I bought a Garmin

[LizStreithorst]

I bought my phone for it's GPS but it seems that to get a connection with it I need to do something called "tethering".  I read that tethering is expensive and I'm unfamiliar with it.  My last smart phone always got a signal

I suppose I should have asked for advice here before I bought the Garmin, but I didn't.  The first address I typed in to it was my work address:  205 S Front St, Ellisville MS.  It's right down town.  It's an easy address.  The Garmin wouldn't accept it.  It would only take 205 N Front St.  I understand that 205 N Front St. exists although I have never seen it.  From what I've been told there is nothing there at all except empty buildings and vacant lots.

I'm disappointed.  I stupidly thought that if I bought a device that would only do one single thing that it would do that thing well

[wallace]

I wish I could help you sort this out. I use extremely fancy GPS all day at work but I don't know the slightest thing about smart phones.

[Mugwump]

..'tethering' just let's your phone connect to devices....thru connectors, or wifi, etc....you shouldn't need a separate Garmin..??

your phone should have a built in 'gps' application..'app'...??....what kind of phone do you have?..and who's your carrier....Sprint?..T-mobile?...Verizon?..

[LizStreithorst]

I bought this damn Garmin and I want it to work.  The phone is a not terribly expensive  Samsung.  I don't remember which one.  I think it started with a "D".  But what I want if for the Garmin to have the sense to take me to work.  How can I trust it to take me to places unknown if it can't take me the 12 miles down the road that I travel every day

[Mugwump]

I bought this damn Garmin and I want it to work.  The phone is a not terribly expensive  Samsung.  I don't remember which one.  I think it started with a "D".  But what I want if for the Garmin to have the sense to take me to work.  How can I trust it to take me to places unknown if it can't take me the 12 miles down the road that I travel every day

Then I'm afraid you'll need a signal off you phone to 'call home' for the Garmin to work....or a wifi hotspot

[LizStreithorst]

The Garmin works whenever it's plugged in.  At least it should.  Dotties Tom Tom worked in the miles upon miles of farm land where my stupid phone could not get a signal. 

I'll figure it out, dammit   I always manage to figure it out when I have no choice.