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I just purchased a Garmin C330. I have created a file for all Texas State Parks and other State Areas. I placed it in a folder under Custom POIs and in a subfolder called "Texas Parks". When I loaded it into the GPS and then schrolled thru the list under Custom POIs it will only show the closest 50 locations. The remainder appear to be in memory, but you have to spell them out to find them.

Does anyone have knowledge of a car vent mount for a Nuvi 350? Is it better then a friction mount or suction mount? Thanks

Can the Garmin StreetPilot C330 be configured to always display the current hundred block street address information while in "view map" mode? Thank you

Thanks to the person who combined the Offbeat Tourist Attractions files into one easy to use ALL STATES FILE. If I knew how to do it myself, I would have but instead I never bothered downloading each individual file. I just wish that the REST AREA FILES were combined in the same way so that I could use them for all states instead of jamming up my GPS custom Points list with 50 different files.

I bought the externam Mic for my 360. Callers complain that it echos when they talk to me. I am guessing its the speaker on the Nuvi feeding back to the mic.

Anyway to reduce the echo? Does the echo get reduced when you feed the sound to your car's stereo speakers. it seems like that would make it worse.

Does anyone know if I can put Google Earth satellite images on my Garmin nuvi? I would like to look at a moving map of actual city images to help find good shopping places.

thx,
Jen

This was in the Dallas Morning News today.

"The House voted to end the use of cameras to catch drivers who run red lights in September 2009

Over the last few days I have been running two households, mine and my best friends. She is on vacation with her hubby for the next couple of days and I have taken on her two boys. So I will not be answering emails in a timely fashion like I usually do because of the extra work with 2 additional kids and an additional house to take care of.

i have the poi for the wv va nc sc ga and fla rest areas, also the fla publix , flying j,s , travel americas ,and along my trip to fla none of the alerts went off except two ,one was a rest area in va and the other was on the new river gorge bridge in wva (which i didnt even put that one in)what could be the problem

I just made the update of my c330 with the software 5.50.

Anyone know how much memory the C550 has for uploading files like POI's?

hi all, anybody loading magellan maestro 4040 for red light cameras?.. Does it work?..How about those icons and voice alerts like garmin users did?..This is my first GPS and still learning, thanks.

Micro Center (www.microcenter.com) has a 2GB Flash Card (Item # 932392) for $15.99 each online. No Rebates Necessary. I have used their house brand flash cards and flash drives for years with No Problems. They also have a 1GB Flash Card (Item # 602920) for $9.99 each online.

I received an extra charger when I bought a dash mount on eBay and was wondering if I can somehow hard wire it into the fuse box or something. I know people do it with radar detectors and ipod setups. Is there a writeup anywhere on how to DIY this?
In a related question, do most people generally leave their unit plugged in most the time or go on battery power and only plug it to charge?

I just found a new release from Garmin for the nuvi 350 - v4.6

Ok, well now that we have the hilton project done its time to move on to a Marriott project!

http://marriott.com/hotel-search.mi

That page has a list of states for all marriott brands and then we can pick states and go from there...this one I am going to need a lot of help with!

States:
WA- msgreenf - Completed
OR- msgreenf - Completed
CA- sasins - Completed

This week we are recognizing Bobkz and Msgreenf with an honorable mention going to Summermug.

Bobkz, the motivation and drive that you instilled in all of us this week with your new auto mechanic file was fabulous.

Msgreenf, you are a POI File producing machine;) You create files that are fun and exciting, great job.

My Garmin nuvi 680 seems to work better when my cell phone is off. My cell phone has a built in GPS receiver. A friend thinks that there may be some sort of signal interference from the satellites. Is there some way to change the channel of my Garmin so that it will work better around my cell phone?

thx,
Jen

I want to wish all our GPS moms a very Happy Mother's Day !!!