Garmin nuvi 40 setup

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Change the state, country or province, if necessary. Touch Spell City…and go on from there. I am unable to change country. I wish ti change country, the scenerio you describe does not occur.

I am working with a Nuvi lmt. Diane…I am not sure exactly why, but make sure first that you have the right map installed and selected in your device. Read my article about switching maps on Garmin first, then retry the procedure outlined in this article to change countries. Anne…not sure exactly what is going on, but first check to see that you have installed the European map on your Garmin GPS and then you have switched your Garmin GPS to the European map.

Once you have switched to the right map module, Spain should appear in the list of countries. We purchased a garmin driveassist50 to use in Europe…. The sales person said I could just download them… without any mention of extra cost : Would you mind advising me? The description of the device indicates that it comes preloaded with the US map. I will add some clarification to my article. I was just given the Garmin Says Mexico is loaded along with US, etc.

Zoe…not sure why…but try entering an address in Mexico and see if it comes up. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Thank you! You have successfully joined our subscriber list.

Tags: Garmin , GPS. Ideally have it plugged into a live socket in a car as reacquiring satellites and downloading the ephemeral data can take up to an hour. I am in the Eastern time zone. I will try this. I have nothing to lose! Need to find an underground parking garage as my basement still gets a Sat signal. I also took another chance on a ebay listing for a that was listed for parts 7. A couple of things to try to block the signal And a Faraday cage should work You could probably wrap the GPS in heavy duty aluminum foil to forma decent cage.

By the way it is very easy for a car thief to duplicate the signals of a car remote, open the car and start the car. That is why some sites suggest putting your remote in the refrigerator. I don't do that because it kills the remote batteries but I do have a small coffee canister just inside my front door. I'm glad I don't live, work, or travel, where I have to be that paranoid. I agree, but in the inner cities they are seeing more and more car theft or just breaking into vehicles for anything left behind including a GPS.

It is also happening at shopping malls and restaurants where gangs of thieves are reasonably assured you will be away from your vehicle for an extended period. Keep in mind that when your car remote is cloned and then somone gets in using the clone, the alarm does not go off. Here is a method that should work on your nuvi 40 to determine if it is calculating the correct date from the ephemeral data received from the satellites.

Doing this should either prove or disprove that your time problem is being caused by the date rollover issue. If this method shows a correct current date, then your GPS chipset has the updated firmware to correct the date rollover issue. This can be anything The GPX folder may be at the root level or inside the Garmin folder. GPX with Windows Wordpad. You can also use Notepad, but it formats better in Wordpad.

If you have a Mac instead of Windows, open Current. GPX in whatever plain text reader you use on your Mac. This will take you to the beginning of the trip log. Scroll down to the bottom of the file to see the newest dates. GPX in a text reader. The file has a date of does not appear that logging is happening. I went to link you gave me and hit SHOW but nothing updated in the file.

I renamed the file and rebooted the nuvi and it created the same file with a date. You should look at the data in the file using a text reader like Wordpad, not the file date.

You also need to follow the instructions I gave and use the nuvi on a short trip to make sure current new entries have been added to the trip log. That said, I am surprised that Current. GPX has a file date of and that is not a good sign. If the problem is an outdated firmware on the GPS chipset, the date after the rollover would have been if I remember correctly, so showing in would fit that scenario.

And it was not an exact 20 year rollback So if that is your problem, it makes the month and day of the month wrong as well as the year. That is why the device might not "know" we are in the time of year where DST is in effect. This may be correctable and may be worth a call to Garmin support. I know Garmin provided chipset updates relating to the rollover for chipsets they classify as the M chipset and the M2 chipset, and possibly some others. I don't know if the old Garmin WebUpdater program still works, but it might be worth a try to see if it recognizes an update that Garmin Express doesn't.

There used to be a firmware archive site called "Perry" that contained these firmware files for direct download instead of going through Garmin, but alas, that site has been taken down.

I am now leaning toward the possibility that this is the problem causing your incorrect time issue. In fact, the more I think about this, the nuvi 40 wasn't introduced until , so it seems unlikely that any of the files should have dates as old as As a side note I would be interested in having sussamb and our other Garmin experts weigh in on this to see if in their view my thinking is correct on this problem.

I'm in deepest France at the moment continuing the renovation of my French house but agree a date of is very odd and certainly supports your theory although I can't recall any other nuvi 40s having a similar issue. I'm wondering if GPSBabel would be of any help, specifically the reset time option. This option is experimental and was added to solve a very specific problem.

Certain Garmin units the original black and white Vista is known to have this will sometimes scramble their clock crazy far into the future like When this happens, the GPS itself may or may not work and later conversations with GPSBabel may fail as the time overflows the documented range. The use of resettime brings the GPS's internal clock back close enough to reality that the GPS itself can then "fix" it when it has next a lock. I tried both the oldest one and the last one and neither one made a difference.

I ran Webupdater and nothing for firmware showed up. Not sure I have the time to get Garmin on the phone to just fix the date issue. Everything else works fine. I cannot thank you all for the advice and help give. I really appreciate it. The difficulty is trying to determine what chipset the nuvi 40 uses. I am guessing it is type M2 or type M5, but we need to know this for sure before you would attempt the firmware update, as applying the incorrect firmware could brick the device.

There were firmware updates issued in for both the M2 and M5 chipsets, so I am guessing that was to correct the date rollover issue.