Garmin 01039 Users Manual

StreetPilot® c550

™

owner’s manual

Garmin International, Inc. 1200 East 151st Street, Olathe, Kansas 66062, U.S.A. Tel. 913/397.8200 or 800/800.1020 Fax 913/397.8282

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™

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March 2006 Part Number 190-00642-00 Rev. A

PREFACE

Congratulations on purchasing the Garmin

Serial Number

Record the serial number (8-digit number on the back of the unit) in case your c550 needs service or you want to purchase additional

StreetPilot® c550™.

• Finding an address: page 5

• Viewing the Map page: page 13

• Using hands-free cell phone:

page XX

Quick Links

maps.

Serial Number: ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

• Listening to MP3 ﬁles: page 25

• Transferring ﬁles to your c550:

pages 17–20 and page 55

• Adjusting the volume: page 5

Contact Garmin

Contact Garmin if you have any questions or if you should encounter any difﬁculty while using your c550.

In the U.S.A, contact Garmin Product Support by phone at 913/397.8200 or 800/800.1020, Monday–Friday, 8 AM–5 PM Central Time. To send us a question through e-mail, go to

www.garmin.com/support/ and click Technical Support.

Fill out the form and click Submit .

In Europe, contact Garmin (Europe) Ltd. at 44/0870.8501241.

• Adjusting the brightness: page 5

• Cleaning and storing your unit:

pages 52–53

• Tips and Shortcuts: page 5

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface ................................................... i

Serial Number ................................................i

Contact Garmin ..............................................i

Quick Links ....................................................i

Find It and Go! ...................................... 1

Finding Your Destination .................................1

Following Your Route ......................................2

Adding a Stop to Your Route ............................

Adding a Detour to a Route .............................4

Stopping Your Route ......................................

Adjusting the Volume .....................................5

Adjusting the Brightness .................................5

Favorites .............................................13

Saving Places You Find .................................13

Finding Saved Places ....................................

Saving Your

Editing Saved Places ....................................

Current Location ........................ 13

Viewing the Map and Other Pages .......15

Viewing the Map Page .................................. 15

Trip Information Page ................................... 16

Turn List .....................................................

Next Turn Page ............................................17

Managing Files on Your c550 ............... 18

Step 1: Insert an SD Card (Optional) ............. 18

c550 Tips and Shortcuts .................................5

Where To? ............................................. 6

Go! Page Options ...........................................6

Finding an Address ........................................7

Go Home ......................................................8

Finding Points of Interest ................................9

Finding Recently Found Places .......................10

Finding a Place Using the Map .......................11

Expanding Your Search ................................. 12

Step 2: Connect the USB Cable .....................18

Step 3: Transfer Files to Your c550 ................. 19

Step 4: Eject and Unplug the USB Cable ......... 20

Information about Your c550 Drives ............... 20

Additional Help ............................................ 20

Deleting Files from Your c550 ........................21

Supported File Types ....................................21

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Listening to MP3 Files .........................22

Using the Hands-free Features of Your

c550 ..................................................23

Connecting Your Phone to the c550 Using

BlueTooth ................................................

Phone Menu ................................................ 25

FM TMC Trafﬁc Information ................ 28

Connecting the FM Trafﬁc Receiver ................. 28

Avoiding Trafﬁc ............................................ 29

Viewing Trafﬁc Events ..................................

Adding a Subscription .................................. 30

Customizing the c550 ..........................31

Appendix .............................................41

Mounting Your c550 ..................................... 41

Resetting

Clearing User Data .......................................43

Caring for Your c550 ................................... 44

Updating the c550 Software ..........................46

Purchasing and Loading Additional MapSource

Loading MapSource Waypoints on Your c550 ...47 Bluetooth® Wireless Technology

USB Interface Troubleshooting .......................48

Battery Information ....................................50

Your c550 ..................................... 43

Maps ....................................................... 46

Trou

bleshooting ........................................ 48

Restoring Settings .......................................31

Changing the Map Settings ........................... 32

Changing the System Settings ....................... 33

Localizing Your c550 .....................................

Customizing the Display ...............................

34 36

About Satellite Signals ................................. 51

Technical Speciﬁcations ................................

Software License Agreement ......................... 53

FCC Compliance .......................................... 54

Index ..................................................55

Changing the Navigation Settings .................. 37

Changing the Bluetooth Settings .................... 38

Using the Travel Guide ..................................39

Custom POIs (Points of Interest) ....................40

FIND IT AND GO!

