geo climber
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Not sure what "Live Maps" mode is. There is a "Live Track" mode in the manual (p7) but I don't think that's related.
I use the free topo maps from https://www.gpsfiledepot.com/, but don't think that's related either.
We may have to wait for someone more knowledgeable to help out here.
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I took a quick look at my 64 but can't reproduce what you are seeing. It appears that Zoom keeps the cursor in the center of the screen, so if the cursor is off center then the first Zoom step will move the map to recenter on the cursor. After that I see no change to map center going from min to max Zoom levels.
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2 hours ago, jimlarkey said:
USB 1.0/2.0 is good for up to 500mA. USB 3.0 good for 900mA. I've got the same eneloop hack as dbrents on my OR700....360 mA charging.
You are correct, I was mistaken about that. I went back to double check and get 350mA charging from USB or Anker USB charger.
But to get the animated charging icon the gps can't be mounted as a removable drive. I don't know how to get a charging indicator when mounted as a drive.
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dbrents, read my earlier post on this above, the gps requires about 350mA from the USB port while charging the batteries. A USB port on a computer or hub cannot supply that much current. Try charging from a cellphone charger and you should see the animated icon while charging with the gps switched off.
Let me know if that works.
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1 hour ago, otcoeng said:
What unit would you recommend?
Have you tried just using a gps app on a smartphone or tablet?
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On an Android device try going into "Settings" => Apps => All Apps => Geocaching => Notifications => (Block All = ON).
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Thanks guys, I agree. Those seem like good reasons to always log and leave the DNF.
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Sometimes I'll log a cache as DNF and then return later to find it.
Is the proper procedure to leave the DNF log entry or to edit it to Found and remove the DNF? For example look at GC5613Y that I logged today after DNF yesterday.
It seemed redundant to leave two entries only a day apart. But if they had been weeks apart with other entries made between then I would have left both.
Any advice?
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On 2/8/2018 at 1:36 PM, Parsa said:
I believe there was is known bug with micro SD cards that are ejected in the normal way. Invisible files are created that mess things up. The solution is a little app called CleanEject. After using this every time I had to eject the micro SD card things worked fine. The app deletes the offending invisible files causing the problems.
Read about it here: CleanEject from Javawa GPS Tools [if there is a pop-up, click the left button to remain in English].This does solve the problem I was having. Interestingly CleanEject website notes:
Note: some devices (like the Garmin Montana and the GPSMAP64) automatically reconnect after ejecting.
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My charging icon never stops animating even when the Eneloop cells are fully charged. What I do observe is the charging current into the GPS drops from about 350mA to about 100mA. So the charger in the GPS must be decreasing the charge to a trickle level on a fully charged battery.
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Hey @-X I got your PM. I put mine on charge to see if I get the same result as Red90, I couldn't remember.
When you are charging through the USB cable are you using a cellphone charger or a USB port on a computer? I'm thinking the current capacity from a USB port maybe too low to ever terminate the charge.
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WA6EQL
Was mainly a cw operator, then R/C gliders on 53MHz, recently upgraded to Extra expecting to go cw again.
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Thanks for the suggestions guys, but no success.
The iMac is a 2009 with USB 2.0. I tried several different USB cables, including the Garmin supplied one, into both a USB hub and directly into the iMac. Same result with all, drives remount almost immediately after eject. Also tried ejecting several times but it always remounts.
Tried Garmin Spanner but only the SD will mount, the gps drive never mounts, so gave up on that.
This iMac is getting replaced in 2018 so I'll live with this issue until then. Likely it will behave differently with a new iMac.
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I'm using Eneloops in my 64 with the black button depressed by a piece of stiff plastic as suggested.
With an Anker USB charger I see 350mA into the gps when the large battery icon is on the screen. I'm not sure if the batteries are charging in series or parallel. I'll let it charge and see if there's a cutoff point or not.
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I have a new gpsmap 64 with a 16G SD card connected to an iMac via USB. Both the Garmin and SD appear as mounted drives in the Finder, exactly as they should. But when I select both drives and eject both they re-mount before I can unplug the USB cable from the gps. This seems to be harmless so far but does generate a Finder warning on the iMac. My old Etrex Vista HCx doesn't re-mount the drives after eject so this was never an issue.
Any suggestions about why this is happening and what I could do about it? Thanks.
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Yes, I do use a Mac. I don't believe there's a way to stop the Finder from creating those hidden files though. Maybe I will add the removal commands to my script that runs when the card is mounted.
I think the mac has always added those hidden files but it didn't become a problem until version 3.00. Hopefully Garmin will fix the problem in a later release.
Can you tell me how to run a script when the card is mounted? That sounds like a useful thing to know.
Thanks.
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Awesome, it worked for me
. I had to take out the third line for it to work, for some reason.Great, glad to hear it worked for you!
Can you tell me exactly what line or what command you took out, so I can edit the procedure?
Thanks.
I actually took out this whole part:
$ ls
Macintosh HD UNTITLED
$ cd UNTITLED [replace UNTITLED with your card name]
and for the very first command it should be
$ cd /volumes/UNTITLED (I'm not sure if you were implying this or not, I'm not that computer-savvy)
Yes, that would work as long as your SD card is named "UNTITLED". Don't know if that will work for everyone, which is why I wanted to display the name before cd to that directory. Thanks.
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Awesome, it worked for me
. I had to take out the third line for it to work, for some reason.Great, glad to hear it worked for you!
Can you tell me exactly what line or what command you took out, so I can edit the procedure?
Thanks.
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I went to 3.00 (Vista Hcx) and have the shutdown problem. The catch is my card us a Sandisk 2 gb card but it is already preloaded with CN NT 2008 so it's not like I can reformat.
Do you have a mac? Find a Windows pc and remove the hidden spotlight and trashcan files from the card. I don't think you need to format the card.
You can also delete those hidden files easily from a mac terminal window. I can post the exact commands if anyone needs them. No need for a windows pc to do this.
I would appriciate if you posted the commands, thanks!
1) Connect your GPSr to the mac in USB Mass Storage mode, Setup->Interface->Enter. Or mount your micro SD card to the mac via an SD card reader. The commands are the same either way.
2) Look on your desktop or the Finder and make note of the name of the SD card that got mounted, in my case it is named "UNTITLED". Your name maybe different, and if it is then substitute your name for my UNTITLED name.
2) Open the Terminal on your mac, either from the icon in your dock,
or from Applications->Utilities->Terminal.app. If this is a problem so far, then I would suggest not going on as it gets a little more complicated.
3) Enter the following commands at the Terminal prompt ($). My comments are in brackets, [my comments].
$ cd /Volume/
$ ls
Macintosh HD UNTITLED
$ cd UNTITLED [replace UNTITLED with your card name]
$ ls -al
total 40
drwxrwxrwx 1 don staff 4096 Jul 25 16:27 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 4 root admin 136 Jul 25 16:00 ..
drwxrwxrwx 1 don staff 4096 Jul 25 15:57 .Spotlight-V100
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 don staff 4096 Jul 25 16:00 .Trashes
-rwxrwxrwx 1 don staff 4096 Jul 25 15:57 ._.Trashes
drwxrwxrwx 1 don staff 4096 Jul 25 16:00 .fseventsd
$ rm -r .Spotlight-V100/
$ rm -r .fseventsd/
$ rm -r .Trashes/
$ cd ..
4) Now you can eject your SD card via the Finder or Desktop icon.
5) Replace the SD card into the GPSr and see if that fixes the problem, it always does for me. But remember that if you ever connect the SD card to your mac again the bad files will be rewritten to the card and you would have to repeat the above steps again.
Let me know if this works for you or if I need to clarify anything.
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I went to 3.00 (Vista Hcx) and have the shutdown problem. The catch is my card us a Sandisk 2 gb card but it is already preloaded with CN NT 2008 so it's not like I can reformat.
Do you have a mac? Find a Windows pc and remove the hidden spotlight and trashcan files from the card. I don't think you need to format the card.
You can also delete those hidden files easily from a mac terminal window. I can post the exact commands if anyone needs them. No need for a windows pc to do this.
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I had to quote myself one more time.. Solved both my problems with a hint from another webpage. Are you all Mac users who have problems? I reformatted my SanDisk card under windows 2000 and copied all garmin files from my other card and omitted spotlight and trashcan files.
Now I can turn on/off tracklog and power off with no beep until batteries are removed. :-)
Maybe the latest firmware is incompatible with Mac format FAT..
If the card is attached under Mac (GPS or card reader) spotlight and trashcanfiles are created and the beep at poweroff returns. The solution is to remove those files under windows again.
Exactly
SOLVED!!!
I had to go through two SD cards before I came to the same conclusion...
The problem only begins when you use USB mass storage mode on a mac.
This problem also happens on the vista cx with software version 4.00.
My problem on the Vista HCx began when I used USB mass storage mode on a mac. But, I bought a brand new SD card, never formatted on a mac, and it exhibits the same problem.
But I just experimented with my "virgin" SD card and observed that the spotlight and trash directories are written to the card as soon as it is mounted as a volume on the mac. It doesn't have to be formatted on the mac, just mounted to read.
So what I did was delete the spotlight and trash directories from the card via the mac terminal window, then copied my maps back to the card in the "garmin" directory. Then I ejected the card, reinstalled it in the GPSr, and everything works again as it should. Version 3.0 is running and no hangup beep on turnoff. Just have to keep in mind that mounting the SD card back on the mac either via USB mass storage mode or directly in a card reader will write the bad directories to the card again, and the problem will reappear.
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I have a Garmin Etrex Vista HCx running SW version 3.00 & unit SW version 2.80. From new it's always had a 2GB Kingston micro SD card installed.
Now when I go to turn off the unit, a steady tone sounds, and a battery has to be removed to force it off. With the SD card removed the problem goes away. I tried a hard reset, and tried reloading the software without any effect on the problem. I then replaced the SD card with a brand new 2GB Kingston card with exactly the same result, still broken.
The only thing I did that might coincide with the problem is that I had used the GSPr in "USB Mass Storage" mode to download some track files right before the problem began.
I have to now conclude that the GPSr is broken. Is there anything else I could try before contacting Garmin customer support? Thanks for any info.
It's probably your software, ver 3.0, and the SD card. See this thread:
That's it. Thanks so much!
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I have a Garmin Etrex Vista HCx running SW version 3.00 & unit SW version 2.80. From new it's always had a 2GB Kingston micro SD card installed.
Now when I go to turn off the unit, a steady tone sounds, and a battery has to be removed to force it off. With the SD card removed the problem goes away. I tried a hard reset, and tried reloading the software without any effect on the problem. I then replaced the SD card with a brand new 2GB Kingston card with exactly the same result, still broken.
The only thing I did that might coincide with the problem is that I had used the GSPr in "USB Mass Storage" mode to download some track files right before the problem began.
I have to now conclude that the GPSr is broken. Is there anything else I could try before contacting Garmin customer support? Thanks for any info.
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Hey, a find is a find. If finding a cache on accident gets someone to log on and join rather than trash the cache, then good. What difference does it make whether the find or the join comes first?
I don't think "a find is a find".
Intentionally searching for and locating a specific geocache is quite different than accidentally finding that same cache.
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How do I determine a land owner?
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Yes, I like https://www.onxmaps.com/ and also https://www.gaiagps.com/. Both have a private land owners layer that shows the property borders and contact info for the land owners.