New POI's Made My Nuvi 300 Crash!

bigant1986 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 27, 2006 Posts: 7

after uploading the new pocketgpsworld POI's to my nuvi 300 it has now crashed, will not connect to the computer and shuts down at the 'loading maps' menu, with an external power source it wil freeze indefinately on the loading maps screen

anyone else experienced this?

or

can anyone help me out please?

Oldie · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject:

Have you tried the reset button? The button is under the GPS flap on my 360.

Which selection of POIs did you use?

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bigant1986 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 27, 2006 Posts: 7

yes, i've tried that, theres nothing else i can do now, guess i'll just have to send it back to garmin! what a time of year for this to happen, unless anyone has any info?

MikeB · Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:30 pm Post subject:

Which POI sets did you try to install. This may be a data related problem as we have loaded onto Nuvis and i3 systems while testing with no problems.

What version of Garmin Software/Maps are you running? What version of the POILoader did you use?

Have you tried to connect the Nuvi to your computer with the USB cable and then just download a single POI file?
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leehenty · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 30, 2006 Posts: 5

Just had the same problem with my Nuvi 310D. Am using the latest Nuvi software and POI loader. After loading the New POI's along with the speed camera database, disconnect the Nuvi from my machine and then the Nuvi will not boot past the loading maps screen.

Using reset and also going back to factory settings still will not allow the Nuvi to boot past this part of the screen. The only way to keep it on that part of the screen is to put the USB cable in otherwise it turns itself off.

PC will not find the Nuvi at all and hence I cannot add a reduced set to the machine so that I can get to clearing them off.

benjones · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 28, 2006 Posts: 47

My 660 has just done the same. Is there a fix or have I got to take this back to Halfords?

What an ar*e.

darrellevans · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 03, 2007 Posts: 4

I have loaded POI's on my Nuvi 350 and cannot get past the 'loading maps...' not far enough for my computer to recognise the any drives .. Can someone please help.

MaFt · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:19 pm Post subject:

afterall · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 07, 2006 Posts: 28

Regarding the freeze on boot up, I thought same had happened to my Nuvi 310d as it also got stuch on the loading maps page.

I left it and it did boot up OK after about a 2 - 3 minute delay. I would suggest that you leave it be whilst booting and see if it sorts itself out.

Subsequent boot ups have been OK.

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bigant1986 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 27, 2006 Posts: 7

nope, mine froze, wouldn't connect to pc, wouldn't boot, even in pre-boot diagnostic mode, wouldn't boot, would get to same screen after that process and freeze, took it back to halfords before new year and STILL isn't back yet, this is annoying! next time, i'm gonna upload the POI's and Cam's onto a SD Card so i can remove it if i have any booting problems!

bfc1912 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 15, 2007 Posts: 3

Same thing seems to have happened on my 610 affter loading POI for first time. When booting without power device just gets to boot up screen and powers off. With a power device it just holds on the boot up screen.

Have done reset several times and even tried to run diagnostic but no success.

Mr_Big · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 29, 2006 Posts: 5

Well Folks,

I should read the current threads more often. I've just killed my Nuvi 310d also after trying to add loads of POI's from this website. There is definately a major issue here and a warnig should be given to anyone before trying to update their systems.
Knowing my luck, this was in big flashing lights but in the excitement I went blind.

bigant1986 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 27, 2006 Posts: 7

well, my nuvi 300 was with halfords and garmin for 3 weeks when they'd quoted me 7-10 days for a repair, after ringing several times and been given a different story all the time halfords offered me an exchange free of charge as they didnt have any 300's in stock, they offered me a nuvi 310d or a streetpilot c510 deluxe, i took the later, full euro mapping and fm traffic reciever free of charge? can't go wrong.

Also, i can confirm after loading the speed camera database to the device and loading the PocketGPSWorld POI's to a SD CARD...........I have had no problems............yet Laughing Out Loud

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cymro · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 1

dellk · Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 12:46 am Post subject:

Another one here.

My 3 month old Nuvi 660 (with latest V3.2 firmware) died when I added the full dynamic POI database to it from here.

Like the rest, it just hangs on the "loading maps" screen on charge and if it's on battery power, hangs on "loading maps" for a couple of mins before shutting down - this is with a full battery. I have no MP3's, Audio Books or pictures saved, so it's not a memory thing.

Reset button on the back made no difference.

Maintenance mode is accessable, but even after clearing user data and user waypoints, still no joy when restarting

It of course does boot far enough for the computer to see the Nuvi as a drive and so therefore unable to reflash the firmware or remove anything.

Took it back to Halfords who exchanged it for another (which is a result, as the 3 months free Cyclops database was coming to an end this month and now I have another 3 months, Laughing Out Loud

).

Jesting aside, a warning needs to be palced with the Dynamic POI, if only for Garmin Nuvi users.

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