Although I’ve never completely understood the benefit of using WAAS in an outdoor handheld GPS there has been quite a bit of stir on the Oregon wiki about poor WAAS/EGNOS performance. We posted about the problems with WAAS when we first tested the Oregon 400 almost two years ago and reiterated the same concern on [...]
Just a few days after releasing beta 2.96 Garmin has quickly released 2.97 to address two significant issues reported by users here on GPSFix:
Fixed lockup when a search returns no results
Fixed map stopped drawing while autorouting
I’ve already loaded the beta and it does resolve the autorouting issues I was seeing. The POI search hang seems [...]
The last four days have been trying times for some Oregon users. Around the time Garmin released Oregon beta 2.95 users started reporting intermittent but serious GPS reception issues. Initially it looked like it might be just another issue with a new beta drop but it remains unclear whether this is a generic issue affecting [...]
Like many other Oregon users I’ve been putting the beta 2.93 software through its paces since it was released a little over a week ago. The biggest change in 2.93 according to Garmin’s release notes is an improvement in GPS performance. After running a number of tests, several head-to-head against the Garmin 60csx, I would [...]
After being without my Oregon for almost four weeks I finally received my unit back from Garmin and was anxious to try the 2.86 beta software. My goal was to see if I could reproduce the GPS accuracy problems that have been reported with this latest code from Garmin. On the first attempt over my [...]
As luck would have it, within hours of posting a recommendation to upgrade to version 2.8 the issues with this new Oregon firmware have started coming in from left and right. Bottom line, if you haven’t upgraded to 2.7 or 2.8 I would recommend holding off for now until these issues are resolved.
Here’s a [...]
After releasing firmware 2.7 which contained several minor bugs Garmin has issued a clean up release for the Oregon with the following fixes:
Fixed 3D view not displaying
Fixed shaded relief being set to ‘Do Not Show’
Added setting to change land cover text size
I’ve downloaded the update, verified that the first two items are fixed and that [...]
