Need some help

[IRUNINCIRCLES]

Hey all~

I received a Garmin eTrex for Christmas and am finally sitting down to figure out how to use it. I've read both the quick start manual and the user manual, as well as used the help sections on the Garmin website...it's not doing what it's supposed to. Is someone available to help who has some experience using this unit? Your help would be greatly appreciated...otherwise this thing is going back to Best Buy and I'm buying myself something purty.

[+Sol seaker]

Where are you located? What City?

 

I'm sure many of us would be happy to show you how to use it if you are near us.

 

Also try the tech section of these forums.

 

Nevermind, I looked at your profile.

You're in Battleground.

I'm no where near there or I'd be happy to help. You might try the GPS tech section of these forums, or perhaps ask specific questions here. I've got a very similar GPS so may be able to answer many of them.

Also, Garmin has some really great videos on it's website on how to use it's GPS's. You might check those out. Youtube has some videos too.

 

Oh, now I see you used the "help" sections on the garmin site.

Did you try the videos yet? Those are easier.

Edited January 26, 2013 by Sol seaker

[IRUNINCIRCLES]

Where are you located? What City?

 

I'm sure many of us would be happy to show you how to use it if you are near us.

 

Also try the tech section of these forums.

 

Nevermind, I looked at your profile.

You're in Battleground.

I'm no where near there or I'd be happy to help. You might try the GPS tech section of these forums, or perhaps ask specific questions here. I've got a very similar GPS so may be able to answer many of them.

Also, Garmin has some really great videos on it's website on how to use it's GPS's. You might check those out. Youtube has some videos too.

 

Oh, now I see you used the "help" sections on the garmin site.

Did you try the videos yet? Those are easier.

I did watch all the videos too...very informative, but not fixing my problem. When I try to download from the Garmin site- OpenCaching, it just keeps thinking and never goes anywhere...which according to their forums has been happening to a lot of people because of glitching on the site. Hence why I came here... I've never used this site to download caches, only ever gotten coordinates and found our way there. I don't understand where I should be saving the waypoints so that i can view them on my unit.

[+Cascade Reviewer]

I'm moving this from the Northwest forum to the GPS and Technology forum.

[+splashy]

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=put+caches+on+an+etrex+20&oq=put+caches+on+an+etrex+20&gs_l=youtube.3...1977.17146.0.17677.25.25.0.0.0.0.162.1847.22j3.25.0...0.0...1ac.1.vMGD5W3vfUs

 

There's one about >pocket queries< = PQ

[IRUNINCIRCLES]

Thanks for the help! I watched a couple youtube videos...still wasn't working, but I downloaded the software mentioned by one of the tutorials: EasyGPS...worked perfectly! I'm very excited to go out and see how this thing works...maybe tomorrow since it's raining buckets and dark now. thank you!!