Garmin talk

Change History

Changes made from version 7.00 to 7.10:
Corrected an issue with the LOC8 entry in GarminDevice.xml.

I tried to activate Birdseye but it rejects my Dakota 10. Garmin support is giving me a refund and told me that the Dakota has no expandable memory and only the Dakota 20 will work with Birdseye. I do have about 950 MB of data memory on the Dakota 10, but no maps can be purchased for it. Rather it can work with Map Source for Topo 24K as an example.

I just recently upgraded to a Nuvi 3790T from my old Nuvi 760. I installed all my own custom POI's including the redlight camera file and a redlight camera .mp3 that goes with it. Both redlight csv file and mp3 file have the same name but the 3790 plays its own alert instead of the custom mp3 I uploaded into the unit.

Lost it with a Hard drive reformat,it'll be reinstalled with the next map update or go to My garmin and re DL the last map???

correct?

Samsclub has the nuvi 3760 lmt for $379.99.

Amazon has the Nuvi 295 on sale for today only:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/ref=pe_00_head

Amazon Deal of The Day: New Nuvi 295W

http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-3-5-Inch-Widescreen-Portable-Na...

I have a Nuvi 1300 with lifetime traffic.

I have to say, that traffic thing is pretty flaky.
Here is the traffic map.

http://www.navteq.com/rdstraffic/index_241.htm
Today I am driving on the 10 freeway and the traffic reception was going on and off. The traffic button would turn gray and I click it, and it says "poor reception for 10 minutes".

I have ordered Topo Map U.S. 24K Northeast DVD: DVD 010-11318-50, and plan to use it with a Dakota 10. I found that I still had a set of 3 CD's of Mapsource Topo for Western U.S., Eastern U.S., and Alaska & Hawaii U.S. I had used these with a Garmin Map12 that is woefully bad on satellite reception and graphic resolution. This set is labeled Win 95, 98/ NT 4.0 .Version 3.00 Oct. 99.

When I open Mapsource, it allows me to choose whichever version of map that I want. I see no reason to select anything other than the latest version.

Can I delete old versions and if so, where do I find them, on my computer.

Mapsouce is located in C:/Garmin on my computer, but I can't find the actual map files.

I have a 1490lmt, If I install a new SD Drive will I get Mexico when I upgrade to the newest map upgrade?

Garmin has released firmware update 4.70 for the Nuvi 13xx and 14xx models. It is available via Webupdater (and my Dashboard probably but I don't use it so can't confirm). The change log reads:

Change History
Changes made from version 4.60 to 4.70:

* Added support for GTM26/GTM36 accessory.
* Corrected an issue that sometimes made an ad unreadable.

What is the best buy for a Garmin mobile GPS?

I'm trying to record a new voice in the Garmin Voice Studio. For about the first 5 or 6 recordings everything went fine. Now I'm getting an error for unauthorized access exception, cannot delete the c:\documents and settings\all users\......\voices\\_work.wav. I click OK and it closes. Restart and repeat.

Anyone looking for a good hand-held I just got an email from gpscity.com in Nevada. For a limited time they are selling the Garmin 60CSx for $199.00 which sounds like a very good price. I have the mate to that one, the 76CSx, and it's a heck of a nice GPS.

Is there a way to backup the existing maps on Garmin t3790?

This topic has already been flogged to death; however having read all threads there is one issue which is still unclear to me:
Will Nuvi (e.g. models 7xx or 14xx) use multiple *.gpi files if it has them stored under different names in the x\garmin\poi directory on the device?

This comes up often, especially right before a map update is expected by the community here, but in the Big Picture, it's most likely NO BIG DEAL if you do. As a new GPS owner, you may be wondering WHY?

Today, bought Nuvi 1490 LMT from Costco Canada for my wife. When I connected to my pc to check the disk space on it, I was surprised to see that there was only 69.5 MB and not 75 MB space left out of 2 GB.
I am wondering how this space will be enough for future map updates?

What is your advice?

Garmin provides MapSource as a free download
It lets you:
import Favorites from one nuvi
review and update them and then
export them back to another nuvi
The problem is that it deletes all the phone numbers in the process

SO,
1-BE SURE YOU KEEP SOME LIST OF YOUR FAVORITES WITH THE PHONE NUMBERS
2-DO NOT EXPORT THE FILE BACK TO THE SOURCE NUVI IF YOU NEED THE PHONE NUMBERS