Garmin nuvi 50LM Support Question
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Question posted by chrisjanm on October 3rd, 2013
How To Change Home Location On Garmin Nuvi 50
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Answer #1: Posted by waelsaidani1 on February 6th, 2014 4:16 AM
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- Touch Where to?
- Touch Favorites
- Touch the favorite named Home1
- Touch the "bubble" pointing at Home (usually says "Press for More")
- Touch Delete and confirm by touching Yes
- Touch the back button to exit the favorites list
- Touch Go Home
- Select the desired option for setting the new home location
The home location has now been changed. Repeat these steps as needed.
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Owner's Manual - Page 2
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Garmin®, the Garmin logo, MapSource® and nüvi® are trademarks of such changes or improvements. or its subsidiaries
All rights reserved. Except as expressly provided herein, no...
Owner's Manual - Page 3
... Points of Interest 6 Saving a Home Location 7 Location Searches 7 Using the Location Map 9 Favorites 10
Map Pages 12 Following an Automobile Route 12 Map Pages 14
Data Management 16 File Types 16 About Memory Cards 17 Transferring Files from Your Computer 17
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Owner's Manual - Page 6
... into place. 7 Plug the other end of the USB cable to the USB port on your computer.
3 Go to www.garmin.com/dashboard. 4 Follow the on-screen instructions.
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➍
➊➏
5 Fit the bottom ➏ of your device into the mount. 6 Tilt...
Owner's Manual - Page 7
...several languages appears.
3 Click Download next to the manual you register the device at http://my.garmin.com within 90 days of the product manuals in
a safe place.
Go to your computer.
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... > Brightness.
2 Select
or
. You can reset your device if it stops functioning.
GPS signal status.
nüvi 30/40/50 Owner's Manual Turning Off the Device
1 Tap the Power key ➊.
➊
2 Select Power Off.
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Owner's Manual - Page 9
...change...change the character case. • Select and to move the cursor. • Select to delete a character. • Select and hold and to find locations. • By category (page 6) • Near another location... (page 6) • By spelling the name (page 7) • By address (page 8) • Using recently found locations...
Owner's Manual - Page 10
... Location By default, your device finds locations closest to a Route 1 While navigating an automobile route, select
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Owner's Manual - Page 11
...more.
Deleting Your Home Location 1. Location Searches
You can search for the location you can set your changes. 5 Select Done. Going Home Select Where To? > Go Home.
Select Where To? > Favorites > Home. 2 Select the information balloon. 3 Select Delete, and select Yes.
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Owner's Manual - Page 12
...balloon. Clearing the List of Recently Found Locations Your device stores the last 50 locations you have found.
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Owner's Manual - Page 13
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9 Using the Location Map
The location map appears after you are using latitude and longitude coordinates. This method can find a location using , and select OK.
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Owner's Manual - Page 14
...;vi 30/40/50 Owner's Manual Your home location is saved in Favorites.
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Owner's Manual - Page 15
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Owner's Manual - Page 17
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Owner's Manual - Page 18
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... category. 3 Select the setting to change it .
Deleting Files
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You need
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