New POI's Made My Nuvi 300 Crash!

dellk · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:49 am Post subject:

I mean't: It of course does NOT boot far enough for the computer to see the Nuvi as a drive and so therefore unable to reflash the firmware or remove anything.

Embarassed

frosticles · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 16, 2006 Posts: 13

Exactly the same here. killed 2 of them "Hoping" Garmin replace for a second time.

Anita · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject:

Can someone please explain to me why, having screwed up one unit by installing (too many?) POIs, and Garmin sending them a new unit, they then do exactly the same with the new one. Confused

In view of the many reports of dead units after installing the POIs, I would have thought it somewhat foolish to do it again! I'm surprised Garmin don't refuse to replace a 2nd unit under these circumstances.
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frosticles · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 16, 2006 Posts: 13

Didn't know that this was the cause at the time. There were no warnings when installing the POI's from either here or the Nuvi. Only after fried again did I decide to investigate further

SILVERFOXE · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 10, 2006 Posts: 39

I HAVE A NUVI 300 & TOUCH WOOD HAVE HAD NO PROBLEM'S UP TO YET, COULD ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME EXACTLY WHAT I CAN & CANNOT DOWN LOAD AS SPEED CAM UPDATE'S FROM THIS SITE , I WOULD BE MUCH OBLIGED IF YOU COULD EXPLAIN IT SIMPLY AS I'M NOT MUCH OF A TECHI .

CHEERS ,,,,,, PETER PEARCE

tetleyman · Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:08 am Post subject:

I had a C510 which kept locking up after POI installation and had to be exchanged. I now have the Nuvi 300 and have loaded several POI's on it without any problems at all, so far anyway.

I download and save the POI's to my hard dive, then use the Garmin POI loader to install them to the SD card in the Nuvi.

As the SD card is found as an extra storage device you can just take the SD card out if there are any problems or delete them straight from the SD card instead of the Nuvi itself.

By doing this the installation this way seems to stop any corrupted files if there are any from messing up the Nuvi simply take out the SD card from the unit or delete the Garmin file on the SD card which is where the POI's are stored.

Remember to back up all the files on your Garmin device before you do anything

I hope this helps

Regards, Pete

SILVERFOXE · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 10, 2006 Posts: 39

HI PETE... HAVE ORDERED S/D CARD TODAY,,,WILL
DO AS YOU RECOMMEND IN FUTURE ,,, COULD YOU PLEASE GIVE ME A BIT MORE INFO AS TO THE BEST WAY TO BACK UP THE NUVI FILE'S AS I SAID B/4 I'M NOT MUCH ON THE TECHI BIT'S ,
MUCH OBLIGED PETER PEARCE

bugsymalone23 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 26, 2006 Posts: 1

Hi there, this happened to me tonight.

I can't get onto garmin.co.uk as the website is saying url wrong :S

I need to know where to send the unit, do i email them first or what

confused ? Sad

please help

tetleyman · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:15 am Post subject:

dougproctor · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:31 am Post subject: For the Mods please

There has been lots of threads on here about crashing Nuvi's and I have experienced this twice with two returns to Halfords. Garmin are blaming this site, especially the POI's, saying they are corrupt. I have to admit, I downloaded some POI's from here just before the machine failed with its "loading maps" error.
This is quite a serious allegation and I am sure that many ex owners of Nuvi's would welcome some answer to this. Can this be taken up with Garmin Support please so others will know whether they can or cannot use the downloads from this site?

tetleyman · Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:45 pm Post subject:

SILVERFOXE · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 10, 2006 Posts: 39

tetleyman · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:25 pm Post subject: Re: For the Mods please

dougproctor · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject:

Pete,
For when read if....... They have ignored my email of 10 days ago.

mikealder · Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject:

If you want the answer to this question please have a read of This - Mike

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