Charge it using the accompanying wall charger. You can start it up while its charging; most manufaturers suggest giving it a full charge before start up; its advisable to to do so because this ensures the batter has a long life.
If you are too eager to start it up – go ahead… but do give it one full good 5 to 6 hour charge the first time.
I just got a Garmin Nuvi GPS from my dad who got another brand GPS. He lost his charger for it and I found that a Blackberry charger fits. Will this charger be compatible with the Garmin Nuvi enough to charge it without any complications or frying it?
Tried everything. Does this battery arrive charged? Got the GPS from Staples and am having a HARD time learning anything about it. Think I’m just too old to learn new stuff. This is my first GPS and probably my last!! Thanks
im going on a few long trips later this year. Virginia AT and Philmont. and am looking to not lug around a ton of batteries.
I recently got this GPS, used, from a friend who doesn’t want it anymore.
It has the car charger, but no house charger. It does, however, have a mini-USB port on it. Will this device charge off of USB like many cell phones do?
Or do I have to somehow buy a house charger?
I just bought a Garming Nuvi 660 and i just found out that this model is discontiued. This information was not posted on thier website. I will be recieving it tomorrow. If it does not have thier 2009 maps will they provide the software free of charge?
I have just bought a Garmin Nuvi 760 and I am wondering how long I need to charge it to have a full charge, and if it charges when plugged into the wall or computer?
The Garmin tech support folks can tell, but what I’ve heard from a very few folks who’ve had that problem was the tiny, thin wire broke loose from the battery. That might happen it the unit gets slammed hard. The antenna wire is also a very frail wire to watch out for. If you open the unit up and find this problem and solder back the connection, that might fix it. Another problem I’ve heard of is the battery being completely ruined by being left in the car in extremely high temperature. Garmin can repair that, or you can if you get the battery and transplant it. Those batteries have a protection circuit on them- something like a thermistor to protect it while charging. You can look for a replacement with the protector, or take the protector off the old ruined battery and put it on a new battery. Before you open anything, or mail anything, make sure there is power coming from the charger. It’ll say on the screen that the unit is charging and it has completed charging when the time is up.
I have connected an AC adapter to the nuvi and a wall outlet. How long does it take to fully charge for the first time? How often will I need to recharge and will it tell me? This is all new to me as I do not have a power outlet in my car.
Thank you.
I got a Garmin nuvi 650 for Christmas and it is great but the battery died on it and I am trying to recharge it from the USB cable. It doesn’t have a battery indicator light and I don’t know when it is fully charged. Can I damage the battery by not charging it to capacity? This is my first GPS so any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated.