Garmin talk

I WANT TRIED TO UPDATE THE POI AND WANT TO UNISTALL THE UPDATE?

Hello
Has anybody else had an issue with getting any GARMIN rebates ??

Remember my Mom
She got a letter from GARMIN's rebate department, stateing that her 330 wasn't covered during Oct.
She went to "PEP BOYS" where she bought it, and showed them (Thanks to my wife always keeping ALL paperwork), the Store flyer, GARMIN's rebate paperwork, and reciept.
GARMIN still refused to honor the rebate ($50,00)

Does this model not have a preset POI for shopping? I remember the c330 having a category for shopping.

Hi all - I have a c550, just turned in a c530 - but I was wondering, has anyone seen a 300 series streetpilot beside a 500 series for screen comparison? Is it that much of a difference?

My wife wanted a Garmin, did not want me to spend the $$ for a c550, maybe not even a c530... but I know she will want a screen she can easily see...

Any feedback appreciated!

Paul

I have a Garmin C550 and plan to buy a cell phone. I want to use the bluetooth connection between the phone and GPS. I was told by the cell phone sales person at Verizon (in Indiana) that all the phones they sell with their plans have the ability to connect to a GPS blocked. In other words even if the phone has bluetooth it won't work with my GPS. I guess they want people to use Verizon phones with GPS built in to them instead of using another GPS device.

I have had my C530 for about 1 month with no problems. Today, I turned it off and then on again and got a message that the firmware updated with a confirm button. After that the unit could not find any satelites. Location map was from where I turned it off (on? same location). Tried restarting several times and it skipped the normal startup screen and went directly to the security code. After entering security code, had same problem....i.e. same map and searching for satelites.

Hi all,
I bought my first GPS yesterday (at Best Buy) and what a blast. It is the Nuvi 350. My question is, can I assume that all the maps are current? When does one need to update? I live in Maryland.
Happy Holidays everyone.
Thanks,
Hal

Has anyone used the POI Loader BETA (version 2.4.0.0)?

If so, what were the results?

I took JM's advice, and bought a GPSMap 76CX, to use during hiking and kayaking. It's a powerful little gadget, and much harder to learn how to use than the Nuvi I have for street navigation. I just got it a few days ago, and haven't had a chance to use it in forests or on the water yet.

But, I'm wondering if anyone in this group has experience with Garmin's country-wide topos, which have a 1:100K scale. The reviews of it on Amazon are mixed. I'm not a heavy duty hiker, but would like to do some day hikes in various state and national forests and parks, and have an easier time following trails, etc.

I'm interested in learning more about embedding mp3 files and/or photo files into custom POIs for the Nuvi and Zumo. Anyone have info as to how this is accomplished?

Thanks!

Would adding an External antenna help my
reception a great deal. I have experienced signal
loss a few times but it's not common. This normally
happens when I'm in a big city with lots of tall
buildings. Since my C340 doesn't have a high gain
SiRF chip Antenna like the c500's and Nuvi's, would
adding an External antenna solve my problem?

Just curious if anyone has tried the Garmin Travel Guide?

I travel to a half-dozen various cities anually and typically stay for around 30 days each. Finding good local restaurants is always a challenge. By "Finding
good" I'm not just refering the the navigation piece. I'm referring to getting a good idea of which restaurants to choose.

Looking for Zumo 550 users to exchange ideas and information.

Conversely, in the c530, I understand it SHOULD read POIs from either internal or the SD card...

well my new c530 dutifully reads either and even asks on turn-on if you want the SD POIs to be moved to the internal memory, BUT, it seems to only allow TWO POI subcategories.... and sometimes allows only ONE, IE, when I upload astronomy csv then VOR then air-fields, only the last two categories show up in the selection list under Extras/custom POIs...

I will be visiting the store Monday (12/11) and will report back here on my findings. Supposed to have fully working displays of all their products. It will be very difficult getting out of there without buying a new toy!

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I have a Garmin Nuvi 350 and recently purchased a Nuvi 360. Is it possible to copy all of the entries in My Locations-Favorites to my new Nuvi 360? Since I have quite an extensive list it will take quite some time to re-enter each favorite location separately. Can the entries be copied to my PC and then transfered to the new 360 or to the SD card and loaded onto the 360?

I just purchased myself an early Christmas present - the Garmin 2720. This is my third generation of GPS. I bought my first a long time ago, a Lowrance GM100. This was the first GPS which had downloadable moving maps. It was great and I used it a lot for several years.

Next, I upgraded to the Magellan Meridiam Gold. This one had a lot more memory, an SD card slot, easier on batteries, larger screen. And I used it a lot. In fact, I still use it a lot and plan to continue to do so for hiking.

Are there any other language guide's available that will work with the Nuvi other than the one that Garmin provides?

i seems like i dont have coverage in the tulsa area but im interested in peoples opinion on the Traffic Receiver
for the c530 or Traffic Receivers in general.

I have been trying to enter coordinates into my 660 without any success. The Owner's Manual leaves a little to be desired. I cannot get it to work as the Manual spells it out. Can someone tell me in simple terms what I am doing wrong? I can't get the decimal point to come up. It must be something simple that I can't see.