summerwinter Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Twice lately, in the past month or so, when I download caches from a query I did not get all of them in my GPS. It is an Magellan Explorist 500. The first time it happened was in Yuma when I download some to go cacheing with some new friends. My GPS had none of the ones we were looking for in the area. Embarassing. Second time was in Bullhead City. I wanted to find the one along a particular road where I could see them on the geo-cacheing map but the query of the area, with the right D/T level, still did not have those loaded in my GPS. . It had others so I know I am getting some but not the ones I want. Is it time for a new 'toy'? This one is 7+ years old. summerwinter Quote Link to comment
+T.D.M.22 Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 (edited) ...Is it time for a new 'toy'? This one is 7+ years old... Well if you can afford it, I'd say it's time for a new one even if it can be fixed. At least you have an excuse Edited March 31, 2014 by T.D.M.22 Quote Link to comment
+geodarts Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 (edited) How big was your pocket query? Was it loaded as geocaches (200 limit) or as waypoints (as I recall, 500 limit)? I liked the explorist 500 in its day, but I don't regret having moved on. Edited March 31, 2014 by geodarts Quote Link to comment
summerwinter Posted March 31, 2014 Author Share Posted March 31, 2014 How big was your pocket query? Was it loaded as geocaches (200 limit) or as waypoints (as I recall, 500 limit)? I liked the explorist 500 in its day, but I don't regret having moved on. Quote Link to comment
summerwinter Posted March 31, 2014 Author Share Posted March 31, 2014 I never looked at the number of caches or waypoints loading. The problem is some of them from a location, a mile square or so, will load and others will not. I can't see any difference in them. Quote Link to comment
+Manville Possum Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 My Triton 500 is problematic. You know wat they say, get a Garmin or get lost. Quote Link to comment
summerwinter Posted March 31, 2014 Author Share Posted March 31, 2014 How big was your pocket query? Was it loaded as geocaches (200 limit) or as waypoints (as I recall, 500 limit)? I liked the explorist 500 in its day, but I don't regret having moved on. Quote Link to comment
summerwinter Posted March 31, 2014 Author Share Posted March 31, 2014 What did you move to and why do you like it? And of course what do you wish were different. If I am going to buy a new one I want to get all the input I can find. Quote Link to comment
+Sharks-N-Beans Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 What did you move to and why do you like it? And of course what do you wish were different. If I am going to buy a new one I want to get all the input I can find. This has happened to us a couple of times. It's a pretty big deal when you discover it on a trip. We always check the gps now before we leave. Quote Link to comment
Keystone Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 I am moving this thread from the Geocaching Topics forum to the GPS and Technology forum. Quote Link to comment
+GrateBear Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 ...Is it time for a new 'toy'? This one is 7+ years old... Well if you can afford it, I'd say it's time for a new one even if it can be fixed. At least you have an excuse Indeed--that's been my excuse Quote Link to comment
+Shaved Ewok Posted April 1, 2014 Share Posted April 1, 2014 Several people had a similar issue at MOGA this past weekend. Quote Link to comment
+Sol seaker Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Twice lately, in the past month or so, when I download caches from a query I did not get all of them in my GPS. It is an Magellan Explorist 500. The first time it happened was in Yuma when I download some to go cacheing with some new friends. My GPS had none of the ones we were looking for in the area. Embarassing. Second time was in Bullhead City. I wanted to find the one along a particular road where I could see them on the geo-cacheing map but the query of the area, with the right D/T level, still did not have those loaded in my GPS. . It had others so I know I am getting some but not the ones I want. Is it time for a new 'toy'? This one is 7+ years old. summerwinter I've had this happen a few times for me. On some occasions it turned out my GPS was full. I didn't think it should be; it used to hold more caches I was sure, but it was full. I used to put a whole lot more caches in it and even though I clear out the tracks and waypoints regularly, it doesn't seem to hold as many as it used to. Perhaps it's just my imagination and I thought it used to hold more. Anyway, I would make sure you delete other pocket queries before loading your GPS, even if you think there's a lot of room on it. The other problem I had was simply not waiting long enough for the pocket query to load. It would look like it was done, and my other GPS's only take a few seconds to load, but once again my oldest GPS seems to need an extra few seconds at least, to load all of the query. I'm using Easy GPS to load mine, I don't know how you're doing it. But now I hit "send to GPS" and then after it appears done I count slowly to ten, or walk away and get a drink or something. Then I check it on the computer to see how big the query was that loaded. If all my queries are 500 caches then all of them on my machine should be about the same size. If the one I just loaded is significantly smaller, then something is wrong. Go back, delete it and others not needed and start again. Since I've been watching those two things I haven't been having that problem. Since then I also bought a new one. Now I can hold 2 GPS's worth of queries. But the new one has a screen I can safely use in the car too. On my old GPS it was so hard to see the screen, I figured it was worth the money for a new GPS to not wreck my car by trying to see that dang screen while I was driving. Quote Link to comment
