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  1. I installed Garmin's WebUpdater software today, it found my Oregon 300, and identified I could install the 3.80 software update. But when I told it to do it, it fails and says "The Update File is Corrupt" and would not complete.

     

    I disconnected the Oregon 300, cycled power, plugged it back into the computer, restarted WebUpdater. Same thing! How do I force Web UPdater to download a fresh copy of the 3.80 software update?

  2. A lot of my walks are inside and I do not get a GPS signal. I work for an organization with a massive sprawling facility and I have some pretty lengthy routes inside, especially when I go up a few flights of stairs and walk back the way I came, just on a different floor. Also incorporate parking garages where I can walk a lot of laps going up the rampways and also the stairwells. I have tried to estimate the distances and stuff but thought a monitor would be pretty accurate.

  3. I have some interesting walks around work, some more strenuous than others. I choose the one I want depending on how many calories I need to burn that day as well as the time and interest factor. Some involve a good number of stairs, others up and down hills. Most are not flat ground so my heartrate fluctuates. Wouldn't my weight and fitness level also dictate the rate at which I burn? I thought a monitor would help over estimating. I just thought it would be fun to see what the heartrate monitor says.

  4. Thanks for the links, folks. I know absolutely nothing about heart rate monitors other than you can use them to determine calories burned. I did not realize they had to be worn around your chest. I would use mine at work when I take breaks and go for fitness walks. I would not want to wear it under my shirt all day, and taking the time to go into the restroom, remove shirt, strap it on, and put my shirt back on would be cumbersome. Are there any heartrate monitors that strap to a wrist? I am naive and thought that was how they all worked for some reason.

  5. I use my Oregon 300 Trip Computer to track distance and average walking speed for fitness walking I do. I usually have to do a Trip Computer reset to start it off fresh, but wish I had a way to pause or stop the trip computer without resetting it again. My walk may have ended but I am not ready to record my data to my fitness software, yet the trip computer continues to run. This changes my average walking speed and distance. Is there a way to pause/stop it without doing a reset?

  6. From a BoaterMouth.com blog - "According to Scott Roy, Navico’s Product Marketing Manager, Outdoor Business Unit, the company plans to sell a series of regional (5-6 state) upgraded detail maps for the Endura units. These will feature more detailed contours, hill shading, more outdoor Points of Interest (POIs) and depth contours for several miles offshore, which will be sufficient for all but the most hardcore of bluewater fishermen. They will likely cost just under $100 per region."

     

    He won't be selling one to me. The one I bought should have had the more detailed contours and hill shading. I already paid top dollar for a premium unit, no need to pay for what he advertised my unit as coming with out of the box. Bah. He really screwed the pooch on this rollout. I bet they do not even cover their engineering and manufacturing costs on this product.

  7. Has anyone with an Endura Sierra (the one described as "“Fully Loaded” with detailed topographic outdoor maps and content in a high performance GPS computer..." and is the winner of the "Outdoor Industry Award 09") had any communications from the Lowrance support folks regarding when, or if ever, they intend to do anything to get the pre-installed and/or user installed mapping up to speed on this device?

     

    Thank you for your inquiry. We do apologize for the delay in responding. We are currently at the peak of our busy season and responding to all inquiries as quickly as possible. You are very important to us and we will be happy to assist you. Satellite imagery is active at certain zoom ranges. When zoomed in past 20 miles, the map screen will revert to the standard basemap detail.

    Mapselect.com was originally launched for our XOG units but we have not yet received details as to whether it will be revamped for the Endura units at this time to provide the same type of e-topo, satellite imagery and BLM mapping. At the present, the units will accept non-proprietary mapping files from many websites for geocaching, backpacking, off-roading and others-they simply need to be downloaded to the unit. The same can be said for the Accuterra mapping. The units are compatible but are not fully loaded with Accuterra maps for every region of the US.

     

    Thank you for your inquiry. There are a few small differences between what's actually loaded on the units from manufacture and what the photos taken during preproduction show. Units coming off the the line at this time will have hillshading available in Hybrid mode and at zoom ranges greater than 32 miles. We do apologize for any confusion that this may have caused.

     

    My Endura return went very smoothly and I am loving my $100 cheaper Oregon 300.

  8. I was an early adopter and bought an Endura Sierra. Returned it within a week or two, pretty disgusted with both the seemingly false advertising and the range of issues I encountered. Saw other posts of similar sentiments. Now nothing. Stillborn?

