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Topic: Decisions - update maps or buy a new satnav? |
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:14 pm Subject: Decisions - update maps or buy a new satnav? |
None of the recent nuvis have mp3 players, not sure about other makes but it's something that just seems to have gone away. Neither is a headphone socket in general use anymore, at least not in the G ... |
Topic: Decisions - update maps or buy a new satnav? |
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:10 pm Subject: Decisions - update maps or buy a new satnav? |
I'v got a Nuvi 660TF. Had it for several years, and generally been quite pleased with it. However, the maps are now quite old, so an update looks like a good idea.
Given the cost of map updates, I ... |
Topic: Nuvi 660FM firmware updates |
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:03 pm Subject: Nuvi 660FM firmware updates |
There is a website that holds many old firmwares USE AT YOUR RISK
Thanks for that. I will be cautious....
Secondly some unit were prevented from downgrading their firmwares a couple of years ago ... |
Topic: Nuvi 660FM firmware updates |
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 4:12 pm Subject: Nuvi 660FM firmware updates |
I always seem to ask questions that nobody knows the answer to. Or something....
Anyhow, after some searching I've found a download location for the most recent firmware for the 660, which ... |
Topic: Nuvi 660FM firmware updates |
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:18 pm Subject: Nuvi 660FM firmware updates |
I bought a refurbushed 660FM a bit over a year ago. Its been pretty good so far, and remembering the nightmares invovled in firmware updates with the i3 that I had before, I've not bothered with updat ... |
Topic: Nuvi 660TFM headphone output |
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:43 am Subject: Nuvi 660TFM headphone output |
I have a 660TFM. In my last car, I found the normal speaker output low (noisy car at speed...), so I was using the FM transmitter to feed the car radio. I was never completely happy with that option - ... |
Topic: V9 Maps |
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 6:13 am Subject: V9 Maps |
thanks Anita and PaulB2005, just rolled back to 2.7 firmware, without that nag screen :D
Didn't work for me. My I3 has been on 2.7 all along - I've been getting the nag for a couple of months ... |
Topic: What sort of camera is this? |
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Forum: PocketGPSWorld Speed Camera Database Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 7:21 pm Subject: What sort of camera is this? |
Should have added the dummy camera is in Lower Heyford and depending on which way you're driving either just before or just after a bridge over the Oxford canal and railway line.
If you are approachi ... |
Topic: What sort of camera is this? |
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Forum: PocketGPSWorld Speed Camera Database Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 4:50 am Subject: What sort of camera is this? |
Can you post a rough idea of location? from what you describe it could be a Monitron or redlight camera if its a Monitron it will look like the last image posted in THIS
Its in a small village in O ... |
Topic: What sort of camera is this? |
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Forum: PocketGPSWorld Speed Camera Database Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:56 pm Subject: What sort of camera is this? |
Hope this is the right place tp put this. I had a search through the forums, but didn't find any information that seemed relevant.
Anyhow, on a route that I use occasionally, there is a camera whic ... |
Topic: I3 recently slow to acquire satellites |
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 12:34 am Subject: I3 recently slow to acquire satellites |
I had the same situation - I spent a tenner on an external aerial and it is now fine.
Worth a try for so little outlay.
I think you're right. I was almost at my local Maplin's today, but ... |
Topic: I3 recently slow to acquire satellites |
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:03 am Subject: I3 recently slow to acquire satellites |
Thanks people - that certainly helped...
Still seems to take a while in some locations, but moving a few feet out of my parking spot certainly helped.
What puzzled me orignally was that it ... |
Topic: I3 recently slow to acquire satellites |
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2006 4:11 pm Subject: I3 recently slow to acquire satellites |
Hi. I've been lurking for a while - finding this a very useful area. I recently bought an I3 complete with speed camera database preloaded, which I've been using for several weeks.
If I hadn't read ... |
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