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So I'm looking for a rural address near Cambridge and I type in Ontario as a start to the address. First sign of trouble is the machine is not auto - filling. I type the whole 7 letters in and press enter - it tells me "no matches found". In the spring I downloaded the new maps, it has worked fine up to now. I really needed to find a place in the fog, but couldn't get out of Dumfries Tsp.
Any of you had this happen to their Zumo, any suggestions? I should add that as a GPS showing you where you are it works fine, just that it won't accept instructions inputted.
Last edited by AGS; 01-01-2012 at 01:43 PM. Reason: clarification
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I find rural addresses a PITA. The way the addy is written on paper or a map is different than how it is filed in the GPS memory. 5th Concession vs Concession Rd 5 also known as McHamlet Road which turns into Jesters Lane at Side Road 7 or is that #7 Sideroad, Side Road 7, SR 7 or 7 SR. Anyway, just keep going 5 or 6 miles until you come to the corner where old man Jones went off the road in the blizzard of '93 and.......
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I have heard of needing the odd hard reset On a Zumo and that might be a good start.
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Originally Posted by nobbie48
Sheesh, try that muddled mess in Quebec!
Exactly! Sometimes it's just "guess" until you find the right combination, not to mention small towns which have been amalgamated into cities, but people still give their addresses as the towns they used to be - which Garmin doesn't recognize - which doesn't matter much when you're 25 k's from home, but when your 2,500 k's from home it can be a ROYAL PITA. I use paper maps for planning and backup, which is fine for the big picture, but won't help you in finding specific addresses.
Tom, I was thinking the same, it went weird a couple years ago and 45 minutes with the battery removed and then reinstalled brought it back, thanks
Did you lose your waypoints and routes after the hard reset? I've got an older Quest with the same search problem, but I haven't tried the reset yet.
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Sounds to me your SD card died. You said you updated the maps right? You did that on a new SD card right? Try removing the SD card and using the maps that's built into the Garmin.
If that works then just re-update it.
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No SD card used in the unit. (I thought that was just for music.)
In that case I would save your tracks and POI to your computer and re update the maps. Some files might be corrupt.
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for rural addresses i just type in the gps coordinates rather than the address
Yeah I would look up the address on google maps and either punch in the coordinates or roughly point on he map where to go and go from there. The Garmins sometimes have a weird way to input addresses. Highway 7 is just "7"
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Thanks for all the responses. This morning, I attached it to my computer and updated all the software and refreshed the maps and it is now functioning properly.
do you have your zumo plugged in to a radio or a head set directly? i would like to know the best way for wiring my zumo? i don't care about the blue tooth into the gps.
in the blazer, it talks thru radio, on the road glide, visual only
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