     

    I have kept an eye out for possibly patches/improvements, especially for Lowrance to enable the mapping it was supposed to have, but didn't. No new threads, no releases from Lowrance. Definitely no follow-up from them to my well documented support tickets other than the typical knee-jerk responses from support that resolve nothing. They don't know I returned it, and appear just willing to let me live with the bugs I reported. I'm not a GPS industry person, but this sure looks to be shaping up as a disaster for them. Too bad, I've dropped a lot of dough on Lowrance products in the past.

     

    As an aside, I am near deliriously happy with my Oregon 300.

  9. Hmmmm, well how could I have two different Topo 2008 mapsets on my unit? I was under the impression I can do this. How could I have the Eastern US in one file and Alaska in another? I have given the mapsets different names when I built the mapset within Mapsource.

     

    At this point I have both of the final .img files - one 2.5GB and the other 875MB. I have room on the 300 for the Alaska file but not the Eastern US file. I'd like to be able to use them interchangeably.

  10. Have been having a problem with my 300--I shut it down and leave it for a few hours and when I try to power it up the screen calibration is up instantly--I calibrate it and then check the battery strength and find they are discharged considerably--I have tried this a number of times with fresh batteries and shut it down--checked and there is no screen action so it appears shut off---a few hours later the same problem --I was on vacation and am not aware if a new beta is out yet and was wondering if anyone has had this problem surface--the unit works fine after it has been started other than the battery drain and the calibration screen--thanks Ken

     

    Welcome back from vacation. Yes, the recent beta (3.15) has gone to GA and is available for download as update version 3.20. Go get it as I haven't heard anybody say anything bad about it. I have it and it works fine.

  11. I tried to put 2 different US Topo 2008 mapsets on my Oregon 300 SD chip. The primary one I named gmapsupp.img andd the other named gmapsup1.img. The Oregon only seems to recognize the first one. Is this because the Oregon can only recognize one .img file from the SD chip? I thought I could have multiples on it.

     

    The goal was to keep the second one disabled, only activating as desired.

  12. Can I use my mini-USB phone charger to power my Oregon 300 while traveling in my vehicle? I looked around and saw some conflictng info on this. My phone/charger is a motorola if that matters. Just didn't want to try it and hit my gps'r with some wrong voltage.

     

    edit - I continued to search, realized that I *can* use my vehicle cell phone charger to power the Oregon. I had to set the interface setting to Spanner and it worked. What is the difference between leaving my unit in Spanner setting or the default Serial setting? Why not leave to Spanner all the time?

  13. The unit lets me Enable or Disable maps via menu selection. Could I have multiple maps on the device and just enable/disable to only keep one Enabled at a time? Too bad the device doesn't have any file management features so I could rename using the device and not need a laptop or whatever.

     

    What would happen (what would I see) if I had more than 1 file with the .img enabled and exceeded whatever the magical number of segments are? Does it lock up? Does it just not load the extra maps?

  14. When I got home I found my map build had finished, the time stamp on the file tells me it took 21 hours to build and copy the 4009 segment file to the SD card on my 300. Unit fired up and the map seems to display OK.

     

    So I now have a 2.1GB gmapsupp.img file on my SD card. I also have a smaller gmapsupp.img in my unit internal memory that was just a few local segments. The smaller file is a subset of what is on the larger file. Is my gps'r trying to load both? Can I just delete the one on the internal memory?

  15. I'd like to hear how this turns out - I've got me a 300 on order, and from what I've read they are only able to accept up to a 4gb card. I'd like to know if the 8gb card works.

     

    And yea, sounds like your PC may be a little out-dated, probably a fairly low FSB (the speed that your RAM communicates with your processor) But I'd think you should be able to load most of it to the internal memory - the 400 and 300 have the same 850mb's internal. And, I do remember reading on garmin's FAQ's that you're good for about 4000 segments.

     

    My 300 booted up with the 8GB card. I saw no specs anywhere about max size, think I saw some other forum posts where othes used 8GB. But I have yet to write the map to it and have the unit read it back off so we shall see if the map compile ever completes.

     

    My ~4000 map segments report as ~2500MB within Mapsource. I am not sure how big the resulting map will be when the build completes. I suspect it will be around the same size so it won't fit into internal memory.

  16. I have not seen processor speeds advertized for may years, however 1Gb of RAM was likely a standard 3 or 4 years ago. This week's BestBuy adds have one desktop with 2Gb for under $300 (upgrade to 3Gb for $50), one at 3Gb, most at 4Gb (one at $530 with upgrade to 6Gb for $50) and one at 8Gb.

    A program must be written to use both processors in a dual core system. If not, the second processor just allows a second program to be running faster than if there were only one processor. To best take advantage of the abilities of the latest GPSr and software, you need a recent computer.

     

    I'm running it on my work computer which is very new. Still running slowly. I only added the computer stuff for context that it wasn't an old piece of crap PC I was running it on.

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