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Mystik Spiral
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The other day I turned my GPS on and searched through my waypoints. Hmm, that's strange there's about 5 new waypoints.  They were names GARMIN and other things starting with GRM. It turns out that they were all the Garmin headquarters.  I don't want them. I deleted them all, but does anyone know that Garmin can do that? I thought that was soo strange.
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flashlightfreak9
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When you first use a GPS it already has waypoints in it(headquarters of the company usually).
Kind of like the craplets on a new computer.
It's nothing to be alarmed about. They're not modifying your GPS. 
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Mystik Spiral
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 | | When you first use a GPS it already has waypoints in it(headquarters of the company usually).
Kind of like the craplets on a new computer.
It's nothing to be alarmed about. They're not modifying your GPS. |
I'm pretty sure they just appeared. I didn't have those before. It's kind of annoying because I just found another one in Asia labeled 001. That's bad because I used to have a waypoint named 001.
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flashlightfreak9
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Hmmm...that is a little weird. Maybe you should contact Garmin's customer service and ask them.
I remember helping my aunt set up her GPS, and there was like 5 waypoints already in it. Headquarters, stuff like that. I deleted them and all was well.
Yours shouldn't be doing that.
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Mystik Spiral
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| | Hmmm...that is a little weird. Maybe you should contact Garmin's customer service and ask them.
I remember helping my aunt set up her GPS, and there was like 5 waypoints already in it. Headquarters, stuff like that. I deleted them and all was well.
Yours shouldn't be doing that. |
I don't know if they did an update or what? I just changed my batteries before that too. Strange.
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flashlightfreak9
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It may have reset or something. Modern GPS's are supposed to have permanent memory. Taking out the batteries will only reset the time until it picks up a satellite. With older ones, you have to hurry to change the batteries or you lose all your saved information. 
Call Garmin and see what they say.
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