Garmin talk

when you update your garmin gps does about three or four times a year does it fill up your hard drive on your gps?

again thanks in advance to all of those experts who can help this redneck with my dummie questions - using the POI LOADER to install poi's on my nuvi 350 -WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN Garmin Device / mapsource(advanced) / custom folder(advanced)

I don't know how many of the Nuvi people already know about this, but here's a site I ran across on another forum.

http://snipurl.com/garmin_gps_tricks

Hi,

Curious as of how to read the signal strength screen to my nuvi 350. Particularly interested in the circle with satellites on it on the left. I see a red dot on the outer circle... Where am I in relation to this - am I the red dot -or in the center of the circle?

Also why does the gps unit need 4 satellites for triangulation. Doesn't "tri"angulation mean "3"?

TIA,

--Rob

I recently bought a nuvi 350, which is my very first car GPS unit. I am also new to this forum. I noticed that Garmin uses and announces many county road (CR) names instead of rea; street names. This is quite odd, since most people use the posted real street name instead of the CR numbers. It's quite confusing. Have you had this problem with nuvi, do other GPS product have the same problem?

Hi

I have started a project to create railroad crossing poi's.I know its a big task but after hearing some people getting killed at these crossings, i though it would be a good ideas to have these poi's with alerts like you would have your speed traps and redlight camera alerts.But i wanted to know if these poi's exist?I tried looking for a list of crossings online for research but haven't found any.

Is there only one voice able to be used on the 760? I'm not seeing where different voices can be selected. Am I missing it, or is there only one voice available?

Did I read a note from Miss POI last night about the way this site should be, informative, and kind to each other's questions. I tried to find it today and could not find it. If I did read it, I thank her. If you are asking a question about the 2009 update, you don't want to feel that you are dumb. As of right now, their are about 465 Q&A about the update.

Hello

I installed my new maps 2009 maps a few weeks ago. My 750 freezes a few times a week now.

what I have done so far is a master rest. I removed all the custom POI's I have loaded.

I will run it for a while and monitor it. It seems to freeze just after an alert I think. If it does not freeze again, I know it's the custom POI.

Does the c340 have mp3 capability, or am I wasting my time downloading sound files along with the csv and bmp files.
It wasn't clear from the tutorial, but do I need to edit either the csv or the bmp so they have exactly the same name (other than extension of course)? For example I D/L'd Cracker-Barrel.csv and Cracker Barrel_0.bmp from this site. Do they need to match?

Ken

A couple of weeks ago My Nuvi updated to something like version 3.10 I had neglected to update sooner, oops!

well I wanted to see if I noticed any differences before I asked you all if you know of any differences. well,

I don't really see any differences.
DO you all know what the update included, or did?

Thanks.

Thanks in advance to those who can help - I am both new to this site and new to use of downloaded POI's - I recently downloaded both Flying J truck stops and Rest Areas combined into my NUVI 350 - while traveling I did not recieve an alert tone that i was approaching these poi's - should i have also downloaded and installed the alerts from the sites / and if so how do i set proximity range / the a

Hello, this may not be the right site to ask this question but here goes.

Purchased & later returned the Garmin external mic ($15.00) bought at BestBuy. It was my hope it would improve BlueTooth usage,(echo on my end) yet results were just about equal with or without. Perhaps if a user was in a VERY noisy environment it "might" be useful, BUT then you wouldn't hear "them" thru your speakers LOL

I've got a POI CSV file successfully loaded onto the GPS, but how do I add a custom icon to display with the POI data?

What do you have your Backlight timer set on?
I have my Nuvi 350 set to Always On.

I have a simple question about the 2009 map update but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. It seems to me that the update does not remove the older map but rather adds a newer map also. But on my nuvi 680 I can't load the entire 2009 map because I don't have enough room. Is this correct? Why isn't the older map simply replaced by the newer map to conserve space?

Greetings all,

I recently purchased a Nuvi 360, which I am finding myself a little disappointed with. The performance is great thus far, it's taken me where I want to go and got me there without fail.

The gripes I have with it as as fellows: