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Garmin Nuvi
Hello Experts :-)
I have a Garmin Nuvi and I am having some trouble. I bought it in USA but I am now living in the UK, In USA, the divided up areas were given simple forms with names like 95401. Here in the UK and Ireland they have forms in this type of configuration: BT5-6LW, different for each area. I searched the Nuvi software for the possibility of forms like BT5-6LW already in the Nuvi and I was surprised that it was. I connected the Nuvi to my Samsung computer with a cable and was surprised that a ghost-like computer, with a cord stretching from computer to a wall, appeared in the Nuvi window. I unplugged the cable from the computer and tried again and again, with the same result. It appears that there is no connection to the computer. A short while before that the ghost was not there. Did that ghost decide to make it it's home? On 8 Jan 2013 I installed GarminMapUpdater_v3.1.20.exe on the Samsung. Here is an innocent question, should this be applied to the Nuvi? How should this be done? Now, how to replace the numbers like 95401 with something similar to BT5-6LW? Comments greatly appreciated. TIA |
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Garmin Nuvi
In JD wrote:
On 8 Jan 2013 I installed GarminMapUpdater_v3.1.20.exe on the Samsung. Here is an innocent question, should this be applied to the Nuvi? How should this be done? You might want to visit Garmin's own forums at http://forums.garmin.com Or go to newsgroup alt.satellite.gps.garmin -- St. Paul, MN |
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Garmin Nuvi
"JD" wrote in message
... Hello Experts :-) I have a Garmin Nuvi and I am having some trouble. I bought it in USA but I am now living in the UK, In USA, the divided up areas were given simple forms with names like 95401. Here in the UK and Ireland they have forms in this type of configuration: BT5-6LW, different for each area. I searched the Nuvi software for the possibility of forms like BT5-6LW already in the Nuvi and I was surprised that it was. I connected the Nuvi to my Samsung computer with a cable and was surprised that a ghost-like computer, with a cord stretching from computer to a wall, appeared in the Nuvi window. I unplugged the cable from the computer and tried again and again, with the same result. It appears that there is no connection to the computer. A short while before that the ghost was not there. Did that ghost decide to make it it's home? On 8 Jan 2013 I installed GarminMapUpdater_v3.1.20.exe on the Samsung. Here is an innocent question, should this be applied to the Nuvi? How should this be done? Now, how to replace the numbers like 95401 with something similar to BT5-6LW? Comments greatly appreciated. TIA Perhaps there is something that can be changed in the settings of the Garmin to read locations differently when in Europe Sounds to me like you need to update your map to view the forms with European terminology rather than U.S if a settings change can't be made. Have you called Garmin support? As for the 'ghost' connection you might try a firmware reset. Apparently it's different for different Garmins but this website might help. http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to...ntenance-mode/ -- Jan Alter |
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On 1/12/2013 5:27 PM, Jan Alter wrote:
"JD" wrote in message ... Hello Experts :-) I have a Garmin Nuvi and I am having some trouble. I bought it in USA but I am now living in the UK, In USA, the divided up areas were given simple forms with names like 95401. Here in the UK and Ireland they have forms in this type of configuration: BT5-6LW, different for each area. I searched the Nuvi software for the possibility of forms like BT5-6LW already in the Nuvi and I was surprised that it was. I connected the Nuvi to my Samsung computer with a cable and was surprised that a ghost-like computer, with a cord stretching from computer to a wall, appeared in the Nuvi window. I unplugged the cable from the computer and tried again and again, with the same result. It appears that there is no connection to the computer. A short while before that the ghost was not there. Did that ghost decide to make it it's home? On 8 Jan 2013 I installed GarminMapUpdater_v3.1.20.exe on the Samsung. Here is an innocent question, should this be applied to the Nuvi? How should this be done? Now, how to replace the numbers like 95401 with something similar to BT5-6LW? Comments greatly appreciated. TIA Hello Jan, This seems to be a messy situation. Perhaps there is something that can be changed in the settings of the Garmin to read locations differently when in Europe I searched the Nuvi software for the possibility of forms like BT5-6LW and the Zip code. I did the search and I was surprised that both appeared to be available. Sounds to me like you need to update your map to view the forms with European terminology rather than U.S if a settings change can't be made. The Zip code seemed to exist after my search. Have you called Garmin support. Yes, they are helping too. As for the 'ghost' connection you might try a firmware reset. Apparently it's different for different Garmins but this website might help. http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to...ntenance-mode/ Here is a prog. GarminMapUpdater_v3.1.20.exe Thanks for your interest |
