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It is kind of non-sensical, really, that they don't show on the geocaching.com map, even if it´s supposed to be a phone only game. They want their adventure labs to be played so bad that you get one find for every step towards all the souvenirs, but you can't see them on your map or include them in any kind of trip planning. And no, HQ, it is not easy or manageable to use the app for route planning.

Thanks a lot for the answer! Yes, I got myself a tablet, but is not sure it's the right one. I can however run the apss exactly as I wanted and you describe kunarion. The reason for this setup is that I dont want to mess with apps during drive. I want to see what I pass or get close to, while I drive so I can plan a stop and take a cache at the same time when I take a break or so that I can see which road leads where when I approach GZ. My issue now, is just that the tablet is to big or the arm that I attach to the windscreen is to short, as the tablet take up windscreen space. Thanks a lot again for the answer!

Hello, my old GPS is behaving more and more weird and I have, lately, transitioned more and more to geocaching with my phone. I feel, however, that I liked the GPS for navigating with my car. So, I want to replace the gps with a tablet with both 4G and GPS and I have a few thoughts I'd like some help with. The tablet will be strictly for car navigation, with the potential to solve mysteries and write logs on the road with an additional keyboard. The phone will be my primary geocaching device. Is it possible to use the split screen feature between, say, Waze and the Geocaching app? I want to run the geocaching map as a overview of the land showing me what there is at those long transition drives in unfamiliar areas and the navigation app for taking me from point a to b and keeping me up to date with hazards and traffic information. Getting the best of both simultaniously. If not are there any other apps that provide those features? Is there anybody currently running such an setup? What are your thoughts about it? Pros and cons? Is there anything else you feel that I should think of?

I don't EVER, NEVER, EVER use the search map. I always only use the browse map and I don't ever, never, ever want the search map. Never. This is just broken.

No luck. A new installation of the firmware did absolutely nothing. I have however been in contact with Garmin and they suggest switching the device for a new one. I guess that that is my only option. Thanks for all help, tips and support!

I have re-installed the firmware and, sadly, it seems it made no difference. I will have to wait until I am at home to verify it though. I am a sailor by trade and right now I'm pretty far from the deep woods where I live and know all the caches.

The limits are 12.000 geogaches in .gpx and 4.000.000 in .ggz if I'm not mistaken. I haven't done any .ggz conversions yet.

Aha, then I apologize sincerely. I am sorry for my harsh tone Hans.

So have I. But I don't remember if those 250k caches came in .gpx or .ggz format.

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[...] As far as I know there is no way to see exactly how many geocaches there is on the device. Hence "less than 4000" as I know that I have installed exactly two PQ's with 1000 caches each and one route with 1000 caches on each side of the road. As the PQ's overlap there is less than 4000 geocaches on my device.

Less than 4000.

Yeah, but those variables shows happily on other caches. I have really looked and tried to find some common nominator, but can't. It happens to both old and new. One 1,5/1,5 micro and then the next cache shows. NOT using a filter gives me the, by far, worst feedback of caches. Then the game is really broken. That is how I first realized that something is wrong. My filter is the ONLY way that the unit is usable. It does not matter if I have done a hard reset and use the inbuilt filters or if my filter is there. Using the Garmin filters shows least caches. The map always starts at my position. I don't have to drag and zoom. Trying it though does no difference.

Ok, no problem, I'm just grateful for all help I can get. GC787G1, GC5G61V, GC60YXT, GC60YY2, GC787J6, GC4CA7E, GC2C937 These caches are examples of caches that doesn't show up when I start up, but they appear when I run my own filter on the device. GC1ZN4R This cache didn't show up, even when I specifically searched for it with name. GC792DC, GC792DP, GC792E3, GC792ED and GC792FD are a small trail that didn't show up in the device until I ran my filter. After the filter they showed up in the small information window, but didn't show on the map. They only appeared on map after I specifically searched for each one by name and only as long as I searched for the one selected.

Ok, then I understand. =) Deleted both visits, which I do after each session logging geocaches on GC.com and geocache_finds.xml (which was called something similar on my device). The device is still showing wrong geocaches.

Version information: Montana 680 V11, PCB version 11, firmware version 2.90.

Says 680 on the side of my display.

Ok, I do not find any Show all function in my device. Where would that be? The garmin pre-determined "Quick Filter", which it runs on start up, comes back with a faulty list, not showing all. My filter 1, which I created after the device began not displaying caches correctly, is currently the only way I have of getting an almost correct list. After reboot, when I click on geocache I get the options of "Find a Geocache", "Show Found", "Quick filter" and then my own "Filter 1". Of which Filter 1 gives, by far, the best result. Under setup "Filter 1" is showing all types, all sizes (including not chosen), difficulty 1.0-5.0, terrain 1.0-5.0 and status Unattemted and did not find.

Should I not use any filter while making a PQ? The filter I'm talking about is a Garmin filter I've set up.

Yes, Atlas Cached, I start to think that a clean install of the firmware is the next way to go. Doesn't feel good though.

It did not solve the issue. I got one restart where the unit behaved as it should and then at second restart it was back at showing the cashes in a weird way again.

I might have solved the issue. While looking, on youtube, for ways to install the firmware afresh, I came over "hard reset" vidoes. After doing a hard reset, my gps device now, at least, shows the closest geocache first. Without running any additional filters. I will post a new post if this indeed has solved my issue. Hard reset seems to be more thorough than factory reset, which you can reach from the menues. A hard reset is done by pressing the top left corner and then power on your device. Don't let go of the pressure before you have an option to reset all user data or cancel. Thanks for your help Atlas Cached and Mineral2!

That is what my own filter does, that I run. I can't find where I would enable it though. My private filter does, how ever, not solve the issue. Tried solution 2 and it made no difference.

Hi, I have a Montana 680 which lately has begun acting strangely. It shows most geocaches correctly, but some are not displayed. The device also doesn't display the closest cache first. So I made a new filter and after running it most caches, saved on device, shows up and in correct order. Then again a few caches won't show up til I search for their name and then some never shows up. Even though I know that they are in the PQ I have installed on my device. Steps I've tried are: 1. Factory reset of device. 2. Delete PQ:s on device and download them new from gc.com. 3. Delete PQ:s at geocaching.com and creating new ones. 4. Updating device to latest drivers. 5. Erased .ggz and .gpx files on device and let the device create them from fresh. I would like to reinstall the firmware, but I don't find a way to do it. So I can make sure it isn't any corrupted driver that mess with my gps. I don't know what to do and would appreciate some advice? Has anybody encountered this kind of malfunction before? Is there any solution or workaround? I've searched and come up with nothing.

It would be very nice if someone, in the organistaion, could adress this issue? Telling us what is and is not happening. Are we, as most of the rest of the world, gonna be rid of this over aged software or are you gonna stay with the sinking ship til the bitter end? =)