macpanther

Hi all, I have a brand-new eTrex with 3.60 pre-loaded, so I don't think the firmware rev is at issue. At least three conditions seem to accompany the spontaneous shutdowns. I'm driving (I miss any shutdown warnings that might exist). But speed of recalcing position might be at issue. Batteries are "low," at least less than half full by the battery level icon. The map display is being refigured (switch from Nav to map mode) after having display a location miles away. I vote for the computational intensity / power requirement model for explaining this. I can't seem to find a way to set the battery saving mode. I'm not putting duck tape on this. I notice that one battery connection has a spring clip and the other just has two tabs. But the unit was just sitting "still," relatively "level" and not being jarred when this happened. This is annoying as all get-up and erodes ones confidence in the unit. macpanther