Two completely different observations in the last couple of days.
1) My battery has never held its charge for very long, and has been a big disappointment. 10 mins of hand held work, and it would say that the battery was low. I got fed up and started looking for a new one on line, and I came across this brilliant snippet. The issue seems to have been not that it went flat quickly, but that it never really charged the battery properly - even though the display said that it was full. It seems that the pins in the batter connector are not connecting properly with the Zumo. Early days, but it is behaving itself much better than before after doing a bit of work as described in the link above.
2) I contacted Zumo about the need to press the Skip button - which is now an illegal activity when riding, and the issue related to ignoring the all of the points between where you are now and where you select as your next destination. The first, they couldn't help with as to whether or not a future upgrade was in the pipeline. The second, I got the stock 'do a factory reset on your machine'. I didn't believe this as a possible answer - and still don't - but nevertheless, I deliberately added extra shaping points to my morning's route. I selected the end point as the 'next destination' and it didn't calculate its own route to the end point. It tried to take me to the couple of off-route shaping points. I have never seen it do this before.
A couple of possibilities. A while back I upgraded the maps, and even further back I upgraded the software to 3.30. But I never did a system reset after these upgrades. I'm not aware that this is a necessity though.
I designed this route on the satnav itself, and set the intermediate points to be shaping points when I edited the route in Trip Planner. Previously I had transferred routes from Basecamp and made sure that shaping points and via points show up correctly.
So either as a result of upgrade, reset, or a different method of creating the route - the behaviour when setting off appears to be different from what I observed many times before. What is also different was that I was already on the route when I restarted the route. Whatever, my guide with reference to this situation is now out of date, or is now wrong, or doesn't cover all situations.
1) My battery has never held its charge for very long, and has been a big disappointment. 10 mins of hand held work, and it would say that the battery was low. I got fed up and started looking for a new one on line, and I came across this brilliant snippet. The issue seems to have been not that it went flat quickly, but that it never really charged the battery properly - even though the display said that it was full. It seems that the pins in the batter connector are not connecting properly with the Zumo. Early days, but it is behaving itself much better than before after doing a bit of work as described in the link above.
2) I contacted Zumo about the need to press the Skip button - which is now an illegal activity when riding, and the issue related to ignoring the all of the points between where you are now and where you select as your next destination. The first, they couldn't help with as to whether or not a future upgrade was in the pipeline. The second, I got the stock 'do a factory reset on your machine'. I didn't believe this as a possible answer - and still don't - but nevertheless, I deliberately added extra shaping points to my morning's route. I selected the end point as the 'next destination' and it didn't calculate its own route to the end point. It tried to take me to the couple of off-route shaping points. I have never seen it do this before.
A couple of possibilities. A while back I upgraded the maps, and even further back I upgraded the software to 3.30. But I never did a system reset after these upgrades. I'm not aware that this is a necessity though.
I designed this route on the satnav itself, and set the intermediate points to be shaping points when I edited the route in Trip Planner. Previously I had transferred routes from Basecamp and made sure that shaping points and via points show up correctly.
So either as a result of upgrade, reset, or a different method of creating the route - the behaviour when setting off appears to be different from what I observed many times before. What is also different was that I was already on the route when I restarted the route. Whatever, my guide with reference to this situation is now out of date, or is now wrong, or doesn't cover all situations.