Garmin talk

I recently bought the Garmin 680 and am in the Washington D.C. metro area. According to to traffic.com this is a well covered area.

However several times I have found myself in major traffic jams during rush hour than my unit knew nothing about. And this wasn't on some back side street but rather major D.C. roads.

Sorry if this has already been discussed, I can't find it.

I want to enter information about a waypoint that will be displayed on my GPS. Example: I have a waypoint called "Bluebridge Ferry Terminal, Wellington" - the GPS cuts off the name and it appears as: "Bluebridge Ferry Terminal, Wel" and NO other info appears.

On those days (which is most) when I don't need to be navigated, I wish the c530 would eventually default to the "view map" screen. I hate having to always press the button for either "Where to" or "View map".

The disclaimer screen eventually goes away without a key press, I wish the other one would as well.

-Tom

For some reason I cannot get rid of my old POI's that I have loaded on my c550. If I delete everything out of the poi directory and RESET my device, I can still go to Custom POI and select a location without any issues. I’ve even tried overlaying the file with a single location using POI Loader… the old ones are still there. Any ideas on how I can clear all my custom POI's?

Does anyone else have the problem finding the Windows version of POI Loader on Garmin's website?

I only see POI Loader Multiple versions and POI for Mac. Not matter which link I choose, they both take me to the place to download the Mac version.

Is there a way to create subdirectorys for pois? Example

--Shell
---Petrocan
FUEL ----Ufa
-----Esso

Does anyone if it is possible to replace the housing of a 660?

Is it just me or is the mapsource program extremely counter intuitive? I have been playing around with it for a few weeks now and, for the life of me, cannot get it to create a route that I tell it to create. Is there an EASY set of directions somewhere because the manual is of little use to me.

TIA, Ted

I Would like to get my computer to recognise my 2720 as a usb storage device, (extra hard drive), like the Nuvi and other, newer units. Is there any way to do this? Anyone?

Hi, I just got my C320 today so I'm a little new at this still. I got all of the maps loaded up and I've also loaded the Walmart POI files. I would like them to show up when I use the WHERE TO Shopping GENERAL MERCHANDISE category feature. Is there anyway to make this happen?

Thanks
Ryan

Did anybody try using a GPS antenna in Manhattan NY? Because Im planning to buy one because the reception is not that good everytime i go to manhattan.

I have a Garmin StreetPilot 2730 and I have several questions:

-how many favorites can I store (one place listed 500, another place listed 2000 does anyone know for certain)

-how many Cutom POIs can I store

-is there a way to see how much memory I have left

Just bought the Garmin Nuvi 360 for $399 + tax (free shipping) from Frys.com(also Outpost.com). Next cheapest I seen it for $449 on few websites including Samsclub.com. I also have the Streetpilot i3 which I bought a couple of months ago and used about a half a dozen times. I will be selling the i3 for $175 plus shipping. So if anybody is in the market for good gps, let me know.

Hi C530,
Just upgraded my 530 to 5.4 from 4.1
1) Can I delete the GUPDATE.GCD file that the update copied to the unit

2)Noticed I have lost a menu item since the upgrade
in the Tools Menu (the Traffic ICON went missing)
I am assuming that it only appears if you connect the
traffic reciever

And it looks like they made the restore button HUGE

Just curious, Is the Hardware in the Street Pilots c3's the sames as the c5's...... If the hardwares the same Couldn't you just Flash the Firmware and have better graphics on the screen? Just a thought, I figured Garmin would do this to save production cost.

I've done this with other products that offer their firmware for free and saved a few hundred dollars.

Changes made from version 6.12.2 to 6.12.3:

Fixed an issue transferring routes to the Zumo.
Fixed an issue with the integration of Google Earth and MapSource.
Fixed an issue with the size estimate of selected map sets.

New firmware for streetpilot C5x0 5.6 is available.

I find myself taking my c340 mount on and off daily because I have read several people having issues with the suction cup getting stuck to the windshield. Well today this happen to me. For the 1st time I left it on for about a week ( My car is Garage keep )and low and behold, I had a time getting the Suction Cup to release from the windshield.

I'm trying to export waypoints (favorites) that I have stored in my Nuvi 660 so I can import them into Google Earth. I don't see a way to export a list of stored favorites, or even view the coordinates on the 660.

Am I missing something? Any ideas?

Has anyone else experienced this? My 60CSx always worked fine until I found out about custom POIs and loaded some on it.

After loading them my gps started locking up. After driving for about 10 minutes, the unit becomes unresponsive. Pushing buttons does nothing. The only thing to do is turn it off (the screen fades out slowly, unlike the usual beep and switch off behavior).