I recently acquired one of these at a reasonable price to supplement my trusty Garmin Montana.
Used it a few times for both road and off-road rides and so far the positives have been it's got a fabulous screen with lots of detail (good for my aging eyesight!), the buttons are easy to use once you get the hang of it, loads of features and reasonably easy to find your way around the menus, good directions for routes and easy to see tracks you're following, and the accuracy and speed of finding your location is excellent.
So overall very happy apart from one problem which is causing much angst - the bloody thing has a habit of completely freezing up every now and then and no amount of button pushing will get it to unfreeze. The only cure is to take it out of the cradle and remove the battery to reset it
I've tried using both official Garmin maps I have purchased (e.g. 1:50K O/S) and also maps which I've downloaded or been given (e.g. OpenStreetMap) and it happens with both so I don't think it's the map causing the issue. I have also got the latest software installed.
Just wondered if anyone else has one of these and has had similar issues which they have cured?
Thanks in advance!
Used it a few times for both road and off-road rides and so far the positives have been it's got a fabulous screen with lots of detail (good for my aging eyesight!), the buttons are easy to use once you get the hang of it, loads of features and reasonably easy to find your way around the menus, good directions for routes and easy to see tracks you're following, and the accuracy and speed of finding your location is excellent.
So overall very happy apart from one problem which is causing much angst - the bloody thing has a habit of completely freezing up every now and then and no amount of button pushing will get it to unfreeze. The only cure is to take it out of the cradle and remove the battery to reset it
I've tried using both official Garmin maps I have purchased (e.g. 1:50K O/S) and also maps which I've downloaded or been given (e.g. OpenStreetMap) and it happens with both so I don't think it's the map causing the issue. I have also got the latest software installed.
Just wondered if anyone else has one of these and has had similar issues which they have cured?
Thanks in advance!
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