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Don’t give up on your Garmin Nuvi too quickly.

My last few electronic gadgets have been refurbished models. It saves 100 dollars here and there, and I still get a warranty. My refurbished Garmin Nuvi 755T is three years old and just came back to life after I thought it was finished. Last year the power switch stopped working. To work around no power switch, I pop the unit out of its cradle, and use the on-screen options to turn it off. Click it into the cradle, and it powers up automatically. Then last week the touch screen stopped working, so I had to start using the navigation in my qualcomm unit as primary navigation. Three days of powering the Nuvi on and off and all I could get was the map screen that follows my route with no input, so I gave up and just used the gps as a secondary screen to show upcoming streets. I put off ordering a new gps, because I wasn’t near my mailbox. By this week I had learned to ignore the power up sequence as the gps automatically cycled its way to the map screen but then the map update nagware message came on and appeared to hang up. I don’t know if the nagware reset the software, but now the touch screen works. So once again procrastinating saved me. I’ll put off getting a new gps until this unit really dies, but I will start carrying my antique Garmin 200 as a backup, because the CoPilot program on my qualcomm unit didn’t cut it for primary navigation.

Original write-up on the gps.

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