Re: Find address within same state on Garmin 2610

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:40:32 GMT, Dave Friedenberg <davefr@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>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

Finally.

Thanks for the advice and the link.

That webpage was very informative.

Anyway, I reset the unit and lo and behold, there is the Enter City
and Zip Code options.

Regards,
David

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