Garmin talk

I was at my local CostCo the other day and they had NUVI 83T displayed. They had a super wide screen size of 4.8 inches. The best part is the price of $249. I don't know what the specs are, but it looked like a nice unit. Good got old eyes. I even considered upgrading.

the American_Jack TTS has problems with direction announcements if there is a Number in the hwy. eg Hwy 316 east
the voice seems to break up and sounds chopped up into missing and partial words.
i tried it on I85 north going to hwy 316 East in Atlanta, Ga.
We need this fixed

Is there a way on the 660 to test my Traffic Receiver without going out on the road ?

I got my Garmin about 3 weeks ago and I am learning a lot of information in this forum. However, I have to ask numerous questions. Where can I go to also learn more about POI's and what the pre-loaded Garmin POI's will and will not do. Also, I am concerned that I am not taking advantage of the best POI's. I wish there was a listing of the Top 20 used.

Here is the deal. I initially got a nuvi 200 free from applying for a discover card. I returned the 200 to amazon for $150 store credit knowing that I wanted a better model. After watching the 660 increase from $299 to $315 I held off ordering hoping the price would come back down.

I loaded the custom poi for rest areas combined that I found on Poifactory. However, when I select custom pois and find a rest area then view the map it appears I have i icon on top of another. Did my Navteq map that came with my Garmin already have the rest areas loaded? If so, should I delete my custom poi but keep the voice notification? What is going on?

I have a Nuvi 760 and have uploaded some photos but they don't seem to fill the screen when I press Full Screen. Does anyone know what size or dimension the jpg file should be? The sample photos worked good but I deleted them.

It is coming up on 1 yr since I pre-ordered my 750 thought it might share my thoughts on it and compare it to the 350 I had before.

Saw this posted on another website and I believe the 800 series already got it with the last 3.0 firmware update, Garmin HotFix capability will automatically calculate and store satellite locations so that you will be able to turn the unit on and go a lot faster greatly reducing satellite acquisition time.:

"Thank you for contacting Garmin International.

I know this subject has been covered many times but I wanted to share the answer I got back from Garmin on Icons showing up on GPS screen.

Thank you for contacting Garmin International. The icons will appear as
you zoom in and are in the drop down 2D view. For example if you touch
Where To and select Browse Map you can use the 2D map view and zoom in

I just returned from a trip to West covering over 2,000 miles. The Garmin worked great. It would have been helpful if Garmin could name the waterways you cross like it does streets and roads. I would like to know the name of the smaller streams.

This Forum is Solely dedicated to

Garmin Nuvi 880.

In this Forum you are welcome to share your comments, tips and tricks, troubleshooting, issues about the newly released Nuvi 880.

On my Garmin 350 I have thousands of poi's that came with my map. For example; if I select Where to and then type McDonalds, it lists those near where I am. Now my question... I have added an icon for McDonalds and sound, however, when I am near a Mcdonalds I don't see the icon or hear the announcement. I have added pois from Poifactory and this feature works well.

I will start this off with a BIG GRIN!!!

As some of you know I travel almost 100% for work so my 680 is my life line to making client meetings and avoiding traffic and those pesky citations for red lights...LOL

I have been trying to download
Culvers_V.csv (32.37 KB)

When I save it, it is an Exel .xls file.

What do I do with it when I try to use the
Garmin POI downloader; it does not recognize
.xls files.

Thanks,

Sing

Thankfully I backed up the old map ver and was able to restore it to the 2006 map. But does anyone know how to fix this error. ?

Just a heads up on this one. I am using Garmin Mobile XT on my BlackJack II, WM 6.1 (just upgraded) and a 2mg storage card. When I was using POI loader it was giving me the choice of loading the POI files to the storage card or memory. I was selecting the storage card and Garmin was not loading them. Once I loaded the POI file to memory it worked like a charm. No changes needed at all.

Time for my Nuvi to pass away folks. My wife got herself one of the new 3G iPhones and I've been comparing the map and GPS features of it with my Nuvi. The fact of not having to pay for map updates with the iPhone is very appealing! These days, after a couple of weeks of usng both, I find myself reaching for the iPhone more than the Nuvi.

I recently bought the Nuvi 270 unit. Did all my homework. Brought across a number of POI files. Some of them I decided to activate the proximity alert...by putting specs in title. I also brought across a Redlight set of POIs. Using the Garmin POI loader, I put it on manual, and for antique places, interstate rest stops, historical markers, and others, placed proximity detections on the POIs.

I just wanted to apologize to everyone that lost bluetooth functionality, that followed the directions I posted to backdate the FW on the 7xx series.
Anyone with a 750 should have been ok.

I've been in daily contact with a software support engineer, at Garmin, and he assures me they are working diligently to fix the problems, caused by the release of ver 4.00.