RDS-TMC GPS Gadgets and Navigation Articles

While most of the vehicles you see rolling out of the Garmin Garage are meant for pounding pavement, we do like to get off-road and get our hands dirty every now and then. Rusty moved out of the Garmin Garage...

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Hi, I have a Explorist 400, trying to update it, I can't seem to save my info to my computer, getting not reconizing new usb item, I don't want to loose my POI's, any good sites that have tutorials, clear walk through's, ect. would be great, thanks:patriot:

Recently when I surf the Internet I found a website
http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/blog/2009/07/ultimate-guide-to-gps-applications/
It lists all kinds of GPS software and introduction. Whethe your phone is windows, symbian or else, you could find the one that fits your phone. I hope it helps those who want GPS software.

Hello everybody.

I have a question i haven't figured out my self yet.
Can you download/change the day and night colors on the maps ?
Like on TomTom you can get different map colors.
I dont like Garmins standard daytime map colors so i wanted to get
some new colors for the map if possible ?

Anybody know how and where to get such ?

Thx a lot

i have a nextar x3-03 gps and was wondering if there were any new map updates for this gps.

I have a 2009 Suzuki SX4 Crossover, which came with a Garmin nuvi 760 ... but which has been customized for Suzuki. I actually already own a "real" Garmin nuvi that we've been using in our other vehicles, so the Suzuki customizations are fairly obvious to me.

For the most part, they are welcome value-adds over a standard Garmin nuvi 760, with one very annoying exception ... and that is the mandatory "Safe Mode".

Suzuki has apparently decided for me that I must always have Safe Mode enabled, by removing the enable/disable option for this in the Suzuki version. A "real" nuvi 760 (and for that matter all other real Garmin nuvis with Safe Mode) has a Safe Mode enable/disable toggle button on the Security settings panel; and that has been removed from this panel in the Suzuki version.

While I understand the safety issues involved with a driver trying to use certain features while the car is moving, did Suzuki forget that they also install a passenger seat up front as well; and that maybe me or my wife, while in the passenger seat, might be trying to look up some location information for us while we are driving through an unfamiliar place looking for things? The only way to get out of Safe Mode is to pull the car over somewhere and stop ... very inconvenient, especially in congested city traffic. This has happened to us a number of times now, and is really getting old.

So I'm just wondering if anyone else has found a way to disable Safe Mode on the Suzuki version of the nuvi 760? Or, what I am actually hoping is that the option to turn toggle it on/off really is still there but just hidden, and that maybe there is a way to un-hide it ... anyone know?

I have searched on the internet, and have found I'm not the only person that doesn't like this Suzuki difference, but couldn't find anything that figured out how to fix it ... hopefully a reader here has figured it out. Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Joe

Life's been rough lately down at the ol' caddy shack. We've been subjected to all manner of torments - like having to spend beautiful morning after beautiful morning scouting golf courses in and around the Greater Kansas City area for...

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Hi :)

This is my first time on the forum so I hope I am doing this right.

I have a Garmin Nuvi 660 and I have just ordered an AA Travel guide bundle through the Garmin site. I followed all the instructions to download the bundle to a new sandisk Ultra 11 SD 2 GB card but for some reason the nuvi does not seem to be able to pick up the download. Can anyone help me, please? Do I need to format the sd card, if so how do I do this. Sorry for sounding so ignorant but its all new to me.:confused:

Thanks

hey there i have a explorist 500 that i was updating the firmware on and in the end of the update my screen went grey i waited for 1 hour and no change so i unplugged it from my pc and now i cant turn it on. i have come to the conclusion that i have to find a different way to reload the firmware via serial cable but i cant find a schematic in how to build a cable and the proper interface program. so if there is someone who could help i would appreciate it.

:idunno:i,m a newbie, I have a garmin oregon 200, i,m going to El Salvador, San Salvador, next summer with my girlfriend. She is from there, and i noticed there are no maps for El salvador, south america.

I found 1 site
http://www.hoobly.com/0/0/776596.html

they sell a garmin nuvi with preloaded maps.

What can i use when i go there? can i make my own using google maps?, google earth ? what kind of coverage will i have. Can i use map source?

some one please guide me, i,m learning:eek: