Garmin talk

Hi everyone,

I used my Drivesmart 61LMT for a long drive after long time. Due to COVID-19, we did not go anywhere and stayed in town. Finally we decided to get out of town and we drove to Sudbury Ontario from Toronto. It is about four hours drive and straight forward drive. Here is list of issues we experienced with Garmin device:

A possible (and new) article of interest for those considering or already owning a Garmin Zumo XT can be found at https://advrider.com/getting-started-with-garmin-zumo-xt/

there's a feature of the Nuvi 2595 that I love, it comes back on where it was when I turned off the power to it.
I have a few others that start up at the welcome screen every time and I have to navigate to the map or speed window every time I start up. A little difficult with motorcycle gloves on.

Are there any newer ones that do what my 2595 does??

Jim

I've been using POI loader for quite some time and today when I was trying to update my RLC and Speed camera POI I got an error message that POI loader could not convert the correct.wav files for RLC and SC.

Never had that happen before. Any idea what's wrong

This is interesting. If the change happens, Garmin may come out with a better Garmin RINO.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-374114A1.pdf

My 660 finally failed after 13+ years!

Got half of the 2022.20 map into the 660 and went to install the other half and MapInstall didn't recognize it anymore.

Did a Master Reset and installed the latest Garmin USB drivers and rebooted PC. To no avail. Neither MapInstall nor GE could find the 660 any more. My 3597 was recognized though.

edit, I;ve been on this site for 13 some odd years and ask just once for help but I get attitude and accusation of something that I do not even understand............

Im not great at posting photos because I rarely ever have to if it isn't on Facebook.....

Thank you for your help........ I found my answer on another forum

I have an older Nuvi 1300 that I noticed was not getting traffic updates like it used to. I had the same traffic receiver cable but nothing was working. So I contacted Garmin support to see if there was a way to reset the unit and get the traffic alerts working again. Being an older unit I was not expecting much success.

I know that Garmin Express has an update every so often. I was downloading new map and checked Garmin Base Camp for new map install. They have an update. 4.7.4.0 Loaded OK for me.
Is this new or am I very late to party?

In Windows 10

To begin with some program on my laptop somehow, without me initialling it, removed BaseCamp v.4.7.4.

Tried re-installing BC v.4.7.4 and v.4.7.3 Neither one did want to install and after several tries I gave up. It went through the install motions but only for about 15 seconds so I knew it didn't install.

Hi Garmin Support Team,

Neighbor came over and asked that I help with a project.. Glad To!
In the bag was a Garmin.... She asks that I do whatever I can to it... to make it current..

Nuvi 240W...

OK... Fire up GE and it sees it... and says firmware is current, but then offers me a list of Costs for Map Updates.....

Disconnected and explained to her what she had....

It was a $3 Garage Sale purchase....

From across the pond, hope you all have an enjoyable July 4th

Poking around it seems there are numerous ways to change the colors in Garmin themes. One interesting web based site is at https://www.javawa.nl/zumocolors.html

Last map update one of two 2689LMT’s consistantly failed to load on SD Card.

This update today acted the same way on another brand new 16GB SD Card.
The two 2689’s act differently when attached to computer:
The one that updates correctly reports as a 2689 with a card attached.
The one that fails reports as 2 separate SD Cards.

I recently bought a Garmin Zumo XT for use while ATVing. I also purchased ORV Trail Maps from VV Mapping. Two weeks ago was the first ATV rides with the Garmin Zujmo XT. Yesterday was the first ATV ride with the VV maps installed.

I bought the Garmin Zumo XT recently.

I have plenty of vehicle power cables and suction cup mounts already.

Does anybody know how/if I can buy just the bracket only?

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/pn/010-12953-01#overview

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/pn/010-12953-01#devices

Ia it possible to pair the vehicle AND the DriveSmart series AND my phone at the same time. I tried this with my old 2689 and managed to mess things up.. so loath to try again with my new DS65 LMT.

Ideally, I would want the DS to only show text messages, leaving my current (flip) phone paired to my vehicle where the hands free option works perfect (for me).

Nice Saturday surprise...Map update came early!

A couple of years ago I created a trip/route on MapSource and sent it to my DS-50. I just did a new one but can't find where to import it on the device (senior's moment?).

Any info out there?

Regards,

DougJ