New Garmin Montana

[wtiger]

Originally Posted by TowPro

Emmbeedee?

Does he need to reformat the card?

wtiger, do you have maps installed on the extra memory card?

i put the city nav 2013 and a bunch of topos from gpsfiledepot on a 32 gig card. when i put it in the card reader, microsquish indicated errors, and gave an option to fix... i did that, and since then the gps has not frozen up... i am willing to reformat the card if this comes back up... what do you guys think?

[moto-treks]

Originally Posted by Splatman

Below is the mount I made.. Anti vibration mounts ~ $5.00 for 4.. $3.00 in aluminum.. Few dollars for nuts & bolts.. Total ~ $12.00..

Previously on my Garmin V and then my Garmin 276C I always used Touratech mounts.. I needed something very secure for off-road single track riding (Husqvarna WR250).. For me it wasn't about the bling factor and I was ok with the price because they were bought used from Ebay (about $50.00)..

But with the Garmin Montana the AMPS mount was said by others to be very secure.. And was still needed even when used with the Touratech mount (~$200.00).. Since the Montana is relatively new not many used Touratech mounts were being sold on Ebay.. But I wanted some anti-vibration damping to protect the electronics.. So I made a few of these..

Hey, I think this is an early touratech prototype ......

[TravellingStrom]

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

So were you able to sort out your Geocache loading issue? If it's Groundspeak Pocket Queries you're loading, all you need to do is load the query_name.gpx into the \Garmin\gpx folder and the gps just swallows it up whole and shows you the caches.

Yeah, I did do that and for the first time got a message saying I have reached the limit for geocaches?

Not sure whether I need to remove some of the other stuff I have in there, but after this weekend I should get a chance to clean up as there are a lot of waypoint files in that folder

Cheers
TS

I just fired it back up again and never got that message this time, so maybe I won't touch it ;)

[atlas cached]

Originally Posted by TravellingStrom

Yeah, I did do that and for the first time got a message saying I have reached the limit for geocaches?

I just fired it back up again and never got that message this time, so maybe I won't touch it ;)

You will only see it once. If you were indeed over the 12000 geocache limit, the Montana already decided which caches it was going to ignore when it originally indexed them and presented the warning message.

Remove one of your geocache GPX files, reboot the Montana, return the GPX file, and reboot again.

Do you still get the warning?

[Timpo]

When recording a route, ie, making a track with the Montana, the 'Track Log On' icon is hit. Track starts recording and you can see the line travelled on the screen. Then after a while the line becomes broken. When back at my PC, the route has not been fully recorded. There was never a 'Lost Satellite' shout from the unit nor was I under trees, bridges or inner city.
This only seems to have started after the last software update I loaded, v4.10.
The rest of the unit seems to be operatng fine.
Any ideas?

T.

Edit: Just put v4.20 in, but no mention of a fix for this in the brief.

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by wtiger

i put the city nav 2013 and a bunch of topos from gpsfiledepot on a 32 gig card. when i put it in the card reader, microsquish indicated errors, and gave an option to fix... i did that, and since then the gps has not frozen up... i am willing to reformat the card if this comes back up... what do you guys think?

I don't think it's necessary to reformat the card if your disk utility has fixed the errors.

[Spiritwalker2222]

Originally Posted by gregdee

I tried to import a KML file of a route I found that displays fine in Google Earth. I go to Import, then open but then I cannot get the track to appear on any menu or in Base Camp. What am I doing wrong?

Use KMZ instead.

[Jettn Jim]

Originally Posted by Nut Clutch

Jim,

We talked about the Montana a couple weeks ago when Pigpen, Jungle Man, and I ran into you and Parepin at the top of Camp Creek road near Imnaha.

The open street maps that we talked about I learned about on this thread from Emmbeedee. They are available at http://www.osmmaps.com/index.html . These let you see all road detail at a 2 mile zoom on the Montana.

When I first got my Montana at the beginning of June, it crashed on me a few times just while I was playing with it. I updated it to the latest released firmware and the problem went away for the most part. On a 2000 mile trip it might have turned off on me once, and that includes lots of bouncing around.

As for the vibration damping, the mount I modifed for it provides some additional damping, only costs $15 and a bit of time with a drill press. See this post: http://advrider.com/forums/showpost....postcount=3876



Steve Lavigne

Hey Steve... thanx for the info and the links! I'll try to do the latest firmware update tonight and also load that mapping program you showed me.
Thanx again and Peace,
Woooop Wooop
Jim

[rickypanecatyl]

Hey guys - I have a basecamp question I was hoping you could help me with.

