Garmin talk

I have a nuvi 360 since August 06, i was wondering how often Garmin come out with new maps? The firmware updates are good, but i am noticing living in a new area a lot of roads don't exist yet?

Anyone have an insight?

Say if I found a few newer versions of custom POI and want to upload it to my Garmin c340. Is it better to completely delete all custom POI and reload them? Will the Garmin uploader automatically write over the older version of the custom POI?

Have a powerful weekend everyone!?

I have loaded some fuel truck stops in my Nuvi 350 and can see them in my Custom POI's. The question I have is do I have to be on the same road as the POI for the alert to happen? It seems if I am just passing by, say on the interstate I do not get an alert. BTW I have the speed set to over 0 mph and distance set to 3 miles.

Just got to say this is my first GPS
and loving it.

Just attempted the TTS mod and must say
(though its not necessary) having it speak the names
is very cool. Only thing I really wanted from the
C550

Can't wait for the next road trip

My c340 came with Version 2.10. I had a DVD sent to me and it is Version 8. Should I download/install this one?

Anyone know how to recalibrate the screen on a c530? Someone posted something, but there was no such option under display option.

I was market for nuvi 370 and now I checked the Garmin site again and found stripped down version, nuvi 270.

I am glad that I waited several week. Did anyone have any experience with the new 200 series?

Thank you.

-Tim

Garmin has just release an update 5.50 dated March 26th.

Garmin updated the C550 Unit Software to Ver 5.5 on March 26th 2007. Thats just 10 days after the last update.

You can download it from here:
http://www.garmin.com/support/collection.jsp?product=010-004...

Changes made from version 4.30 to 4.40:

Daylight saving changes for United States
Fixed possible route calculation error in routes involving Cul De Sacs
Added support for Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Romanian, and Serbian pre-recorded voices

I have just bought the new Garmin Mobile 10 with the Mobile XT software for my PDA/phone. It works great, but I am wondering if anyone has found a good mount for attaching a Cingular 8125 to a Motorcycle.

Is there a way to back up the original firmware ?

Planning to upgrade to latest firmware, usually
its good to keep a copy of the original just in case.

Got some questions for experienced ppl.
(if NOT using the web updater)

1) Do you download the update directly to the device or
the SD card in the gps

2)Is there a way to downgrade to a lower firmware version?

thanks

I have the Chevy Truck with XM antenna, and the Onstar antenna. It also has one just plain radio antenna.
Garmin has a GXM 30 antenna for recieving weather/ Traffic info.
I would like to know if anyone knows of a splitter that you could put on the radio, then subscribe to the weather/traffic signal. I really don't want 4 antennas.

Hi all,
Just got my first GPS trying to figure out how to
charge the C530 through the usb.

Does it automatically charge when you plug it in ?

Nigel

[Re-Posting to another forum to get greater visibility]
Hello,
I loaded my i5 with Red Light Camera data and it accurately displays a textual alert on the screen.

However I have one problem:
1. I also uploaded a mp3 with the red light camera poi. But i don't get the speech warning when the visual alerts are displayed. Is the text to speech functionality available on the i5?

Thanks

Neither are working for me for about the past half hour - the Update-downloads web site worked fine earlier this morning for me...I hope this means they're about to release the update for my Nuvi350.

I can hope, can't I???

Just bought the Garmin c550. Connect the audio output to my car stereo thru a FM transmitter. But, the mp3 playing on the GPS is lack of treble sound. Is there way to adjust the treble level on c550? Or, will the next version audio player include such feature? I already set the treble on my stereo to max and it still sounds not good.

Rich

I have a problem with the volume levels not being of equal tone. My 360 is real quiet on the navigation prompts and really LOUD when listening to MP3's. I have tried both the internal speaker and the head phone connection. Both have the same problem.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6501555.stm

Hello!

I have the Nuvi 350 with the GTM-12 traffic antenna. I also live in the Washington DC area.

I just went on my first trip to work with the traffic service working today and I have to say I'm disappointed.

It seemed like the FM traffic service only has information on the big highways.