Calculate gets stuck

[+DiSiGot]

Sometimes when I'm using the mapping software with Garmin 60CSx the calculating mode seems to get stuck in a repeating loop. It calculates and gets to about 5%, then beeps and starts calculating over again. This loop continues over and over and over again and the only way I've found to fix it is to turn of GPS and wait for 30 seconds or so and then turn it back on. Any suggestions?

 

Here's a dumb question but I don't know the answer so I'll ask it. Sometimes the compass pointer doesn't show on the compass. Why?

[+TexasGringo]

I don't know about the calculating problem...but

 

***Here's a dumb question but I don't know the answer so I'll ask it. Sometimes the compass pointer doesn't show on the compass. Why?**

 

Have you switched between Compass and Bearing pointer? Check your menu settings.

[+briansnat]

The overwhelming majority of the time my 60CSX calculates the route without incident. There seem to be certain areas where it hangs. When I was in a city in PA every time I tried to calculate a route it would hang.

 

Once I drove about 10 miles away it worked just fine. I think this happened one other place, but I forget where.

 

Sometimes the compass pointer doesn't show on the compass. Why?

 

When that happens I fix it by calibrating the compass.

 

 

BTW, this post really belongs in the GPS Units and Software forum.

Edited February 24, 2008 by briansnat

[+Miragee]

Do you have both City Navigator and Topo installed?

 

If I have switched to Topo for a hike, then get back to my car and ask the GPSr to "Follow Road," without switching back to "City Navigator" maps, if I am a long distance from a Base Map road, my GPSr will behave like that. The only fix is to turn it off, turn it back on and from the map screen Menu, choose "Show City Navigator" again.

 

The missing compass pointer issue crops up with a friend's GPS Map60CSx all the time. I'm not sure if Garmin has a fix for that issue. Perhaps the newest firmware addresses that problem . . .

[+webscouter.]

Mine will sometimes do this if it looses accuracy. It will think it is off road and try to recalculate until it realizes it is on road again.

[Keystone]

I am moving this thread from the Geocaching Topics forum to the GPS Units and Software forum.

[+DiSiGot]

Thanks for the answers. Sorry I posted this in the wrong place. I'll try to get it right in the future.