+jotne Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 (edited) Changes made from version 3.50 to 3.60: Correct German translation of 'delete all waypoints' Fix data card unlock failure when 2 cards of the same map set are used in one device Improve sun times for polar regions Fix issue where ETA in non motor vehicle modes can be unreasonably short Improve robustness of compass when it would appear uncalibrated until a power cycle Increase precision of distance measurement to the cursor on the map page Allow backlight adjustment on the track back point selection page Fix shutdown when editing Estonian Grid coordinates Correct daylight saving time for New Zealand Improve selection of the names of cross roads with NT maps Correct potential shutdown when viewing a vertical profile You can upgrade using Webupdater or download image using following links: 60CSx http://www8.garmin.com/support/agree.jsp?id=1245 60Cx http://www8.garmin.com/support/agree.jsp?id=1225 76CSx http://www8.garmin.com/support/agree.jsp?id=1249 76Cx http://www8.garmin.com/support/agree.jsp?id=1247 Edited March 6, 2008 by jotne Quote Link to comment
+Dryphter Posted March 6, 2008 Share Posted March 6, 2008 Cool. Thanks for the notice. Quote Link to comment
+Raffaz Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Anyone tried this yet? Are there any noticeable differences? Quote Link to comment
+hogrod Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 Anyone tried this yet? Are there any noticeable differences? Been running it for the last few days & haven't had any issues. Quote Link to comment
xxgg Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 What? We don't get SiRFInstantFixII ? Quote Link to comment
freeday Posted March 8, 2008 Share Posted March 8, 2008 faster fix with 3.60 i noticed with a gpsmap60csx and 3.60: the unit has now a position in a shorter time (normally the hcx is faster - with 3.60 the gpsmap60csx is faster) Quote Link to comment
Amuzme42 Posted March 9, 2008 Share Posted March 9, 2008 Thanks for the heads up! Quote Link to comment
+FitzgeraldFamily Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 (edited) I actually just updated not to long ago, and checked the version on the site today and thought oh i have that version but i checked my 76csx and i had 3.50 awesome! Edited March 11, 2008 by FitzgeraldFamily Quote Link to comment
dredhead Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Oh, yeah - I got a noticeable change in performance. It went from a typical 60Cx to an expensive Garmin-branded paperweight. Holding down the power button elicits a brief flash on the LCD screen, then nothing. I've tried tips 'n' tricks as listed here, but to no avail. Obviously I'm not the first one on the planet to have had an issue during a firmware update, but I couldn't find a thread about it here - maybe I'm using the wrong search terms. At any rate, if anyone has any pointers beyond "Hah, dude, yer screwed!" I'm all ears. Cheers, Dred Quote Link to comment
+GOT GPS? Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 I had updated to Ver. 3.60 some time ago, and when I was using the 60CSx recently, it was taking forever to boot up even if it was off for an hour. When I got home, I noticed that the tracklogs started out saying Mar 31, 2005 each time I started up the GPS. Each time the GPS was turned on, there was always a 2 or 3 point tracklog at the start, before it recorded the main tracklog, and this little tracklog on each startup would say Mar 31 2005. I reflashed the firmware, and it seems to boot up ok, but time will tell, if it gets sick again. Don't know if the problem is with the coding of the firmware, or the hit and miss of Internet downloading. Quote Link to comment
+Thrak Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Oh, yeah - I got a noticeable change in performance. It went from a typical 60Cx to an expensive Garmin-branded paperweight. Holding down the power button elicits a brief flash on the LCD screen, then nothing. I've tried tips 'n' tricks as listed here, but to no avail. Obviously I'm not the first one on the planet to have had an issue during a firmware update, but I couldn't find a thread about it here - maybe I'm using the wrong search terms. At any rate, if anyone has any pointers beyond "Hah, dude, yer screwed!" I'm all ears. Cheers, Dred The telephone is your friend in this case. Garmin support: 1-800-800-1020 Don't waste time on email. CALL them. Quote Link to comment
+Jeff in Pa Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 My CSX definately gets a fix faster than it had been with version 3.50! Gotta love that! Quote Link to comment
+EraSeek Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 My 60 cx seems pretty much the same as before. I always pull the card out before doing updates. My theory is that that aviods some of these problems. Quote Link to comment
+GOT GPS? Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 My 60 cx seems pretty much the same as before. I always pull the card out before doing updates. My theory is that that aviods some of these problems. Sounds good, I guess I will try removing the card first, like I did with my Magellans, and do a reset all from the reset screen, when updating the 60CSx in the future. Quote Link to comment
dredhead Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 The telephone is your friend in this case. Garmin support: 1-800-800-1020 Don't waste time on email. CALL them. Well, the email didn't go through anyway - their support page with all it's drop-downs and such netted me repeated hits on the "submit" button with no joy. Stupid coders. And the phone was an approximate 1 hour wait time. I called the Garmin store on Michigan Ave, and they said "sure, we can help you out, bring it down..." but before I did that, I wanted to make sure I wasn't being a moron about something. I rebooted the Mac as a PC and ran XP natively, made sure XP knew the GPS was there (even though it was dead, I could still hold down the power and the UP button on the 4-way pad to get it to be visible). It took a few... okay maybe 10 tries, but with the right combination of holding down buttons and letting them go at the proper time, I was able to get it to return to version 3.30. Whew! I then ran WebUpdater again, and there were no issues. It may well have been some shenanigans with running XP-within-a-window on the Mac, so from now on I'll just boot it up as a Windows box when I have to do software updates. Map transfers go smoothly enough using VMware, though. Thanks, y'all Quote Link to comment
