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Garmin Mobile XT Owner's Manual

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  • Page 1 Owner’s Manual Garmin Mobile ™...
  • Page 2 Garmin. Garmin hereby grants permission to download a single copy of this manual onto a hard drive or other electronic storage medium to be viewed and to...

  • Page 3: Preface

    Menu option, just select Tools. Garmin Mobile XT can be used on mobile phones as well personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other mobile devices. This manual uses the word “phone” to mean the mobile device on which you are using Garmin Mobile XT navigation software.

  • Page 4: Avoiding Theft

    To avoid theft, remove the unit and mount from sight when not in use. Remove the residue on the windshield left by the suction cup. • Do not keep your GPS receiver in the glove compartment; thieves know where to look. •...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Preface... i Manual Conventions ... i Avoiding Theft ... ii Getting Started ... 1 Acquiring GPS Signals ... 1 Using the Main Garmin Mobile XT Page ... 2 Finding a Destination ...3 Following the Route Where to? ... 5 Information Page Options ... 5 Sending a Found Location ...6...
  • Page 6 System Settings ... 39 Routing Settings ... 40 ...41 Display Settings Audio Settings ... 42 Garmin Online Settings ... 42 Proximity Points Settings ... 43 About ... 43 Restore Defaults ... 43 Appendix ... 44 Remote GPS Page ... 44 Setting Your Location ...45...

  • Page 7: Getting Started

    Go to an open area, out of parking garages, and away from tall buildings. Acquiring satellite signals may take a few minutes. The bars in the upper-left corner indicate satellite strength. While the GPS receiver is acquiring satellite signals or if it loses signals, the bars are red or hollow GPS has acquired satellite signals;...

  • Page 8: Using The Main Garmin Mobile Xt Page

    Exit–close the Garmin Mobile XT application. PeerPoints–you have a new PeerPoints 28–29 for information. Message–you have a new message from the Garmin Online server. Tools–use tools that are useful for navigation, such as Route Details, PeerPoints 28–29), and Garmin Online ™...

  • Page 9: Finding A Destination

    The Where to menu provides several categories and sub- categories to help you find destinations. You can enter addresses, look up locations you recently found, and view locations you have saved. From the main Garmin Mobile XT page, select > Food, Hotels.

  • Page 10: Following The Route

    Garmin Mobile XT page. Select Stop on the main Garmin Mobile XT page to stop the active route. Note: By default, traffic is avoided when routes are generated. To change this and Settings > Routing. See other routing settings, select (Menu >)

  • Page 11: Where To

    Send Location–sends your location as an SMS text message. See the next • Weather–shows the current weather conditions at that location. See Garmin Mobile XT Owner’s Manual ™ here to menu require detailed map data that is either Addresses Food, to create a route to this location, or select page.

  • Page 12: Sending A Found Location

    Sending a Found Location You can find a location and send it to people in your Contacts list. The information is sent to Garmin Mobile XT users as a location text message. Non-users receive a text message only. Find a location.

  • Page 13: Finding Places Near Other Places

    Finding Places Near Other Places By default, Garmin Mobile XT finds places near your current location. You can also use Garmin Mobile XT to find places near your current road or route, your route destination, or a location you select.

  • Page 14: Going Home

    Going Home You can set a home location for the place you return to most often. From the main Garmin Mobile XT page, select Where to > Home. Select an option to set your home location. After you have saved your home location, you can create...

  • Page 15: Finding Addresses

    Finding Addresses From the main Garmin Mobile XT page, select Select a country and state/region (if necessary). To search all cities, select Postal Code, enter part of the name, and then select the city from the list. Enter the house number and then select Next.

  • Page 16: Finding Points Of Interest

    Finding Points of Interest From the main Garmin Mobile XT page, select > Food, Hotels. Select a category and a sub-category, if necessary. (Select the arrows to see more categories.) Select a point of interest. Select to create a route to this location or select another option.

  • Page 17: Finding Fuel Prices

    > Fuel Select a fuel type. Your phone connects to the Internet to use this Garmin Online service. A list of fuel prices near your current location appears. To sort the list by lowest price, select Sort. To sort by...

  • Page 18: Finding Hotels.com Rates

    > Food, Hotels > Lodging Your phone connects to the Internet to use this Garmin Online service. A list of Hotels.com hotels near your current location appears. To sort the list by lowest price, select Sort. To sort by Sort distance, select Select the location you want.

  • Page 19: Navigating To A Contact

    From the main Garmin Mobile XT page, select Select a contact in the list, then select Go. If the contact does not have a GPS location, Garmin Mobile XT asks if you want to assign a GPS location. Select Yes. Select an option to set a GPS location for the contact.

