Garmin Nuvi 1490T Problem

Having issues with my Garmin Nuvi 1490T. When I turn on my car, the device keeps rebooting.
11/6/09: Called Garmin support. They said it's a known issue, to mail it in for repair and they may have it turned around in 14 days. I ask for an exchange and they said "They don't do exchanges, but repairs for this issue".

Update (10/12/2010): Garmin has a firmware update that they say fixes this issue.

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• 1490T

[HousingHelp]

I have the same problem ,its because you have plugged the charger on the side and not in the back of the device , simple as that

[tmrwic]

@guraknugen YES, you are correct. It all makes sense now. Thanks very much to your reply. :)

[guraknugen]

@mikeyadonis1 How do you mean? How you can assign a picture to your favourites? First copy your pictures to the JPEG folder (for example /media/GARMIN/JPEG/ depending on your operating system), they need to be in JPEG format I think. You can't have the same pictures for more than one favourite.

[guraknugen]

@tmrwic It seems like if you don't have enough favourites (I don't know how many, somewhere around ten or so), your folders are not shown. I wondered the same thing a while ago, but after adding a few favourites, the folders appeared. I doesn't make any sense to me, but obviously it does to Garmin…

[KatiushaVN4]

damn Prius

[Bigtymme]

your a douche!

[Riles246]

The 1490T is strange- it was touted as a high end model when I purchased it, but Garmin doesn't stand behind it at all. My battery never held a charge but they refused to repair it, saying that batteries are "wear items" and not covered by the warranty. Yeah, right.

[tmrwic]

Is anyone else having problems with the 1490 Favourites folders? Creating a subfolder is not working (that is, when you want to group all your friends addresses, it wouldn't let you).

I still own a nuvi 260w and it always lets me create subfolder on the Favourites.

Please help......

[mikeyadonis1]

i have just bought the 1490t and was wondering if someone could explain how the picture destination works . cheers mikey from scotland

[illussioncm]

tuve el mismo problema con mi GPS, lo pude reparar varias veces pero la ultima vez no pude, hice lo siguiente, lo desarme, desconecte la bateria, y lo conecte con la PC usando el cable USB, se reestablecio el sistema varias veces, creo que el problema es causado por las conexiones de energia de carro, porque la energia de carro es controlada por la cumputadora del carro, y la energia queda parpadeando, no se apaga de una vez, es mejor desconectarlo del conector del cigarro si no se esta usando.