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    Mio P550 switches itself off

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    This is just about doing my head in! :P

    The other day the mio was left switched off but with Tomtom running (yes - it still runs when switched off) When I came to switch the Mio on the battery level warning showed and it didn't want to switch on even when I'd recharged it again.

    This sounded just like the symptoms requiring the Mio P550 Power Patch So I installed it and things have now gone worse!

    It all seems to run fine on the battery but if I plug in a power lead it switches off after a couple of seconds. If I'm using TomTom , however, it stays on OK but anything else, it switches itself off.

     

    I have none of the power-saving settings set and this is really irritating me. Has anyone else had this problem? It does not seem possible to uninstall the patch either...

    Another THUMBS UP for Garmin

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    I contacted Garmin regarding baggy rubber surround on my etrex. I sent it off for them to have a look at and we received a brand new unit about a week later. :ph34r:

     

    And the new one is complete rubbish!

     

    It is nowhere near as accurate as our original unit. 40ft or so out AT BEST!

     

    I complained to Garmin and they basically said "tough"

     

    Garmin GPS are purely recreational GPS which offer 15m+/- accuracy.. 15

    meters = 49.2125984 feet

     

    If our first Etrex had been as bad as the replacement, I think we would have given up after the first week.

    We don't use the Etrex so much now anyway but when we were standing next to a cache site yesterday, the Mio was saying about 5ft away, while the etrex claimed we had another 80ft to go!!!

    What good is THAT?!!

     

    I can't help feeling somewhat bitter about it.

    Events - what happens?

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    It's nice to meet other cachers at events and have enjoyed the ones we've attended, but I/we find geocaching as a group somewhat lacking - standing in a queue to be handed a logsheet to sign is far removed from the geocaching we love :mad:

     

    So, events: yes

    Geocaching as a large group during an event: no thanks!

    Congratulations!!!!

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    :)NICE ONE WRIGHTY :)

     

    WELL DONE ON SETTING YOUR 100th CACHE!!

     

    NOW, WHO'S GOING TO BE FTF? :smile:

     

    Personalised cache too: GC18 Wrightys Excellet Trail? :)

     

    We were too busy caching yesterday to add our congratulations 71.gif - so we'll do it now...

     

    CONGRATULATIONS WRIGHTY

    an excellent and enjoyable series - here's to the next 10036.gif

    Mio P550 SD memory card question

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    The Mio P550 takes SD cards up to 2GB. I presume that 2GB was just the largest capacity available when the P550 was first designed.

    My question is: will larger capacity cards work?

     

    I suspect that 8 and 16GB SDHC cards might not work but what about 4GB SD cards?

    Anyone tried using one?

     

    Would it just be a matter of a driver upgrade or something for SDHC cards to work?

     

    (I contacted Mio and they said, "We only support the use of a standard card up to 2 GB.")

     

     

    Thanks

    Upgrading GPS & Going Paperless

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    We use a Mio P500 with Memory Map (and TomTom)

    The cache details are stored on it using the GSAK html export which will include clue images if they are in the page (as opposed to being hidden in the gallery)

     

    I used to use Beeline but now I only use it for the average waypoint utility when setting a cache.

     

    We take our Ertex yellow with us as well as it is a lot more robust and rainproof so the Geokids running on ahead with it.

     

    Is our setup any good? Well, yes it certainly does the job although the Mio has to be 'reset' more often than I would like :ph34r: probably do to the fact that it's running a Micro$oft operating system.....

    Unsafe caches equals lost geocoins and TBs

    in United Kingdom and Ireland

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    We've visited at least two caches which have been hidden in 'fly-tipped' tyres. At first thought this would seem precarious locations as they could be cleared away at any time so didn't leave any trackables

     

    How naive of us eh? One pile of tyres was covered in moss and had obviously been there for years and I doubt many muggles go rummaging through old tyres... :unsure:

    Pocket Query query

    in Website

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    Why aren't the search options on the 'advanced search options' page available on the pocket query page?

    I was trying to set up a pocket query which automatically* lists all caches hidden by a specific cacher but this doesn't appear to be possible

     

     

     

    *using a bookmark list would not be 'automatic' :unsure:

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