It would appear the 710/701i/760i is more than a facelift looking at the specs.

[glenn2926]

I'll wager you own a smartphone Glenn- why? was the older one no good or is your new one not faster, with more options etc etc?

You don't need greater accuracy and faster calculations?...- ok- fair enough, understood if perplexed!

It is not something you use but options your satnav can use (which can be enabled/disabled in your Garmin's settings) should yours have
a) the ability to receive other satellite systems and
b) the option to enable them (GPS, Galileo, Glonass) and
c) if you can enable/disable WAAS too.

Resulting in faster calculations and greater accuracy- what's not to like? I do understand that not all Garmin units have these facilities.
Right, I'll get my coat

I got it given as I have all my phones. Usually when a young relative gets a new phone. If I didn’t get them given I would have just kept my original phone. As for is it faster? How can a message or a call be faster or slower come to that?

 

[Berin]

Definitely has CN maps. They’ve changed how the map management is done too. CN shows up as always however their version of OS has its own tab at the top you need to go into.
Next is to try the actual OS as card in them and see what that does.

Does this work the same as the 700i, lifetime CN maps?

Let us know how the OS maps on the SD card work, but it also occurs to me that with the bigger memory, could the OS maps be downloaded to the device instead?

I’ve never found the Garmin topo maps that ship with the devices to be much use, any changes there

 

[Wapping]

This topic and thread has gone well, since it was lifted out of the Garmin rant section. More encouragingly, the device itself now seems to be working well.

 

[Berin]

@PitaNaanRoti was this ever resolved?

My 2 x Montana 700i's crashed several times on our recent trip, in the mount. These units were both replaced a couple of years after the "would not calculate route" error, and the mounts were replaced with new mounts last year in an attempt to solve the crash error.

Taking out the SD card made no difference. Garmin are replacing them with refurb 700i's.

 

[PitaNaanRoti]

@PitaNaanRoti was this ever resolved?

My 2 x Montana 700i's crashed several times on our recent trip, in the mount. These units were both replaced a couple of years after the "would not calculate route" error, and the mounts were replaced with new mounts last year in an attempt to solve the crash error.

Taking out the SD card made no difference. Garmin are replacing them with refurb 700i's.

Yes and no.
They offered my 2x XT2’s but I said no as they are for the enduro bikes and had zero faith in the mechanism holding them on seeing as the release tab is on the side facing oncoming branches! There was talk of a credit on the cost of the 3 cradles towards 2x Touratech locking ones but nothing came of it.
They then swapped them for a 710i and 760i.
Both were working fine for a while until recently when they’ve both started rebooting randomly again. This is with the SD cards in them.
Downloading the boot logs this evening to send directly to the guy at Garmin I’ve been dealing with. I’ll look at moving the OS maps onto the physical device and see if that stops it.
I can categorically state that the replacement 700i’s will not solve it. The reason they sent me new devices is because they’d stopped shipping BNIB 700i’s as the SEVEN previous refurbished ones hadn’t resolved it so the next step was new ones.
Ask to speak to Paul. I’ll try and get his surname for you tomorrow.
As much as I love the ease of them I’m past the end of my tether and seriously looking at the refunds and DMD2 tablets.

 

[Berin]

Yes and no.
They offered my 2x XT2’s but I said no as they are for the enduro bikes and had zero faith in the mechanism holding them on seeing as the release tab is on the side facing oncoming branches! There was talk of a credit on the cost of the 3 cradles towards 2x Touratech locking ones but nothing came of it.
They then swapped them for a 710i and 760i.
Both were working fine for a while until recently when they’ve both started rebooting randomly again. This is with the SD cards in them.
Downloading the boot logs this evening to send directly to the guy at Garmin I’ve been dealing with. I’ll look at moving the OS maps onto the physical device and see if that stops it.
I can categorically state that the replacement 700i’s will not solve it. The reason they sent me new devices is because they’d stopped shipping BNIB 700i’s as the SEVEN previous refurbished ones hadn’t resolved it so the next step was new ones.
Ask to speak to Paul. I’ll try and get his surname for you tomorrow.
As much as I love the ease of them I’m past the end of my tether and seriously looking at the refunds and DMD2 tablets.

Thanks for that. I thought that would be the case. Mine are now quite old, and the only remedy offered was the refurb. I should have asked how a new unit, the same, would solve the problem but I was in a rush to get on with something else, but if you can get me any details of who you dealt with that would be helpful.

BTW, moving the maps onto the device may be hard, I think I tried that and they are locked to the card. None of the unlockers I used to use work on the latest generation of maps, plus you still need space for the CN maps. If succeed please let me know

 

[PitaNaanRoti]

Thanks for that. I thought that would be the case. Mine are now quite old, and the only remedy offered was the refurb. I should have asked how a new unit, the same, would solve the problem but I was in a rush to get on with something else, but if you can get me any details of who you dealt with that would be helpful.

BTW, moving the maps onto the device may be hard, I think I tried that and they are locked to the card. None of the unlockers I used to use work on the latest generation of maps, plus you still need space for the CN maps. If succeed please let me know

810 and 760i have a larger internal memory.
You can move the maps between card/device in Expeess without issue.