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Witam jak sprawdzić czy mam w okolicy skrzynki typu geobeacon lub chirp na ant+? Bo posiadam chyba garmin etrex touch 35 i zastanawiam się czy da się go wykorzystać do szukanie tego typu skrzynek

Duly noted that I'm not answering your actual question, but since this group is so quiet, I just thought I'd fill the empty space with something that _might_ be useful. Years ago, Garmin offered a device trade-in program for units that were outside the repairability window, as the 450's surely are by now. They basically just offered a discount on a similar model or had some kind of flat repair price, which was essentially buying a refurbished unit... This program used to be easy to find and now isn't, so maybe it no longer exists, but I'd at least _try_ throwing myself upon the mercy of Garmin Support and seeing if there's any repair/upgrade option for you. ...particularly since it's probable that your electronics are all fine and the failure is either a bent piece of metal that's smaller than a can's pull tab or the piece of plastic that it mates to. Back when Garmin had viable competition in the outdoor space and these things were simply easier to repair, these options were easy to find. The fact that they aren't makes me suspect that I may be remembering things from many years ago that no longer exist. Barring that, check in with local geocaching clubs and see if anyone has orphaned an older model like this, either by upgrading or by reducing their involvement in the game that they would part with. My own Oregon 450 is on 'permanent loan' for exactly those reasons, and I've given homes to much older models that became part of the GPSBabel test lab. In fact, the eTrex yellow I used for development has an unusably broken screen from being subjected to sudden deceleration into an oak tree upon a DNF. I just memorized the factory reset and proved I could send waypoints, routes, and tracks (maybe?) and could get them back. I didn't need a screen, and I didn't even need it to get a fix. I was just testing the ability to send and receive over the wire.

Finder will not show the trash folder for a certain device, when you click on the trash icon in your dock you will see the trashed items on all disks/devices. It is a better idea to put your maps on an SD card, especially when the map isn’t made by Garmin (maps made with open source software are more prone for causing problems than official Garmin maps). A factory reset does not erase all files, it also doesn’t revert the firmware to the original version. What is does is setting all options to the factory default en erasing waypoints, routes and tracks. I stopped updating my offline tools eight years ago due to medical reasons, newer MacOS versions won’t run them anymore.

Many, many thanks, this solved the problem! The Garmin GPSmap 62 does not have a SD card, so I indeed loaded the map directly on the gps. I do not see a trash folder in the file structure, but I removed the map and the pocket query I had loaded last and the device restarted okay. Next I ran the disk utility function on my Mac and it did not show errors. Unfortunately your 'JaVaWa Device Manager.app' does not run on my MacOS version. Next I loaded another map and the device boots well with this map. Not sure how to keep the file structure intact, tempted to do this factory settings reset, but not sure all the original files are still on the device.... Thanks, MaSL

For those who use this product, how do you like it? How is the City Navigator map function? My Oregon 450 is failing (the clip that holds the City Navigator no longer locks in place so no map shows) and I have no interest in paying $600 for a Montana unit. I’ve thought about buying a used 450, but am not really comfortable doing that. Thanks.

We picked up a discarded Garmin display on wheels - it is heavier than particleboard but not solid wood. The back is locked with a key we don’t have. It would make an interesting base/case for an indoor cache, for instance. We’re in New England - if interested (and you’re also in New England), let us know where you are located and we’ll see if meeting would be possible.

It's been awhile since I used my 62S having moved on to the 64S and now the 66i. But I saved my notes on how to try clearing issues. Garmin 62s Reset steps Press Enter + Page + Power together, then when the Garmin logo appears, release the Power button but continue holding the Enter + Page buttons until the ‘user data deletion’ warning appears. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Have the GPSMAP 62 (not sure if this works on 78) turned off. Press and hold both the "Quit", "Out" and the "Menu" buttons Press and release the power button Release "Quit", "Out" and "Menu" buttons after about 5 seconds

Dear Community, My loyal Garmin GPSmap 62s has these symptoms after I deleted an old - and loaded a new map: It powers up normally, halfway the loading bar it stops loading, then slowly the screen fades. When connected to usb abd my mac: it powers up as if not connected, then shows the normal usb connection screen, but then this starts to fade I tried the reset option: Page + Enter, it comes up in that reboot option screen, but no key gives a respons and the screen fades Replaced batteries, same result. Any thoughts, is it doomed? MaSL