  • Page 20: Finding Recently Found Places

    Finding Recently Found Places Garmin Mobile XT keeps track of the last 40 locations you have recently found so you can find them again quickly. From the main Garmin Mobile XT page, select > Recent Finds to view your recently found items.

  • Page 21: Finding Saversguide Locations

    The optional Garmin Travel Guide provides detailed information, reviews, and recommendations about restaurants, hotels, and tourist attractions. You can order the Garmin Travel Guide online at www.garmin.com/extras. To use the Travel Guide, from the main Garmin Mobile XT page, select Extras Travel Guide >...

  • Page 22: Finding Intersections

    Finding Intersections From the main Garmin Mobile XT page, select Select a country and state/region (if necessary). To search all cities, select Postal Code, enter part of the name, and then select the city from the list. Enter all or part of the first street name or number and then select the street from the list.

  • Page 23: Routing

    If you leave the map and want to return, select XT page. Select Stop on the main Garmin Mobile XT page to stop the active route. Note: By default, traffic is avoided when routes are generated. To change this and other routing settings, select information.

  • Page 24: Using The Trip Computer

    GPS receiver is enabled. It shows your odometer, driving time, stopped time, average speed, and max speed. To access the Trip Computer; from the main Garmin Mobile XT page, select (Menu >) Tools >...

  • Page 25: Adding A Detour To Your Route

    If you selected Distance, select how much of your current route you want to avoid. If you select select the turn you want to avoid. Select Yes. Garmin Mobile XT recalculates the route to include the detour. Stopping Your Route...

  • Page 26: Avoiding Roads And Areas

    Avoiding Roads and Areas You can exclude specific roads or areas from all of your routes. Garmin Mobile XT avoids using these roads or areas in routes unless there is no alternative. You can avoid general types of roads (such as unpaved roads and toll roads) by changing your routing settings.

  • Page 27: Avoiding Roads

    Select the avoidance you want to edit. Select Rename to rename the avoidance, to view the avoidance on a map. To deactivate an avoidance without deleting it, select Avoidance Setup, then uncheck the avoidance. Garmin Mobile XT Owner’s Manual ™ > Routing > Avoidance Setup Road.

  • Page 28: Saving A Route

    Select the route you want to navigate. Select Go. > Manage My Data > Routes. > OK. > Manage My Data > Routes. Route. > Manage My Data > Routes. Garmin Mobile Save to save the XT Owner’s Manual ™...

  • Page 29: Editing A Saved Route

    • Delete–deletes the route. Simulating a Route If the GPS is off, you can simulate driving a route. Garmin Mobile XT shows your vehicle traveling along the roads in the route and simulates each turn and voice prompt. Follow the steps for creating a route.

  • Page 30: Garmin Online

    By default, each time you start navigating a route, Garmin Mobile XT accesses Garmin Online to check for traffic on your route. If there is traffic, Garmin Mobile XT avoids the traffic when generating the route. To change this setting, select Settings >...

  • Page 31: Checking Subscription Status

    Checking Subscription Status Use the Subscription Status page to activate Garmin Online services (if necessary) and to verify the services available to you. Not all services require account activation. See my.garmin.com for subscription information. Your phone must have an Internet connection to access Garmin Online. See your phone service provider for applicable charges.

  • Page 32: Viewing Traffic Data

    To show a traffic event on the map, select an event and then select Map. By default, Garmin Mobile XT is set to avoid traffic events while you are navigating on a route. To deactivate this setting, select Settings Routing >...

  • Page 33: Downloading Safety Cameras

    You can use Garmin Online to download safety camera information (not available for all regions). You have a 30-day free trial download period that begins when you download your first safety camera region. See information. You must be connected to Garmin Online in order to download safety camera information. Select (Menu >)

  • Page 34: Peerpoints

    You can send your current location as a PeerPoints message to people in your Contacts list. The information is sent to Garmin Mobile XT users as a PeerPoints message and as a text message that includes the nearest address. Contacts who do not have Garmin Mobile XT receive a text message only.

  • Page 35: Requesting A Peerpoints Message

    Requesting a PeerPoints Message You can request a PeerPoints message from Garmin Mobile XT users in your Contacts list. Select (Menu >) Tools any) appears. Select a PeerPoints message, or select the list. Select Request PeerPoints. A “Where are you?” text message appears.

  • Page 36: My Locations

    Symbol—change the symbol used on the map to show this location. • Delete—delete this location from ocationS Locations. > Manage My Data > > Location. > Manage My Data > (Menu >) and select an option: Locations. Garmin Mobile Locations. XT Owner’s Manual ™...

