Garmin talk

Where/what do I need to mount my C330 on my Harley Sportster? I know, I know, C330 is NOT waterproof and NOT recommended for bike use.

I am new here, but this site is so helpful I thought I'd best contribute. After much confusion, I have discovered that the Nuvi 660 WILL categorize POI's in the Custom POI list."

Thank you all for indulging this new GPS owner (Nuvi 360) in his quest for knowledge!!!

If I upload a list of custom POI's (e.g.- US hospitals) from this site, or others, and the information is duplicated in the factory preloaded POI's, does that create a problem, or does the poi icon simply display and show up twice?

I don't want to upload this list if it will create navigation confusion!! But hey, I'm new at this and don't understand the technical side yet.

I have a Nuvi 660 and a Treo 700p which work together well with bluetooth with one exception: When a call comes in the Nuvi caller ID screen displays the last call ID, not the current one. It is like it is reading from the call history file. The phone has the correct caller ID but not the Nuvi.

Anyone else experience this? Except for this minor bug the unit is really great.

Tonight, my nuvi 350 suddenly lost all detail in it's maps (North America version 8). It got stuck in a loop where it would say "calculating" on the screen (but no percent indicator of it's progress), the voice would say "recalculating" and then immediately "please drive to highlighted route", and then immediately "recalculating" again since there wasn't actually a highlighted route to follow. I tried resetting, and that didn't do anything at all.

I have a Nuvi 360 and noticed that the only POI's that show up on the screen (e.g. gas stations, stores, etc- not streets or neighborhoods) are the ones i added to favorites, and not the preloaded POI's. Any way to get the ones that came with Nuvi to show up during routine navigation like the Magellans do?

Thanks,
Ken

I've noticed that the Garmin c340 has a Speedometer and tells you your current speed as your traveling down the highway. From what I've seen it tends to be fairly accurate. I do have a quick question about it.

On the Round Speed Gauge with the needle, I've noticed that it hads a few brown lines inside the circle gauge that as you go along the side they start turning Red. Do these Red Bars mean your speeding, do they change position as the posted speed limit changes? just wondering haven't had

Hi everyone, I would like to purchase a coiled car charger on e-bay that charges my c530 thru the usb port instead of the bottom charge port.Would this be safe to do? I like the idea of the neater coiled cable and the ease of connecting to the usb port.
Thanks for any help,
Joe.

Hello... Will I be able to update the mapping software on my StreetPilot i5 for free? How often will the map updates be available? I always would want to have the most up to date streets and what not you know... Thanks so much....

I haven't fount out how to direct POI loader to put the POI's on the SD card. what am I missing?

Hi..... I've been using GPS's for a while now and I really love what they can do... My last GPS was a Garmin eTrex Summit. I recently came across the Garmin StreetPilot i5, and it seems to be getting wonderful reviews... Do you guys recommend this unit? Should I be worried that it does not have a SiRF Star III receiver? Thanks so much for everyones help.....

What's the maximum number of POI's you can have installed on nuvi 350? Anyone run into limitations? I'm only at 12,000 right now and it doesn't even seem to blink at that amount.

I don't see any difference when I select map with more or most details. It appears same in normal or most detail mode. What is the difference in normal or most?

I will appreciate your help.

Only had this about a week and loving it. I did notice that WAAS was turned off by default. Is there some reason for this? I know with the older units, having WAAS enabled takes a little more CPU time and can make calculations much slower. With this new nuvi I figured the extra CPU hit would be trivial.

So, is there any reason to disable WAAS when navigating city roads with this model?

Hey what do you all think of this?

http://www.garmin.com/products/nuvi680/

I think it's pretty cool but I could live without the MSN Direct thing.It is nice that they are throwing in the service for one year with the purchase of the unit. After that I wouldn't pay for that.I my opinion it's not worth the monthly cost.

Found differences between the DVD and the maps inside my GPS (Streetpilot c530).
I requested the DVD to load waypoints back and forth between my computer and GPS. As others have experienced, they shipped the DVD at no charge (tech support said he wished they had included them with the units as they get many calls for them). When I loaded the DVD onto my PC (updated mapsource to latest version over web), I looked for my home street(under find addresses). It wasn't there but it does show in the map. On my c530, it is shown and also can be found. Also, one of my local Wal-Marts is mispositioned on the GPS (about 1 mile East), but the DVD shows it correctly positioned.

My C530 has some occasional drawing problems, which nobody at Garmin tech-support has ever heard of. I've posted a couple times here, and only one person had a similar experience, and for them it only happened once (also in Oregon).

Does everybody's C530 *always* update the map as they drive along, with no exceptions? Has anybody with a C530 ever spent enough time in Portland Oregon to drive all over town and see how the model performs?

To All

The Garmin site offers a download called "ximage". This can be found on the "support and download' page.

On the Garmin c340 "ximage" allows one to download and change the splash screen. It also allows the download the current screen image, if one wanted to do a show-n-tell.

The help information says "ximage" can add waypoints, but that was not an option for the c340. Perhaps on some of the more advanced models one can add waypoints.

Is there a way to set the Garmin to default to the map page instead of the main menu when it boots up. I like having the moving map each time I turn on the car, but get annoyed with having to select View Map each time I turn on the car and the GPS turns on.

Hey everyone,

After a long drawn out research project to find the GPS for me I decided on the Garmin c530. Other notable mentions go to the Garmin c330, c340, c550 and others. The c530 was best for my budget - bought it at The Source for $429.00 Canadian (on sale) - my wife is already amazed at what it can do. She hates driving in unknown territory and I have to give her directions all the time. So now she can take this with her and never get lost....I hope!