vagabond Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 you can only load 200 caches to a explorists 500 file but you can load as many files as your memory will hold, hopefully on an SD card. Sometimes when loading 200 caches it will drop out a few, when I was using mine I'd load 195 per file then change files an load another 195, I have a 2gig sd card in mine Quote Link to comment
+BigOpe Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Twice lately, in the past month or so, when I download caches from a query I did not get all of them in my GPS. It is an Magellan Explorist 500. The first time it happened was in Yuma when I download some to go cacheing with some new friends. My GPS had none of the ones we were looking for in the area. Embarassing. Second time was in Bullhead City. I wanted to find the one along a particular road where I could see them on the geo-cacheing map but the query of the area, with the right D/T level, still did not have those loaded in my GPS. . It had others so I know I am getting some but not the ones I want. Is it time for a new 'toy'? This one is 7+ years old. summerwinter This may have nothing whatsoever to do with your problem, as I'm still using an old Garmin Etrex-H (which I like and hope it never dies). BUT, when I download caches into it, the cache names get scrunched down to a six-character approximation, and I've found from painful experience that similar cache names sometimes generate the same six characters and my ETrex won't take the same combination a second time. For example, if someone places "Christmas Cache Special Good Hide #1" and "Christmas Cache Special Good Hide #2," both of them may "translate" to CHCSGH, so the first one will load and the second one won't. I have to be alert for that and modify the cache names in my pre-download program (I use EasyGPS) to give them distinctive names. You might want to investigate whether this is what's going on with your Magellan. Quote Link to comment
+fishgeek Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 (edited) you can only load 200 caches to a explorists 500 file but you can load as many files as your memory will hold, hopefully on an SD card. Sometimes when loading 200 caches it will drop out a few, when I was using mine I'd load 195 per file then change files an load another 195, I have a 2gig sd card in mine The 200 geocache limit requires a lot of extra effort. If you have too many in your PQ, not all will load. I'm not sure how it decides which ones to exclude, but it is usually ones that you need. If you use GSAK, there are macros that will break a large group of caches into eXplorist friendly files. EDITED: I confused my eXplorist 500 with my Triton 500. The eXplorist died years ago, but I still use the Triton every now and then. The Triton will only load 1000 total points, including regular waypoints, geocaches, and child waypoints. Edited April 3, 2014 by fishgeek Quote Link to comment
+BigOpe Posted April 6, 2014 Share Posted April 6, 2014 I have no idea if this will help, but I'll throw it in. With my ancient Etrex-H and EasyGPS software, the software scrunches the cache name down to six characters, which sometimes creates duplicates. Then, when I send them to the Etrex, it takes the first and rejects the rest as duplicates. You'll have to investigate your own particular GPS/software combination, but there's a starting point for finding the problem. Quote Link to comment
vagabond Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 you can only load 200 caches to a explorists 500 file but you can load as many files as your memory will hold, hopefully on an SD card. Sometimes when loading 200 caches it will drop out a few, when I was using mine I'd load 195 per file then change files an load another 195, I have a 2gig sd card in mine The 200 geocache limit requires a lot of extra effort. If you have too many in your PQ, not all will load. I'm not sure how it decides which ones to exclude, but it is usually ones that you need. If you use GSAK, there are macros that will break a large group of caches into eXplorist friendly files. EDITED: I confused my eXplorist 500 with my Triton 500. The eXplorist died years ago, but I still use the Triton every now and then. The Triton will only load 1000 total points, including regular waypoints, geocaches, and child waypoints. When I was still using mine I'd limit my PQs to 195, the PQs would be for my area in so cal. If I was on a trip I'd do PQs every night Quote Link to comment
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