Garmin talk

may sound silly but when i received my nuvi 255w , it seemed like it was packaged upside down with the unit laying in the bottom of the box .(the inner box was upside down from the way my 650 was packaged) my nuvi 650 came with the unit in a plastic bag too . this had nothing around it at all .

How do I move poi's from favorites on my Nuvi260w to my custom poi's? Is there software out there that will allow me to add info to current poi's?

Thanks in Advance.

Hawkeye

I have a very simple question (I think). I know how to create a route on my Nüvi 750. I have defined a start point, a via point and an end point and have saved that route.

Is it possible to update the Nuvi 200W to have a QWERTY keyboard.

I still have '08 maps and I will update for 2010, but the 200W still works really well and does everything I need - well, except the QWERTY keyboard.

If there is no QWERTY update for the 200W, then I will probably buy a new unit. The lack of QWERTY was my only complaint in the last 2 years of ownership.

Thanks!

Hi!
I have a Nuvi 270 which I find great (US model).
I successfully installed Japan City Navigator V8, and it displays Japanese language characters on the map perfectly. I set the language of the text and voice to Japanese, and it works great. However, there is no Japanese KEYBOARD option available from the list of languages. On the unit sold in Japan it certainly is available

I believe that the 2010.10 map update has broken Junction View on the 7x5 (at least on my end). Note: Junction View is referring to the brief photo-realistic view of the upcoming junction on your route & NOT the Lane Assist arrows at the upper left of the map screen.

When I load the TourGuide POI, they tend to repeat over and over the alert. The alerts work great, but I have had to remove many of the sound for POIs I have loaded and put in quieter sound alerts. Should it be repeating the sound alerts over and over again?

Just wanting to make sure I'm not missing something and know I can get a good explanation from people here.

thanks

Are there any way to add voice commands other than
those listed on Garmin updates?

I just got my new 400c and have been playing around with it.

I have noticed that the g2 Bluecharts on the 400c do not diaplay the Bouy/Marker numbers.

Such as can #8, or Daymarker #3 etc.

I have it set to display the "MOST" detail on the maps/charts and I zoom in as far as it will go and still no numbers.

This is a serious problem if you are using it for any sort of navigation.

I'd possibly be interested in subscribing to lifetime updates provided that Mapsource City Navigator as well as the GPS gets updated as well.

Has anyone any experience with this?

How many people got the white screen on their garmin?

..and how much did it take to get it fixed.

I am new to GPS and noticed my garmin Nuvi 760 didn't have an awful lot of good POI's. I just downloaded all the Walmart locations in the U.S. and now don't understand how to get them onto my device? When it was done downloading it created an excel file. How do I get these loaded onto the GPS device? Thanks to anyone who can help?

Saw this posted on another forum today and thought this was pretty good news for those of us who purchased the lifetime maps and for those who were trying to decide if they should.

"For those like myself who are wondering about Lifetime Update and lost/stolen or defective systems and transfers, here's what I just got from Garmin (direct quote):

Does anyone know how good the coverage is? Can you type in an address and have it direct you to that point? I was looking at the Nuvi 275t or the 270. I plan on traveling in Germany, Belgium, Switzerland,Sweden, Poland and Denmark.

So is the final verdict that the American text is hard-coded in the firmware and you need to switch to the British English text file to be able to change the warning text displayed when the 760 turns on?

thanx,
mike

Found an issue with the 2D section in the SRFBldr and fixed it. I Also added an Unsharp Mask to give the pics more definition when the re-sampling blurs it too much.

Garmin making it's move in the Auto world

http://www.gadgetell.com/tech/comment/garmin-expanding-to-of...

Didn't know this about my 250W. If you don't click agree at start up and then don't even click view maps, it will switch to map view after you start to move. I did know that the warning agreement will go away same as my 330 but I always had to click view map on that model. Makes for one less button to click when you head out.

Bob

My dad about a month ago bought a nuvi 255w after I reccomended it to him. For a month it worked fine until I moved back to Michigan and tried to make it better for him. First, I registered it for him on the Garmin site. We found out it was eligible for the updated 2009 map so I did that for him. The next thing I did was to install the Eco deal off the web site. Kinda fun to play with.

Greetings,

Besides the new 2010 Garmin City Navigator map being available, a new GTMxx firmware update is available for traffic receivers, at least for my nuvi 7x0 series:

Changes from version 5.30 to version 5.50:
Enhance subscription activation process to support subscriptions that apply to multiple countries.