Then there are some locations where it's just difficult or impossible to get accurate coordinates. A couple of weeks ago, I was sussing out a location for a new cache, a multi themed on a bronze statue along a ridge-top walking trail. At the first location I considered, maybe ten metres down the slope from the ridge-top, my GPSr, a Garmin GPSMAP 67, just didn't want to settle, it kept wandering around over a 5 to 10 metre radius. I then went off further along the trail, looking for other potential hiding places, and returned to that original spot an hour or so later but it was still much the same with it not wanting to settle. I ultimately found a better hiding spot a bit further up the slope, with the Garmin a lot happier there too. Out of interest, when placing the container the following day, I took my old Oregon 700 along too, comparing it to the 67. I'd expect the 67 to do better, with its multi-satellite multi-band operation compared to the 700's single-satellite single-band, and that did indeed prove to be the case. At my final location, the 67 was consistently showing within a couple of metres of the coordinates I'd taken the previous day, while the 700 was wandering over about a 5 metre radius but still averaging at around the same spot. Another of my recent caches is alongside a pond adjoining a tidal lake and even though it's flat ground with a 360 degree view of the sky, I get different coordinates every time I go there, with a spread of about 5 metres or so. I'm wondering whether there are signal reflections off the lake that vary with the tide; if it was closer to home I'd do some more experimentation to see if that's the case. After a couple of early finders mentioned in their logs that their device directed them to the wrong side of the pond, I made the hint a bit more explicit. My worst experience was with a cache I'd placed at the base of a waterfall in a steep gully, where I was getting a spread of some 20 metres in the coordinates I took on multiple days over the course of a week. In the end all I could do was make the hint very explicit and put a spoiler photo on the cache page as well.

First they come for the garmins with satellite communication. Then they discover that newer iPhones have similar telegraphic capabilities. Finally someone might tell them about how GPS units and other phones are used in a wireless game. https://www.advnture.com/news/i-was-not-aware-a-gps-device-was-illegal-us-based-ultra-runner-arrested-in-india-for-carrying-garmin-inreach-device

This is ironically close what happened to me and what me here after being away a good number of years... Mid-November I was trying to update the topo maps on my map 78s and it corrupted - now it 'work' but no basemap, wont power on for a 2nd cycle unless batteries pulled and only stays connected to PC via USB for a few seconds when trying to pull existing data iff it. Garmin was no help, but I did find a group in gErmany that says that can bootstrap the firmware but $$$ are not practical so i ordered a new 79s... Anyone have experience correcting corrupted firmware to recover 1 of these handhelds?

"Accurate cordinates" are a relative statement. Any handheld GPSr (or app running on a phone) reading is going to depend on a number of factors: The unit reading the coorindates, the weather, the tree cover, the number of averaged measurements, the GPSr chip set, the number of satellites in range and their arrangement in the sky. If you set down your GPSr in the middle of an open field under perfet conditions you will get an "exploding star shape" showing your position dancing around a central point and an "average reading" somewhere near the center. Rather than try for a "perfect reading" which won't match the next guy's reading anyway, take an averaged reading, and if you actually want to help folks locate you cache, use a location hint. By location hint I don't mean "tree" in the middle of the woods but something that narrows the search area down to a reasonable size. Garmin's website assets that; " Garmin® GPS receivers are accurate to within 15 meters (49 feet) 95% of the time. Generally, users will see accuracy within 5 to 10 meters (16 to 33 feet) under normal conditions." So that means even with two recievers matching the coordinates exactly you are still left searching a 16-33 foot radius. Use a hint...Even simple hints like "classic hide" (on the ground, so look there), "eye high" (narrows the search area by 90 percent) "cedar" (eliminates all other trees") are helpful. On the other hand, if your goal is to make the find difficult (d4, d5) accurate coords will spoil your fun...

That might be fine while that satellite image is current, but in a year or two (or even less in urban areas) when Google update their satellite image, you could easily find your cache 5, 10 or more metres away from that bush or tree. Here's a series of Google Earth images for one of my Adventure Lab waypoints. The waypoint is supposed to be near the top right corner of the lookout platform (shown with a red arrow in each image) but the spread on where it thinks my coordinates are is of the order of 10 metres (it's about 15 metres off in the 2010 image). I took the coordinates on my Garmin and, when plugged into the AL waypoint, my phone running the app showed close enough to zero metres at the right spot. If I'd relied on the satellite image I'd have probably sent people down off the edge of the cliff or back along the track looking for the answer to the question.

One thing to be wary of is that, depending on your phone and the app, it may stop taking satellite readings if it thinks you aren't moving. Once you've taken your coordinates, it's a good idea to walk well away from it then return to see if it brings you back to the same place, and preferably do that in various directions. Also, as lee737 suggested, it's also a good idea to take readings on different days when the satellite constellation will be different. When I'm planning a new cache, I take readings while sussing out the area and then confirm them when I return a few days later to place the cache, and if there's a significant discrepency I'll make multiple visits and average the most likely coordinates. I don't know if any phone apps do this, but my Garmin records a track of where it's gone so, standing at GZ for twenty or thirty minutes, I see its "drunken bee dance" and will move the coordinates I've taken to the centre of that.

Do you use a mobile phone or a GPS unit like Garmin? For mobile phone an app that makes averaging measurements is one way to get more precise coordinates than a single value from the app geocaching® for example. GPS point is the app I use. And as already said you can make measurements for 5-10 minutes on different days to see if the coordinates fluctuate.

