Garmin talk

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So a long time ago I was on here and received the Red Light POI file as well as a few other good POI's. There were on a computer that's drive failed. Is there any way to retrieve those custom POI's off my C330 so I can install them onto my new Nuvi 250W?

Bob

Hi all- I just added custom POI's to my 780. I used the Garmin loader and it added them but I am not seeing the accompanying logos I downloaded with the POI's when viewing the map. Any help appreciated.

New User...i searched for an answer and could not find, please forgive me if it's obvious.

Just wondering if there is a reason that the nuvi 265 wt isn't able to give speed limit alerts everywhere on the map. Is this something more available in the states? I live in Vancouver and never get speed limit alerts.

I have a new Nuvi and I was making the trek home from DC yesterday in the HOV lanes and the GPS kept prompting me to exit the commuter lanes and get into the "main" lanes. Why is that? Any way around it? Not that I followed its instructions, but I'm sure some people might.

thanks

Ok, I have read almost all the posts I can find on the subject, read the manual, etc.

and still I can NOT get my Garmin Zumo 450 to find any of my music files and play them.

I have a 4GB SD card in the unit. I created an MP3 foler (like there is one on the Garmin unit itself).

Copied a bunch of .mp3 files to that directory. and the garmin doesn't find them.

Garmin posted new screenshots of the nuviphone in action today.

http://www8.garmin.com/buzz/nuvifone/media_gallery.jsp

Scroll to the bottom of the page. The screens look similar to iPhone screens but with a better map navigation page. I still don't know if this is going to be too little, too late for Garmin as the iPhone is a much more versatile handheld computer.

I loaded walgreen's custom pois to my Garmin Nuvi 760.. When I turn it on, go to where to, extras, it says custom pois... I hit customs pois and the walgreens come up.

Question: How do I go to extras and instead of custom poi's coming up, how do I get it to come up Walgreens???

Thanks

i will start by saying i am new to all this. i love my gps(garmin 660) i work for electric company and have to go out of town to help restore power in storms. question #1 is there a poi for bridge weights and overpass's. (ny,pa.mass.ohio,conn.) we drive trucks that are 13 feet high and weigh 10 to 30 tons many times our gps takes us ways we cant go because of underpass or low bridge weight.

I cannot delete custom poi files. I go to the poi loader and delete pois and then when I turn my garmin 760 on, their still there.

Thoughts

Ok, I'll be the first ... the first to confess that the first thing I do with a new Garmin GPS is disable the "Safe Mode" so that I can fiddle with the touch screen while I fly down the expressway ... both eyes on the road and my third eye on the GPS screen.

I uploaded a POI file to my Nuvi 205. The places are not displayed on the map when I drive. When I go to the menu and search the POIs, the file is there, and the locations are correct. Is there something I need to do to turn on displaying the POI?

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any advice from other 765T users, or any of the veterans here would be most appreciated.

I just returned from my Christmas holiday drive to South Carolina and back, and experienced some disturbing behavior from my 765T.

It rebooted itself 4 times during the 9-10 hour drive down, and twice on the way back.

I have a question regarding alerts. I have an Nuvi 850 and have installed several POI's from this site. They work as I can navigate to them and also they sound the alert if I am on the same road. My question is if I am on I-69 and going along the alerts do not sound for the "McDonalds, hotels or anything else that may only be 1/4 mile from the Interstate. Do POI's such as these not have a circular alert, say if you set your alert at 5000 ft and you pass within 1/2 mile of your POI. Is there a way to do this. Thanks indyjkraft

Just bought a Nuvi 250W to replace my old baseball sized C330. It still works but after updating one map over a year ago for $99.00 it made more sense to buy the Nuvi for $170.00. The C330 started to nag me about an update. Now I need to get my old POI files over which shouldn't be too hard although it doesn't mention custom POI's in the manual.

Bob

Where can I download speedcamera and redlight cameras for my Garmin 205W
for free?

If necessary I guess I could cough up the 5 bucks and donate to this site.
But, how good are the POI you download from here?
Shows what the correct speed is for the camera? Beeps if you go over the limit?

Thank you very much

Andrew

I have a Mio and you can have it show POIs on the map as you're driving around.

I used my new 255 today and it doesn't show any POIs on the map. Garmin has icons in the favorite area to add to the places you save but are icons something that Garmin Maps don't show? Only my "home" location has an icon on the map.

Is there a setting I'm missing to have them show?

That's right, what's the lifespan of our GPS units? I mean, we all know we can purchase updated maps but when do you cross the line where it's more economical to purchase a new unit rather than just the map update?

Updating to map 2009, anyone thinks it's worth it?