Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hide Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Has anyone ever been able to transfer a track from one 66S to another? I can send waypoints and a short route, but neither 66 gets any farther than this in the track transfer process. Both units have the exact same firmware. Quote Link to comment
+Atlas Cached Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Which firmware version are they running? Quote Link to comment
Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hide Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 2 hours ago, Atlas Cached said: Which firmware version are they running? Both 6.00 Quote Link to comment
Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hide Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 Strangely enough, I am able to send and receive tracks through wireless transfer with a Montana as the other device in the pair, but not between two 66S units. Quote Link to comment
+Atlas Cached Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 (edited) Interesting. I was testing with a GPSMAP 66st, GPSMAP 66sr, and GPSMAP 65s, and was having no success at all. Unfortunately, this is typical for Garmin 'Share Wirelessly' capable devices going all the way back to the Colorado. These features just have never worked reliably, if at all, and it is all too common to experience results like yours where the transfer will work with one unit but not another.... Please use the contact information found at GPSrChive> GPSMAP 66 > Troubleshooting to report this issue and stay on them to resolve it. I can not tell you how many emails I have exchanged with them over the years for similar issues, to which they usually like to respond 'we can not duplicate this (in our perfect laboratory test environment)'... Edited December 9, 2020 by Atlas Cached Quote Link to comment
Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hide Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 Well the fact that I can transfer between the Montana and the 66S successfully should probably be a big clue to them. I emailed product.support already, after spending 20 minutes on chat. Quote Link to comment
+Mineral2 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hide said: Well the fact that I can transfer between the Montana and the 66S successfully should probably be a big clue to them. I emailed product.support already, after spending 20 minutes on chat. Which Montana do you have? The older 6x0 units don't have bluetooth and transfer all data to other units over ant+ The 66 series does have bluetooth transfer capabilities. So if transfer between each of your 66s units and your Montana (6x0) is successful in both directions, it may be that the 66s bluetooth isn't functioning correctly. 1 Quote Link to comment
Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hide Posted December 10, 2020 Author Share Posted December 10, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, Mineral2 said: Which Montana do you have? The older 6x0 units don't have bluetooth and transfer all data to other units over ant+ The 66 series does have bluetooth transfer capabilities. So if transfer between each of your 66s units and your Montana (6x0) is successful in both directions, it may be that the 66s bluetooth isn't functioning correctly. The Wireless transfer between the Montana and the 66 is ANT+. My Montana is a 650. I turned off Bt and WiFi on both 66 units and they still connected, but the track transfer stayed at 0% for the 5 minutes I left it on. They remained connected the whole time, but no transfer happened. Edited December 10, 2020 by Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hide Quote Link to comment
Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hide Posted December 10, 2020 Author Share Posted December 10, 2020 I ran another test - turned off Bt and WiFi again on both 66 devices, and was able to share a short route wirelessly between the two. Tracks are still a problem, though. Quote Link to comment
+Atlas Cached Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Just for fun: If you send the track from GPSMAP 66s #1 to the Montana 650, can you then send the same track from the Montana 650 to GPSMAP 66s #2? Quote Link to comment
Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hide Posted December 10, 2020 Author Share Posted December 10, 2020 20 minutes ago, Atlas Cached said: Just for fun: If you send the track from GPSMAP 66s #1 to the Montana 650, can you then send the same track from the Montana 650 to GPSMAP 66s #2? Yes. It's only from one 66 to another that there's a problem. Quote Link to comment
+Mineral2 Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 Is the problem in both directions with the two 66s? Quote Link to comment
Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hide Posted December 10, 2020 Author Share Posted December 10, 2020 5 hours ago, Mineral2 said: Is the problem in both directions with the two 66s? Yes. Quote Link to comment
Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hide Posted December 11, 2020 Author Share Posted December 11, 2020 Well that is totally bizarre. I didn't use the 66s all day and this evening I decided to run more tests and fired both up, switched them to demo mode, and went to Send Wirelessly. I was able to send a waypoint, then a route, and then a track! I have no idea what changed as I didn't do anything to the settings from when I was not able to send tracks yesterday. I sent a couple more tracks successfully after that. So I have no idea why it didn't work before, and what changed and allowed it to work now. I sure hope we won't be plagued with weird behaviour on this model. Quote Link to comment
+Atlas Cached Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 7 minutes ago, Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hide said: Well that is totally bizarre. I sure hope we won't be plagued with weird behavior on this model. It wouldn't be a Garmin if it wasn't... Quote Link to comment
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