chutch74

There was a 1.8 release if you really want to go back.... Yes, 2.15 is a monster! Huge, bloated, and battery-hungry! (You'll notice battery consumption is 2.5X what it was under 1.7. Also your computer will occasionally complain that the device will run faster on a USB 2.0 port. Ignore it..) The detailed map is far better! Even found, in the latest releases of VantagePoint, it will import the map from the GC, for it's own use.) Here's a step by step. To Add a Waypoint, if you're on the map, at the stage you've just found, click the Menu button Scroll down 8 selections, to [Add a Waypoint].. click the joy-button it'll give a name, distance, description, and Location menu.. Press the Joy Button twice when on the waypoint name, to edit it. (scroll to the checkmark to exit) Scroll down to location, click the joy button scroll down once more to Location, Then Press the Menu button scroll down 2 selections to Edit, click the joy button. It will show your present location. scroll to the area you want to edit, click the joy button, and up/down scroll the numbers, left-right to which one to change. joy-button click inward to set the numbers once entered. scroll down to the [OK] selection, click Back once, Scroll down once, to select the Diskette image, and joy-button click in once to save it. Click the back menu until you're at the main page, and go to the waypoint selection, choose the new waypoint, and then Joy-button click on it, press Menu, It'll still be on route to the 1st stage, so cancel route, click menu again, and then click GO on the waypoint. I know, L-O-N-G & CoNfUsInG! I learned how to do this out in the field, when tracking a Multi.. it was BONKERS! Got annoyed with it just too many bugs and missing features from 1.7 to 2.15. Tracks turns itself on everytime you select a geocache no easy way to view child waypoints battery life was about 90 minutes (this could be partly due to the tracks turning on all the time) count does not increment lots of missing menu items Not outweighed by better map! Reinstalled v1.7 from the backup I took. Simply delete all on the device and copy the files from my backup on the PC back to the device. All worked well and I now have a geocache device that works. When you say that battery life is only about 90 mins, have you looked at the type of battery you are using, and made sure that the information on the GPS is the same? I thought battery life was short at one point, but it turns out I was using alkaline batteries, but the GPSr thought I was using lithium batteries. Mind you, when walking from cache to cache, I do put the GPSr in suspend mode.

For the latitude that you provided (N 04° xx.xxx) that 3rd decimal equates to 8 ft, <1 m. For your latitude (N 51° xx.xxx), that third decimal equates to 7 ft. -Latitude makes a difference, further north would make for less distance differential, yet- Off-hand, I don't think you should worry about it. ---------------- This question has been posed before and I do not believe that a true solution was ever presented. Thanks for this - it is a little annoying glitch when doing a multi or challenge cache. I was recently doing a church micro multi, and the waypoint directed me towards some steps, but they were steps up into a house - I thought it couldn't possibly be there - could it? I abandoned that search for the time being. Yesterday, we were searching - clue said under concrete slab, thing was - we were at an old airfield, with lots of concrete slabs all over the place! It is more annoying that when I go to edit the co-ordinates that have been changed, put them correct, that they revert back to being wrong again. Shame that there is this little glitch, but then again, makes me use my eyes more!

I'm hoping someone can help me with the problem I've been having with co-ordinates on the Explorist GC. For multi-caches and puzzles, I've entered the co-ordinates as a waypoint, checked them twice, three times, save them, go to the info page to change the name of the waypoint - check the co-ordinates again, and then I find that the co-ordinates have changed - the last digit for N and W have changed by 1 - e.g. I enter N004 35.568, and the GPSr changes it to N004 35.569 - it does it for the Westings too. I always have my phone with me when caching, so can use that, but would like to get the problem sorted on the GPSr. Thanks in anticipation!