+2202 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Just purchased a Etrex 20X and have successfully installed a 32gig micro SD card. Going on a road trip through Norway and Sweden and wish to load as many caches onto the Garmin so that I do not have to take along my laptop as well. I have created a folder on the SD card that is called GPX where I have dumped 10 GPX pocket Queries of 1000 caches each. I have located the GPX folder in the Garmin and have successfully transferred my local UK (Oxford) 1000 cache GPX file. I have also put a London centric GPX file onto the SD card. So all working well around Oxford. But when I came into London this morning and well outside the Oxford based coverage, the Garmin was still looking back to the Oxford ones. I was led to understand from earlier forum posting (2014?) that it should automatically shift to using the local file that is stored on the SD card. This obviously failed to happen. Therefore does anyone know how I can tell the Etrex to work off a different GPX file when I move into a different area without having to plug it into a laptop and manually move the GPX files around? Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 (edited) One of the eTrex 20x limits is: 5000 Geocaches (which appr. equals 5 PQs) Geocaches beyond this limit will not be rendered by the unit (vulgo: will not be shown). Garmin Unit Limits (click here) Hans Edited June 4, 2018 by HHL Quote Link to comment
+2202 Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 Aware of that limit hence why I kept the GPX files to 1000 each. I have one located in the internal memory, and the rest all held on the micro SD. Whats the point of having a 32gig card capacity. I was hoping that I could load in the individual GPX files when I wanted to whilst out caching and not have to go back to a laptop and move the files around. Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 (edited) Well 10 PQs of 1000 caches (like you mentioned above) are 10.000 caches. That's way beyond the limit of 5000. The Garmin firmware does count all GPX files (the ones from the unit and the ones from the µSD card as well). You can't "park" Gpx files on the card (at least not when the card is mounted in the unit). Hans Edited June 4, 2018 by HHL Quote Link to comment
+2202 Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 So, if I restrict the number parked to 4000 caches on the SD card and left one gpx file of 1000caches on the local internal memory, then it should work? Quote Link to comment
+2202 Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 Garmin have possibly come up with a solution as well, just waiting for it to come through, will let you know what they say. Quote Link to comment
+2202 Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 What do you think, makes sense? Tony First, please copy and paste the GPX folder from the device onto your computer, so you don't lose it permanently. Secondly, please follow the below; I suggest that you format the device. ‘NOTE THIS IS FOR OUTDOOR AND FITNESS DEVICES ONLY’ THIS MUST ONLY BE PERFORMED ON A WINDOWS COMPUTER, NOT ON A MAC. Before formatting the device, it will be necessary to remove any SD cards and save the basemap from the device to the computer: Remove microSD card from device Plug device into the computer Go to the Start menu in the left hand corner Go to Computer or This PC Locate your device under Devices with removable storage or Devices and Drives Open the device Open Garmin folder Drag gmapbmap.img file to desktop Once the basemap has been saved, the device can be formatted: Right-click on device as it appears as a drive Select Format... Ensure File System is set to FAT32 Ensure Volume Label is set to Garmin Uncheck Quick Format Select Start The formatting process will take several minutes to complete. Once it has finished, the basemap will need to be added back to the device: If needed, create "Garmin" folder within Garmin drive Drag gmapbmap.img file from desktop to "Garmin" folder Remove device from the computer and power off Press and hold Mode and Power This process will remove any corrupt memory files. And then the SD card: Formatting a microSD/SD Card After this, please try loading the geocaches again. Quote Link to comment
+StefandD Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 (edited) 49 minutes ago, 2202 said: I have created a folder on the SD card that is called GPX where I have dumped 10 GPX pocket Queries of 1000 caches each. This should be \Garmin\GPX\. 35 minutes ago, 2202 said: Whats the point of having a 32gig card capacity. You can put in more maps than what the internal memory can handle, though you have more than enough if you'd put in a 16 GB card. Even the number of map tiles has a limit. Edited June 4, 2018 by StefandD typo Quote Link to comment
+2202 Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 Just had a 32gig one going spare Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 33 minutes ago, 2202 said: What do you think, makes sense? None - that's all nuts what Garmin is telling you as it really doesn't enhance the still valid limit of 5000 geocaches. Caches from 5001 on are not shown. (first serve first) Hans Quote Link to comment
+2202 Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 Hans Whether it works or not, I am not going to trust it so close to going away.. I will do a further trial this evening when I get back from work by putting my London 1000 in with my Oxford 1000 and see what happens when I view it in London. If that works, I will restrict the road trip to just 5000, and dump them all into the onboard memory. Tony Quote Link to comment
+HHL Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 3 minutes ago, 2202 said: Hans Whether it works or not, I am not going to trust it so close to going away.. [...] Tony Well done. That way you'll be definitely on the safe side. Happy Traveling Hans Quote Link to comment
+2202 Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 Cheers. Although what I am after could so easily be a software upgrade whereby you could switch across gpx files. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 On 6/4/2018 at 5:33 PM, 2202 said: Cheers. Although what I am after could so easily be a software upgrade whereby you could switch across gpx files. That would be a useful feature. On a Garmin Oregon one can load multiple basemaps onto the external SD card (or internal memory) and enable/disable any of them in the Settings menu. I would, however, hesitate to declare that it would be an easy upgrade without seeing their code. Quote Link to comment
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