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my reply to the video, from them "Dear Tony Thank you for contacting Garmin Europe. Thank you for your reply. I have passed this information onto our software teams so that can be investigated further for you. I cant promise its something that will be fixed in the next update but it is being looked into. " I'm hoping they get it fixed soon, seems a great piece of kit, if only it was reliable. If it was supposed to be a "work in progress" then I'd have expected to pay a lot less, or to get something from garmin as compensation for the trouble it's causing.

we found one a little similar last week.

sussamb, tried with various combinations of on/off, yet to find one that's reliable. Can be great for hours, then just "sticks" Working on the principle "no publicity is bad publicity" , 266 people have seen the video so far, and garmin have a link to it.

we drop something similar in the occasional cache (though stamped, not burnt), no idea if anyone takes them, but they're welcome to.

might as well post another link to my etrex 30 "sticky" problem no promises from garmin that it's gonna be fixed anytime soon.

here's a video of mine, today, using the new software

I thought that, but pretty sure someone here demonstrated that it can actually hold 5000 caches without noticeable lag. The 2k limit mentioned in the manual is waypoints, we all just assumed that included caches

Best I can do....apparently it hurt! ..and I'd just slipped down the same banking

We have a 30, and I've never seen it do that (though we have had a couple of "sticky" issues)

We have a window sticker on ours, from geotees..so far I'm the only person to have discovered it, probably doesn't help that I reverse into parking spaces, so it's usually against a wall

pretty sure the limit is 2k caches on the 20, no idea why it accepted 4k+.

another tomtom

Thank you, somehow i just found a "geocache visits" file which I'd not seen before, but making notes as we cache has to be better than trying to remember each

so far, since we got the etrex 30, we've either logged in the field using our phones, or remembered the few we'd grabbed, and found them on the map when we got home. Today we went fully paperless gps...after finding each cache I clicked "log attempt">"found", figuring that found data would be there for me when I got home, simply load basecamp, plug in the GPS and it'll all be there with clickable links and everything. OOPS I seem to have all the caches loaded into basecamp, none showing anything different to the others, and a nice trail that includes the driving between caches So..how do I get the found data from the device? how do I see which caches I've visited? Thanks

this any good?

Could I suggest/request that there is a new icon for corrected co-ordinates (maybe the question mark in green?), and that the corrected ones are shown on the map? Just started working through puzzles (and I'm rubbish!) and I figure it would be nice to see the ones I've done (but not yet found) at a glance, also being able to look at their real location on the map would be helpful thanks.

I also like the idea.

Johnnyvegas. I suspect you missed cardinal's point. As I read it he's not suggesting that a magnetic compass can't be used, only that it's less convenient that having that function built into the device? Perhaps analogous we found our first 40 or so caches without any hiking boots or decent gear, now we have most of the stuff we want we wouldn't be without it. It was certainly possible before we had the boots, but we wouldn't be without them now.

if they're walking round in circles, looking lost when the path is next to them, they're cachers

I can't remember the shop, they had it at £185 + £5 delivery, so I paid £171. Initially I sent the web based price check thing, but got no reply (christmas holidays) so I took the printout to the shop, who checked it there and then and gave the discount. When I got home I had an email refusing the pricematch as the go outdoors version comes with a £20 birdseye mapping voucher (60 sq miles?), which the others may not...happy dance time Not used the voucher yet, still trying to decide if I need it, and just which small area to grab. biggest reason for us to get the 30 over the 20 was the 3 axis compass...figured we either wanted everything now, or a really basic arrow.

talkytoaster has new, OS style maps (but less detail and "clutter") for the 20, they look pretty good on my 30, but I've not yet been out caching using them (hailing right now here!), I actually prefer them on my device to the real 50k OS maps as the small screen is not great for full OS detail. download link or the download page ishere Might also be worth noting that with go outdoors doing their pricematch +10% it may be possible to get the 30 for very little more than the 20! (we did)

maps should be either on the sd card in a folder named garmin, or on the device in the same (garmin) folder. I've tried loads on my 30, they seem easy enough to throw on an off. http://www.gpsfiledepot.com/ have loads of free maps, if that's any help. Adding a map to the device\garmin\custom maps\ folder resulted in the map not showing!) Maybe you need to disable the 24k map to see the 100k? ..I'm also new, btw, only had a real gps a few days, so don't shoot me if I'm wrong

hi and welcome to the game I'm pretty sure I saw a documentary about bridge builders, and their GPS were extremely accurate, ours, being consumer level units, aren't. Others will give a better (and more accurate) answer, but, basically, we're lucky if we have around 10ft accuracy on any device. If the person hiding the cache also gives co-ordinates 10ft from true, that could be 20ft between what each GPS has reported, and the actual location. Luckily, geocaching is a "treasure hunt", so we use the GPS to get nearby, then start searching. For your first few caches try to find ones in large containers, with a low difficulty score, sometimes caches are really well hidden and disguised

Maybe others feel the same? Maybe you could place a cache there next time you're passing through?

I bought a Globalsat BT-359 to use with my phone, was pretty good, but then bought a real gps (etrex 30) as I don't want the phone to drop in a puddle!