Go outside where you have a clear view of the sky to get satellite signals. Turn on your Garmin StreetPilot c550 to begin acquiring GPS satellite signals. The bars in the upper-left corner indicate satellite strength. After your c550 has acquired satellite signals, ﬁnd your destination and go to it.

Finding Your Destination

➊

➍

Touch Where to?

Touch a destination.

➋

➎

Touch Food, Hotels….

Touch Go!

➌

Touch a category.

➏

Enjoy the route!

✔

TIP: Touch and to see more choices.

FIND IT AND GO!

Following Your Route

Follow the route to your destination using the Map page. As you travel, your c550 guides you to your destination with vocal prompts, turn arrows on the map, and directions at the top of the Map page. If you depart from the original route, your c550 recalculates the route and provides new route directions.

Read the driving instructions at the top of the page.

Your route is marked with a magenta line.

Follow the arrows as you make turns.

A checkered ﬂag marks your destination.

For more information about using the Map page, see pages 13–16.

Taking a Better Route

As you get closer to the destination the c550 evaluates more road options when calculating the route, which may result in a better route than what was originally calculated. When the StreetPilot has found a better route, a yellow diamond with a road in it is displayed in the lower-left corner of the Map page. Touch to take the better route.

If you need to take a detour, press the Menu button to open the Menu page and touch Detour.

FIND IT AND GO!

Adding a Stop to Your Route

You can add a stop (via point) to your route. The c550 gives you directions to the stop and then to your ﬁnal destination.

➊

➌

➋

With a route active, touch

Menu > Where to?

➍

Search for the extra stop.



NOTE: You can add only one stop to your route.

Touch Go!

Touch Yes to add this stop before your destination. Touch No to make this your new ﬁnal destination

FIND IT AND GO!

Adding a Detour to a Route

If you need to take a detour from your current route, touch

Detour from the Menu page of the c550. The unit calculates

➊

a new route and provides you with new instructions. The c550 attempts to get you back on your original route as soon as possible.

On some routes, the route you are currently taking might be the only reasonable option. In this case, you cannot take a detour.

Stopping Your Route

If you want to stop your current route, return to the Menu page and touch Stop.

➋

Touch Menu to return to the Menu page.

Touch Stop to end navigation. Touch Detour

and your unit creates a new route if possible.

FIND IT AND GO!

Adjusting the Volume

Turn the Volume knob on the right side of the unit up to raise the volume or down to lower it.

Adjusting the Brightness

From the Menu page, touch to adjust the backlight brightness. Touch to lower the brightness and to raise it.

Touch OK when you are done.

c550 Tips and

Shortcuts

• To quickly return to the Menu

page, press and hold Back.

• To extend the battery life,

turn off GPS when you do not need to receive GPS signals. Touch > System > GPS

Mode > GPS Off.

• For more tips about the

battery, see page 57.

WHERE TO?

The Where To? menu provides several different categories used to search for locations. From the Menu page, touch Where To? To learn how to perform a simple search using the Where To menu, see page 1.

Address—enter the house number and street name to ﬁnd a

speciﬁc address. See page 3.

Go Home—navigate a route to your Home Location.

Food, Hotel…—search for places such as schools, shopping

centers, and hospitals. Touch and to view all of the categories.

Recently Found—ﬁnd places you have recently found.

Favorites—save and ﬁnd your favorite locations. See page 7

Go! Page Options

Touch Go! to create a turn-byturn route to this location.

Touch Show Map to view this location on the map.

Touch Save to save this location as one of your Favorites. See

Extras—ﬁnd optional items such as Custom POIs and Garmin

Travel Guide™ points. See page XX and XX.

Intersections—ﬁnd the intersection of two streets.

Cities—ﬁnd a city.

Browse Map—use the map to ﬁnd the location you are looking

for. See the next page.

pages 9 through 12 for more

information.

If a cell phone with Bluetooth wireless technology is connected, touch to call this location.

WHERE TO?

Finding an Address

To ﬁnd an address, touch Where to? from the Menu page. Touch Address.

➊

➎

Touch a state.

➋

➏

Touch Spell City and spell the city.

➐

Touch a city.

➍➌

Type the number of the address and touch Done.

Type the street name and touch

Done.

