Garmin Nuvi 1450 / 1460

[uncle wong]

I bought the Nuvi 1460 2 days ago and I regretted it after half hour of fiddling with it. My main grouses:

1) If you choose "Browse map" to find a location, you will probably spend half a day trying to accurately pinpoint the location you want to save. This is because when scrolling on the screen, the map floats around uncontrollably and randomly in any direction making it very difficult to pinpoint the location. And what kind of bullshit...the retailer tells me that this is a feature of the 1460. A feature that does not help to make things easier but more difficult is not a called a feature but a technology srcew-up. A software problem here?

2) When I tried to search by postal code using "Address", it is very fast and accurate. However, the problem is that this search method for a location is fixed. You cannot save the location of, say a shopping mall one street away from the postal code you keyed in, other than the location of the postal code that was keyed in. There is no arrow-head cursor to allow you to do this. This is a useful feature, for example, say you want to go to a school near your friend's house but you do not know the postal code or the road name of the school. The fastest way would be to key in the postal code of your friend's house and search that first. Then you can scroll the screen and maneuver to the school and save the school as your waypoint or in favourite. My Garmin 650 allows me to do that. Another software problem?

3) Cannot see POIs whist in navigation mode. This has been discussed in this thread and Garmin says that showing POIs will slow down the screen refresh rate. Yes, GPS is for naigating but POIs such as landmarks are be very useful visual guides. It also makes the display so much better.

Garmin falling backwards on the 1460??? A secondhand 2-day old Nuvi 1460 for sale. Anyone???

I emailed Garmin Corp, Taiwan in respect of the above. Here are their comments:

Thanks for contacting GARMIN corp.

I have seen your coorespondences with our specialist Catherine. We will fix first two stated issues by next software upgrade. About the third issue, it is still under discussion process. Thanks for your patience in advance.

Bro ARMOR1

[cflai]

Hi

I would like to share this.

I found that my 1460 cannot retain the track for long, I travel and the line is there, the next morning I switch it on and the tracks have disappeared from the screen even though I have it on "show tracks".

This only happens on the screen but the tracks are there when loaded and viewed in Mapsource.

Any bros having the same problem or is it just my machine?? My unit has ver 2.3 firmware...

Thanks

[Zeus73]

Hi

I would like to share this.

I found that my 1460 cannot retain the track for long, I travel and the line is there, the next morning I switch it on and the tracks have disappeared from the screen even though I have it on "show tracks".

This only happens on the screen but the tracks are there when loaded and viewed in Mapsource.

Any bros having the same problem or is it just my machine??

Thanks

You mean the blue color trip log?

Same for nuvi 765. But, if you transfer to PC using MapSource, the data is still there.

[cflai]

You mean the blue color trip log?

Same for nuvi 765. But, if you transfer to PC using MapSource, the data is still there.

Thanks, mate.. at least I know now it is a firmware problem. Garmin claims to have 10,000 points.. so the 10,000 points should appear on the screen, and wraps when used up, not disappear....

[ARMOR1]

I bought the Nuvi 1460 2 days ago and I regretted it after half hour of fiddling with it. My main grouses:

1) If you choose "Browse map" to find a location, you will probably spend half a day trying to accurately pinpoint the location you want to save. This is because when scrolling on the screen, the map floats around uncontrollably and randomly in any direction making it very difficult to pinpoint the location. And what kind of bullshit...the retailer tells me that this is a feature of the 1460. A feature that does not help to make things easier but more difficult is not a called a feature but a technology srcew-up. A software problem here?

2) When I tried to search by postal code using "Address", it is very fast and accurate. However, the problem is that this search method for a location is fixed. You cannot save the location of, say a shopping mall one street away from the postal code you keyed in, other than the location of the postal code that was keyed in. There is no arrow-head cursor to allow you to do this. This is a useful feature, for example, say you want to go to a school near your friend's house but you do not know the postal code or the road name of the school. The fastest way would be to key in the postal code of your friend's house and search that first. Then you can scroll the screen and maneuver to the school and save the school as your waypoint or in favourite. My Garmin 650 allows me to do that. Another software problem?

3) Cannot see POIs whist in navigation mode. This has been discussed in this thread and Garmin says that showing POIs will slow down the screen refresh rate. Yes, GPS is for naigating but POIs such as landmarks are be very useful visual guides. It also makes the display so much better.

Garmin falling backwards on the 1460??? A secondhand 2-day old Nuvi 1460 for sale. Anyone???

I emailed Garmin Corp, Taiwan in respect of the above. Here are their comments:

Thanks for contacting GARMIN corp.

I have seen your coorespondences with our specialist Catherine. We will fix first two stated issues by next software upgrade. About the third issue, it is still under discussion process. Thanks for your patience in advance.

Bro ARMOR1

Latest update from Garmin Corp regarding the software update mentioned above:

Thanks for contacting GARMIN corp.

The original plan is around the end of Feb or Mar. If the test can be done smoothly, the new software will be available then.

When replying to this message please be sure to include all previous correspondences.

Best regards

[uncle wong]

Already March now , still no software update for Nuvi 1460 promised by Garmin

[cflai]

Already March now , still no software update for Nuvi 1460 promised by Garmin

Unc Wong

I agree, Garmin Spore seems to be a bit slow on this....

I went to the Garmin s'pore site 2 days ago and registered my Nuvi and got into MyGarmin, then their MyDashboard, downloaded their Plugin Communicator software and installed it. Then they actually downloaded something into my NUVI1460 which I think is some firmware updates (no descriptions)

Still wondering what they updated in my machine ....... I already have Ver 2.30 inside

[uncle wong]

Software Update for Garmin Nuvi 1460
http://www.garmin.com/garmin/cms/site/s ... areUpdate/

Change History

1. To improve the freeze probelm when reading GPI files.
2. To improve the function of setting " Set Loc".
3. To improve the keyboard display for searching by postal code

[cflai]

Unc Wong

Thank you for the info. Just updated it - have to try out and see if working......

[uncle wong]

Unc Wong

Thank you for the info. Just updated it - have to try out and see if working......

After Update to new software
The Set Location, Touch Screen & Browse Map Function already Improved