Garmin talk

 

To plug or not to plug?

Do you folks keep your car charger cord plugged into the cig. lighter or power port at all times, even when you do not have your GPS hooked up at the other end? Do your in-line fuses ever get blown?

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Garmin nuvi 660 Garmin GPSMAP60CS HTC Touch Pro (ATT Fuze) with internal GPS You can't spell gEEk without an EE :)

Vehicle's AUX Jack and two devices

Recently added the Nuvi 660 to my collection and after reading about some user's experience with the FM transmitter, I think plugging it into my car's AUX jack would made more sense.

Hacks for the Nuvi 350

Heck, the Nuvi is a computer after all, right? Are there any published hacks for the Nuvi 350?

By the way, does anyone know what CPU and OS are used on the Nuvi? And where can one see that?

...Jake

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Nuvi 350

Nuvi 680 & MSN Direct service issues

I have been having a problem with MSN. It seems that if I don't use the GPS for a day I have to re-activate my MSN account. When I was recently in Seattle this was not an issue.

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Nuvi 2555, Edge 705

BT Phone Pairing Issue

The last few days, when I have turned on my 660, it pairs with the phone and the phone icon immediately shows up on the map screen and it looks as if a call is being placed (even though I have not initiated a call).

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Garmin nuvi 660 Garmin GPSMAP60CS HTC Touch Pro (ATT Fuze) with internal GPS You can't spell gEEk without an EE :)

POI files with nRoute

Does anybody know if it is possible to add the POIfiles into GGarmin's nRoute program for use with it?

Traveler2002

when will we get a map update?

Anyone have the scoop yet on the next version of the maps coming from NAVTEQ, even an estimate would be nice, heard soon for a while now.

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Texan Brit

Nuvi 660 Price Drop, expires 6/11

GPS Magazine just posted this news:

Costco is selling the Garmin nuvi 660 for $499 -- that's about $100 bucks less than everywhere else. The deal expires on June 11th, so if you've been waiting for the price to drop on the venerable 660, now's the time.

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Garmin Nuvi 750 & c530 with RT's vol. mod., Vulcan Nomad

My Garmin: Zumo Connect

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*Keith* MacBook Pro *wifi iPad(2012) w/BadElf GPS & iPhone6 + Navigon*

Inaccurate POI's in Navigator NT v8

Just got the Nuvi 350 and I find it odd that in the built-in POIs, some places I go to are not listed in it. For example, was looking for In & Out Burgers around the immediate area. There are two nearby but it only listed one.

New POIs invisible

I just uploaded POIs into a new c550. POI Loader said that it uploaded 36,000 of them but even after restarting the GPS, none of them is visible under Extras. What might have gone wrong?

"More" info in POI's loaded on Nuvi 680

I recently purchased a Nuvi 680 and have been experimenting with creating POI files and loading them using Garmin POI Loader v2.41. All of the info I've read indicates that the Nuvi has the capability to add pictures and descriptions to the POI data for each location, however, I can't seem to get this to work with my Nuvi.

"voice" volume

Thanks to this great forum, I have added my voice to alert me when approaching a red light. The thing is my voice (mp3) is loud and clear... unfortunately the driving directions "voice" is very low in comparison. Can these voices be tweaked, hacked or something to raise the volume?

I have a Garmin nuvi 360.

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My Toys: MacBook Pro Unibody, Nuvi 2589

Garmin POI preloaded editing

Does anyone know a way to edit the built in POI that are preloaded. The file type says it's poi.gpi

any help would be appreciated...

thanks

Visualising CSV files in Google Earth

In This thread I promised "The next version of GeePeeEx Editor will include direct output to Google Earth, from either csv or gpx input. That functionality will be fully unlocked in the trial version."

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------------------------ Phil Hornby, Stockport, England ----------------------               http://GeePeeEx.com - Garmin POI Creation made easy           »      

POI Loader and GPSMAP 60CS

I have a GPSMAP 60CS and I cannot get Garmain's POI loader to see it. I get a message saying that it found a GPS unit but it is not compatible. Is the problem me or is the 60CS no compatible with this software? I can see in the disscussions here that someone has use it with the 60CSx. Is there that much difference between a 60CS and a 60CSx?

Directions to POI

I have a Garmin c530 with many custom POIs loaded.

Nuvi 350 Simulated Route

I was just wondering if there is a way to speed up the simulated routing?

Thanks!

Garmin Map updates

So when does Garmin update the maps? There is one road here that was a dead end but about three years ago was built through to another road. This still shows on the built in map as a dead end. I have only had the unit for three months but I thought that the maps were newer than three years old.

Bob

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Robert Woodcock

Nuvi 350 vs TomTom One

I just bought a Nuvi 350. My son just bought a TomTom One at significantly less cost. The major difference between the two is that the Nuvi has TTS while the TomTom does not. But the TomTom software seems siginificantly better. The two features it has that I'd kill for are: 1) multiple waypoints; 2) selectively changing the calculated route.

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Nuvi 350