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Topic: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
RichK
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 6:32 pm Subject: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
Well, the subscription is there but it flashes up "can't activate until receiving traffic". Catch-22 perhaps. This is yet another problem I've seen discussed on other threads!
Too many variables 8 ... |
Topic: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
RichK
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 2:30 pm Subject: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
Good point about the nuvi end - how do I do a reset? I've done the "start in diagnostic mode" and then resetting there - is that a full cold reset?
I did use the button at the back once, but I've l ... |
Topic: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
RichK
Replies: 15
Views: 6280
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 6:48 pm Subject: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
Hi swing,
Yep I'm serious - will give it a week to see if anything happens - I'll be in touch then.
Same hehavior here as in Sheffield - I can force it to stay on the galaxy signal and messages ... |
Topic: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
RichK
Replies: 15
Views: 6280
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 11:54 am Subject: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
Thanks Swing, useful suggestions. I have to go to Manchester for a week today so I'll try another area. I'll give the thing a brief repreive!
I'm fairly sure the nuvi is ebay bound now (and the GT ... |
Topic: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
RichK
Replies: 15
Views: 6280
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:29 pm Subject: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
And now locked to channel 181, Galaxy FM which I think is the correct trafficmaster station.
Getting messages (a little slowly), but no traffic data.
I know I've seen this kind of behaviour wide ... |
Topic: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
RichK
Replies: 15
Views: 6280
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:20 pm Subject: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
Thanks for the help Mike, I haven't travelled far enough to test it in another area yet.
For the first time in a week I'm now receiving messages using the tip on another thread of holding a statio ... |
Topic: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
RichK
Replies: 15
Views: 6280
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 7:34 pm Subject: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
Sorry about that; as I started with a vague question about LTN only I assumed the model, location etc was irrelevant. As always by waffling about other stuff I've opened the question up a bit!
I'm ... |
Topic: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
RichK
Replies: 15
Views: 6280
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:57 pm Subject: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
Sorry to reply to my own post, but with only two hours to go and no reprieve in sight...
I wonder if I've been barking up the wrong tree in assuming that I'm getting a strong signal? Becuase i ... |
Topic: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
RichK
Replies: 15
Views: 6280
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:24 pm Subject: Please help me to understand the GTM Status info |
Hi,
This is my last line of attack before I take a hammer to my GTM 10; at 10pm tonight the thing is history unless I can get traffic messages by then.
I've discounted the charger; now running u ... |
Topic: 'Upgrading' Nuvi 660 from 3.60 to 2.70 |
RichK
Replies: 11
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:55 pm Subject: 'Upgrading' Nuvi 660 from 3.60 to 2.70 |
Wow, this is interesting, I might try this downgrade. But does anyone know if there's a way to get the TMC software back to 3.7? |
Topic: Nuvi routing |
RichK
Replies: 25
Views: 8058
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:51 pm Subject: Nuvi routing |
As Mike has said (elsewhere) if all portable SatNav manufacturers included support for connecting to the car aerial in all devices, then at least the user would get a choice and be able to pick the be ... |
Topic: Nuvi routing |
RichK
Replies: 25
Views: 8058
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 5:22 pm Subject: Nuvi routing |
RichK wrote:
my failure to get traffic reports working have kind of put me off the unit as a whole.
Again this isn't down to the Garmin, you can read this problem under all Sat Nav's with TMC.
T ... |
Topic: Nuvi routing |
RichK
Replies: 25
Views: 8058
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:01 am Subject: Nuvi routing |
You should possibly take my annoyed posting with a pinch of salt - my failure to get traffic reports working have kind of put me off the unit as a whole.
The biggest thing for me, after a long cold ... |
Topic: Garmin support warning and 3rd Car adaptor model |
RichK
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:57 pm Subject: Garmin support warning and 3rd Car adaptor model |
Tynecomp, if you've got a chance, I'd be very interested to hear:
The serial number of your charger
The version of your GTM firmware
The location(s) that you're using your GTM
It seems to me t ... |
Topic: Garmin support warning and 3rd Car adaptor model |
RichK
Replies: 3
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Forum: Garmin Portable Navigation Devices Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:38 pm Subject: Garmin support warning and 3rd Car adaptor model |
Hiya, I've just checked my charger and mind ends in 239-21.
I haven't heard this number quoted anywhere on the forum before, but I can definitely say that I've NO joy from my GTM10, so I wouldn't h ... |
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