dilbertjth

This from Product Support: "By default the tracks will output as activity files so you will be unable to find them in Track Manager. You will access your saved tracks (and current track) through Activity History, which should be located next to Track Manager." I took a look in Activity History and found that the missing tracks were indeed there. I also found that while they don't seem to import into Basecamp, they can be converted into tracks, which do. I will mention that the options for Output Format aren't the same as is specified in the Owner Manual. The manual says there are three options, Tracks (GPX), Activities (FIT), or Both (GPX/FIT). Mine shows only two options: Activities (FIT) or Tracks (GPX/FIT). I did a bike ride with both the etrex touch 25 and my old etrex venture HC mounted on the handlebar. The display on the 25 was always more readable at any angle of the sun, and sometimes WAY more readable. Quite usable.

I found a solution (or at least a workaround) to the problem. There's a setting that seems to do the trick. Hike, Power button, Track Manager, Current Track, Menu, Setup Tracks, Advanced Setup, Output Format (set it to Tracks (GPX/FIT), rather than the default, FIT). After that, saving a track actually saves the track!

I got an etrex touch 25 a few days ago. Seems nice, but the software doesn't seem ready to ship yet. Saving a track doesn't seem to work. There is a button for it, but it doesn't seem to actually save the track. Track Manager then shows only Current Track and Archived Tracks (which is empty). The list of activity Profiles has odd bugs too. When I first got mine, it had 3 separate but identical hiking profiles. Today I did a reset to factory defaults, then the hiking profile had a picture of a hiker, but was labelled Biking! A second reset seemed to fix that. I'm at 2.60 of the firmware, which is the latest available. I have contacted support by email, so we'll see how that goes. Hopefully just some bugs in the software that will be fixed by another update (or several).