New Garmin Montana

[snooker]

Originally Posted by snooker

When I am currently not navigating, and I click Where To? I cannot select Tracks because it is nowhere on the list. How did I delete that and how do I get it back?

This is while I am on a custom profile I made. On the standard Automobile and Motorcycle profiles the Tracks is still there, but not on my custom one.

Anybody have an answer to this?

[TravellingStrom]

Originally Posted by snooker

Anybody have an answer to this?

Well, I am thinking the profile you used to base your custom profile on is maybe the wrong one?

I would make another profile, base it on Automotive or Bike or even Rec and modify that profile one step at a time. Keep checking as you got to see if the Tracks are available.

I cannot get the error you have, so it must be a fault with something you changed.

Good Luck
TS

[snooker]

Originally Posted by TravellingStrom

Well, I am thinking the profile you used to base your custom profile on is maybe the wrong one?

I would make another profile, base it on Automotive or Bike or even Rec and modify that profile one step at a time. Keep checking as you got to see if the Tracks are available.

I cannot get the error you have, so it must be a fault with something you changed.

Good Luck
TS

This custom profile is my experimental one for sure and I've messed around with it and probably turned off the selection for Tracks (somehow)...

... but this to me means it could happen to me in the field so does anybody know how to add Tracks back as an option (after Where To?) if it got deleted somehow??

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by snooker

This custom profile is my experimental one for sure and I've messed around with it and probably turned off the selection for Tracks (somehow)...

... but this to me means it could happen to me in the field so does anybody know how to add Tracks back as an option (after Where To?) if it got deleted somehow??

I looked but could not find how to add it back, so I would suggest, as TravellingStrom did, that you create a new profile from a known good one, and modify it as you want. But what happens if you make a copy of your custom one? Does it get the Where To/Tracks back?

Have you Reset the device to see if that would do it?

[Emoto]

Originally Posted by shu

I liked the Detour feature on the Nuvi. I used to use it often on dirt roads when Garmin had routed me to a locked gate or a washed out bridge or private road. I'd punch in 'Detour' to see if Garmin could route me on an alternative. Good feature, but it's not on the Montana.

Re: inserting via points into your current route. A nuvi with routing (550 is what I had) would let me keep adding more and more stops but the Montana seems to allow only one insert at a time.

For example, you're following a route, you want to get gas so you:

Where to?> Set via point> location of gas station-

and the Montana will put that into your route. But if you try to add another, say a restaurant, it will drop the gas station via point and only route you to the restaurant.

I just noticed this last week, and haven't had the chance to confirm it but I think that's how the Montana works.

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

I assume, if this is the way it works, that Garmin wants you to use Route Manager to add more than one via point into a route you're currently navigating. Not that this is a good idea, of course, but Garmin does seem to like to add little variations in their gps units so you always have this niggling desire to get yet another gps, in the faint hope it'll answer all your gps prayers.

It's futile, obviously, to think we'll ever be perfectly satisfied. But that doesn't stop us from buying more of their products.

These minor irritations really don't annoy me all that much because the Montana is still the best gps you can get, for now. IMHO, of course.

Thank you both for the clarifications. I will try this out sometime.

I have the bike rigged now to run both the Montana and Zumo 350 simultaneously, side by side, and intend to try to notice and report on differences in how they work and what they do in different situations. Still pretty cold here, so I won't have much of anything for a while.

[Albie]

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

I assume, if this is the way it works, that Garmin wants you to use Route Manager to add more than one via point into a route you're currently navigating. Not that this is a good idea, of course, but Garmin does seem to like to add little variations in their gps units so you always have this niggling desire to get yet another gps, in the faint hope it'll answer all your gps prayers.

It's futile, obviously, to think we'll ever be perfectly satisfied. But that doesn't stop us from buying more of their products.

These minor irritations really don't annoy me all that much because the Montana is still the best gps you can get, for now. IMHO, of course.

While the Montana is better at some things, it's still not as good at others. Unfortunately, Garmin refuses to make a "best" GPS for my needs, so that's why I have 4 of them.

[dvmvm]

Originally Posted by snooker

When I am currently not navigating, and I click Where To? I cannot select Tracks because it is nowhere on the list. How did I delete that and how do I get it back?

This is while I am on a custom profile I made. On the standard Automobile and Motorcycle profiles the Tracks is still there, but not on my custom one.

