Garmin talk

I have nuvi 350, and am using a TourGuide .csv for McDonalds. I have selected the option "prompted".
What I expected was a red banner indicating a store was in the area, what I am getting is 5 loud bongs along with the red banner.

Perhaps I missed understood what the option "prompted" means. Clarification would be appreciated as well as help to stop the "bongs" or limit them to one.

I got a nice vent mount for my Nuvi 750 to replace one whose vent progs broke, keep in mind...this is not a debate on window suction mounts, dashboard mounts, vent mounts, etc......the vent mount works for my situation.

I have two Garmin 750's. Gave one to my son and one for me. They are approximately 8 months old. Both units have battery issues. Has anyone else with 7XX series units had a battery problem?

I’ve got a DOA nuvi 780 that I bought on eBay. It works fine while plugged into car or computer but the internal battery only holds a charge for about 15 minutes. So I guess it’s not really DOA but it needs a heart transplant. Or maybe the correct analogy is a FAT transplant since the body uses fat to store energy like a battery. Kind of a gross analogy! A Chubby Nuvi???

How can I transfer Favorites from Nuvi 760 to Nuvi 765? If I copy Current.gpx from Nuvi 760 to Nuvi 765, will it work? I will appreciate your help.

I upload POI's in the cvs format, open them in MS Excel, then may edit them, save them and load them into my Garmin GPS, using garmin loader.

I prefer to use Corel's (wordperfect)quattro spreadsheet as oposed to Excel. Quattro opens and edits just fine. Has anyone tried using this, and had success.
Mike

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Just got my coupon book from Costco. They will be selling the 260 for $129 ($50 off) from Feb 9 - Mar 1. Only online.

I bought Nuvi 765T today. It is working fine in the car but when I tried to connect it to my PC, it is not being recognized. I have heard that hard rest fixes this problem.

Does anyone know to hard reset 765T?
I will appreciate your help.

I installed Training Center and then Mapsource, and then downloaded the new 2009.11 maps and installed them to my Nuvi. In the process the installer found Mapsource and installed the maps to it also, so I have full street level maps in Mapsource, not just the basemap.

I have a basic nuvi 250. As fas as I know it does not have any capability to support traffic alerts, But am I missing something? If I look at my avoidances screen, one of the things that I supposedly can avoid is "Traffic", See screen shot here: http://img220.imageshack.us/my.php?image=62664859ad6.jpg

How to display maps in Mapsource 6.15.3 after extracting mapsets from IMG file using GmapTool?

Thanks.

i have a problem my nuvi 5000.the msndirect adapter stop working. thing still powers up my unit but can't use any of msndirect. it acts like i do not have the msndirect plug in. it acts like i have the normal plug in and not the msn plug. what can i do to fix it?

nuvi 5000 and nuvi 200w
( life time maps )

I am planning to buy Nuvi 765T. Has anyone tried Nuvi 765T on Toronto highways noticed 3D Lane Assist working?
I will appreciate your feedback.

i just updated to the life time maps for my nuvi 5000 and now when it loads it says 2008,NAVTEQ ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 2008 ,(C) 2007 DMTI SPATIAL INC what is this ???

nuvi 5000 and nuvi 200w
( lifetime maps )

I've thus far been selective on which POI files I've download from this site. But, I was just wondering .. suppose I weren't selective, suppose I took the time to download ALL POI files. Anyone have any idea as to how large of a ".POI" file POI Loader would create? Is there a maximum size? (I did not find anything on my search so my apologies if I missed it..)

I am in Arizona and I left my Nuvi 255 back in Florida.

I found out early on by reading the posts here, that if I wanted to use the mp3 player in my 765T, and still be able to have spoken proximity alerts for some of my custom poi's, that I needed to use the wav and sox.exe approach.

If you have mp3 alerts, and are playing mp3's when the alert is triggered, the alert will attempt to play and fail, and the mp3 player will switch to the next track.

Well I've had it since Christmas, and have never heard the voice announce a street name or place by name. I flipped through the settings screens a few times trying to find an enable/disable option and did not. I do have the latest firmware version installed ...
Any advise?
Thanks!
Al in Seattle-

It seems Garmin is making GPS owners to go through hoops to get the free 60 day map updates.

My folks who registered their new Nuvi online and a friend of mine who did the online registration within 60 days were offered the 2009.1 map update, but at a cost of $69 for download or DVD.