Finding an intersection is very similar to ﬁnding an address.

Touch Intersection and enter the two street names.

Touch the street. Touch the address, if

necessary. Touch Go!

WHERE TO?

Go Home

You can set a Home location for the place you return to most often. After you have set your Home, you can easily Go Home.

➊

Touch Where to?.

Going Home

Once your Home location is set, you can route to it at any time by touching Where To? > Go Home.

Changing Your Home Location

To change your Home Location, you must ﬁrst delete it from Favorites: from the Menu page, touch

Where To? > Favorites > HOME > Edit > Delete > Yes. (For information about editing and deleting

➋

Touch Go Home.

➌

Touch an option.

a saved location from your Favorites, see page 15.) After you delete your Home Location, reset it following the steps above.

WHERE TO?

Finding Points of Interest

To ﬁnd a point of interest (such as a restarant, hotel, or attraction), touch Where to? from the Menu page. Touch

Food, Hotels…. Touch a sub-category (such as Food) to ﬁnd

the location.

✔

TIP: In any search results list, if you do not see the place you want visit or

Finding a Place by Spelling the Name

From the Menu page, touch Where to? > Food,

Hotels… > Spell Name.

➊

Using the on-screen keyboard, enter letters contained in the name. Touch Done.

➋

Touch the place you want to visit. Touch Go!

you want to narrow your search results list, touch

Spell and enter the name

or part of the name.

Using the On-Screen Keyboard

Touch to enter numbers. Touch to delete the last character entered; touch and hold to delete the entire entry.

Touch to change the keyboard mode to use diacritical characters or special characters.

WHERE TO?

Finding Recently Found Places

Your c550 stores the last 50 of your recent ﬁnds in the Recently Found list. The most recently viewed places appear at the top of the list. From the Menu page, touch Where to? > Recently

Found to view your recently found items.

Deleting Recently Found Places

To remove all places from the Recently Found list, touch Clear. Then touch Yes.

➊ ➋



NOTE: When you touch

Clear, all items from the

list are removed. It does not delete the actual place from your unit.

WHERE TO?

Finding a Place Using the Map

Use the Browse Map page to view different parts of the map. Touch Where to? > > Browse Map.

Tips for Browsing the Map

• Touch the arrows to view different parts of the map.

• Touch and to zoom in and out.

• Touch any object on the map. An arrow appears pointing at the object you selected.

• Touch Go to navigate to the selected location.

Viewing Places on

the Map

You can view a place you have found on the Map page.

➊

Touch Show Map.

• Touch Save to save this location to your Favorites.

➋

• Touch Back to return to the previous screen.

• To save your current location, touch Where to? > >

Browse Map. The Browse Map page opens with your current

location selected. Touch Save to save your current location in

Favorites.

• If the GPS is off, touch Set Loc. to set your location to the selected location.

Touch Back, Save, or Go!

WHERE TO?

Expanding Your Search

➊

From the Menu page, touch Where to?

Then touch Near.

Where I Am Now—searches for places near your current

➋

Touch an option. Touch OK.



location.

A Different City—searches for places near the city you enter.

My Current Route—searches for places along the route you are

NOTE: Your c550

automatically searches for places near your current location.

currently navigating.

My Destination—searches for places near your route destination.

FAVORITES

Saving Places You Find

➊

After you have found a place, touch Save.

➋

Touch OK.

Finding Saved Places

From the Menu page, touch Where to?.

➋➊

Saving Your

Current Location

Touch the vehicle icon on the map. Touch Yes.

Touch Favorites. Touch the place

you want to visit.

FAVORITES

Editing Saved Places

After you save a place, you can change the name of the place and its symbol on the map. From the Menu page, touch Where to?

➊

➋

Changing the Name

To change the name, touch

Change Name. Enter the

new name using the on-screen keyboard. Touch Done.

Changing the Map

To change the symbol used on

➌

Touch Favorites.

➍

Touch the place

the map, touch Change Map

you want to edit.

Symbol and touch a symbol from

the list.

Changing the Phone

Symbol

Number

You can save a phone number

Touch the Edit button. The Edit window opens.

Touch a button edit the saved location.

Deleting Saved Places

To delete this saved place, touch Delete. Then touch Yes.

for this location to use with your Bluetooth® enabled cellular phone. Touch Change Phone

Number, enter a phone number,

and touch Done.

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