Oregon 700 Shutting Off

[+GrateBear]

I’ve had this GPSr for a few weeks, and at least 4 times it has turned off by itself. The batteries still had  plenty of charge left. The time it has been on has been from less than 30 minutes to a couple of hours. I asked Garmin, and they had no answer.  Has anyone else had this issue?

[+Mineral2]

The Oregon 600 does this from time to time (more often than I'd like, actually). I've not come to any conclusive cause, but we think it's due to bad characters in some of the files (geocache descriptions, for example).

[+Atlas Cached]

What firmware version is loaded to your Oregon 7x0?

[+kunarion]

13 hours ago, GrateBear said:

I’ve had this GPSr for a few weeks, and at least 4 times it has turned off by itself. The batteries still had  plenty of charge left. The time it has been on has been from less than 30 minutes to a couple of hours. I asked Garmin, and they had no answer.  Has anyone else had this issue?

 

I've heard of this happening with some third-party maps.  My 550 would crash when one particular cache description was opened.  My 650 would sometimes shut off until I eventually got decent software.  I haven't had that issue on the 750.

 

But any of them would crash when the batteries got weak.  Even if I know for sure it can't be batteries, that's my first plan, change batteries.  Sometimes, that's all it takes.

[+GrateBear]

4 hours ago, Atlas Cached said:

What firmware version is loaded to your Oregon 7x0?

It's the latest update.  Garmin asked that, also.  I did double check to make sure it was, and that there has not been a more recent release.

[+GrateBear]

3 hours ago, kunarion said:

 

I've heard of this happening with some third-party maps.  My 550 would crash when one particular cache description was opened.  My 650 would sometimes shut off until I eventually got decent software.  I haven't had that issue on the 750.

 

But any of them would crash when the batteries got weak.  Even if I know for sure it can't be batteries, that's my first plan, change batteries.  Sometimes, that's all it takes.

I have a Garmin map in it and the battery icon has always had 2 of the 3 bars showing.  And those are the Garmin battery pack.  Garmin did say I could send it back for a refurbished unit, but if I do, will wait until the warranty is almost finished.