWMBO and I were in NE Tennessee. While driving around Lake Watauga, Karen (that is the voice I have selected) continually attempted to route me onto the Appalachian Trail. SWMBO said NO WAY with her Impala!

Garmin Nuvi 350 w/CN North America NT 2011.20

GARMIN 465T WILL NOT CLEAR ADDRESSES ANY HELP APPRECHIATED

I've installed several custom POI files (Walmart, Rest Stops, Flying J/Pilot, & others) to my Garmin 765T. I also have the bmp file & alert file for several of them. I've renamed the bmp & mp3 files to the same name as the POI file. I can open all of my custom POI files & choose any POI as a destination & the GPS calculates a route.

After updating the unit to the lastest firmware, I was able to transfer poi files and then safely eject the unit from the computer. The poi files were retained. Nice not to have to just remove the usb cable while the unit is still showing on the computer.

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I used POI Loader to create a poi.gpi file from various csv files and had it loaded to my Garmin 62S. I confirmed that the poi.gpi file went into the Garmin/POI folder on the unit.

can gpx poi work on the garmin

can anyone give me a good reason to buy this one over the other.. Its on sale and I know little about GPS

I have a Nuvi C320 and Nuvi 205. I also have TomTom 125 and TT 140. Do you guys know if I'll have any issues using these in Hawaii?

Do the maps only contain Continental US, or do they include Hawaii?

I recently purchased a 1490T to replace my Streetpilot c550. I have included a MP3 file in a folder and uploaded it using the POI Loader. The locations all are listed as expected. The MP3 file always played when I was in proximity of the location when using the c550. I can't get the 1490T to play the file. Should it be a WAV file? Or have I failed to do something correctly?

Okay, I just switched from a 2GB card to a 4GB card in my 60CSx.

Never had a problem in about two years using the 2GB card. Recently read that the latest firmware enables the use of a 4GB card. So I have the latest firmware and I load up a 4GB card and away I go... not so fast.

I loaded icons with the custom poi file that I put into my 1490T. They do not appear on the map unless I zoom all the way in to just about maximum - and then I can see the built in icons as well. I thought that the custom poi icons are visible at less magnification - based on a comment made on another post.

I'm not sure about the poi files to the zumo...I am still trying to figure out how to load my routes to my nuvi 3790LMT from my mapsource...any ideas...??