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I can confirm this behavior. I took the Vista HCx on a 6.5 mile hike in the mountains this weekend with moderately heavy tree cover. The trip odometer claimed that we had only covered something like 3 miles when we finished, but the tracklog was reported as exactly the 6.5 miles I was expecting. The trip computer reported that we were stopped for over two hours of the four hours it took us to complete the hike, when we were actually stopped for a total of about 15 minutes.

Using Mapsource and the National Parks (East) 24K Topos, I plotted out a nice route for a weekend backpacking trip. In Mapsource, the route winds around following the trails. When I view that route on my Vista HCx after uploading it, however, the route appears as just straight lines between waypoints. The trails appear on the maps, but the route line ignores them. This isn't by design, is it? Is there any way for me to view this route on the handheld GPSR as it appeared in Mapsource? Thanks!

I can't quite figure out what's going on with Garmin's customer support. I had the same problem and was told to send it back, but then once I called back again she told me to go ahead and install v8 and they'd send me the update when it came out. The update arrived today, not that I've been able to get it working yet. One hand definitely doesn't know what the other is doing at Garmin, I'm afraid.

It has actually occurred to me that he may have ingested it, but since he doesn't appear as though he's about to die, I've decided to defer worrying about it unless it, uh, makes another appearance. Usually he just hides things, so I assume I'm likely to find it under something in about six months. I'll call Garmin in the morning and see if they'll send me another one. Thanks much!

Okay, so my two-year-old has walked off with and apparently permanently hidden the little adapter that screws onto the back of the unit. I've ordered the Garmin suction-cup mount, and I understand I need that little piece to use it. Does anyone know if the belt clip (part # 010-10380-00) includes that piece? Thanks!

I am looking for the full, non-update version, as I just bought my first GPS receiver. I called back on Friday and talked to a couple of very nice but questionably helpful people, and the impression I walked away with is that nobody at Garmin has any idea what version they're shipping. Since the part number has not changed from v8 to 2008, the customer service folks can't look at the computer and tell what the warehouse has, etc. Everyone who can take your order has been told that 2008 is what's shipping right now, but as I and others have found out, that's not necessarily the case. I was told to go ahead and open and install v8, and that they would send me the 2008 update version at no charge. Frankly, I'll believe it when it arrives. I expect to be back on the phone in another week or so trying to figure out if that's actually going to happen.

Correct. It installs the program (MapSource) and all the maps on the HD from the word go. (edited for clarity) And there is no option not to do this? I run Windows on a virtual hard drive from within a Mac, so I don't have 3 GB worth of space to store the maps. If there's no way to avoid installing all the maps, then I guess I'll be skipping this product.

The woman with whom I spoke this morning seemed genuinely surprised to hear that I was sent v8; apparently the customer service folks and the fulfillment people aren't on the same page. "My supervisor is going to check on it and find out how we're going to handle this; I will call you back." Thus far no callback.

The City Navigator NT I ordered showed up today, and despite of what I was told by Garmin (twice -- on the phone and in an email), it's version 8. Back to the phone, I guess.

I ended up breaking down and calling Garmin to ask about it; the person with whom I spoke insisted that the website is just "behind," and if you order online, you'll get the 2008 version. I haven't yet received it to confirm that this is true.

Thanks. I'm not really concerned about how long the map transfers take, so I probably won't go buy a card reader unless I have to. I plan to load the card up with everything I'm likely to need and then rarely change what's on there. So it just automatically uses the storage capacity of the card? I don't have to tell Mapsource to copy it there instead of the GPSr's internal memory?

Is this a complicated registry hack? I've searched for it, but been unable to find it. I was thinking about getting Topo 2008, but installing the whole thing to the hard drive would be a show stopper for me. I'm a Mac user, so I run Windows via Parallels -- which means I only have about a 7 GB hard drive for my whole Windows installation. No way I can take 4 GB of that up with maps.

Hi all, I'm trying to become familiar with my first GPS receiver, and I have what I'm sure are basic questions, but yet I haven't been able to figure everything out from the manual. I have a new Vista HCx into which I have loaded a 2 GB micro SD card; I have City Navigator on DVD, and next month I'll be adding some topo maps as well. 1. When I transfer the maps I want to the GPSr, I do not see an option to save them to the internal SD card. Is this something I need to worry about, or does it automatically use that capacity? If not, is there any way to get it to use the SD card without putting the GPSr in USB hard drive mode and writing to it that way from Mapsource? I do not have an external SD card reader. 2. After I figure out how to ensure that the maps are going to the card, is there anywhere on the GPSr (or in Mapsource) to check how much space I've used on the card? 3. When I add topo maps, can I just add them in the same way? Or will I need to create a new single mapset that uses maps from BOTH the CN and topo sets, and then upload that whole thing? Thanks very much. I think I'm just not fundamentally "getting" the whole Mapsource/GPSr/mapset model yet.

Hi all, I just bought my first GPSr, a Vista HCx. I've ordered the topo maps I need for for the backpacking trip we've got coming up in a few weeks. But I'd like to get the City Navigator maps before that trip as well. Is the 2008 version of City Navigator available anywhere on DVD right now? If not, any idea where it would likely show up first? While I hate to buy last year's version just when the new version is coming out, if it doesn't show up in the next week or two, I might have to do that -- part of the Wife Acceptance Factor was that we could use it to navigate in the car on that trip as well as on the trail, so it would be unfortunate of me to try to drive around using the basemap. Thanks for any help or suggestions you can provide!