Thread: Garmin Smartphone Link

To get the best out of Smartphone Link app and to be able to send addresses and locations from Android Google Maps, you need to install [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] in countries that Google Navigation is not enabled yet.

After you find a location with Maps, you press Directions button and as you press the Navigation button, a popup window appears, you select Smartphone Link and the location is send to your Nuvi and saved in Recent (Nuvi and phone connected).
Even if you don't have your Nuvi with you, you can temporary save a location in Smartphone Link app from Maps and the next time your Nuvi is connected to Smartphone Link, this location is transferred to your Nuvi.

Your Nuvi's Favorites and Recent are automatically saved in Smartphone Link app (and refreshed every time you reconnect), so you can navigate to them using Maps app, when your Nuvi is not available!

After you connect your Nuvi to Smartphone Link and start driving a route, your Destination is saved on the phone too.
You can park your car, take the the nuvi out of its mount before you turn off the engine and your Parking Location is saved on the phone too.
You can leave your Nuvi in the car and continue navigating to your original Destination using your phone with Maps app
You can also navigate back to your car using your phone again.
Even if you don't drive a route but your Nuvi and phone are connected and you take the the nuvi out of its mount before you turn off the engine, your Parking Location is again saved on the phone, so you can navigate back to your car.

Hello all,

I'm using a 3790, re-flashed to 3490, many thanx for all the info on this forum!

Connected it to the Smartphone link-app on my Samsung galaxy SII, purchased the "Live traffic" service, and all is working fine, unit is receiving traffic and weatherdata... as long as my phone's internet connection is trough my home WIFI.
Off couse i have mobile internet on the phone, but for some reason the smartphone-link data won't come trough. The nuvi just sits there, waiting for data. As soon as i re-enable WIFI new data comes in within a few minutes... Clueless...

Any suggestions?

Phone is not rooted, no firewall whatsoever. Normally mobile internet works fine, no problem. Tomorrow i'll test with another phone...

Update: Re-routing my phone's mobile data connection trough VPN to my home network has solved the problem.

Phone on Wifi @ home : Nuvi got data.
Phone on mobile data: Nuvi can't connect to any service
Phone on mobile data, with VPN to home-network: Nuvi got data.

It's a strange thought in these days of free internet use without restrictions: could it be that my mobile provider ( KPN, Netherlands) is blocking certain datastreams/protocols, in effect making the smartphone-link connections impossible?

But for now i'm happy, got my trafficinfo working 100% :D

Dear catymag is it possible to share the new version? Thanks in advance.