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Garmin Nuvi
JD wrote:
Here is a prog. GarminMapUpdater_v3.1.20.exe Thanks for your interest Here is a prog. https://my.garmin.com/maps/updates.h...&rce=w indows It comes straight from Garmin. It is a bootstrapper. The program download (4.4MB) does not contain a map. The program analyzes the type of Garmin found connected over USB, and then determines what map options are available. This is the program I got straight from Garmin, from that page. It is release 3.0.0.0. http://download.garmin.com/lmu/GarminMapUpdater.exe Using 7ZIP, I can open that executable, and see its contents. It contains a dotNetFx40_Client_setup.exe file. If your computer does not have .NET installed for 4.0 stack, it is going to install that for you. So the stupid little bootstrapper program, needs libraries installed to make it work. And that introduces the possibilities of install time failures. If they wrote the code without the usage of libraries like that, it might even have worked on a Win98 computer. I don't see any files in there, to suggest the tool decodes the USB identity of the GPS device. Maybe it just sends a message to Garmin, with the device details it reads off the USB bus. You should be able to look in Device Manager (start : run : devmgmt.msc) and see the Garmin listed in the USB section. If you don't see the Garmin, when it's plugged in, that could be your problem right there (bad cable, or Garmin not set for "USB mode"). I don't own a GPS, have never read a manual, so I don't know the "constellation of recipes" for them. Good luck, Paul |
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:08:03 +0000, JD wrote:
Hello Experts :-) I have a Garmin Nuvi and I am having some trouble. I bought it in USA but I am now living in the UK, In USA, the divided up areas were given simple forms with names like 95401. Here in the UK and Ireland they have forms in this type of configuration: BT5-6LW, different for each area. I searched the Nuvi software for the possibility of forms like BT5-6LW already in the Nuvi and I was surprised that it was. I connected the Nuvi to my Samsung computer with a cable and was surprised that a ghost-like computer, with a cord stretching from computer to a wall, appeared in the Nuvi window. I unplugged the cable from the computer and tried again and again, with the same result. It appears that there is no connection to the computer. A short while before that the ghost was not there. Did that ghost decide to make it it's home? On 8 Jan 2013 I installed GarminMapUpdater_v3.1.20.exe on the Samsung. Here is an innocent question, should this be applied to the Nuvi? How should this be done? Now, how to replace the numbers like 95401 with something similar to BT5-6LW? Comments greatly appreciated. TIA I don't have a Garmin, but I wonder if the problem is the way you are entering the postcode as it is known in the UK, there is no hyphen in a UK postcode so try entering it either just without the hyphen or replace the hyphen with a space. |
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On 1/14/2013 4:29 PM, Newsworthy wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:08:03 +0000, JD wrote: Hello Experts :-) I have a Garmin Nuvi and I am having some trouble. I bought it in USA but I am now living in the UK, In USA, the divided up areas were given simple forms with names like 95401. Here in the UK and Ireland they have forms in this type of configuration: BT5-6LW, different for each area. I searched the Nuvi software for the possibility of forms like BT5-6LW already in the Nuvi and I was surprised that it was. I connected the Nuvi to my Samsung computer with a cable and was surprised that a ghost-like computer, with a cord stretching from computer to a wall, appeared in the Nuvi window. I unplugged the cable from the computer and tried again and again, with the same result. It appears that there is no connection to the computer. A short while before that the ghost was not there. Did that ghost decide to make it it's home? On 8 Jan 2013 I installed GarminMapUpdater_v3.1.20.exe on the Samsung. Here is an innocent question, should this be applied to the Nuvi? How should this be done? Now, how to replace the numbers like 95401 with something similar to BT5-6LW? Comments greatly appreciated. TIA I don't have a Garmin, but I wonder if the problem is the way you are entering the postcode as it is known in the UK, there is no hyphen in a UK postcode so try entering it either just without the hyphen or replace the hyphen with a space. That is a possibility. I have just discovered a Garmin source alt.satellite.gps.garmin (1752) in News.Individual.Net and that seems to be active source. |
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