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    Does your Garmin 60CSx freeze up?

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    Hi How many or your Garmin 60 CSx's just randomly lock up and if they do how often ?

     

    Mine locks 2-3 times a year. Most recently, I was out Saturday, the GPS asked if I wanted to recalculate the route and I said yes. Battery removal required to get it working again.

     

    I read in another thread the the 60 csx stops to "think" every few minutes and I'm wondering if that is related to the hangs?

     

    Jerry

    gps V vs 60 csx

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    I currently us a garmin gps V an mapsorce. I f I purchase a gpsmap 60 csx can I still use the old software for detailed street mapping or will I have to purchase new software.

    Thanks

     

    Unless you purchased the V very recently you should be able to use your second license. The bigger question is "what happens if you update map source?" I suspect that you will only be able to use it with one of your gps's.

     

    I went through this with no problem but I have not tried to use the V with the newer mapsource.

     

    Jerry

    60Csx + firmware 2.90 more power sensitive?

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    I have seen the behavior on a 60cs plugged into a laptop. When the behavior repeated on battery only, I suspected bad batteries. When I popped one of the batteries out, I noticed the the battery connector did not pop out - a quick finger nail to all 4 prongs found two that "pinged" and popped out where I expected. All was well after.

     

    Since it is a cheap fix, I would recommend trying it.

     

    Jerry

    Help, Transferring Routes From Mapsource To 60csx

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    I just loaded routes onto my 60csx last night with no problems. I have even loaded routes with no maps loaded - it just uses the base map in the gps. Now, on to the how...

     

    1. Is your route appearing under the routes tab in Mapsource?

    2. Do you have the waypoints for the route under the waypoints tab?

    3. Optionally, do you have a mapset under the maps tab?

    4. Click on the upload icon and after Mapsource finds your gps, follow the directions selecting waypoints, routes and (optionally) maps.

    5. If there are no maps involved, it will only take a few seconds. If there are maps, it could take a few minutes.

    6. If they are still greyed out - I'm stumped! :)

     

    Jerry

    60csx Hangs In Recent Find

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    Apparently there was something corrupted on the memory card. I switched the gps to mass storage mode, deleted all the files, flipped it back to normal and the problem was gone.

     

    I've had problems with the custom POI's that I'm currently blaming on the new loader. Perhaps that is/was the source. More testing to follow.

     

    Jerry

    60csx Hangs In Recent Find

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    Thanks for the replies, you have confirmed what I thought should be happening. This one is still new to me so don't have it's expected behaviors down yet.

     

    I will play with the memory card to see if that will fix the problem. If not, I may see how long it take Garmin to turn it around - I leave on vacation in less than a month!

     

    Jerry

    60csx Hangs In Recent Find

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    My software is at v2.90/v2.60. I don't think this condition happened with earlier versions but I'm not sure.

     

    From Find, select Recent Find, when the recent finds are displayed, press menu. My unit starts emitting a tone and hangs. The only way to get out is to pop out a battery for a second, then the GPS works normally.

     

    Anyone else experiance this?

     

    Jerry

    Garmin Poi Loader V 2.3.1.0 Flawed?

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    Posted · Edited by jwv

    I do have City Select installed but it is an older version than I have not enabled for the GPS. I too am waiting for v8 so perhaps that is the problem.

     

    I had read the earlier thread about the proximity alarms which is why I thought the version may be the problem even though my symptoms are different.

     

    I also tried to download the older version but it appears that Garmin has changed their web site so that is not possible any more. I will check again to make sure.

     

    Looks like I may have to give Garmin a ring on this.

     

    Jerry

     

    Addendum:

     

    Partly operator error? - I was playing last night and found there was one more menu level in the custom poi's to select a data base. Selecting a data base at least allowed me to see the entries. The proximity problem is present. However, when I selected find, custom poi's, I still got the message "None Found".

     

    I went out shopping today and took the new toy along. When I got back, I started to play with the custom poi's some more and lo and behold, they are now showing up in the find menu as I exepeted them to originally!

     

    The only thing I have done is have the batteries out a couple of times...

