BMndFul
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I do not know about the OR450; however, I have a 16Gb micro card in my OR300 with over 10Gb of map files on it and it is working fine.
FWIW - you can ask 3 Garmin techs the same question and get 3 conflicting answers.
Good point....
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According to Garmin (I asked the tech directly via phone) you can use any size MicroSD in a 450 but it will read only the first 4GB. So 4GB is appears to be the max size worth buying.
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Just got off the phone with Garmin. Funny tech said "yep, it was designed to do that." He explained that what was happening is that auto routing was trying to find a road to route to the waypoint. Solution is to change the setting to "off road" once you arrive at the site. I will give this a try tonight. Makes sense. Changing profile does not fix the issue, because automotive and geocaching apparently both auto route.
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the compass does not work even close to how it did. When walking it jumps all over the place. The feet counting down, yet compass pointing backwards saying I should go in the opposite direction etc
That's exactly what the compass did on the two Montana 600s I had. Were you using direct routing or auto-routing? My Montanas misbehaved as you describe when they were in auto-routing mode with either City Navigator or OSM routable street maps, but the compass worked normally when I was in direct routing mode.
How did you resolve the issue? Auto routing is significant benefit to get from cache to cache. I am not aware of how to switch from auto routing to direct on the fly with the unit. It would be fine to auto route to a CZ, then switch over to direct for the final compass nav to the prize.
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Just curious if any one else is have issues with the 5.0 update in the US. I followed the direction exactly, down to new batteries. I purchased the unit a week ago work great could not have been more happy using it for kayak nav and geocaching. The Electro-compass worked great. After the update i immediately had problems with satellite acquisition. i waited for over 30 minutes in clear air. Nothing. I figured the unit had been bricked. I tried numerous hard and soft boots. The next morning the acquisition was back. After doing some map work on my apple and transferring files, zing....no acquisition again. It turned back on after messing with it for approximately 20 minutes. I re-calibrated and went geocaching. I am not sure what is happening, the compass does not work even close to how it did. When walking it jumps all over the place. The feet counting down, yet compass pointing backwards saying I should go in the opposite direction etc. Not sure what to do. I am considering taking it back to REI, for exchange then no messing with the update. I really liked the unit before the update now I dont feel it works as well overall.
Oregon 450 update to 5.0 issues
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I certainly do not know what I am talking about do to lack of experience..... Does it make sense it is a CN issue trying to nav to an off road waypoint? I am going to play around with CN...and then load in Topo 24K west and see what happens. Topo appears to have fairly decent road definitions. If I can auto route, by car then use compass on foot to without issue, then I will probably just use topo for caching.