Hoojar

Does anyone else have this issue, or does no one have a solution :-) Hoojar

Do you have the Garmin battery pack installed? If so, the battery selection is automatic and that menu is no longer available. Yes I have the Garmin Battery Pack installed. That explains it!

When I view the recent logs on caches that I have loaded onto my 700 via GPX from GSAK, the dates of the logs are MM/DD/YYYY. In Australia we use the format DD/MM/YYYY. My unit is set to 'Sydney' time zone, and my GSAK is exporting the data to the GPX in DD/MM/YYYY. Does anyone know how to change the date format on the 700? Thanks again for your help! Hoojar

From the Manual for the 700 - http://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/oregon7xx/EN-US/GUID-77070B10-3ABF-4904-8FDA-558120F68F3E.html "Select Setup > System > Battery Type. Select Alkaline, Lithium, NiMH, or Precharged NiMH." I have no 'Battery Type' option to select within the 'System' menu. Is this an issue for anyone else? Subsequently, I cannot tell my unit which type of battery I have inside of it. Thanks for your help.

Thank you both for your meaningful replies. I have a 700 now sitting on my desk, I am sure I will be in contact if (when!) things get confusing! Greg

G'day I am currently looking at upgrading from my Oregon 400 to the Oregon 700. However, reading through this thread, I have some reservations. I was wondering if someone could provide answers to the following please? 1. I primarily (99% of the time) load my gpx files through GSAK via the GarminExport Macro. Some people have posted here that there have been issues with this process, and the files being overwritten when the Oregon goes online. Is this still the case? Am I going to be able to still upload my gpx files via this method with relative ease? 2. Does anyone have a (rough?) idea of how many caches can be loaded onto the 700? My 400 is limited to 1,975 caches uploaded (via gpx). I do not really understand ggz, but again have read that it seems to have certain limitations. I am going to be travelling to the US from Australia next month, and would love to be able to upload all of the caches nearby to where I will be, and not have to continuously change gpx files like on my previous visit. I currently have a GSAK database of some 18,000 US caches. Is this likely to be able to work on the 700? 3. Is it true that when going online to download the nearest 25 caches, the 700 does not filter caches already found (this in itself seems ludicrous to me, and a major oversight by Garmin/Groundspeak)? If so, how do people find this in areas that they have "cached out." For example, near your home. I think it would be great to be able to straight away get the nearest 25 unfound caches sent to the 700, especially if new caches have been published, but I have already found every cache (let's say 1,500) within 30km of my house, I would not want to have to download them all again to eventually receive the latest published and unfound caches. Have users of the 700 found this a limiting factor? I realise that updating from a seven year old device will mean a learning curve and know people that use the 600, so understand that the units work quite differently, in terms of filters and things like that, but also expect that the changes will for the most part be good! Any and all feedback welcome! Thanks, Hoojar (Greg) Wollongong, NSW, Australia.

That is the most absurd thing I have ever read. Why on earth would someone became a volunteer reviewer if it then excluded them from caching in certain areas!