Red90

Are you confusing this with the traditional etrex? This is a completely different design.

No. It is time to log an SBA.

Okay. Non mapping GPS with long battery life and built in solar panel. Fine. What I do not understand is the price point. Is anyone going to buy it at that cost?

The phone works fine. You can load caches and maps for offline use, so do not need cell connection. The biggest advantage to the dedicated handhelds is they are more accurate and make finding easier.

I never said the published time were not correct. Anyway. You don't seem to want to listen, nor understand. This make you as poor choice as someone to provide reviews on a product.

Ahh. So you have no idea then. I could say this about every Garmin handheld I've owned in the last ten years. It is when you are on multi day trips, that it is critical to know battery life before you leave. These are critical electronics when you are weeks in the bush and guessing at battery life is dangerous. It is not helpful that Garmin is providing misleading battery life figures. It forces people to waste a lot of time determining the numbers on their own.

With you looking at it for navigation most of the time and recording an accurate and continuous track? You are getting a month of use without recharging? Are you being paid by Garmin?

What exactly? I don't see anything. The long battery life is a lie as it is saving position every ten minutes. A useless feature for Geocaching. I will assume battery life is no better than the 66. No replaceable battery is horrible. Might as well use a phone.

Make sure you have WAAS turned on and let the GPS get a WAAS lock first. Otherwise, that is it. Nothing will be better than the etrex 20.

You need to connect the GPS in "mass storage" mode to see the card in Basecamp or Mapsource. Look in the "interface" settings on the GPS. As above, the card is only for maps and custom POIS.

But.... They are not quite as good at zeroing out on a cache as a dedicated unit. I suspect that is mostly because they do not use WAAS. I use both regularly to find caches, so this is from first hand experience. Your search zone will be half the size normally when using a dedicated versus the iPhone.

AA batteries are not Lithium-Ion. They are lithium-iron disulfide.

They are fine. Every phone has one.

It is most likely caused by a specific GPX file. Delete all files and empty the trash if on a MAC. Master reset the unit and start from scratch. It should not be locking up. This problem started during the development period of the Oregon 400 and was clearly shown back then to be caused by bad HTML that the unit can't parse within GPX files.

Basecamp, Google Earth, pretty much anything that will show a map will let you overlay a track and Geocaches.

Actually the accuracy circle is not that. Is is a combined map and GPS accuracy. Garmin did not make the GPS on that model.

On what? A computer? A GPS? A phone/tablet? Any mapping capable GPS will do that. Most computer mapping programs will do that. Most phone mapping apps will do that? I'm not sure what won't do that.

Sorry, but the 60CSX had a million bugs when it came out as well. Why do you want an accuracy circle? It is just a made up number. The 62 programming started a decade earlier with the Colorado. It is across all the handhelds since then.

Every Garmin handheld in the history of Garmin has this many unresolved bugs.....

Find a store that sells Garmin handhelds and look at them in person. Purchase one that you like.

Not a great analogy. The old screens had a very coarse resolution. The new ones are much better.

The 30x has a much higher resolution screen.

So to step back.... What problem are you having with battery life? It should be the same for a 62 as for a 60, around 12 hours. As for as features go, the 66 is quite different and it is well liked around here. Have you look at the list of differences yourself first?

There is no way to split up into lists on the device. You could make routes between caches. Easiest to do in Basecamp. You should see all caches on the map by default.

They just need to build them like the Colorado again.