RickandCindy

I changed my home location on Geocaching.com but it's not changing on my Android phone app. I've logged out and back in on my phone and on my laptop but still alerts new caches 100 miles away. We have a camp and have changed home location up there and then back home again but it's not working now. Is there a way to do it on the Android app? Thanks for any help.

Case closed returned the jewels to the safe. Thanks to everyone for the help solving the case.

We released one in Oct.2017 not 2 years yet and it's traveled 72,000 miles and still going.

I been in that 2 days now and ty very much it popped up now.

Thank you for the response but I don't have that option even tho we are premium members. Works on android not on .com

I see how to use the search filters for detective, footprint,shadow and so on on the Geocaching app on android. Is there a way to do it on my laptop on Geocaching.com?

Do you have an installed SD card (memory card)? It seems like you're seeing the SD card, the map files. There's a listing for your Etrex internal files somewhere. Mapsource found it, or you would not even see any "waypoints". My Vista laptop woke up! Here's how it shows a Garmin GPSr, which is a whole lot like how Win10 does it. What do you see when you plug yours in? It is possible that the fancy icon would not show, depending on how the PC sees the drive. But the rest should be very similar to what the screenshot shows. There are two drives, (in this case, labeled "H" and "I") I see Drive H titled "Garmin Oregon 650t" (the OP's would be something like "Garmin eTrex20"). Drive I is the SD card with street maps, titled whatever the SD Card was named, "010115100". I quickly identify which drive is which by looking for a telltale sign: The internal Garmin GPS files have the "Garmin" folder (uppercase "G"). Click that folder for the "GPX" sub-folder where Pocket Query GPX files are placed by default. This and the SD card have a recognizable file structure, to identify them at a glance. The SD card has maps in a folder named "garmin" (lowercase "G"). For the purposes of this discussion, it's best to not place any GPX files on that card for now. A posted screenshot like the one above may help us unscramble things. I don't have a sd card for storage I have the Northeast U.S. map in it's place, I use Garmin's internal storage.I don't know how to do the screenshot thing but i'll look it up. It says snip tool not working on this computer. I finally got it. When I plug the gps in 2 screens pop up, what do you want to do with these files and one with 2 folders in it garmin and android no gps but when I opened my computer and looked at it as another drive opened that up and gpx folder was there. I downloaded and saved my PQ's to my documents and right click and copied it on pasted it in the gpx folder and woo hoo all the caches description hints are all there. Thanks to everyone for the help.

Do you have an installed SD card (memory card)? It seems like you're seeing the SD card, the map files. There's a listing for your Etrex internal files somewhere. Mapsource found it, or you would not even see any "waypoints". My Vista laptop woke up! Here's how it shows a Garmin GPSr, which is a whole lot like how Win10 does it. What do you see when you plug yours in? It is possible that the fancy icon would not show, depending on how the PC sees the drive. But the rest should be very similar to what the screenshot shows. There are two drives, (in this case, labeled "H" and "I") I see Drive H titled "Garmin Oregon 650t" (the OP's would be something like "Garmin eTrex20"). Drive I is the SD card with street maps, titled whatever the SD Card was named, "010115100". I quickly identify which drive is which by looking for a telltale sign: The internal Garmin GPS files have the "Garmin" folder (uppercase "G"). Click that folder for the "GPX" sub-folder where Pocket Query GPX files are placed by default. This and the SD card have a recognizable file structure, to identify them at a glance. The SD card has maps in a folder named "garmin" (lowercase "G"). For the purposes of this discussion, it's best to not place any GPX files on that card for now. A posted screenshot like the one above may help us unscramble things. I don't have a sd card for storage I have the Northeast U.S. map in it's place, I use Garmin's internal storage.I don't know how to do the screenshot thing but i'll look it up.

Is Mapsource making your cache files into waypoints? If so, it would be good to place GPX files directly into the GPX folder of a Garmin GPSr: Download the GPX file from Geocaching.com. For a zipped Pocket Query, unzip the file, and you should now have at least one “GPX” file. Plug the Garmin into the USB port of the computer. Find the Garmin as a [DRIVE] or [storage device] and open it; Therein, locate a file folder named something like Garmin/GPX/; Click, drag and drop (or copy) the downloaded GPX file(s) to that [DRIVE]:Garmin/GPX/ folder. Right-click and select Eject, unplug the Garmin; Go Geocaching. (From Gitchee-Gumee's excellent instructions) I copy and paste folder straight to my gps as G:removable drive/garmin got nothing no geocaches or waypoints you must copy them to the garmin/gpx folder not just garmin/ Thanks for the help when I open it as a removable drive I only have 2 folders android and garmin no garmin/gpx and my NortheastU.S. map is the only thing in Garmin folder

That way is wrong. Do NOT open the gpx files with mapsource. Just COPY them over to the Garmin unit with Windows Explorer. Hans I tried that I got nothing on my gps. I'm running vista with IE9.

Is Mapsource making your cache files into waypoints? If so, it would be good to place GPX files directly into the GPX folder of a Garmin GPSr: Download the GPX file from Geocaching.com. For a zipped Pocket Query, unzip the file, and you should now have at least one “GPX” file. Plug the Garmin into the USB port of the computer. Find the Garmin as a [DRIVE] or [storage device] and open it; Therein, locate a file folder named something like Garmin/GPX/; Click, drag and drop (or copy) the downloaded GPX file(s) to that [DRIVE]:Garmin/GPX/ folder. Right-click and select Eject, unplug the Garmin; Go Geocaching. (From Gitchee-Gumee's excellent instructions) I copy and paste folder straight to my gps as G:removable drive/garmin got nothing no geocaches or waypoints

A PQ=pocket query and I put together 989 caches in a 15 mile radius of a zip code submit it and get an e-mail from geocaching ready to download. When I download it is a zip file. I unzip to a folder get 989 caches open to mapsource then transfer to my etrex20x and they go on as waypoints with no information.I can save one cache at a time from cache page and get all the logs descriptions all that, I was trying to do it 900 caches at a time not one at a time. Hope this explains what I am trying to do.

It won't DL straighht to the gps I have to go thru mapsource and it saves them as WPT's not geocaches.

I am pretty new to PQ's but figured out how to create them and DL them to a folder in my documents. I DL mapsource and basecamp and can DL to my garmin etrex20x. My question is I am used to looking for caches by name not the gc number, is there any way to save the pq with the name of the cache to put on my gps it just has the #? Thanks for any help.

Wife and I just started caching the end of September and are loving it. As of today we have 214 finds have lost a couple pounds and are riding mountain bikes. I dug out the old Magellan sport track pro and it took so long to put cords in it was a job in itself. We started using the samsung s4 android with the play store app and it helped better but no good when you don't have a phone signal. HeHe. Here in southwestern PA there are lots of dead spots in the hills. We are on limited income but looked for a geocaching friendly gps unit and ended up with the garmin etrex 20x. It's way faster and easier to D/L cords. It's not so easy to learn but getting everyday and helps way better with a gps over a phone. My wife still uses her phone. There are many different gps units that are caching friendly. We just got 4" of snow and I went out yesterday and got frustrated so went to car friendly closer ones and still found 4.Even gps bounces all over depending where you are and maybe the more expensive ones are better but ours works fine.BTW this is our 1st. post also. Good luck and have fun.