+EraSeek Posted March 9, 2003 Posted March 9, 2003 I just did the Garmin 'Upgrade of a Thousand Waypoints'. I was a bit hesitant about doing it as how it basically a system reset. Here's how it went. -I did have to re-aquire the satellites and their almanacs, which took about ten minutes. -It did wipe out all of my waypoints, but I had expected this and saved them with EasyGPS to reinstall later. -Suprisingly, it did not wipe out my Metroguide map set. The maps were still there. -It reset all my data fields, and many of my basic settings, so I had to go through and redo those. -I had to reset my time zone from central to pacific time. -The trickiest part was re-initializing my WAAS. I found an open skyview, and selected 'Enable'. At first I thought it was toast because I saw nothing happening. When I first got my unit (Map76) and initialized WAAS, it popped right up within a few minutes. This time I saw nothing. Then I noticed that the last couple of Sat bars were slowly cycling through the '30's'. Every couple of minutes it would dump one number and try another. A very slow process! But at least I had finally realized that it was working after intially freaking out and thinking there was a bug. It took about a good 15 minutes. It first found #47 and the slowly went back and found #35. -Thus after about 60 mins of tinkering, reseting, initializing, and uploading my waypoints again all seems to be functioning again as it should, and I'm a happy camper once again. I'm posting this for those who were wondering about this rather big update. My advise is patience. The reaquisition takes a bit of time. Quote
+EraSeek Posted March 9, 2003 Author Posted March 9, 2003 This one was for the Garmin Map76, but the same upgrade (to 1000 waypoints, along with the reset) is out there for other units too. The Vista, the Legend, 76S , but not for the Garmin V yet. [This message was edited by EraSeek on March 09, 2003 at 10:24 PM.] Quote
+NimravusHSSR Posted March 9, 2003 Posted March 9, 2003 I did this upgrade too and it took about 30 minutes to get everything back to normal. about 10-15 minutes for satellites to come back, and another 10 minutes or so to get my settings the way I like them. Overall a good upgrade. http://www.candlepowerforums.com Quote
+apersson850 Posted March 9, 2003 Posted March 9, 2003 That the maps remain isn't surprising. They and the basemap are in another chip in the unit, compared to the firmware and user data. Anders Quote
+arrowroot Posted March 10, 2003 Posted March 10, 2003 What probably made it surprising is that the Garmin instructions say you'll lose everything, including the built-in points-of-interest database (for which they include a download too). I am Arrowroot, son of Arrowshirt. I have many names, you know Quote
Growley Posted March 10, 2003 Posted March 10, 2003 I did the upgrade a couple of weeks ago and lost everything except the maps however, I had saved everything and was prepared. However, since doing the upgrade on my 76S it has now locked up twice since the upgrade; something it never did before. Garmin said to reinstall the upgrade due a glitch during the first upgrade however, one lockup happened before and one lockup happened after I reinstalled the software. I have a question, is there any way to find out if you actually have a 1000 waypoints without loading that many? Quote
+apersson850 Posted March 10, 2003 Posted March 10, 2003 They state that it will clear alamanac information, tracks, waypoints, routes, and settings. No maps and no points of interest mentioned there. To check that you have more room, you can inspect the memory gauge at the set-up/system page. It will show less percent of memory used for the same amount of waypoints, if you have the 1000 waypoints upgrade. But don't worry, I've more than 500 in my Vista now, so it does work. Anders Quote
+Rygel Posted March 10, 2003 Posted March 10, 2003 Does this upgrade work on the Venture? Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine. Quote
+EraSeek Posted March 10, 2003 Author Posted March 10, 2003 Yes I noticed the memory bar lower. I do'nt think the Venture has the 1000 waypoint upgrade, but it does have some WAAS upgrade. Says something about wiping out data. Quote
+apersson850 Posted March 10, 2003 Posted March 10, 2003 In the eTrex series, only the Legend and the Vista can take 1000 waypoints. I think the others have too small firmware and user data memory for this. Anders Quote
+Renegade Knight Posted March 10, 2003 Posted March 10, 2003 In another thread on this the GPS V was reported as not in line for the 1000 waypoints. Wherever you go there you are. Quote
+EraSeek Posted March 10, 2003 Author Posted March 10, 2003 Another thing it did was to reset my trip computer overall odometer back to zero. I had been leaving run since I first bought the unit. I should have writen down how many miles I had logged with it. Oh well. I went caching all day with it, no lock-ups or problems. WAAS was locking in well today. Quote
Movinfr8 Posted March 11, 2003 Posted March 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by EraSeek:Another thing it did was to reset my trip computer overall odometer back to zero. I had been leaving run since I first bought the unit. I should have writen down how many miles I had logged with it. Oh well. http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/4497_300.jpg Ditto here!! I did not think about this, or I would have waited, I had 17,000 miles, but the unusual thing was my top speed was 945 mph. Now what are the chances of me getting that to happen again? Norm Quote
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