Showing Street Names in the Garmin Nuvi 2012, 3400 series and others

[angelozip]

Garmin GPS 2012 models (3400, 3500, 25x5, 24x5 US series) - only in the version for the Americas - has a limitation irritating to many: does not show the name of the street where you pass, only the name of the side streets that we will find ahead.
The solution is very simple: just Clean User Data in Diagnost Page, choose a European country (Luxemburg among others) and your language. It is simple as that.

Below the step by step for users less acquainted:

1. from the home page of the gps, enter in the Volume page, press and hold the upper-right corner of the screen to enter in the "Diagnostic Page"
2. click on "Clear All User Data", but before backup your data if necessary (read note below).
3. gps restarts and requested the name of the country. Select "Luxemburg and press OK.​
4. following appears "Select Language", select "Other"/OK/your language/OK.
5. Change in Settings, the language of the keyboard, if applicable.
6. Ended procedures is necessary to tune patiently satellites, time-consuming process because the system thinks are in Luxembourg ..
Then test on the move on the street and everything will work perfectly.



* Backup your data:
Use Basecamp or Mapsource for this.

** should be functional with all families of 2012 firmware already mentioned. It also works in "Pedestrian mode"


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