Garmin Satnav offers (merged)

greyster

You want to go Garmin website, find the I3 web page and download "web updater". It will allow you to plug your Garmin in via USB, check what version of software your garmin has and update it automatically.

This is not related to updating your map data though. See the thread I post on free upgrade for v7 users in this forum. The "software" is just improving the functionality of your I3, the latest version is 2.7 ... most in the shop have version v2.5 preinstalled.

ahll

As I unpacked my Garmin I3 I thought it looked like it had already been opened....I came to put in my home address only to find there has already been one put in ! (not mine)

Do you think I should take it back and get a new one ?

By the Garmin website do you mean ?

http://www.garmin.com/products/spi3/

MORPH3US

Can we Garmin owners not download the maps and install them ourselves from the Garmin website?

Would be a lot simpler than sending off our memory cards with a good chance that Royal Mail would lose them!!!

M

VEGG_2

Ok ive loaded poi's onto my garmin and i think ive put the speed camera ones on there as well is there any way of finding out if they are on the unit without speeding towards a camera??

Mark_Ice

[EDIT] Just found the MICROMAXX MDPPC 150 PDA thread!

Mr_Pink_3

Hi,

Anyone know if the Staples £119 offer ended today? I'm really hoping it didn't, but can imagine it ending at the end of the month.

Twenty minutes too late to call them, so if anyone could put me out of my misery, many thanks.

Also, can you charge the unit through the USB or is the cable just for downloading/updating etc?

TIA

Hopelesswithmoney

VEGG wrote:

Ok ive loaded poi's onto my garmin and i think ive put the speed camera ones on there as well is there any way of finding out if they are on the unit without speeding towards a camera??

You can check if they are loaded by going to:

Where to?
Food/Hotels and more
Custom Points

If they are loaded you will see a list of pocketgps_uk_gatso files.

MORPH3US

Mr_Pink wrote:

Hi,

Anyone know if the Staples £119 offer ended today? I'm really hoping it didn't, but can imagine it ending at the end of the month.

Twenty minutes too late to call them, so if anyone could put me out of my misery, many thanks.

Also, can you charge the unit through the USB or is the cable just for downloading/updating etc?

TIA

If you mean the Garmin i3 mate, you don't recharge it FULL STOP!

It takes batteries or runs off the cigarette lighter power but there is NO recharge circuit built in so you cannot recharge the batteries in the unit!!!

jediross

Anyone know where I can get the speed camera database for nothing? Looks like you have to subscribe at pocket gps world.

Yes I know its only £2 but Im a moneysaver!!!

MyUserNamesTaken

Sorry, Jedi. Unless you've contributed to the speed camera database in the past, you now have to pay to subscribe on pocket gps. As far as I know, there's no other place that has the database for free. I could be wrong, though.

EDIT: Just found a way in which you can get lifetime membership:

] Your active subscription will be extended free for life if you report just one previously unreported, deleted or altered static speed camera position. (Must consequently be verified by PocketGPSWorld.com.) We monitor all submissions very carefully and you will be notified if we use your submission. If you are successful we will let you know and automatically extend your current membership. You must be a current member and your account must be active to benefit from this offer.

If you pay your £2, then submit a never before reported camera, they'll give you life membership. I guess if you want it for free, you have to contribute now.