Just bought a Garmin 1240 sat nav and...

[garystu1965]

there's one pixel at the bottom of the screen which is white on the black screen. Would you take it back for this ? I've only had the unit 5 mins and it's annoying me already.

 

[A210AMG]

"I've only had the unit 5 mins and it's annoying me already. "



....Then that will be a yes then



and swap it for a Tom Tom

 

[garystu1965]

but they are deranged in my local Halfords. Were shaking their heads in disbelief when I took the RAC one back after the sales guy told me it may be dodgy as they've had 5-6 returned recently. I'm not having much luck with sat nav devices at the moment.

 

[A210AMG]

Thing is, I, like you would be annoyed with it all the time.

It will sit there looking at you with a dead pixel, annoying you.

 

[garystu1965]

it's going back. Great ! Another 30 mins wasting time while they muck around with their computers that keep freezing and people who don't know how to do exchanges.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Its 'normal' for all LCD screens to have dead pixels, have you tried massaging it? that can somtimes fix a dodgy pixel.

 

[landywood]

try this go in to setings (spaner) -display-recalibrate

Mike

 

[rf065]

My own personal preference would be to change it for a TomTom.

Russ

 

[garystu1965]

My own personal preference would be to change it for a TomTom.

Russ

I don't want a TomTom. My Lexus has satellite navigation built in. I just want a pocket GPS device as a travel guide. The Garmin is compact, can fit in my pocket and has a pedestrian mode on it.

 

[garystu1965]

My own personal preference would be to change it for a TomTom.

Russ

(sorry to be a bit of a sat nav anorak but I'm new to these portable devices)

Russ, I take back what I said. The Garmin has limitations which completely defeats the object of using it as a travel guide.

The Garmin I have is pants - it keeps displaying a bubble that locks the screen so I can't have a look at any other POI (unless I'm doing something stupid).

Also another limitation with the Garmin is that POIs added later goes into a separate list and won't display alongside the built-in POIs. I want to be able to categorise them properly.

I don't want fancy navigation just quality maps, display and it's compact.

Can anyone suggest any decent makes to go for ?

Also I'm not really sure what the pedestrian mode on the Garmin is for. Unless it for calculating how long it wil take to walk to a place

 

[rf065]

According to this,

Garmin 1240: Garmin nuvi 1240 Sat-Nav : Low Prices - Garmin Nuvi 1240 Satellite Navigation with UK & EU Mapping

You need to download CityXplorer to use as a pedestrian device, if I've read it correctly?

" The nuvi 1240 is also perfect for journeys out of the car with CityXplorer major-city pedestrian mapping and public-transport routing (sold and available for download on mygarmin"

Russ

 

[garystu1965]

That's something else so you know what bus or train to catch. Callahan sorted it as he pointed me to a site which tells you what format to store the POIs. Thanks for your help anyway mate.