  • Page 37: Using Location Categories

    Using Location Categories Garmin Mobile XT contains default categories to help you organize your saved locations. You can also create your own categories for your saved locations. Creating a Category Select (Menu >) Tools Locations. Select a location, then select Categories.

  • Page 38: Contacts

    Select a contact in the list, then select Go. If the contact does not have a GPS location set, Garmin Mobile XT asks if you want to assign a GPS location. Select Yes. Select a method to set a GPS location for this contact.

  • Page 39: Routing To An Appointment

    You can create a route to an appointment in your calendar. (Only available on Windows Mobile devices.) From your calendar, select an appointment and then select Menu. Select Garmin Mobile XT Enter a location name, then select Set a GPS location for the contact. Select OK.

  • Page 40: Tools

    The Tools menu provides access to many helpful features of the Garmin Mobile XT application. Many of these topics are discussed in other parts of this manual: • For information about Garmin Online, see • For information on PeerPoints, see •...

  • Page 41: Where Am I

    Map Sets and Custom POI sets loaded on your device. Select (Menu >) Tools > Manage My Data and then select an option. For information about managing your Contacts see pages 32–33 and for My Locations, pages 30–31. Garmin Mobile XT Owner’s Manual ™...

  • Page 42: Managing Your Map Sets

    Managing Your Map Sets Garmin Mobile XT includes preloaded map data. You can purchase additional MapSource map data (map sets) from your Garmin Dealer or Garmin at my.garmin.com/shop. To view the map sets loaded on syour phone, select Data Sets.

  • Page 43: Saving A Track

    Color–selects the display color for the track. • Display on Map–shows the track on the map page. • Delete–deletes the track. Garmin Mobile XT Owner’s Manual ™ Interval and select how often you want track points records more points and creates more detailed tracks, and select >...

  • Page 44: Settings

    Customize Garmin Mobile XT using the Settings. Map Settings Map settings allow you to customize the appearance of the map, including detail, orientation, and text size. To change map settings, select (Menu >) Detail—adjust the amount of detail shown on the map.

  • Page 45: System Settings

    Bluetooth GPS to use the hands-free features. Select routing to disconnect the Bluetooth GPS to use the hands-free features only when you are not following a route. Select Garmin Mobile XT Owner’s Manual ™ to have the location icon appear on the nearest to display the icon at your actual GPS location.

  • Page 46: Routing Settings

    Grid, enter the appropriate coordinate information. Datum—select a map datum. Because different maps and charts use different map datum, Garmin Mobile XT allows you to choose the correct map datum for the map you are using. The datum is generally listed in the map’s legend.

  • Page 47: Display Settings

    Disabled. Avoidance Setup—check the types of roads or areas you want to avoid when creating routes. Garmin Mobile XT avoids using these items in a route unless there is no alternative. For more information, see pages 20–21.

  • Page 48: Audio Settings

    Prompt—enable/disable the vocal navigation prompts. Attention Tone—enable/disable the tone that is sounded before a navigation prompt. Garmin Online Settings Garmin Online settings allow you to change the way your phone accesses Garmin Online. To change Garmin Online settings, select (Menu >)

  • Page 49: Proximity Points Settings

    Notification—select how you want to be audibly notified when you approach a custom POI or a safety camera location. About The About page contains information about Garmin Mobile XT, including software version, unit ID, and copyright information. Select (Menu >) Settings >...

  • Page 50: Appendix

    PPendix Remote GPS Page To view the Remote GPS Information page, select the GPS icon in the upper-left corner of the main Garmin Mobile XT page. You can also open the Remote GPS Information page by selecting Settings System (Menu >...

  • Page 51: Setting Your Location

    Setting Your Location When you activate the GPS for the first time, or if you have traveled more than 600 miles with the GPS receiver turned off, the GPS must initialize. To shorten the initialization time, set your location on the map.

  • Page 52: Index

    (My Loca- tions) following a route fuel prices fuse Garmin Online 24–27 settings gas prices. fuel prices turn on and off Garmin Mobile Hotels.com rates 12, intersection...
  • Page 53 My Loca- tions SaversGuide save your current location saving places you find Garmin Mobile XT Owner’s Manual ™ sending a location settings audio display Garmin Online restore routing system setting your location manu-...
  • Page 54 For the latest free software updates (excluding map data) throughout the life of your Garmin products, visit the Garmin Web site at www.garmin.com. © 2007 Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries Garmin International, Inc. 1200 East 151 Street, Olathe, Kansas 66062, USA Garmin (Europe) Ltd.

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