Unfortunately no. I have contacted Garmin.

I would guess that the update was not trying to delete the existing map set but was overwriting it. The error made the file unreadable so the effect was to delete it. Maybe Garmin will be able to help you. Any chance you made a backup before you did the update, even an older one?

Tonight when I plugged my Montana 700 into my laptop, I got a message saying an update was available. I opened Garmin Express & it showed an update for Topo North America. OK, I use it all the time. I go thru the steps & then get an error message. When I opened BaseCamp, no listing for the 3 sections of Topo. I check the GPS & no Topo maps on the 'layers'. Then I go to Map Manager & again nada. Has anyone heard of an update removing an installed map (it was included w/ purchase) from the GPS? (Sorry about the shading) - Fixed - Moderator

If there's a significant discrepency between the coordinates you took and where it appears on the map, I'd strongly suggest going back to GZ to reckeck the coordinates on your device. The error might be in the map, and yes, it does happen. A few years back I was setting up an AL with a waypoint at a cliff-top lookout. I took the initial coordinates on my Garmin but when I looked at them on Google Earth, it showed it some ten metres out off the edge of the cliff. I adjusted the coordinates in my AL draft to agree with Google Earth then, with the AL in test mode, went out with my phone to check it in the app. It was ten metres out the other way, so I changed it back to my original coordinates which the app showed as pretty much spot on. Subsequently, looking back through Google Earth's image history, that location is all over the shop with errors of ten metres or more in various directions. Use the map as a sanity check, not the final arbiter.

Thanks for replies Moun10Bike you mention filters for geocaches. Where are these setup/changed? My PQs do overlap to give the caches I need for my one week away from my computer while I'm away. In the past this has always worked OK and overlapping caches are simply over-written rather than duplicated. I have just deleted all PQs - added just one again and see the same result in a sample area. I'll update image from Garmin and from website.

I have loaded geocaches on my Garmin Oregon 700 for an upcoming trip to Portugal. When I checked they are all appearing as question marks!

I made changes to one of my cache pages a few days ago, and checked the page on my App and it was the page from several cache page updates ago. I tried refreshing it every way I could think of (I had started by refreshing the List), and eventually deleted/reinstalled the App. Now the current cache page shows. I really don't like The App, and The App doesn't like my phone, (Samsung S22). So I've stuck with my Garmin GPS for actual Geocaching information. That's why these kinds of things aren't much of an issue to me in the field. But I'll try it out with Lists and see if I'm getting the same thing as you. I wish you luck getting positive action with this. TPTB don't even reply to my threads about App bugs, let alone fix them. I wonder if sometimes the database gets "stuck", that it stops updating cache info, even lists. As I said, I wasn't even able to un-stick it, when my cache page wouldn't update. I haven't checked other cache pages to see if it was just my page, or more widespread. Does this mean that everyone or anyone using The App is now stuck viewing my out-dated cache description? I wonder. Have you inspected the cache pages that are not being deleted? It may be useful to note if those pages are not only un-deleted from the List, but also not current in the App compared to the web site. For example, do they have the most recent Activity (such as logs)? In fact, are all the caches in your Lists ("Deleted" or not) also not being updated?

Problem is there are caches which I originally added but removed in later iterations of planning that are still in that list. I ran across several of these that were on my phone, but were not loaded into my Garmin. Mildly annoying and shouldn't happen if I wipe the downloaded data and re-download it.

I have been using Garmin products since the near the beginning of geocaching. last 4 have been the Montana's, 2 600's, a 650 and now a 700. Can't understand why they killed the shortcuts. One thing I have noted as I have run the other Montana in parallel with my car units is the 700 is out to lunch on ETA. Sometimes the routing is a bit wacko also. I have seen it out by and hour on a hour trip. I have seen it still estimating arrival time of another 20 minutes as I arrive at my destination my a shorter route then it was indicating all the time telling me to make a turn, LOL. I recently switched from a lot of ATV off road to on/off road motorcycle riding where a car type GPS isn't suitable. The gross error in ETA is not acceptable. Looking int the Tread or the Zumo which has been out a lot longer and used my many motorcyclists.

Final day in Athens today. Total find 16. Today I made an early start at about 8.30. I already had five finds and three DNFs from previous day. Three hours later I had added eleven more to the tally - 9 Trads and 2 virtuals. One of the 9 was a frown from yesterday that I turned in to a smile. It was, for the first time, a day where I was caching using my phone. I also took along my old Etrex 20s just to make some comparisons. I was impressed with how well the phone, Motorola 82G did it's job but it had one really annoying feature - it would want me to log a find when I was within about 10m of GZ whereas my Garmin would continue counting down to zero. A good morning was had (zero DNFs) so I decided, or should I say my feet decided, it was enough so I had a restful afternoon. Tomorrow I board the cruise ship Nieuw Statendam, destination Corfu.