Re: Find address within same state on Garmin 2610

David Finkelstein wrote: 
On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:12:38 GMT, Dave Friedenberg <davefr@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



David,

I hope you understand that my comment about operator error was meant as a joke. <VBG> means Very Big Grin.

If you just start up your 2610, do a Find/Address and press "Limit to," here's what you should see according to page 21 of the 2610 manual: "Thus, to narrow your search, particularly if you are trying to locate a street of intersection in another city or state/province, touch the Limit to box and select one of the Limit to options: No Limit, Enter a City, Enter a State/Province, or Enter a Postal Code." The question is why you aren't seeing all these options.

Perhaps you're only paraphrasing, but I don't remember ever seeing an option of "Select State/Province." Is that the exact language you see? Perhaps it would help us if you could tell us step-by-step what you're doing when you use the Find/Address function. Are you in the middle of creating a new route? Are you just looking for an address from your current location with the goal of doing a "go to" to that address?

Also, what firmware and city navigator versions are you using? Maybe differnt versions account for the differences between what you see when you select "Limit to" and what I and others see. Please let us know.

Happy New Year.

Dave 


Yeah, telling tech savy people, who have gone through every
permutation of menus on a $600 piece of technology without getting the
desired outcome common sense should says should be available, that
they don't know how to press every combination of a finite number of
buttons rather than such a combination not existing is a great joke.

Anyway, to answer your questions:

I ask for a Find/Addrsss...
In the Limit to box, Pennsylvania is already selected.
I press the box and a new menu pops up, options include:

<No Limit>
Pennsylvania
Enter a State/Province

I would love to see Enter a City, that would be the answer to the
original issue.  If there is a way to activate it so it appears on the
menu, how?  Like I said, I tried every options menu without seeing as
much.

I would also love to see Enter a Postal Code, even though it is not so
useful.  Rarely when I have an address scrawled on a piece of paper
does it have the zip.  Having to keep in the car and flip through a
zip-code atlas kind of defeats the purpose of the machine, doesn't it?

All this is when sitting in the parking lot at home before setting out
on a cross-state trip to a never visited location, with an address in
hand scrawled on a piece of paper.

The device says it is v2.5.  This hasn't changed no matter what
patches and upgrades I have downloaded from the Garmin site and
uploaded into the unit.

City Navigator is 6.3, which is another bone of contention.  The unit
came with v5 even though v6 had been released for over a year.  Of
course I asked for the v6 upgrade disk.  I got the disk, installed it,
registered and activated it for free then noticed v7 had been released
days before.  So I asked for that disk and I couldn't activate it for
free.  The Garmin rep on the phone gave me a song and dance.  The
bottom line, not once since buying the unit have I had the most up to
date software.  When I got and activated v5, it was out of date.  When
I got and activated v6, it was out of date.  I thought the purpose of
providing a free upgrade was to guarantee every purchaser the most up
to date software at least once.  Sending an update knowing it will be
out of date before it can be activated and not providing for the newer
update, well, just sucks.

Well, at least from what I read here, the POI's on v6 are more
accurate than v7. :-)


David,

There is no way to activate the enter a city and enter postal code options on the limit to menu because they should always be there by default. The fact that you do not see those options plus the fact that your 2610 always shows its software version as 2.50, suggests that there is a hardware or software problem with your unit.

Is your 2610 still under warranty? If so, call Garmin Tech Support and discuss the issue with them if you have not already done so. The other thing you could try is to do a master reset of your 2610. Sometimes a master reset clears up weird problems. Be aware that a master reset will erase stored data on your 2610 such as routes and waypoints so saving them to your PC with Mapsource and then uploading them after the master reset will save you time. For instructions on doing a master reset, see section 2d of Diverhank's excellent Undocumented Features & Tricks website at: http://home.socal.rr.com/diverhank/SP26X0UndocumentedFeatures.htm

Good luck.

Dave
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