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Robbie34
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PostPosted: Sun May 18, 2008 5:09 pm    Post subject: SD Card for Nuvi 760 Reply with quote

I have just ordered a Nuvi 760 from Amazon for £204.99. Do I need an SD card for it, and if so, what is the best one to buy?

Thanks.
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PostPosted: Sun May 18, 2008 7:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You don't need one usless you need more memory than is avalible on the unit...
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PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got a scandisk 4GB SD card from Amazon for about £8 for my 770.

It has approx 3.5GB of music and audio books on it for my motorhome trips.

leaving space for routes & waypoints and custom POI's Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu May 22, 2008 5:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You don't need one but it is very handy to have & I use mine for storing loads of mp3's & all my speed camera data from here.

Well worth getting one & although I have some top end cards the cheap ones have always worked as well.
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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 7:32 am    Post subject: SDHC?? Reply with quote

Does anyone know if the Garmin units - especially the 7xx and 8xx units are able to support the SD High Capacity disks which go up to 32GB?

Many thanks

Miles
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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 8:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Miles

I have found out that the maximum SD card size is 4gb for the 700 series and the new 800 as well when it comes out. (the 800 series will be using the micro SD card)

I made enquiries into that as well as I was going to get an 8gb, I'm glad that I didn't as that would have been a useless buy.

Jerry
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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 10:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Jerry - saved me some money there Smile
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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 12:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Rudd wrote:
Hi Miles

I have found out that the maximum SD card size is 4gb for the 700 series and the new 800 as well when it comes out. (the 800 series will be using the micro SD card)

I made enquiries into that as well as I was going to get an 8gb, I'm glad that I didn't as that would have been a useless buy.

Jerry


Did you actually try with an 8GB card? I have read too in the 7xx manual that 4GB is the max, but I'm sure I heard on here that someone used a class6 8GB SD card in the 760.

If you can find a cheap 8GB for £20 or so you should try it anyway.

On a more technical note, if the device takes 4GB, then that is possibly a class4 card. There are class4 8GB cards too, not just class6. That would rule out hardware issues.

However, the only reason why it might not work is if the device itself can onl address 4GB for whatever software limitation was put in place.
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PostPosted: Mon May 26, 2008 6:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Chris

To tell you the truth I didn't go for an 8gb SD card, I had a look at the Garmin frequently asked questions about the limits for the SD card.

At the moment I have the equivalent of 22 cd's converted to mp3's on my card. I am going to get another 4gb card so I will put different titles on when I've listened to all the orther one. Btw can you remember as to where you saw abou the 8g card as I missed that one.

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PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2008 12:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

hey guys my first post here.
having just bought the 760 i also bought an 8gb card at the same time
not knowing that the device only supported 4gb cards.
the 8gb card works just fine so far i have loaded 1360 mp3 so far and they
play with no problems at all.
the card i bought was a transcend 8gb sdhc class 6 from amazon for £15.46

hope this information help
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PostPosted: Wed May 28, 2008 5:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well that's soomething new I've learnt today, I never thought that the 8gb would work. I'm off to buy one as well now.

Thanks for letting us know.

Jerry
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PostPosted: Wed May 28, 2008 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Without actually testing it, I suspect it's the same issue as the TomTomGuys have. It will only write to 4g, but can read from 8, or 16, etc.
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PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2008 1:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gatorguy6996 wrote:
Without actually testing it, I suspect it's the same issue as the TomTomGuys have. It will only write to 4g, but can read from 8, or 16, etc.


when would the device need to be able to write to the card? If you use the nuvi as the card reader itself rather than a dedicated usb reader?
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PostPosted: Thu May 29, 2008 11:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Do I need to download (all or some) POIs from site here to SD card or will they fit on my Nuvi 760?

If I have the choice, which is the better option?

Sorry if questions have been answered before, I am new to the wonders of sat nav. Embarassed
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PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Do I need to download (all or some) POIs from site here to SD card or will they fit on my Nuvi 760?


Hi and Welcome.

I have 33,000 POIs and they fit into a 2.2 Mb file so they'll fit on either the Internal Memory or an SD Card.
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