Garmin talk

I am pretty new to the forum and garmin. I have a 765T that I downloaded both Lancaster covered bridges and Pa covered bridges. How do I find them on mapsource and populate them to make a drive? I pulled all the info from the device to mapsource and saw my travels, and the custom route I had created. The POI's show up from the factory not my uploaded ones.....hope this makes sense?

Can you delete all the voice files in the nuvi 765T, except the one or 2 that i use?

Hi folks,

I recently bought a Garmin Nuvi 1690 and I like it. I have downloaded POI's and Vehicle icons to my garmin but apparently I ran out of internal memory. I bought a 4 GB micro SD card just for this.

I am also trying to update the map and software for this unit. My concern here is I just got a message that there is no more space on the internal drive.

I was wondering if any of you have had any experience in handing down a older unit (680) to a friend or family member? In particular how do you take out the Lock and home location for the unit. And how to wipe out and transfer the Favorites file?

I want to make sure the unit is as 'clean' as possible for them so that none of my custom settings are in the unit?

I have a 1490T and am wondering if anyone has figured out how to get it out of the computer mode when attached with the USB cable to the computer. On my old 750 when you unplugged it and it started up if you reattached the USB cable it would go to the regular travel mode. I have tried this and the safely remove hardware mode on the computer to no avail.

I've been using the feature of Extra_POI_Editor on Custom POI gpx files to remove a "cmt" field when it is the same as the "desc" field. There's no reason to have the same thing repeated twice when I hit "More" when displaying a Custom POI.

how awesome would it be when we get an alert, a different animation happens.

ie if my custom vehicle is a cop car, the blue lights would turn on.

ie if my vehicle is a transformer, it transforms into vehicle/robot mode.. etc..

it'd be nice to have at least 3 different alert animations.

i know this is unnecessary.. but i just thought i share it.

what do you guys think?

Anybody know where I can get a TDBank Alert ?

Used Zumo 550 as basic route planner for 6k miles in Alaska last year. Trying to be more specific for our next 20k, so dwnld Harley Dealer POI.
My issue(s); original Mapsource poi has Harley dealers in category "shopping", subcat "apparel". Is there a way to change the Garmin POI category/subcat to "Harley"?
I added the icon and can make waypoints, but wanted to minimize duplicates.

Hi,
How would one go about using GPS to alert you or better yet, reroute to avoid low clearance situations for a 12' tall RV?
The Garmin 465T is listed on their site as being truck friendly. I guess that'd cover it? It says it would route to avoid hazards? Think that'll work? Anyone have one?

Thanks,
RN

how does one go about obtaining the latest rgn file? It appears that Garmin stopped releasing them, and only releases gcd files, or lets you use web update. For modding the firmware, though, I seem to need a rgn.

Does anyone know how to convert the gcd to rgn files?

Or can someone send me or post a 827 ver 6.40 firmware for a nuvi 255W?

THANKS!
Paulie

Every time I try to load HD POI from this web site I only get 8 dealerships from AK.What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for any help

I have a Garmin 750 and have previously downloaded and use POI's via a sans disk that is installed in unit. Can I purchase another disk and then download some different POI's? Then when I want to change POI's I just change disks?

Right now I have the whole list on this pc in a file, can I add to it then download to 750?

Thanks.

We have had our Garmin for about 9 months now and for the most part it does pretty well. However we are in Arizona and it is terrible here. Can't find things, gives directions to the wrong place, or bad directions. HELP please. I tried to find the post office in Camp Verde the other day and it said the nearest one was in Cottonwood just as we were driving by the Post Office in Camp Verde!!!

I upgraded the map in my 750 last night to 2011.1. The upgrade also updated my OS to 4.90. I have done that twice now and each time I end up with a different lock up scenario. This time we were following a Route this morning while listening to an audio book. The navigation prompts were much louder than the book audio.

I have a 1490t and a 765t. I used the zoom in zoom out feature for the first time yesterday. My question is does the zoom feature on the Nuvis automatically reset to an original setting when the units are turned off and then on? I cannot find an answer on this site or in the manuals.

My 265WT after being upgraded to 2011.10 not longer zooms out on the main map of North America without shutting down. I go to the view map screen and then just zoom out. It will go about 3 times and then shutt off. The last time I tried it (about a month ago on 2010.40 map) It didn't have this problem.

Carring case that came with my garmin 660 didn't have a
strap to secure it in the case and one day it fell out
so I put a velcro strap across the open of the case.

I have a new Garmin 1490T connected to an iMac. What I want to do is... replace the low volume beep for 'Speed Camera' with my own sound only louder so that I get a clear audible warning! Yes I can turn up the volume; but that makes other instructions too loud!

Amazon has dropped thier NuMaps Lifetime price again to $85.