Garmin talk

OK So I had one POI file running in my Garmin nuvi660.
Over the holidays since we were traveling up the interstates, I decided to load the rest stop and speed trap POIs. Well, now that I did that, the original POI files dont work !

Any ideas ?

I am finaly in an area where my free 1 year MSN trial works. I receive all the weather, traffic, gas prices and movie times just fine. The porblem I ran into is that the mail screen displays a "thunder storm" icon. When I touch it, it says "no matches found". Then if I touch the bottom corner to view my next turn while navigating, it also selects the thunderstorm icon.

I've been looking at the Garmin Nuvi 5000 as a possible future replacement for my sp7200. I'm just looking at the moment.

Does anyone have any actual hands-on experience with one?

If I have POI's loaded on my Nuvi, and want to update them via an SD card, will they replace the existing ones, or just add to whatever's there?
thanks.

I treated my self to a Christmas present and bought a Garmin Nuvi 265WT. This is my first GPS unit and I must say that I love it. I didn't know the first thing about them so I did some extensive research and I am very pleased with my choice of unit.

Well I found a article about Garmin putting new route feature on select Garmins called ecoRoute. You can download it for free if you have a compatible Nuvi, check it out here:

http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/us/services/ecoRoute#f...

would like to know how to remove custom pois off of extras on the 660 thanks

Just heard on the 5:30 pm news that all of the speed cameras here in Arizona are now set to trip over 11 mph ,,,Boy how nice they can be 1 more mph,, they said it will help to off set the inconsistency of the cameras. What a scam....

I have a Garmin Nuvi 770 and I can't seem to get the POI's to show on my active route map. Does anyone out there know a fix for this problem? ( I have been able to display POI's, if I touch the map and go into the explore mode, but even then I have to zoom way in to even get that to work) Thanks!!!!!!!!

I was wondering if anybody else ran into this issue. When i have my mp3 player playing and proximity alerts pop up, the mp3 advances 1 song . THIS HAPPENS EVERYTIME, NOT JUST SOMETIMES. I let garmin know and they told me they will look into it.

Edmunds reported that an anouncement made by Garmin at the ICS show in Las Vegas that Garmin in Feb will be offering a free software update to the company's stand-alone personal travel assistance the Nuvi 205 and 705 series that will allow drivers to select the most fuel efficient rount and to track their fuel useage.

Just purchased the Nuvi 260. Started with Tom Tom One 125. Kept finding map inaccuracies. Also, the window mount constanly fell off the window. It was an ok unit, but I like the Garmin much better. Problem: I drive many miles for my job, and I use the unit to see upcoming cross streets.

From the MSN Direct site; "To receive the new Flight Status and Doppler Weather Maps features on your navigation device, you need to download a software update from Garmin WebUpdater which will be made available soon."

Looks like those with at least the 7x5 series might get the enhancements. When the 800 series was annouced those with 700 series were able to get those enhancments!

I'm sorry posting such nubish questions in advance but this is what led to them.

I bought my Garmin Nuvi 760 at Costco and it didn't come with any software. I kinda had to educate myself on loading poi's and updating the software on the device. I read somewhere that extra maps can be loaded on the 760 using Mapsouce.

The nubish questions are as follows:

What is Mapsource?

Ok, so I am a little confused. I got a nuvi 200 for Christmas, and I am playing with trying to use custom POIs. I think I have the part of loading them directly onto the device and organization and all that down. Is there a way to have them stored on an external SD card and just read by the device, rather than having them load into the device's memory?

I live in Toronto Canada. Whenever I am driving on 401 in Toronto area, my Nuvi 760 can not determine if I am in express lanes or collectors when I have selected a route. Sometimes as per GPS route I should be in collectors but I go into express lanes. But my 760 can not figure it out that I am in express lanes. My old C330 figures it out very fast that I switched to differnt lanes.

When i hit the Garmin Online prompt on my GPS and select active subscriptions, i get :
Safety Camera Trial
Traffic: US
Traffic: Europe
Fuel Prices: US
Flight Status
Local Search (they use google)
Photo Navigation
and activations i get :
Free Subscription
with a large Activate button with a visit garmin to get your activation key etc.

I have been editing my voice files with TTSVoiceEditor software. There are many voice files that I will never use. Does anyone know if removing those extra unused files will make more room for CustomPOIs while not having a negative impact on operation??

After several months of loading custom poi's using Garmin's POI loader I am now unable to load anything. This seems to have started after updating the firmware to revision 4.60. When I load the poi's in express or manual mode, when I get to the last poi the screen says complete very quickly.

I asked this of Garmin as question 2 of 2 but they only answered question #1.

Do you know if it is possible to have the nuvi 255 screen orient itself properly in zoom out mode when traveling?