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owner’s manual
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nüvi 800 series
personal travel assistant
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Introduction ™ myGarmin Introduction Go to http://my.garmin.com to access the latest services for your Garmin products: Manual Conventions When you are instructed to “touch” • Register your Garmin unit. something, use your finger to touch an • Subscribe to online services for safety item on the screen. camera information (see page 58). The small arrows (>) used in the text • Unlock optional maps. indicate that you should touch a series of items. For example, if you see “touch Contact Ga
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Introduction Where to? .......................................8 Table of Contents Go! Page Options .............................8 Finding an Address ...........................8 Introduction .....................................i Finding a Place by Spelling the Manual Conventions ..........................i ® Name ...............................................9 nüvi Tips and Shortcuts....................i ™ Setting a Home Location ..................9 myGarmin ................................
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Introduction Recognizing Icons and Tones.........20 Picture Viewer ................................34 Using Speech Recognition Tips .....20 Traffic ..............................................35 ® MSN Direct....................................35 Making Hands Free Phone Games ............................................35 Calls ..............................................21 Calculator ......................................35 Pairing Your Phone .........................21 Currency Converter
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Introduction Frequency Selection Tips ...............43 Battery Information ........................54 FM Transmitter Information ............43 Replacing the Battery in the nüvi ....55 Charging Your nüvi .........................55 Customizing the nüvi ..................44 Changing the Fuse .........................56 Changing the System Settings .......44 Removing the nüvi and Mount ........56 Changing the Navigation Mounting on Your Dashboard .........56 Settings ...........................
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Getting Started Getting Started See the Important Safety and Product Information guide in the product box for product warnings and other important information. Your nüvi Unit Power key: slide to the left to turn the unit on/off; slide to the right to lock the screen Battery cover GPS antenna Microphone Headphone/ audio-out jack new ™ microSD card slot Mini-USB connector Microphone Serial number External Speakers under battery antenna connector Check local traffic laws before mounting. Cu
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Getting Started Step 1: Install the Battery Step 2: Mount the nüvi 1. Locate the rectangular lithium-ion 1. Plug the vehicle power cable into the battery that came in the product box. power connector on the right side of the cradle. 2. Slide the battery cover off the back of the nüvi. Cradle 3. Locate the metal contacts on the end Power cable of the lithium-ion battery. 4. Insert the battery so that the metal contacts on the battery match up with the metal contacts inside the battery c
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Getting Started 3. Clean and dry your windshield with 8. If you are using a traffic receiver in a lint-free cloth. Remove the clear Europe, secure the traffic receiver plastic from the suction cup, and antenna to the windshield using the clean it with a lint-free cloth. Place suction cups. the suction cup on the windshield. Step 3: Configure the 4. Flip the lever back, toward the windshield. nüvi 5. Fit the bottom of your nüvi into the To turn on your nüvi, slide the Power cradle. key
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Getting Started Step 5: Assemble and Understanding the Menu Mount the Speech Page Recognition Remote ➌ ➍ ➊ ➋ Control ➎ ➏ 1. Insert the round, lithium CR2032 coin battery into the remote control with the positive side facing up. ➑ ➒ ➐ 2. Align the arrow on Battery Battery the battery cover cover cover with the arrow on ➊ GPS satellite strength Battery Battery the outer edge ® ➋ Bluetooth technology status of the remote ➌ Battery status control. ➍ Current time—touch to change time 3. U
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Getting Started Finding Your Destination The Where to? menu provides several different categories for you to use when searching for addresses, cities, and other locations. The detailed maps loaded in your nüvi contain millions of points of interest, such as restaurants, hotels, and auto services. 1. Touch Where to?. 2. Select a category. 3. Select a subcategory. 4. Select a destination. 5. Touch Go!. TiP: Touch and to see more choices. nüvi 800 Series Owner’s Manual
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Getting Started Following Your Route Adding a Stop As you travel, your nüvi guides you to You can add a stop (called a via point) to your destination with voice prompts, your route. The nüvi gives you directions arrows on the map, and directions at the to the via point and then to your final top of the map. If you depart from the destination. original route, your nüvi recalculates the TiP: To learn how to edit the active route and provides new directions. route, see page 13. 1. With a ro
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Getting Started speech recognition feature, the remote Taking a Detour control, and a list of shortcut commands, 1. With a route active, touch Menu. see pages 17–20. 2. Touch Detour. The nüvi attempts to get you back Adjusting the Volume on your original route as quickly as From the Menu page, touch Volume. possible. If the route you are currently Touch and to adjust the master taking is the only reasonable option, the volume. Touch the box next to Mute to nüvi might not calculate
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Where to? Touch Show Map to view this location Where to? on the map. The Where to? menu provides Touch Save to save this location. See several different categories you can use page 10. to search for locations. To learn how to perform a simple search, see page 5. Finding an Address TiP: Touch Near… to change the 1. Touch Where to? > Address. search area. See page 14. 2. Touch Change State/Province or Change Country, if necessary. Go! Page Options 3. Touch Search All. Touch an item i
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Where to? NOTe: Depending on the version of the maps loaded on your nüvi, the button names can change and some steps could be ordered differently. Finding a Place by Touch to add a space. Touch Spelling the Name and to move the cursor. Touch to If you know the name of the location you delete a character. Touch and hold to are looking for, you can spell it using the erase the entire entry. on-screen keyboard. You can also enter Touch Mode to select the keyboard letters contained
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Where to? Going Home Deleting Recently Found After you set your home location, you Places can route to it at any time by touching To remove all places from the Recently Where to? > Go Home. Found list, touch Clear > Yes. Changing Your Home NOTe: When you touch Clear, all items from the list are removed. This Location process does not delete the actual place To change your home location, you must from your nüvi. first delete it from Favorites. 1. Touch Where to? > Favorites. Favorites
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Where to? 4. Touch an item to edit: Saving Places You Find 1. After you have found a place you • Change Name—enter a new want to save, touch Save. name, and touch Done. 2. Touch OK. The place is saved in • Attach Photo—select a picture to Favorites. assign to the location. • Change Map Symbol— touch Finding Saved Places a new symbol used to mark this 1. Touch Where to?. location on the map. 2. Touch Favorites. Your saved • Change Phone Number— enter locations are listed. a phone nu
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Where to? 1. Touch Where to? > Favorites > • If the GPS mode is off, touch Set Panoramio Photos. Pictures you Location to set your location to the have saved on the nüvi drive or on selected location. (See page 44.) the microSD card are listed. 2. Touch a picture. Entering Coordinates 3. Touch Go! to navigate to the location. If you know the geographic coordinates Touch Show Map to view the location of your destination, you can use your on the map. nüvi to navigate to your destination
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Where to? Creating and Editing 6. Touch to add another location to your route. Touch to remove a Routes location. Touch Where to? > Routes. Select the 7. Touch Next to calculate your route route you want to take and touch Go!. and view it on the map. Creating a Saved Route 8. Touch Save to save the route and exit. Use your nüvi to create and save routes before your next trip. You can save up to Editing Routes 10 routes. 1. Touch Where to? (or Tools) > Routes. 1. Touch Where to? (or T
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Where to? • Recalculate—change the route Navigating Off Road preference to calculate by faster If you are not following roadways as time, shorter distance, or off road. you navigate, use Off Road mode. Touch • Delete—remove this route. Tools > Settings > Navigation > Route Preference > Off Road > OK. Select a NOTe: Your changes are destination and touch Go! to navigate off automatically saved when you exit any of the route edit pages. road to the destination. Searching Near Another
