Garmin talk

I have tried 2 different batteries for my Garmin Nuvi 660. Both will charge up through a USB connection, but the unit will not turn off and on with the car power. Each time I put the old battery back in the unit and it will run a little off the battery and works great with car powering up and down with the ignition. Is there some special battery needed??

New to the forum and looking for some help. Just purchased a Garmin DriveSmart 61 LMT-S and figured out how to convert custom TomTom POI file for all of my customers locations to Garmin format and imported them. Now my problem is, how do I add a new location to that custom file.

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It's my first post. I have Garmin in dash Honda CRV 2017 Touring (Canada). How can I load custom voice alerts for Red light camera, speed camera and enable proximity alerts.

I was using Nuvicam earlier for my old car in which I changed the region to UK which enabled proximity alerts.

I am struggling to do same but I guess there is no such option to change region in Garmin-Honda.

Hello every body
I have a problem to install the downloaded maps to my nuvi 55, the device give me a message that the maps are locked.
please is there a way to solve it.

Dear Users,

I have recently purchased Garmin Drive 50 and used only today to a route where we had intersection.. I could see junction view pop-up.

Is it a case this GPS doesnt support split screen junction view?

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/523230

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Hello All,

Well, the latest weirdness has cropped up with my 2757 (but not my 755T). I recently used Garmin Express to update both devices with the latest maps but the 2757 had a software update that applied while the 755T did not.

While looking at my GPSCity.ca account today I stumbled across the sales pages for my very first Nuvi back in 2005. Look at the price I paid for that thing compared to the DriveLuxe50 I got a couple of weeks ago. All prices are in Canadian Dollars:

http://imgur.com/N4ksYkC.png

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I set up a route and mistakenly set a via a few feet beyond an intersection where I wanted to turn.
For the remainder of the route the GPS kept prompting me to make a "U" turn in order to get back to that via.
Is there a way to easily cancel that via and continue on the route? I'm using a 3597.

Few days ago, in conversation with Neighbor .... How to get to this location????...
"Why don't you borrow my GPS?"
I programmed the destination in 660, and showed him how to get past the password on power up, Select a saved destination, and after he got there, how to select our "Home"....

Got it back yesterday.... Worked fine!

I have seen some posts about Door-to-Door and Logical Addressing. Can somebody please clarify the difference in these two terms for me, if any.

Also, what is the benefit of these features?

It looks like GPSCity has Garmin DriveLuxe 50LMTHD (refurbished) for $159.99 on eBay. Just in case anyone interested.

I've got the Garmin Drive 50, how the hell do I remove the restaurant and other unwanted symbols on the screen, it's showing every thing from fast food to full restaurants............

In simple language I can understand, with photo's if possible....

mick

My GPS saw low battery, and then screen becomes blank. I don't know where battery is. Then, I may unplug and replug and it will work again. Don't want this to happen when traveeling unfamiliar routes.

I just purchased a Garmin Drive 51 and noticed the junction view file only to be about 118MB. This is after updating to the latest NA Navigator NT map (not sure what it was before). For Map it states the lower 49 states.

My Garmin Nuvi 50 lm is not showing certain towns in Missouri. both towns that I have tried are not listed in the alphabetical order of the cities and towns in Missouri. I have downloaded new maps through Garmin Express and even hard crashed my GPS with the same issues. Any suggestions on improving this issue.

Thanks!

Jimmac47

Anyone know of a way to "revitalize" the silicone (I think that's what it is) bottom portion of a Garmin friction mount so it sticks to the dashboard better?

A happy and glorious 4th of July to you south of our border.

I do not know if any other built in GPS's use DB3 files, but here is a VW website in German where you can convert any GPX, CSV, ASC, KMZ or KML files into a DB3 file. In other words it lets you convert your own files into the DB3 format.

This German VW site has ceased to function !!!!!!! Oct.7th-2017

This is the German VW website:

I'll put this into the Garmin thread since I consider it my "home" forum.

This a link to the "GPS DATA TEAM" website. From this site you can download POI's for the particular format your vehicles built in GPS requires. They permit non-members to download from their website.

My VW RNS-510 for example requires any POI's with a "filename.DB3" to install into the RNS-510.