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C550 and proximity alarms

I downloaded a redlight camera poi into my c550. It shows up under the Custom poi section, just fine. Now according to the manual for these to work I need to change the system settings to enable 'proximity alarms'. Also, according to the manual it states that option is only visible when a custom poi has been loaded.

Strange but good

I have a NUVI 350. It likes to take me down a "local" street that I prefer not to travel (to small).

I changed the vehicle from the "car" to the "truck" and it no longer routes me down that local street.

Has anyone else seen that happen?

NUVI 350 owner

Nuvi 350, travelling time

When Nuvi is set to go a place, it displays projected time (arriving time) to the destination. Is it possible to display remaining time rather?

Wow, talk about reception

Was running errands today and put my nuvi 660 in the arm rest pocket of my Sequoia - the lower deep pocket - at one of my stops but left it on as usual to avoid start up delay. Well, I forgot to pull it out and was driving down the road when I heard a warning bell deep in the arm rest pocket. I realized it was the alarm for a redlight camera intersection I was approaching.

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Mark E

how to delete pois that have moved or closed ( stores, resturants etc)

This weekend I came across a few pois that have moved or closed. Is there a way to delete these so i dont end up wasting my time driving to a store that has moved, without waiting for an update for my nuvi 660.

Headphone Jack Longevity

Having just bought a Nüvi 310, that is "As quiet as a Whispered Prayer" :-(, it's looking likely that I'm going to have to connect it to external speakers, in some form or another.

The question is: how robust is that Headphone Jack? - Does anyone have experience of plugging and unplugging it on a daily basis?

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------------------------ Phil Hornby, Stockport, England ----------------------               http://GeePeeEx.com - Garmin POI Creation made easy           »      

2720 showed location to be off route

Has anyone had this happen? Was running a route that I made using MapSource,US64and US13 in eastern NC, Was on the road I was supposed to be on but the gps showed I was way off to the side(maybe a quarter mile), but it showed the road I had plotted on the screen highlighted so I know the road wasn't to new to be on the mapversion8 that I have. Just wandering why.

C330 Hanging up

Has anyone else had trouble with the C330 hanging up every 5 or 10 minutes. Haning where you have to do a reset and in 10 minutes its hung again. I was using the Map feature no the where to, when this happened it was showing where I was on the road and the speed then it just hung while I was moving.

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Larry Meyer

Loading pois + directory easy question

I have a C330 have not yet tried to load any pois in. Do the cvx files (once all put in computers same directory to ready for loading) have a heading/directory built in so they show up in the "custom pois" as different directories on my garmin...such as restaurants/red lights/speedtraps and so forth Cam

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Ontario Firefighter (for now...almost retired - Going in April 08...lifelong holiday!!!)

FM Traffic is it worth it in Atlanta?

I just recently purchased a used Nuvi 660, but it did not come with the traffic receiver. I love the nuvi, but wondering if it worth the 150+ cost for the FM plug. I live on the north side of Atlanta. The traffic sucks here so bad, that the alternates that I know of are always backed up anyway?

So Atlanta users is it worth your wild or did you re-up your subscription?

Squatch

Blown Fuse in Adapter?

I bought one of those 3-legged dashboard mounts for my c330. The power adapter has stopped working. I notice on the adapter plug is a little tag that says "replacement fuse F2A H 250V". But is the fuse replaceable? I can't tell where it lives.

-Tom

topo maps? on nuvi

I saw a post where they said they had the 2Gb topo maps installed... what is this and what does it get you?

Having a Forest Gump moment..

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Texan Brit

How do you orient your map?

I find that I like to set my map to have North UP and not the other two options - 3D or car going up all the time.

If North is up I am less likely to get confused as to where I am heading... but how do you like it?

Ike with a Nuvi 350

SUCCESS - c530 volume increased, thanks RT

If any owners of a c530 would like an increased volume setting, please read this:

Well, the saga of increasing the volume setting on my c530 had a successful ending.

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Garmin Nuvi 750 & c530 with RT's vol. mod., Vulcan Nomad

Mapsource Custom Icon Library

I was wondering if there would be any interested in compiling a Mapsource Custom Icom "Library". My thought is that although we already have .bmp files for many of the POI files, perhaps we would want to create a "libary" of custom icons that we could use with our Mapsource software. I know that you can have up to 64 custom icons and it might be nice to share them with other users.

C330 UPDATES

Garmin has some new Up-Dates for the C330.

Web Updater
Software up-date
audio up-date

Up-Date was easy, and so far No problems with any of them.

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TRACY

location and elevation off

I've had my Nuvi 350 for a couple of weeks now. Today, it is acting a wacky. On my way to work, it consistently showed my driving on the next road over. It also showed my altitude as -90 ft and it should be around 1100 ft. I cycled the power several times and it was better, but still off.

POI Loader software version 2.4.1

POI Loader Software Version 2.4.1

Click here to download

It doesn't say if there are any differences between Version 2.4.1 and Beta Version 2.4.0.1

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------------------------ Phil Hornby, Stockport, England ----------------------               http://GeePeeEx.com - Garmin POI Creation made easy           »      

Nuvi 360 vs Nuvi 660 screen

I bought a Nuvi 660 and absolutely love it. The screen is really bright and easy to see in the day. I later bought a Nuvi 360 for my other car and have been disappointed with the screen. Don't get me wrong, the screen is still day viewable and better than most other GPS units, but is no where close to brightness of the Nuvi 660. Is it just mine, or are they all that way?

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OutdoorGuy27 Nuvi 660, Nuvi 360, Legend Cx, StreetPilot III & eMap

Favorite Garmin TTS Pronunciation/Mis-pronunciation

I am using Daniel right now. He seems clearest to me, and it's as close as I'll ever get to having an English butler.

My favorite thing so far is how he says Boolevaad.

But my street is Catalina (Cat-a-LEAN-uh). Daniel says it cat-AL-ina.

In general, he has trouble with spanish based words. Names that start La he says Lay.

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TomTom built in and Garmin Nuvi 1490T. Eastern Iowa, formerly Southern California "You can check out any time you like...but you can never leave."