+Bland by name Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Hi all, Just got my lovely new Oregon 400t for my Birthday. Joined as a premium and started downloading GPX files. I'm dissapointed that the Hints on't seem to transfer. I would MUCH rather see the hint than pages of logs. Any ideas? Ta Paul Quote Link to comment
+Hrethgir Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 The hints show up in the GPX files I DL and put on my PN-40, you sure they aren't there? Quote Link to comment
+SYOTT Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Are you loading them directly, or are you loading it from GSAK? Quote Link to comment
+g-o-cashers Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 To see hints: Geocaches>Find a Geocache>[select geocache]>Go and once navigation has started Geocaches>Show Hint Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Hi all, Just got my lovely new Oregon 400t for my Birthday. Joined as a premium and started downloading GPX files. I'm dissapointed that the Hints on't seem to transfer. I would MUCH rather see the hint than pages of logs. Any ideas? Ta Paul How are you loading the GPX files on unit?? Quote Link to comment
+Entropy512 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 Hi all, Just got my lovely new Oregon 400t for my Birthday. Joined as a premium and started downloading GPX files. I'm dissapointed that the Hints on't seem to transfer. I would MUCH rather see the hint than pages of logs. Any ideas? Ta Paul Are you using the "Send to GPS" link or a Pocket Query. As I understand it, the "Send to GPS" link may strip a lot of data when used for Garmins. If you copy the GPX files from a PQ directly to garmin\gpx either on the device's onboard storage or the microSD, it should have everything. It does on my Oregon 300. Quote Link to comment
+Maingray Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 As I understand it, the "Send to GPS" link may strip a lot of data when used for Garmins. No it doesn't. Quote Link to comment
+admo1972 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 I think g-o-cashers got it. The hint is only visible once you are actually navigating to a cache, not choosing the cache from the list of caches. On the Colorado and Oregon, when you first select a geocache to find, it shows the description and logs, but no hints. You then need to hit "go", as if you are going to actually hunt for the cache. Then, on the main menu, you select "geocaches", and from there you can click hint. Quote Link to comment
+Bland by name Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 Thanks all, you are correct, when navigating to a cache if you go back to Geocaching there are more options, including hints. I transfered using the send to GPS link and there seems to be no data loss at all! The Oregen is fab, but the user manual is very light weight!! Quote Link to comment
+Prime Suspect Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 As I understand it, the "Send to GPS" link may strip a lot of data when used for Garmins. You actually get more data, in the form of additional logs, using Send to GPS over PQs. Quote Link to comment
+mustangcats Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 I use the GPX Exchange file to send the caches to my Oregon. When I was using the Send to GPS...I noticed that cache descriptions that were written with HTML were almost unreadable because all the HTML programming commands were being displayed with the cache description. This does not happen when sending to the receiver using the GPX Exchange file. I also think more logs are available to read when using the GPX Exchange file method. Quote Link to comment
+cap'ncrunch&cookie Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 To see hints: Geocaches>Find a Geocache>[select geocache]>Go and once navigation has started Geocaches>Show Hint Hi, I am having prob getting hints on my Nuvi 850. Any suggestions there? I have a PQ zip file and downloaded GSAK and the garmin poi loader several times over and over (after uninstalling & reinstalling) to try and get it to work. I followed the instructions step by step still only get the geocache number and title..and now i get the cache owners after a few tries. Almost ready to give up after a week and many many hours later..but really don't want too. Any suggestions? Or leads in Forums..been looking here for days and also looked on GSAK Forum ....Thanks Quote Link to comment
+cap'ncrunch&cookie Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 To see hints: Geocaches>Find a Geocache>[select geocache]>Go and once navigation has started Geocaches>Show Hint Hi, I am having prob getting hints on my Nuvi 850. Any suggestions there? I have a PQ zip file and downloaded GSAK and the garmin poi loader several times over and over (after uninstalling & reinstalling) to try and get it to work. I followed the instructions step by step still only get the geocache number and title..and now i get the cache owners after a few tries. Almost ready to give up after a week and many many hours later..but really don't want too. Any suggestions? Or leads in Forums..been looking here for days and also looked on GSAK Forum ....Thanks Quote Link to comment
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