Didn't realise the Dales were so far away from London
Up in a day, via the scenic route.... back via scenic to York, then the super slab to civilisation..... two days of hooning around, often in in the rain.... just shy of a thousand miles.
Great fun and nice people, too
Sounds like a good trip... will be testing 3.9 a week on Tuesday on a trip to the Alps 
I did 300 miles yesterday after updating to 3.9 and I noticed several missing turn icons (including the A12/A14 junction approaching from Bury St Eds) and my MP3 files vanished 3 times until I switched off and back on again.
I can live with these things until the next update.
Matt
I can live with these things until the next update.
Matt
azone
Guest
Monty: Did you follow the orignal post on this thread when you updated. It does make a difference. I had one guy redo his update and it fixed his issues.
Bear
Registered user
Then you will probably wait forever. I queried how to do something the Garmin website described (I wanted to send Google map points to a Nuvi) and he/she denied that it was possible. Even copying part of Garmin's website into the emails didn't convince him/her.
I, like you, have been in correspondence with Garmin already.
I mailed in news of the three unforced shut-down events yesterday evening, along with the freezing of the screen.
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In a separate mail I also pointed out to Garmin a rather daft feature. On the 660 you can reverse a track, view it and if you want to, save it as a route. A useful tool, some might think. It's only fault is that any wrong tuns you made on the track history will be repeated (in reverse) on the return leg. That I can live with.
You can also reverse a pre-installed route, with multiple via-points, and view it. But you cannot then save it.... which makes the operation futile.
What you have to do is manually reverse each of the via-points, top to bottom, second top to second bottom etc. A time consuming effort,that is prone to user error. Then the 660 will recalculate AND save it.
ie. You have to do something manually, which the device itself can obviously do in seconds.
I uploaded the latest update, returned from 400 mile trip to the west over 2 days no issues with shutting down. I have bought an 8gb memory card now to upload music from Itunes 
DCoplin
Registered user
660 Shutdown Issue
So I experienced the shut down issue today. The interesting thing is that I've been running 3.90 since it came out and never any problems.
Last night I took the plunge and upgraded my maps to the latest version (my unit is a year old and I've been running with the original maps, presumably CN 2009).
I can only assume that this shutdown issue is a feature of 3.9 + CN 2010.
Is it worth me contacting Garmin (do we think they need more evidence of the fault) or shall I just wait in line for 4.0?
Cheers
D
So I experienced the shut down issue today. The interesting thing is that I've been running 3.90 since it came out and never any problems.
Last night I took the plunge and upgraded my maps to the latest version (my unit is a year old and I've been running with the original maps, presumably CN 2009).
I can only assume that this shutdown issue is a feature of 3.9 + CN 2010.
Is it worth me contacting Garmin (do we think they need more evidence of the fault) or shall I just wait in line for 4.0?
Cheers
D
azone
Guest
This shutdown may not ever occur again. One shutdown is not worth going thru contacting Garmin. Now if you have more than one I would definatley contact them
Here is what you need to do to clean up your 660 after you updated. This works in most cases and fixes almost all issues. Let me also mention that the newest mapset just came out today (July 28) so you may want to update again if you have the NuMpas lifetime. The previous mapset was 2011.1 the new one today is 2011.2. With NuMaps you get 4 a year so I recommend updating and then do a master reset after you update again to the latest mapset
To do a master reset (After you update your map again. If not updating again follow these steps)
1. With power off use a pencil eraser and continually touch the bottom right corner of the screen
2. Momentarily push the power button while still holding the screen
3. Wait till you get a message do you want to update. It will tell you that you will lose ONLYYOUR user settings. Let go of screen and accept.
4. Now once your unit refresh's and reboots simply set your settings back to what you had
You will now have a fresh Zumo with the latest map and your PC will also be updated.
More instructions with pictures here:
http://www.zumoforums.com/index.php?topic=12305.msg95535#msg95535
Here is what you need to do to clean up your 660 after you updated. This works in most cases and fixes almost all issues. Let me also mention that the newest mapset just came out today (July 28) so you may want to update again if you have the NuMpas lifetime. The previous mapset was 2011.1 the new one today is 2011.2. With NuMaps you get 4 a year so I recommend updating and then do a master reset after you update again to the latest mapset
To do a master reset (After you update your map again. If not updating again follow these steps)
1. With power off use a pencil eraser and continually touch the bottom right corner of the screen
2. Momentarily push the power button while still holding the screen
3. Wait till you get a message do you want to update. It will tell you that you will lose ONLYYOUR user settings. Let go of screen and accept.
4. Now once your unit refresh's and reboots simply set your settings back to what you had
You will now have a fresh Zumo with the latest map and your PC will also be updated.
More instructions with pictures here:
http://www.zumoforums.com/index.php?topic=12305.msg95535#msg95535
I experienced repeated shutdowns last night, after loading waypoints in the San Francisco Bay Area into my NavIV running 3.90 with City Navigator USA on a micro sd card. As soon as I pressed Back the unit would shut down unless I first edited the waypoint.
azone
Guest
Folow the Master Rest procedure above. This is what Garmin will have you do so save the call and do this first. Let us know if it fixes your problem
Thanks but since I spent ages adding the waypoints into my Favourites, I'll live with it. Doing a hard reset would remove those and all my other data. I've already done one hard reset in the unit's life and much to my surprise it did cure the unit's flakey Bluetooth performance.
Having said that, I guess I could just back up the Favourites into Mapsource first. Hmmm.....
I'm having bluetooth audio problems as well with 3.9, I'm thinking of the hard reset route as well. I'm glad I won this Z660 in a raffle! I just wish they still supported the 2610? I really miss that reliability ( and I still have it and carry it as back up 
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)azone
Guest
Having said that, I guess I could just back up the Favourites into Mapsource first. Hmmm.....
Yes , send your routes and favorites/waypoints to Mapsource and save them. You should do this anyway because if your unit ever freezes or acts up and you HAVE TO do a master reset you will at that point have the waypoints saved in Mapsourse so you can install them again on your Zumo
Like you said , the last Master Reset fixed a blutooth issue and what I am saying is it fixes MOST issues. Kind of like rebooting your computer when it acts up.
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Well that wasn't terribly successful. For some reason my carefully created waypoints in the San Francisco Bay Area on the Zumo are now carefully created Waypoints in Kansas City in Mapsource.
Datum in both Mapsource and on the Zumo is set to WGS 84.
Datum in both Mapsource and on the Zumo is set to WGS 84.
azone
Guest
schtum: Can you attach the Mapsource file here and I will take a look at it on my Z 665
I could but I was being a dork. I've got manflu and I'm not thinking very clearly here. Of course, the waypoints were the ones around Garmin HQ and I hadn't downloaded any of my new ones at all because the unit was trying to receive data from the micro sd card. When I changed that to the unit itself, where waypoints and routes are stored, it downloaded the new ones fine.
