Garmin talk

I finally decided to purchase a new Nuvi to replace my trusty old 350 whose backlight has gotten dim over the years (anyone try to replace the backlight?). Anyway, I wound up buying 255 and 1490T refurbs within a week of each other. I immediately upgraded the map on the 255 (stupid me, because I know update will probably show up before my 60 days), but am holding off on the 1490T.

I managed to load Canad Topo on my new HP laptop runnning Windows 7 just letting the disk do the autoinstall. Tried to do same with Metroguide Canada, kept getting a message indicating same version of maps installed. Went to Garmin support and they gave me instructions to remove references in config file but after several calls and attempts it won't load.

I just got a 765T and am paired with Samsung SGH747.
However, my phonebook is not visible. It worked fine on the 660. Can anyone help me on this?

I created a route using Map Source...saved it (both gpx and gdb at various times) and the sent it to the Nuvi...the route shows absolutely correctly on MS and when I tried to show it on the Nuvi it routes me on highways rather than scenic route I chose...if I click on the file in the Nuvi and tell it to open with MS the route shows as I've drawn it...needless to say...I am thrilled

I know that several of you have the Garmin-compatible Arizona topo map from GPSFileDepot...and if you're like me, you don't check for updates too often. The AZ topo was updated March 10, 2010 to v2 with the following changelog:

Version 2.00 (10 Mar 10)

■Reduced the number of map segments from 68 to 46

I've been having problems with my 885. This will be my 3rd one I'm sending back, at this rate I can buy a new TOM TOM soon.I will NEVER get another Garmin. I'm DONE!

Costco just dropped the price of the Nuvi 1490T to $249.95 in their warehouse. An additional $20 since yesterday. I just picked one up and wow....It is really great. Everything about it is better to me than the 7XX series. It doesn't have MP3 or FM transmitter but I never used them anyway. It has blue tooth and picture viewer and many more new items in my opinion.

I have a Nuvi 755T. I saved a location via the "Where Am I" function. I came back to the Nuvi later and I tried to find the Lat/Long coordinates of the site I saved. I can not find any way of getting the coordinates.

Is there any way that the Nuvi will tell me the coordinates?

How do you go about updating the maps in different units using the same computer? Wouldn't downloading two or more map updates to the same computer over write one another. I know that you have to have a separate Numaps activation number for different units as the map updates are tied to each unit.

Once I joined up I spent hours touring through the available POI files and sorting them into folders to add to my 780.

I download almost every redlight camera file as they are released and update my nuvi probably about every 6 weeks or so for that specific redlight file. If I see a new camera loaded for my area I always update with that release.

Thought I would post this.

The 855 did it again today. It not only switched from Jack, which I normally use to Jill, it also switched my coordinate format from DD MM.MMM to DD.DDDDDD. I called Garmin and their tech support said they were working on several software bugs, but they said I was the first one to report the problems I'm having.

how do i update my gps with current red light camera locations

Does anyone know when the Map Source Beta will be released as a final version, or update?

I just bought a Garmin Nuvi 205 and ordered a map update (nüMaps Onetime City Navigator North America NT 2010). The email states the disk will not be here for 4-6 weeks. I was thinking that since the Nuvi 205 maps are already 2010.1 that I might just put the update onto my Garmin StreetPilot 2730, which has older maps.

Hi. Tried to search the forum for this but kept ending up back at the main search uh, place.
Question:
Is it possible to re-download Mapsource from Garmin? I cleverly deleted it and the icon while chasing down another problem (Norton. Deleted that and went to Vipre, problem solved) and now can't figure out how to get it back.
Help?
Thanks
Freep.

how do I load pois on my nuvi 260W?
Thanks a lot for your help
Trobador

Does anyone know if the Nuvi 765T is being discontinued? On the Garmin site it still shows but when you choose the wide screen filter block on the left side it does show up there. There have been many problems with this unit and I am wondering if Garmin is finally admitting it by discontinuing the model.

I downloaded different sounds for alerts to go with the red light cams and speed cams POIs -- but i can't get them to work.

I'm going back packing for 16 days and I have plotted my route using between 120 and 150 waypoints for each day. Each day is held in a separate .gpx file but how an I use these on my Oregon 300 without reconnecting to a computer during the trip?