Garmin talk

In monitoring and searches of this forum I see a fair number of people using the nüvi 1450 and most seem fairly happy with it. However, even the recent Amazon reviews are littered with negative comments about this unit's reliability, which gives me concern.

Is there a way to make a TourGuide POI file that doesn't have TourGuide in the category and alert message once it is compiled to the nuvi?

For the very first time the traffic receiver on my 1490T paid off. Previously, every time I've gotten a "severe traffic" message, it's been too late and I'm already past the exit on the freeway that would have been a good escape. On I80 westbound last night, Jill yelled the alert just as I was approaching an interchange, and switched to the traffic map.

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I had sort of forgot about this, but it looks like as a registered Garminfone user I am eligible for free Lifetime Map Updates. Does Garmin send an e-mail when the updates are available or is it up to me to find out when they are available?

Just returned from a 2200 mile trip to Western Nebraska and S Dakota. Traveled over many miles of "ranch roads" and roads located on federal grasslands with no problems. The garmin identified most of the county roads by name and it showed us the grassland roads but no numbers. Garmin helped a lot.

Does anyone know the location of a stomping Godzilla vehicle icon? Preferably fire breathing.

Hi All. GPS newbie here who bought a 1490T NIB yesterday. I did a lot of online research (including here) before buying. This is a great website!

On the last page of the Quickstart manual in the box, it says "To receive one free map update (if available), register your nuvi at [website] within 60 days OF ACQUIRING SATELLITES AND DRIVING WITH YOUR NUVI . . ."

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Stupid as this might sound. My apostrophe is grayed-out when i go into the bluetooth menu under Friendly name and try to edit the name. All others are available. Any one else have this also with their 7x5?

1 - Given the fact that while driving we should be texting (or dialing) less and using hands-free devices more, I am quite disappointed that the new Garmin Nuvi 3760 (and probably the 3790) doesn’t support the Bluetooth profile PBA (Phone Book Access) when paired with cell phones with that capability. We need to be pressing less buttons to make a call – not more.

I just completed a visit to Canada and Alaska. Both my Garmin and our traveling companion's Garmin showed the vehicle off of the road quite a bit while in the Northern areas of Canada and in Alaska. I have the latest updates to my system. Is this because of poor calculations way up North or are the data not as good as in the lower 48?

i want to know red light camera is what kind format ?

When I enter my code, the numbers are displayed. They do not change to asterisks until a few seconds after entering them. My 760 will not show the numbers at all. Each number entered is instantly replaced with an asterisk. I have deactivated and reactivated the security feature several times on the 1490 hoping that that would clear up the problem. it has not. Has anyone else seen this?

Using Mapsource I made a long trip and made waypoints to lock it down so that my garmin wouldnt recalculate a different route other than the way I wanted to go. I sent the file to my Garmin 765t, but never imported the route from the file because we decided to fly instead. Now, I want to delete this file, but dont see it on the Garmin, or on the file structure when connected to the computer.

As we have been predicting for some time, it appears that Garmin is in the process of moving the remaining models of the nuvi 7x5 series to the discontinued list. I noticed on their website that the 7x5's are now at the bottom of the automotive list ... under the 2x5's. If you click on any of them, they show as "Discontinued product".

There is another thread about the Garmin Nuvi battery recall at http://www.poi-factory.com/node/30316
- but it was getting hard to see how long it is taking Garmin to fix the units and get them back to their owners.

I have a Garmin 1350 for about a year, I just updated the map & have developed a new problem, It now sounds an alarm that I'm speeding.....Very annoying.....My question, has anyone else discovered this problem & how do I disable it.

Please..........Richard

OK. I downloaded a collection of POIs. I converted them to a .gpx file. I loaded them into Mapsource. They show up in the "Waypoints" tab on the left of the screen. But they won't display on the map! If I select a waypoint, and "show on map" the waypoint shows up on a blank map. Waypoints that I make myself in Mapsource show up OK. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

My 760 has for ages mispronounced "Left". American English Jill TTS says "Then turn laft" replacing the 'e' sounds with an 'a'

I have deleted the actual text file and redownloaded it from the garmin webupdater many times. Does anyone else hear it as 'laft'

I tried importing a TTS file from my 265 which is perfect, but it is not a compatible format.