On the Dutch forum it was found that the profile got corrupted slightly. You might correct it with Wordpad:
a) on the Montana change the current profile to another than the bad profile to allow this the bad profile to be overwritten.
b) connect to a PC, open "Garmin\Profiles\badprofile.gtt" with Wordpad and under the < Findmenu> add the following: "< FmItem > 30 < /FmItem >" excluding quotes and spaces.
c) check that all other Fmitem numbers between 0 and 37 are also present.
d) disconnect from USB, power on the Montana and choose the bad profile again. It should now have the "Tracks" find option re-installed.

It is likely that it got corrupted during firmware update. The exact fail conditions are not known.

[snooker]

Originally Posted by dvmvm

On the Dutch forum it was found that the profile got corrupted slightly. You might correct it with Wordpad:
a) on the Montana change the current profile to another than the bad profile to allow this the bad profile to be overwritten.
b) connect to a PC, open "Garmin\Profiles\badprofile.gtt" with Wordpad and under the < Findmenu> add the following: "< FmItem > 30 < /FmItem >" excluding quotes and spaces.
c) check that all other Fmitem numbers between 0 and 37 are also present.
d) disconnect from USB, power on the Montana and choose the bad profile again. It should now have the "Tracks" find option re-installed.

It is likely that it got corrupted during firmware update. The exact fail conditions are not known.

Corruption sounds like the correct cause, rather than me actually deleting it manually through some goofy menu choice. Thanks for all the details I will try this!

I must say I am honored to be the "cause" of your very first post to ADV ! ?

Welcome to the ADV community, the place that never ceases to amaze me...

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by Albie

Unfortunately, Garmin refuses to make a "best" GPS for my needs, so that's why I have 4 of them.

And we have 8 Garmins in this house. Sounds like Garmin's strategy is translating into sales for them.

[dresda]

Originally Posted by woodsatyr

Me too.

Yep, if you've spent any time at all looking at an area using a MAP then North up is the least confusing way, certainly when zoomed out enough to actually see where you are.

If zoomed way in and following someone else's track that you've downloaded, and you've got 20 guys on bikes following you then track up is better

[Emoto]

Originally Posted by dresda

Yep, if you've spent any time at all looking at an area using a MAP then North up is the least confusing way, certainly when zoomed out enough to actually see where you are.

If zoomed way in and following someone else's track that you've downloaded, and you've got 20 guys on bikes following you then track up is better

Interesting that people feel this way. When I was doing a lot of hiking and backpacking, I always took the time to orient the map (spin it to match the surrounding terrain) which is the equivalent of "track up" because that is how it made sense to me. I would know which direction to go on the ground in order to reach a point on the map...

[Albie]

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

And we have 8 Garmins in this house. Sounds like Garmin's strategy is translating into sales for them.

We're just sheep at the mercy of the corporate formula.

[Albie]

Originally Posted by Emoto

Interesting that people feel this way. When I was doing a lot of hiking and backpacking, I always took the time to orient the map (spin it to match the surrounding terrain) which is the equivalent of "track up" because that is how it made sense to me. I would know which direction to go on the ground in order to reach a point on the map...

Most of my paper map navigation was street and hiway. I never really used one for hiking, we would just hike as far as we wanted to go, then turn around and hike back, same for hunting, never used maps.

Anyway, hard to read street/hiway names on a map if it's turned 90* or upside down.

[mbabc]

The torx screw on my rugged mount has crapped out. I saw the thumb screw mod and took it apart, looked like the clip around the screw had moved up onto the threads so I moved it back down. Didn't fix the problem. I like the torx screw idea so would like to stay with it (if possible). Can't return it as I've re-wired it with an SAE connector.

Guess I'll have to do the finger screw thing. Just venting....

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by mbabc

The torx screw on my rugged mount has crapped out. I saw the thumb screw mod and took it apart, looked like the clip around the screw had moved up onto the threads so I moved it back down. Didn't fix the problem. I like the torx screw idea so would like to stay with it (if possible). Can't return it as I've re-wired it with an SAE connector.

Guess I'll have to do the finger screw thing. Just venting....

You can buy Torx security screws in different sizes in better tool and hardware stores. I was staring at a wall of them just yesterday.

If you can't find any locally, I can send you a couple.


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