I'm in Indonesia right now and have a good Indonesian map on my unit, but I want to see the maps on a laptop I am using. I've downloaded basecamp onto the laptop, have plugged my device into it and can see my device and all my waypoints and tracks.
However I can't view the Indonesian maps on the big laptop screen.

I tried going under the view tab AND in the drop down menu but it just is not listed in either place.

I thought it was going to work when I used my device as a external hard drive. I opened it up, and had 2 folders; documents and Garmin so I clicked on Garmin:






When the folder opens I can see the file - "navigasi.net Indonesia Maps".





Clicking on it to open it I found the default program to open it was something called "Windows Disc image burner". I changed that program to BaseCamp, clicked on it, and it looked like it was going to open after "struggling" for a bit but then I got this message:




and it wouldn't open. The map is working great on my device, I just want to be able to see the map on the big lap top screen to work some routes. Sorry I should have said I'm using my 62s but posted here as this seems to get the most traffic. :)

Any help greatly appreciated!!

[rickypanecatyl]

Atlas huge thanks - it worked!! And also thanks for the tutorial and links Embeedee!

For any other "techno-tards" like me reading this, here it is with pictures.

1. Download the link Atlas links to above - v1.4 is 2.93 megabytes (about 20 minutes download time on Indonesion broadband! )
2. This is the page that comes up when you start the javaWa program:




Mine didn't find my unit until I hit the "scan drives" button in the upper left corner.

From there I just clicked on the manage maps button and the following page came up with the maps on my 62s (I'm sure Montana would be the same):



I clicked on the map that I hadn't been able to see in basecamp before and then just clicked on the visible in basecamp button. The only catch was I had to shut down basecamp first. When I reopened it, it worked no problems!


One more question for you experts: Should my Indonesia map now be visible on all computers with basecamp when my unit is plugged in, or do I need to download javaWa on all the computers I download basecamp on?
(I like to travel light without a computer, and here in SE Asia, ever town has tons of "internet cafe's" where for mega cheap you can rent computer time with BIG screens!)

[atlas cached]

Originally Posted by rickypanecatyl

One more question for you experts: Should my Indonesia map now be visible on all computers with basecamp when my unit is plugged in, or do I need to download javaWa on all the computers I download basecamp on?
(I like to travel light without a computer, and here in SE Asia, ever town has tons of "internet cafe's" where for mega cheap you can rent computer time with BIG screens!)

You should be good to go, the changes were made on your GPS.

Also, no need to download JaVaWa Device Manager on each computer. Just install it to the uSD card on your GPSr and use it with any host PC.

Likewise with BaseCamp. Just copy your BaseCamp program directory to your uSD card, and run from there on any host machine!

I store many additional maps, waypoint files, tracks, routes, GPX files, etc. in a hidden directory on my Montana uSD card, and am able to manage the unit quite nicely running BaseCamp and JaVaWa Device Manager directly from the unit itself on any host machine with a compatible operating system.

Cheers!

[TravellingStrom]

Originally Posted by atlas cached

You will only see it once. If you were indeed over the 12000 geocache limit, the Montana already decided which caches it was going to ignore when it originally indexed them and presented the warning message.

Remove one of your geocache GPX files, reboot the Montana, return the GPX file, and reboot again.

Do you still get the warning?

Thanks, I did a check and it was over 14000 so I just used BC and deleted all the unfound ones, then copied across the ones I want now, no more warnings


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Cheers
TravellingStrom

[gregdee]

Originally Posted by gregdee

I tried to import a KML file of a route I found that displays fine in Google Earth. I go to Import, then open but then I cannot get the track to appear on any menu or in Base Camp. What am I doing wrong?

I keep trying this and get the same result: nothing. Anyone have any insight? The import function acts like it works but I don't see the track on my map and it doesn't show up in any menu that I can see. Help!

[atlas cached]

Originally Posted by gregdee

I tried to import a KML file of a route I found that displays fine in Google Earth. I go to Import, then open but then I cannot get the track to appear on any menu or in Base Camp. What am I doing wrong?

Originally Posted by gregdee

I keep trying this and get the same result: nothing. Anyone have any insight? The import function acts like it works but I don't see the track on my map and it doesn't show up in any menu that I can see. Help!

Try using *.KMZ, not *.KML

[Wreckchecker]

Anybody else seen this?

When hotter than about 90f, my 600 screen will continue to display but become unresponsive to touching the screen. Which is the main input method, of course. The power button still works. Pulling the battery doesn't help. If I put the unit somewhere cool, it will function normally when it cools about to the temperature of an air conditioned room.

When placed in the cradle on the bike, the unit does not start up on the map page when powering up, so it is locked to the "home" page with the icons until cooled down. For our latest trip in the summer heat, this made it a very expensive and useless clock and we could not rely on it for navigation.