Garmin talk

I am new to the GPS. I have a nuvi660 and was wondering if anyone else is having problems w/ the preloaded locations. Such as selecting a place (anyof them) such as target, gas stations, resturants and it taking you to a totally wrong location. This happens everytime I use it. It is okay if I use the exact address instead of the name of the store. Is there something I need to do.

i just got a nuvi 660 it seems to have everyting in the world alredy in it only problem with it is that external memorycard seems only to be for pictures ????? who needs pictures in the car but i have the internal memory full with mp3s and a 2gig card for pictures that sucks

dan

i just got a nuvi 660 it seems to have everyting in the world alredy in it only problem with it is that external memorycard seems only to be for pictures ????? who needs pictures in the car but i have the internal memory full with mp3s

I have a Nuvi 350. I have found several preloaded POI that aren't even close. One is not even in the right town and several seem to be .5 to .7 miles off and on the wring road. Is there a way to correct these when I find them?

I went to Pensacola, FL from Atlanta and I cleared out the trip meter in the GPS and the trip meter in my truck and I was surprised on the accuracy of the trip meter of the GPS verses the vehicle. Over the 400 mile journey there was a 1 mile difference between the GPS & truck trip meter.

I have a new Garmin C530 GPS. I have found one issue with it and wonder if anyone can clarify it for me. I live is Ohio and many of the roads in the southern part of the state are named just by their state route number. So when I leave my area of the state to drive south and want to program where I drive I can't get door to door directions. Example: my destination may be like this: 1234 State Route 821.

Is there any way to sort and file custom POI's? i put in super wal marts (1600+ poi's) and then hospitals/health care sites (10,000 +) and now cant seem to sort them and it's a pain in the a* * to scroll through thousanda of poi's.

Also, how do you delete custom poi's that you don't want or don't need? I was going to delete the two above that i saved to the nuvi drive memory but can't find a "delete and/or remove custom poi" choice anywhere.

Where/what do I need to mount my C330 on my Harley Sportster? I know, I know, C330 is NOT waterproof and NOT recommended for bike use.

I am new here, but this site is so helpful I thought I'd best contribute. After much confusion, I have discovered that the Nuvi 660 WILL categorize POI's in the Custom POI list."

Thank you all for indulging this new GPS owner (Nuvi 360) in his quest for knowledge!!!

If I upload a list of custom POI's (e.g.- US hospitals) from this site, or others, and the information is duplicated in the factory preloaded POI's, does that create a problem, or does the poi icon simply display and show up twice?

I don't want to upload this list if it will create navigation confusion!! But hey, I'm new at this and don't understand the technical side yet.

I have a Nuvi 660 and a Treo 700p which work together well with bluetooth with one exception: When a call comes in the Nuvi caller ID screen displays the last call ID, not the current one. It is like it is reading from the call history file. The phone has the correct caller ID but not the Nuvi.

Anyone else experience this? Except for this minor bug the unit is really great.

Tonight, my nuvi 350 suddenly lost all detail in it's maps (North America version 8). It got stuck in a loop where it would say "calculating" on the screen (but no percent indicator of it's progress), the voice would say "recalculating" and then immediately "please drive to highlighted route", and then immediately "recalculating" again since there wasn't actually a highlighted route to follow. I tried resetting, and that didn't do anything at all.

I have a Nuvi 360 and noticed that the only POI's that show up on the screen (e.g. gas stations, stores, etc- not streets or neighborhoods) are the ones i added to favorites, and not the preloaded POI's. Any way to get the ones that came with Nuvi to show up during routine navigation like the Magellans do?

Thanks,
Ken

I've noticed that the Garmin c340 has a Speedometer and tells you your current speed as your traveling down the highway. From what I've seen it tends to be fairly accurate. I do have a quick question about it.

On the Round Speed Gauge with the needle, I've noticed that it hads a few brown lines inside the circle gauge that as you go along the side they start turning Red. Do these Red Bars mean your speeding, do they change position as the posted speed limit changes? just wondering haven't had

Hi everyone, I would like to purchase a coiled car charger on e-bay that charges my c530 thru the usb port instead of the bottom charge port.Would this be safe to do? I like the idea of the neater coiled cable and the ease of connecting to the usb port.
Thanks for any help,
Joe.

Hello... Will I be able to update the mapping software on my StreetPilot i5 for free? How often will the map updates be available? I always would want to have the most up to date streets and what not you know... Thanks so much....

I haven't fount out how to direct POI loader to put the POI's on the SD card. what am I missing?

Hi..... I've been using GPS's for a while now and I really love what they can do... My last GPS was a Garmin eTrex Summit. I recently came across the Garmin StreetPilot i5, and it seems to be getting wonderful reviews... Do you guys recommend this unit? Should I be worried that it does not have a SiRF Star III receiver? Thanks so much for everyones help.....

What's the maximum number of POI's you can have installed on nuvi 350? Anyone run into limitations? I'm only at 12,000 right now and it doesn't even seem to blink at that amount.

I don't see any difference when I select map with more or most details. It appears same in normal or most detail mode. What is the difference in normal or most?

I will appreciate your help.