I'm happy to hear you got it to work, Al. I wrote up that Wiki entry rather quickly after figuring out the process through what many people had posted here. Please feel free to add your experiences to the Wiki. Anything to make it more clear and workable is welcome, I'm sure. These things are easier to find there in the Wiki than spread out in group posts.
Pete KC0GPB On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Al Waschka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks to Pete and Lynn. Now I know another place to look for stuff. > > I was able to upload my POIs with EasyGPS and then transfer them to the SD > card with POI loader as described. I figured out one subtlety, that is that > you don't have to load the CUSTOM POIs into the "FAVORITES"memory. The > wiki describes a two-step process to first copy the POIs from the SD card > into the Nuvi memory followed by a process to individually transfer each POI > from the CUSTOM POIs to the FAVORITES. But you don't have to transfer the > POIs to FAVORITES. You can still navigate to POIs in the CUSTOM POI file. > The only exception is "HOME". If you want to use the "HOME" key, that POI > needs to be moved to FAVORITES. > > When I cleared the Nuvi, however, it DID erase the SD card. Also, setting > the write protect doesn't work because the Nuvi won't read the card to > transfer the POIs with the write protect tab set. Once the POIs are > transferred to memory from the SD card, the write protect can be set. After > clearing the FAVORITES, the write protect will have to be disabled to > transfer the Custom POIs to memory again. But at least you can leave the SD > card in the Nuvi with the write protect set until you clear the FAVORITES > again. > > > Al > > > --- On *Tue, 2/9/10, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) <[email protected]>*wrote: > > > From: Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [tracker2] Saving Nuvi 350 POIs to SD and Restoring > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 7:40 PM > > I haven't done it yet to my 2 Nuvi 350s, but I picked up 2 SD cards over > Christmas with this in mind: > > http://wiki.argentdata.com/index.php/Garmin_Nuvi_350_POI_Management > > Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ > > [email protected]<http://us.mc1806.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]>wrote: > > I've seen posts on here about saving personal POIs to SD card so the > waypoints loaded by the OT2 can be deleted periodically without losing HOME, > etc. I have looked in the files area and searched the posts every way I can > think of and can't find the procedure for saving and restoring POIs from SD > card. Can someone point me to it? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Al K5TAN > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > >
