Comments on: Garmin Continues Colorado Beta – 2.94 Available

By: b.b.wolf

b.b.wolf — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:27:54 +0000

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.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:44:25 +0000

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

By: 4America

4America — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:19:59 +0000

2.94 tanked my 400t! Waiting for betacolorado to reply… yikes, no gps for the 4th???

By: Gregory

Gregory — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:58:51 +0000

Confirmed. I removed the other map products, and replaced them specifically and I cannot reproduce the crash on WhereTo?->(waypoint)->Go anymore.

By: Gregory

Gregory — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:27:51 +0000

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

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:53:30 +0000

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

By: Gregory

Gregory — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:18:22 +0000

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**