Garmin talk

Hi guys, I just bought the garmin nuvi 50 lm today and when i was trying it out, i found something wrong with it. I entered a destination for somewhere only 30 mins away at around 11:50 AM today, but the arrival time says that i will arrive at my destination at 10 PM. How can i fix this?

Can I ask - How do you turn the annoying voice off, I wish to keep the alerts on, but get rid off the annoying woman who cannot pronounce Road names correctly.

Have purchased a NUVI 50LM, my first Garmin in 9 years and am slowly working out how it all works - had Tomtoms for 9 years before they got cheap on the manufacture and started using crappy processors, software and touch screens.....

I'm working my way through getting my nuvi 260w "upgraded" (read do what it should have been doing all along, but its owner isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer).

I needed to convert some .wav files to 16-bit mono .wav files and I came across SoundConverter. It worked great for me. I used the Mac version, but I noticed there is a PC version also.

Recently I had to reinstall Windows on the computer that I use to load my Garmin GPSr. I went to get the latest copy of POI loader from the Garmin website, but when I tried to install it, it informed me that I needed Media Player 11 or newer on the computer to install it.

Im new at this so I may be doing something really silly,

Well,

I think I've tried everything. Can't get to my Custom POIs via voice command and can't create a Shortcut to them either. I don't like how deep they are buried in my new 2595 menu. Has anyone found a way to get to them without having to press 6 buttons?

I downloaded a four second steam train whistle .wav file to use as a general alert sound for several of my custom poi. I changed the .wav file name in each instance to the exact wording of the .csv and .bmp file for each poi.

Looks like this has been out for a few days. It's probably available for similar units as well.

Changes made from version 7.70 to 7.80:
Fixed an error that caused demo mode to work improperly.

Thought that I should give everyone a little warning if you are planning on buying the Europe maps DVD. There seems to be a problem at Garmin that rejects the product code and prevents you from loading the maps. Dealt with their support for over a half hour and the finally said that they were having problems at their end and should have it resolved sometime in May.

I posted this question for help on the GPS Reviw Net as well.

When I downloaded my latest map, it used a piece of excrement called Garmin Express. The map was installed into my 2555LMT, but not into MapSource. Is there a way to get the current map into MapSource? BTW, I had to uninstall Garmin Express because it was tying up my internet connection too much.

I uploaded a POI file that has 135 POI into my Garmin 1490T.

When I go into the POI file to verify, only about 40 are showing up.

Is this normal as the device will only show POI in a certain proximity to my current location or do I have a different problem?

thanks

While this might be purely coincidental, it seems like my home computer has been sort of unstable after I installed Garmin Express. Has anybody else here noticed this? Maybe I am way off base and this is just a coincidence. Anyway, I have uninstalled Garmin Express and I will see what happens.

I have had Garmin GPS units for several now. Just recently I started to wonder about the Detour function. I guess I have really never used it much. I tried doing a search here, but I really didn't find what I was looking for. Anyway, how does it work? How does it determine what part of your route to detour from?

I just found out something which has me curious.
Since I spend the winter in Mexico I have my 855 plugged in to a 12 volt 22 amp stand alone motorcycle battery which is also continously connected to a 12 volt 2 amp trickle charger.
About once an hour the charger shows me it is charging.
Just how much juice does an 855 draw from the small replacable battery?

Trying to find POI's for Super 8 motels. By typing that into the search nothing shows up.
I suppose that means there is none?

I think I know the answer, but has anyone had the problem of the speed camera alert warning (synthesized voice) getting stuck if it gives multiple warnings for the same location? Example, beep beep beep...start slowing downnnnnn spppppppppeeeeeeedd camera aheeeeeeeeeeeadddddd". Only way to reset it is to restart the GPS. Only happens on my Nuvi 255.

I travel for work across the Midwest. Many of my visits are very rural. Some one stole my last Garmin 2 weeks ago but I had to go out this week. Bought what was available at shopko. 50 lm

Can I change the alert distances on my nuvi 260w? When I open my proximity points screen it appears the only option is single or continuous tone; can I set the distances so as to make the rest area poi more effective?

Thanks in advance for sharing your expertise.

Garmin continues to rely on NAVTEQ and if they were to do the research all on their own, I can see it would take a long time, but I'm displeased with how long it takes them to update easily verified POI information.

At some point, we need off-line(not dependent on cellular) map with something with user vouched system like Google Mapmaker.