Garmin talk

I have a Nuvi 660 with the car charger/traffic receiver. Last night, I left work around 5:00PM and got on the freeway right in the middle if rush hour. It took about 15 minutes for the orange light on the traffic receiver to turn green, but the traffic icon on the menu page didn’t enable for another 5 minutes or so. Even then, no traffic delays were shown. This is crazy.

"You must react quite quickly to sliding the power key onto the locked position(slide right). Then press and hold the screen and quick slide the power key on and then quickly back to the locked position. You should already be in the lock position by the time the Garmin Logo appears. You'll know if you’ve done it correctly if the messages at the bottom of the screen do not appear.

does anyone have a ecel sheet for the making custom poi that they are willing to share with me.

thanks

Hello,

Hi,
has anyone found a way to change/set the internal microphone sensitivity of the nuvi 7xx?
It seems that it could need a liitle boost when driving fast...

TIA
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Will changing memory cards while a NUVI is operating damage/corrupt anything?

Mike

Hi!
I updated my 200W to ver.3.10 and was very upset with that.
I think that there are some bugs in this update with vehicles icons and pictures stored in JPEG folder. I found out that it also did not work properly with SD card-reader (in the same time Navigation worked OK).

I am thinking of pruchasing a new GPS for use on my Halrye and in my cars. How are the ZUMO 550's holding out? Any quirks?

Playing with my nuvi 200 around my area I notice that it's telling me to turn about 10-15 seconds too late. I know the roads I'm on and just playin' around. And the unit tells me to turn after I've already turned. Any ideas why the lag? Thanks

I bought a second nuvi a while back with order maps installed. I bought the latest update (2008) and installed it in ANOTHER unit. Can I install the maps on the SECOND unit or are the expensive map updates just usable ONCE on ONE unit? Thanks.

Why Can't Garmin Make a map software for the whole world? Like charge 1000$ for one whole World map downloadable for every Garmin. When it comes to memory issues the can add 1gb of internal memory to the new Garmin's/ still keep removable media option available

Any comment?

My nuvi 680 text to speech used to work fine earlier on my trips to LA, Sn Diego, and Vegas. But now in Hunstville, Alabama the text to speech has mysteriously dissapeared. Is this functionality limited to certain cities only. Right now my Nuvi says, turn right and turn left.

Thanks.

A few times in the last couple of weeks, I've gotten some fairly WRONG map jobs out of my nuvi 360.

On one I gave it an intersection at a road and a freeway. It ended up taking me to some townhouse a few miles away. Another time I gave it an address, and it took me several blocks away.

I use my nuvi 660 as a speaker for my cell phone through Bluetooth. In about 50% of the outgoing calls I make, after I press the call button on my cell or the the Dial button on the nuvi screen, I hear no ringing on the other end, and the first sound I hear is when the person picks up the call.

Is there a way to get the Coordinates of a Favorite on a Garmin C550, I have set a series of favorites and was hoping I could get the coordinates to begin creating a POI

My charger failed - Garmin is sending me a new one which is good but I just found out that the fuse in the Charger if it fails is almost impossible to find a replacement. Anyone on this board been able to find them? If so - where? Thanks.

I recently was browsing the Garmin website and signed into My Garmin, entered the serial # of my Nuvi660 purchased 8 months ago, and was presented with a free update to the 2008 map! Awesome! Very nice of them and wanted to spread the word so others will know and take advantage...

help, i get this error??
'Archview Rv Campground Resort' is not a valid floating point value

what does this mean?!

THANKS FOR ALL WHO HELP!

I just got a c550 refurb the other day and love it. I tried to download some mp3 audiobooks into an unused 1GB SD card and they were not recognized.

I tried putting them in an MP3 folder and tried to put them in the root directory of the SD card - no joy. They -were- recognized when I put them on the unit itself.

I just got a Nuvi 260 (my first GPS) and wondered when Garmin updates its maps. Also, how old is the most recent map information?

I gather that all maps have to be somewhat outdated because there's always new construction and business openings/closings/relocations, etc.

Thanks for any information.