+coggins Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 The telephone is your friend in this case. Garmin support: 1-800-800-1020 Don't waste time on email. CALL them. Well, the email didn't go through anyway - their support page with all it's drop-downs and such netted me repeated hits on the "submit" button with no joy. Stupid coders. And the phone was an approximate 1 hour wait time. I called the Garmin store on Michigan Ave, and they said "sure, we can help you out, bring it down..." but before I did that, I wanted to make sure I wasn't being a moron about something. I rebooted the Mac as a PC and ran XP natively, made sure XP knew the GPS was there (even though it was dead, I could still hold down the power and the UP button on the 4-way pad to get it to be visible). It took a few... okay maybe 10 tries, but with the right combination of holding down buttons and letting them go at the proper time, I was able to get it to return to version 3.30. Whew! I then ran WebUpdater again, and there were no issues. It may well have been some shenanigans with running XP-within-a-window on the Mac, so from now on I'll just boot it up as a Windows box when I have to do software updates. Map transfers go smoothly enough using VMware, though. Thanks, y'all Maybe you should try the Mac WebUpdater if you are running a Mac. Quote Link to comment
dredhead Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Maybe you should try the Mac WebUpdater if you are running a Mac. News to me - ever since the Intel Macs came out I pretty much stopped paying attention to whether Garmin was ever going to support Macs. But thanks, I'll do that next time. Dred Quote Link to comment
+coggins Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Maybe you should try the Mac WebUpdater if you are running a Mac. News to me - ever since the Intel Macs came out I pretty much stopped paying attention to whether Garmin was ever going to support Macs. But thanks, I'll do that next time. Dred For you, here's some more news: All Things Mac Quote Link to comment
+TeamThom Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 OK, dumb question from the new 60CSx owner, how do I determine the current firmware version in the GPS? Also, what is GPS Chipset Type G software? Quote Link to comment
Forkeye Posted March 27, 2008 Share Posted March 27, 2008 For software version turn on the unit,wait till the welcome screen goes off,press menu twice,select setup-press enter,select system-press enter,press menu,select software version-press enter ...software version 3.60...below GPS SW Version 3.00 ie chipset..below unit ID/serial # Quote Link to comment
+TeamThom Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 For software version turn on the unit,wait till the welcome screen goes off,press menu twice,select setup-press enter,select system-press enter,press menu,select software version-press enter ...software version 3.60...below GPS SW Version 3.00 ie chipset..below unit ID/serial # Thanks. I had tried everything but the that last menu, select software version-press enter step. Mine reads Software Version 3.50 and GPS SW Version 3.00 so I guess a little updating is in order. Interesting that Garmen lists the GPS Chipset Type G version at 2.90 on the web site. Quote Link to comment
Forkeye Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 If I remember correctly,after you upgrade to 3.60 it will ask you if you want to upgrade the chipset to 3.00.Maybe 3.00 wont work without 3.60 ,I dont know.But I now have both on my 76csx. and havent noticed any performance change for better or worse. Quote Link to comment
+Prof_Fate Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 I just got my 60CSx this week and did the update- no probs. I do find it interesting it was running version 3.4... the site doesn't list a 3.4 version! I've not used it enough to know if there are any changes in how it performs. At this point it's a lot faster to start and acquire than my Vista was. Quote Link to comment
s20055 Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Are the patches cumulative? In other words, does version 3.60 include all of the fixes in subsequent patches as well? My friend has a 60Csx that is about a year old, or so...not sure what version his software/firmware is. It would be nice to know if only one download is necessary. He doesn't have internet access where he lives. Also, maybe I missed something from the earlier post...but did anyone actually explain what the "GPS Chipset Type G Ver. 2.90 as of Nov 27, 2006 " update is? or, if it is even necessary. Quote Link to comment
GeoBobC Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 Q: Are the patches cumulative? A: Yes. Quote Link to comment
wildgoose007 Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 If I remember correctly,after you upgrade to 3.60 it will ask you if you want to upgrade the chipset to 3.00. It's interesting that Garmin's website only lists version chipset software 2.90, while using webupdate you can get software 3.00. So if you updated without webupdate, do a web update and select yes for the GPS chipset update, power-off, and after rebooting it will show 3.00 instead of 2.90. Perhaps the speed improvements people have bee noted is in the 3.00 version of the chipset software. I am running the Taiwan 2.50 version of the firmware (equivalent to 3.50 english firmware), and it seems to work with 3.00 chipset. Quote Link to comment
wildgoose007 Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 If I remember correctly,after you upgrade to 3.60 it will ask you if you want to upgrade the chipset to 3.00. It's interesting that Garmin's website only lists version chipset software 2.90, while using webupdate you can get software 3.00. So if you updated without webupdate, do a web update and select yes for the GPS chipset update, power-off, and after rebooting it will show 3.00 instead of 2.90. Perhaps the speed improvements people have bee noted is in the 3.00 version of the chipset software. I am running the Taiwan 2.50 version of the firmware (equivalent to 3.50 english firmware), and it seems to work with 3.00 chipset. Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.