Garmin talk

Recently my 660 has been acting weird. It doesn't tell me to turn within 500ft or turn left when it is time to turn. It outlines it of course on the map, but it won't tell me to turn at all. It does however tells me to turn on Smith Drive within a mile and that is it. Of course when Smith Drive is approaching nothing. If I miss the turn it tells me recalculating. I am lost literally (LOL).

I havent found any info on this. If I already have added my own POIs. Then lets say, I wanted to add Rest Stop POIs later. Do I have to delete all my POIs and then add them all back again, or can I just add the Rest Stop POI stuff to what is already on the unit? Would constructing the POIs into categories (individual folders) enable me to just add, or edit a mp3 alert on the unit?

I have a Nuvi 785T with the 2010.10 map and every now and then I get the "your map is over a year old" does anyone else get this?

Hi All,

First post here. I'm running a Garmin Nav that's built into my Kenwood DNX9140. I have the red light & speed cameras POI installed. It plays the sound, but no icon displays. I used the Garmin POI Loader to get things going.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this issue?

My garmin always routes me to my house using a route that is longer than necessary. When I tried the same route on mapquest, the route is similiar to garmin. the problem i realised is that the maps are not recognizing a road that is physically there and being used, hence it is routing you a different way.

I know I have to have my POI's in structured folders, examle

Custom POI\Category (such as food, shopping, etc)

but can I also have subfolders such as

Custome POI\Category\subCategory (such as Fast Food, Discount Stores, etc)

Thanks,
Carol

I am a noobie. I have no problem updating my POI's, but when it comes to attaching a custom sound to them, I am lost. I have read the instructions many times and understand that if I my file is named redlight-camera.csv … then I must name the MP3 file … redlight-camera.mp3...However, how do I tell what my file is named? My downloaded file tells me that it is Redlight-Cameras.csv.

I lost all the favorites in my Garmin nüvi 350 due to a unit reset, and have no recent backup

I ran a file recovery utility on the GPS drive unit but couldn't find any bits of a previous current.gpx file where favorites are stored.

Has anyone faced the same problem and found a solution (better file recovery maybe) ?

Hello. I am new here. Thouth this websit say it is related to POI, I found a lot of useful issues beyond that. That's why I want to raise my question here.

Just curious, for those of you who backup your units files before doing an update or loading new maps, how many previous backups do you keep on your computer? Do you just keep the last one and delete all the previous ones? I have kept all of mine, but just checking the folder and I realized it's quite large in size.

Thanks,
Carol

When I used Navteq's traffic service, it was easy to determine which radio frequency my GPS was using for updates (ie 101.5, etc).

I now use MSN (much better traffic updates in Toronto). How do I view which radio frequency my GPS is receiving, to give me updates?

Can someone please advise me which Traffic provider works best in Toronto. I live in Ajax and commute along the major highways like Highway 401 etc. I have the Garmin 765T and it came with the lifetime traffic, however, I know that there is also MSN traffic and another one (i forgot the name)....does someone have experience with the various traffic providers for Garmin GPS in Toronto area?

I have another question, my SD card came formated as FAT, I want to format as either FAT32 or NTFS, will the Garmin 765T read NTFS? or should I format as FAT32?

I truly love my Garmin but every now and then something happens to make me wonder, does it love me back. Thought I would start a thread on that bases. So.....

I love my Garmin ,but, I just can't seem to get rid of the map Lag in 3D mode. - I learning to live with it.

CompUSa is offering the 255w for $99.99

Hi everybody,

Today I got to see a brief flash of the lane assist and then it went away. I did notice that there are more arrows shown in the top left corner to tell you what lane you ought to be in. Or maybe I didn't notice them on the 265WT.

I don't see any 3D buildings. Maybe there's something I have to enable to see them.

I notice that some POIs are only available in GPX format. I don't understand the difference between GPX and CSV. Will they both work on my Nuvi265W/

So far I have not been able to find out what the maximum number of categories for poi's are for the Zumo 550.

I have just bought a Garmin 765t. I want to add some mp3s to it. There is no mp3 folder showing up on the explorer window, nor a sub folder either. It is suppose to play mp3s, but there are none in the unit. Where do I put my own? Do I have to create a mp3 folder? If so, where?