Garmin talk

Hello all!! Extreme newbie here. Have had my nuvi 200 for less than a month and am thrilled with all I am able to do with it so far. But I need some help adding a new vehicle and voice. I have downloaded them directly to the device, and also to my PC poi files and then loaded them from that location.

I have about 300 or so songs on my SD card and I have the shuffle and repeat set on the Nuvi player. At times I have had the same song played several times within minutes of each other. I have checked for duplicate files...I guess the player does not eliminate the file from its shuffle once it plays?

anyone have a guess?

I have been looking at the csv files (POIs) to be downloaded for Garmin. It seems to me that the content of the individual wps only is a row with comma separated data in an Excel file and saved as a csv file. Or are there anything more "special" about the Garmin csv format?

Ever since I updated to 3.30 I had noticed that about every 3rd time I put my 765t in the cradle the voice was the non TTS "American English". I would go to settings to change the voice back to "Jack" and all TTS voices were missing but after turning off the unit and turning it back on only Jack & Jill had returned. I looked at the files on the GPSr and all the voices are there.

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I was surprised that I couldn't find a forum for site related issues, but, Miss POI, if I overlooked it, please move this there.

Hey everyone i do believe that the traffic (NAVTEQ) is up and running in the Toronto Area again , I was out this evening before &pm and the icon was up on my 265wt hooray

I'm new at this GPS thing and I need some help. I have a nuvi 260 and I downloaded the rest area POI's. I'd like to set the alerts for the rest areas but I can't seem to find how to activate this feature. The nuvi 260 user manual seems to indicate that this feature is available...can't seem to get it to work.

After installing the combined RestArea POI file (RestAreasCombined) my new Nuvi 755 reboots once or twice a day. Any ideas?

Is there anyway to hook up the zumo 550 so that it can be heard through my bikes speakers and or intercom system? I have a 2008 H-D ultra classic electra glide.

Did anyone else see this article in the WSJ?

Garmin Ltd., a maker of global positioning systems, is seeing the effects of the world-wide economic slowdown.

The company said its fiscal fourth-quarter net income dropped 49% on falling revenue and margins, despite selling a higher number of GPS devices in the holiday period, which ended Dec. 27.

Have anyone see this message before?

I remember back around last April we were all trying to get our Garmin 7x0 to power up in the Navigational mode instead of the Mass Storage mode using a non Garmin power supply. And also while it is connected to the PC.

Garmin support is working on this for me, but wondering if anyone else has noticed the same problem.

So I keep my 760 attached to its mount 95% of time, so it has constant power. The other day my wife used it, and she said it was working fine.

I just downloaded 2 csv files (red light & speed cameras). Now I uploaded them to the POI loader, then loaded them onto my nuvi760. There was no sd card installed so I asume they went strait into the unit. I looked at the unit while it was loading the file & did not see any indication of it loading.

Hey guys, i got a nuvi 200 a few years ago and i seen the newer garmins now have a cleaner and more detailed look. (ex. nuvi 205 which even posts the speed limit of the streets) I was wondering if i can update the software of something to get the newer look on the gps??? Or am i stuck with this old model and just have to upgrade to a newer one later??? Thanks

Hello everybody!

I downloaded the IHOP poi file today and I get an error while trying to put it on my Garmin Nuvi 760 using POI loader.

"There is a data format error on line 2577 of file IHOP.csv. The data earlier in the file will be written, but no more data can be read from this file."

Anyone else have this error? Anything I can do about it?

I use a Streetpilot c550. I have loaded POIs on the SD Card. I have also loaded my primary POIs into the unit itself. The SD card has many large files and I use it when traveling outside my normal haunts. My question: When you insert the SD Card for use as a POI source what happens to the files that are loaded in the unit's internal memory?