So this might be one for the like of Wapping to dissect, and I wish I had taken some pictures of the satnav at the time to be able to bolster the evidence, but on my last 2 trips away the XT has been doing "strange" things.
Long story short, I created all my routes (as always) in MRA, made sure I had a decent amount of waypoints to keep the route on track, then sent it to the XT, checked that the route looked ok and that the mileage matched up and made any changes as required. This approach has mostly worked fine for me over the last 3 years I've owned it. But my last 2 trips away it's been acting odd to say the least. I was running the MRA app on my phone alongside it with the same routes loaded up.
One consistent thing I noticed is that I'd be approaching a junction and I'd just said to my wife "my phone thinks we have 235km left but my XT thinks we have 256km left" and as I got to the junction the MRA app wanted me to turn left for instance, and showed that the next waypoint was maybe 7km away, but the XT wanted me to turn right and at some point come back on myself to head the way that the MRA app wanted me to. Basically the pink line went up to the junction and then in both directions.
Once I ignored it and turned left it then corrected itself, the mileage left dropped and it agreed with the app, but this happened almost every day on every route, multiple times. My wife was insistent I'd placed a waypoint and the XT was wanting me to go that way, but there definitely wasn't. It was also not a dual carriageway/motorway where I'd possibly put the waypoint on the wrong side of the road (which I've stupidly done before).
In some cases the XT wanted me to do some weird turns to eventually just come back out onto the road I should have been on anyway, again, there were no nearby waypoints that would logically explain the behaviour. In some cases reloading the route fixed it, other times it didn't. The XT has never been this inconsistent so I'm struggling to work out if this is user error somehow or not. When viewed on the device the routes all looked fine with no obvious circles or weird routing.
Also, and this is a more a side note, for the first time ever this trip I had to use the "find me a petrol station on my route" feature, twice, and both times when either adding it as next stop, or adding to active route, the Garmin wanted me to go to that waypoint, then backtrack all the way back to what would have been the next waypoint in the list. I guess this could be by design but it feels odd that it wouldn't try to incorporate it into the order of waypoints to avoid this.
Oh and for clarity, on my MRA routes only the start and destination were the "hand" icon's, all others were just via points.
Thanks in advance, and sorry I don't have any clear screenshots or pictures to illustrate
Long story short, I created all my routes (as always) in MRA, made sure I had a decent amount of waypoints to keep the route on track, then sent it to the XT, checked that the route looked ok and that the mileage matched up and made any changes as required. This approach has mostly worked fine for me over the last 3 years I've owned it. But my last 2 trips away it's been acting odd to say the least. I was running the MRA app on my phone alongside it with the same routes loaded up.
One consistent thing I noticed is that I'd be approaching a junction and I'd just said to my wife "my phone thinks we have 235km left but my XT thinks we have 256km left" and as I got to the junction the MRA app wanted me to turn left for instance, and showed that the next waypoint was maybe 7km away, but the XT wanted me to turn right and at some point come back on myself to head the way that the MRA app wanted me to. Basically the pink line went up to the junction and then in both directions.
Once I ignored it and turned left it then corrected itself, the mileage left dropped and it agreed with the app, but this happened almost every day on every route, multiple times. My wife was insistent I'd placed a waypoint and the XT was wanting me to go that way, but there definitely wasn't. It was also not a dual carriageway/motorway where I'd possibly put the waypoint on the wrong side of the road (which I've stupidly done before).
In some cases the XT wanted me to do some weird turns to eventually just come back out onto the road I should have been on anyway, again, there were no nearby waypoints that would logically explain the behaviour. In some cases reloading the route fixed it, other times it didn't. The XT has never been this inconsistent so I'm struggling to work out if this is user error somehow or not. When viewed on the device the routes all looked fine with no obvious circles or weird routing.
Also, and this is a more a side note, for the first time ever this trip I had to use the "find me a petrol station on my route" feature, twice, and both times when either adding it as next stop, or adding to active route, the Garmin wanted me to go to that waypoint, then backtrack all the way back to what would have been the next waypoint in the list. I guess this could be by design but it feels odd that it wouldn't try to incorporate it into the order of waypoints to avoid this.
Oh and for clarity, on my MRA routes only the start and destination were the "hand" icon's, all others were just via points.
Thanks in advance, and sorry I don't have any clear screenshots or pictures to illustrate
