Garmin Continues Colorado Beta – 2.94 Available
Update: This beta seems to fix the crash on startup after powering down with an active autoroute.
It looks like beta 2.92 was not just a one-off – Garmin is continuing to migrate select features to the 18-month old Colorado. The 2.94 Colorado beta picks up the oft requested waypoint averaging tool available on the Oregon, “any-name” map (.img) file support and the ability to select individual points from a cluster of points on the map page.
Garmin’s release notes for the 2.94 beta:
- Added Waypoint Averaging application.
- Added ability to load maps from any img file in the Garmin directory
- Added ability to see a list of points from the map when several points are at the same location
- Fixed hunting waypoint symbols not transferring properly
For more information on the waypoint averaging feature visit Garmin’s Trail Tech site. The Waypoint Averaging tool can be found under the Others menu.
To use the map point selector move the cursor to a location on the map page and press enter. Navigate to Options>View More Points to select from a list of points at that location on the map.
“Any-name” map file support removes the limitation around having to name map files (.img files) with predetermined names like “gmapsupp.img”. With this update any map file, as long as it has a .img suffix, will work on the Colorado.
I’ve installed the new release and quickly verified that it doesn’t have the same shutdown issues as the Oregon 2.99 beta software. Join the discussion over at the Colorado wiki or follow our Twitter account for more updates, and, as always, let us know how this update is working on your Colorado!
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June 30th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Updated to 2.94, and I like the waypoint averaging function.
One thing new has appeared for me – and I haven’t figured out what’s doing it yet. Found out I had an old .IMG file on my SD card and the GPS doesn’t like one of the maps on there — selecting a Waypoint, then GO or clicking on certain map features crashes my GPS to white screen. A couple times the next boot and the GPS didn’t load ANY maps off the SD Card.
My suspicion is that it doesn’t like the GPS Quebec Ontario Topo maps on there, or the old Canada Topo v2 maps (perhaps a conflict with Canada Topo v4?). Unit seems OK since I disabled the other .IMG file but, let’s just say I’m a bit wary of 2.94 right now…. if the crash-on-selecting-goto keeps up, I’m heading back to 2.92 as I can control power-offs and would prefer to keep the WhereTo?->Waypoint->GO functionality on my Colorado 400t
**Suspecting it’s a specific map it doesn’t like though**
July 1st, 2009 at 5:53 am
Gregory, there used to be a problem (and it might still be there) with the Oregon where if you loaded the same maps on SD card and from internal memory you would get a crash. Could that be your problem?
-Scott
July 1st, 2009 at 10:27 am
Yes that could be the problem for sure. The file it loaded contained my ‘old’ set of maps which could have a duplicate in there. Will definately have to check that
July 1st, 2009 at 1:58 pm
Confirmed. I removed the other map products, and replaced them specifically and I cannot reproduce the crash on WhereTo?->(waypoint)->Go anymore.
July 2nd, 2009 at 10:19 am
2.94 tanked my 400t! Waiting for betacolorado to reply… yikes, no gps for the 4th???
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I was able to confirm the other reported symptom with the 2.94 update that if you search for an address – it hangs and the power fades away. For me, it will restart OK and if I search for the same address that is now in the recent finds category, it will do that fine. Just won’t find the address directly.
Scott
July 6th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
I have two issues with the Colorado 2.94 beta
1. My unit will sometimes shut itself off after start up after all maps are loaded. Holding down the power button until the system reaches the satellite page will prevent this.
2. Often, geocaches loaded using garmin communicator including v2.73, will download to the unit, but not be visible to the operating system. Downloading the file again will confirm the files presence.