Garmin 450 issue

[+Zircon Zombies]

Just resently we were out caching and I tried to send a cache to my wifes 450, no luck, always worked before , now it drops the signal ,, and this is both units doing the same thing. Have contacted Garmin and did a master reboot etc. still won't send a geocache.The odd thing is they will send waypoints and tracks. Has anybody else come across this issue ? ZZ

[+castagnari]

Moving thread from the UK & Ireland forum to the GPS & Technology forum.

[+dartymoor]

Might there be something "odd" about this specific cache? Unusual characters in the description etc.

[+Zircon Zombies]

No, I have tried with different caches , also sofar I have found 3 other cachers with the same issue , all using the Oregon 450. I'm wondering if Geocache has done something to thier files, Garmin help line is no help , so far the "wireless" feature is no longer a feature . I'm surprised nobody else out there has had this issue..............ZZ

[+PokerLuck]

First of all, make sure you have good batteries in both units. The batteries may be good enough to run the unit, but not good enough to make a wireless connection. Also, the GPS is supposed to save the transferred cache with the GC number as the filename, but that hasn't worked in a long time. It saves it with a filename like 1.gpx. This causes Basecamp to go nuts, and it might be interfering with transferring more files. Get rid of the odd filenames and see if that helps.

[+Zircon Zombies]

First of all, make sure you have good batteries in both units. The batteries may be good enough to run the unit, but not good enough to make a wireless connection. Also, the GPS is supposed to save the transferred cache with the GC number as the filename, but that hasn't worked in a long time. It saves it with a filename like 1.gpx. This causes Basecamp to go nuts, and it might be interfering with transferring more files. Get rid of the odd filenames and see if that helps.

[+Zircon Zombies]

I will give that a try , but again , the interesting thing about this issue is the 4 other Oregons doing the same thing.As I mentioned before I have been using this unit for 3or4 years now and its always worked fine wirelessly.One of the units is only 3 weeks old. cheers ZZ

[+kwcahart]

I had exactly the same problem but the master reset did the trick, no more problems.

[+Zircon Zombies]

I had exactly the same problem but the master reset did the trick, no more problems.

Yes I did the master reset and it made no difference , not sure where to go from here.