hangman67

okay I guess it is try try try again, Lol... This stuff is adictive Hrmph.... hehe i give up. for the moment supper is on. Ahh, Supper not even on the table and I got this avatar working.. I have even scored some pints with my 12 yr old

testing my avatar... Yeah Im a newb hehe...

Back from dinner and here is what I got so far. After doing the memory clearing steps it went right back to the same "Unit currently contains no maps! Initiating map upload" from which you cannot even turn the GPS off unless you take the battery out. I had just arrived in State college pulled into the folks driveway I had the GPS hooked to the auto power adapter we shut down I took the GPS out to show everyone and it worked fine.. When I shut it down I heard a series of beeps but did not think any thing about it. When we went to turn back on we got that message after it went through the Magellan screen. I tried fresh batteries even the power adapter but nothing worked. The version of Firmware I have is V5.12 After I did the goto/nav/Pwr the set to 30 and hit esc I tried running the software update nothing happened. I also tried pwring up and got the no data message. I tried holding Menu/Pwr and that did not work either. So that is it to this point. I’m going to get a little Etrex while I work on this problem, Mostly because my kids are going bonkers with anticipation of their first cache hunt. Well and so am I, Lol kind of like Christmas for adults surprises adventure and a chance to leave a little something of yourself behind. Thanks again

After 8 days in to my new Meridian Gold something went haywire.. Still have not been able to figure a fix and I am a Tacoma person here in PA.. My plans were to geocache + keep myself travel loss free. Tomorrow I will be dropping into a local store to grab a little Etrex so my 27 day vacation is not a total wash.. I would highly recomend a back up. besides over the past 2773 miles I have got the whole family interested enough that I may have to get each of them a little yellow trex so they stop asking to use mine.

Thank you a million times over for a reply I tried the goto/nav/pwr then set to 30 and pushed esc. Restarted and found the same message "Unit currently contains no maps" I’m not sure what idea #2 is I have seen the term (from the power off IIRC) but do not understand what it means. I am currently in State College, PA visiting the wifes family and have their PC to try to reinstall the firmware. However, I’m not having much luck maybe I am doing it wrong. I get a determining data base and elapsed time message the timer seems to be ticking away endlessly not really doing anything. Should I have replaced the memory card for this part? I have only had this GPS for 8 days so I am a real newbie. I'm sure the warranty could/would be handy if I was back in Tacoma Washington, Lol. In the mean time any additional info would be great. We are planning to see Gettysburg next week we have a 12 & 15 year who both want to see the museum and surrounding US history. Then we are going to Flushing NY in Queens area to see my old home and if GPS is working do some more geocaching. I may have to break down and buy a little one to hold me over.. Lol I can call it a early Christmas present for my son. Again many thanks Embra

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Good Morning, I'm new to geocaching and have run into a problem with my GPS (Meridian gold) I'm out here in PA on vacation and was going to try my first run at caching this moring. I turned on my unit and got this messege: "Unit currently contains no maps" None of the keys on the key pad work. Should I hook it up into my laptop and down load maps from the software? I dont want to start anything in fear of wrecking the GPS. Any advice or insight would help me greatly. Thanks