     

    Progress I guess :grin:

     

    Jerry

    Garmin Poi Loader V 2.3.1.0 Flawed?

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    I'm either missing something or the POI loader is not working correctly.

     

    I have a new 60csc that I just applies all updats to yesterday. I also installed version 2.3.1.0 and go ready to play. I used Mapsource to generate the gpx file of some local poi's (location of my house being one) and loaded them. As far as I can tell, the don't show up anywhere, find, map various poi folders, etc.

     

    I have verified the file in on the memory card. I have loaded various poi files, some from mapsource, some from oziexplorer and nothing.

     

    Everything else is working great! Alas, :cry: not poi's for me.

     

    Suggestions?

     

    Jerry

    Zone Alarm

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    I have not had much problem with the free version of ZoneAlarm and still use an old version of the commercial one at work. However, my boss was updating his laptop and home machine with each iteration and it got to the point the he was having so many problems, I convinced him to take it off. Very long startup times, sites not working, and (my perception) some software running more slowly.

     

    BTW, the only feature of ZA that I use is the privacy stuff (popups, java, activex, etc.). While the windows firewall may not be the most aggressive, it works fairly well in blocking the bad guys in my opinion.

     

    Jerry

     

    Thanks for all the replies, First of all I have Zone alarm security suit 2005. I use to run the free copy of Zone Alarm with no problems, that's why I decided to buy the software. When I put in the Explorist disk nothing happens at all. When I try to look at the disk with explorer it tell me that the disk is not a compatible windows format.

    When I have the explorist pluged into the USB port and look at it through explorer it will show a G: drive like it should but it does not show the typical folders that are on the SD card. When I click on the G: drive (Explorist) is tell me the disk is not formatted. It's very strange. I have tried turning off Zone alarm but that does not help either. The only way is to uninstall Zone alarm, then everything is back to normal. Maybe I'll go back to the free software of Zone alarm and just register it with my product key.

    Download Errors On Garmin 'x' Models

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    As an FYI, I was having trouble with USB ports and a device awhile back and in conversation with a tech, he indicated that on many machiness, the front USB ports are unable to supply the same power as the rear thus the reason some things work on one and not the other.

     

    I would think a GPS just might draw enough power to make this an issue. That would also explain why an unpowered hub might not work as it is also drawing power from the port then you add on a GPS.

     

    This was not the source of my problem so I can not verify it but it does sound reasonable to me that it might occur.

     

    Jerry

     

    The ports on my desktop are 1.1 USB on an Intel motherboard. The Dell laptop is a 2.0 USB. All drivers and Garmin SW is up to date. Yes, Win-Doze machines. Both are running McAfee Firewall and Anti-Virus. MapSource sees the unit on everything but the hub. The hub is built into the Dell flatpanel display for the docked laptop, so I can't move that to the desktop. The cost for a hub, or a 2.0 card for the desktop is about the same. Still, I don't want to have to access REAR connections (I use the same cable for connecting to the PC as I do to power the unit in the truck.)

     

    From the way it looks, the driver or transfer software chokes on small errors caused by either timing or distance (basically timing) issues. The protocol needs to be more robust. Especially since there is a lot of older hardware out there that works just fine.

     

    I think my desktop is pushing 5 years now. Was bleeding edge at it's time. 2.8ghz Pentium 4, 1gig of Rambus memory, 15,000 RPM SCSI drives, etc. When Doom 3 came out and most people were rushing for upgrades, I was saying "Finally, something that uses all this".

     

    I had two Abit mother boards purchased about 5 or 6 years ago and both had intermittent problems with the front panel USB ports. Never did get a resolution on the problems. The one that was having the most problem was not using a shielded cable to the front panel USB ports. I got 2 new MB's about 6 months ago and no problems since then. I replaced the USB cable in the case that was having the most problem when I swapped out the MB's.

     

    ABIT had a hard time getting their front panel USB ports implemented right. My latest is an IS7-E2 board and it sometimes fails to initiate the front panel ports on startup. I have to do a restart to make them work when that happens.

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