Garmin Oregon x00 Software 3.2 Available
After a brief beta period with new GPS firmware plus a few other small changes and fixes Garmin is rolling up beta 3.15 which includes GPS Software 3.7 into an official release for Oregon 300 and 400 customers. The update is only available via Webupdater. This complete of list of changes for Oregon x00 Software 3.2 includes:
- Added LKS92 map datum
- Added support for GPS firmware 3.70
- Added support for GPI routes
- Improved compass responsiveness
- Fixed potential shutdown related to drawing 32-bit map points
- Fixed potential issues during power on.
The only major difference with respect to beta 3.15 is compass responsiveness. Compass users will notice that the compass rotates much more smoothly than before.
My experience, and that of many others, with GPS Firmware 3.7 has been very positive with the Oregon meeting or exceeding the performance of the 60csx under identical conditions. I’ve noticed similar improvements on the Dakota and Oregon x50 which both received the updated software yesterday. All of this leads me to believe that Garmin may be getting past some of the issues with the Cartesio chipset. Unfortunately WAAS does not seem work any better and the unit still records too much stopped time which also is the source of heading freezes. Maybe in the next release!
Join the discussion around this release on the wiki.
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September 3rd, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Hi!
What is a GPI Route and how can I create one? Whith POILoader it is not possible, so far.
greatings: Martin
September 5th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
the new patch as still problems whit findind poi adress it jam, garmin should also ad scientific calculator insted. a draw mode direcly on map like mapsource options, trak draw tool, route tool, distance tool would be great.compass mode would be cool to have in the fields just one screen and to be able to generate a small map. option also for games , option to change your image of your pointer and pin also.
September 8th, 2009 at 9:01 am
GPI routes seem to be the ability to add “read-only” routes similar to POI’s. I’ve tried doing this using the POI loader and it does not support adding a route if it is included in the input gpx file but maybe the support in the external tool hasn’t caught up yet.
Garmin also mentioned the possibility of 3rd party POI tools supporting this feature but I haven’t seen anything yet.
-Scott
September 10th, 2009 at 9:16 am
When I try to install 3.2 using Webupdater on my Mac, I get the message “The file is corrupted.”
The Mac developer at Garmin must be out for a few days.
September 13th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Today I lost a complete track. Without any notice and without a crash the current track was emptied completely. I haven’t observed this before in any other firmware version.