New Garmin Montana

[guavadude]

If you touch the screen and pause before swiping, the screen will move and a pin will not drop.
If you touch short and quick, a pin drops.
That's about the best I've found and agree, I wish I could bypass it somehow.

[Emoto]

Originally Posted by guavadude

If you touch the screen and pause before swiping, the screen will move and a pin will not drop.
If you touch short and quick, a pin drops.
That's about the best I've found and agree, I wish I could bypass it somehow.

Wow. Very useful to know.

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by guavadude

If you touch the screen and pause before swiping, the screen will move and a pin will not drop.
If you touch short and quick, a pin drops.
That's about the best I've found and agree, I wish I could bypass it somehow.

That's what I would have suggested as well. It's possible to do a lot of screen scrolling and not drop pins as long as you use your technique.

There isn't anything in the software to prevent dropping pins.

[guavadude]

When I first started using the Montana the pin drops really bothered my, now I ignore them.
They are also useful when you want to see the name of a road but don't want to have to zoom in.
I do wish the little arrow to hide the dashboard was a bigger. I have a hell of a time getting that to work with gloves.

[snooker]

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

That's what I would have suggested as well. It's possible to do a lot of screen scrolling and not drop pins as long as you use your technique.

There isn't anything in the software to prevent dropping pins.

ok thanks.

I knew that from experimentation and have been trying to re-train myself to do the "long touch" first.. i.e. pause before swiping... it is what it is and it's not an iPad as far as screen touch goes. Just have to remember what device I'm actually using at the moment!

Thanks!

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by guavadude

When I first started using the Montana the pin drops really bothered my, now I ignore them.
They are also useful when you want to see the name of a road but don't want to have to zoom in.
I do wish the little arrow to hide the dashboard was a bigger. I have a hell of a time getting that to work with gloves.

+1

There are times where you want the pushpin - you can leave it on the screen and drag the map around under the pin, and it tells you what that location represents.

[dbye]

I was experimenting with this same issue and found the pause technique works. The pin can be annoying.

[Rocky TFS]

Originally Posted by guavadude

If you touch the screen and pause before swiping, the screen will move and a pin will not drop.
If you touch short and quick, a pin drops.

Well, I guess you get to learn something new every day!

I've had it since last May and never knew that! Sometimes the pin would show up, sometimes not, I could not figure out why.

Thanks Dude!

So I thought I'd do some experimenting with the zoom buttons, with which I end up getting a pin instead of a zoom about 2/3rds of the time; one of the most annoying things about the unit, since that's the control I use the most. It appears that the zoom buttons have a similar reaction to how they are touched. If you stab at them you are very likely to get a pin, much more so when riding, because your hand is bouncing somewhat and the stab is not real accurate. The following is for vertical orientation, the only one I use on a bike.

If, however, you place the tip of your finger on the edge of the frame and roll it to the left onto the button and wait until the zoom changes, you are much more likely to get a zoom instead of a pin. You may go two levels until you train your finger, but this is still way better than the damn pin.

Trying this with gloves on, when using my right index finger it seemed to work OK, but with the left, which those of us without cruise control must use, it didn't work at all, until I hit on the bright idea of pointing my left index finger as if it was a pistol, meaning the fingernail was vertical, and getting the area of the glove finger tip right over the nail to contact the screen button while the tip of the finger was still on the frame edge.
My success rate went from about 10% to 80%!!!! Maybe I'll have to grow my left index nail long!

Now I doubt that this will work with heavy winter gloves, the tip area is just too large. For a while I used DRTBK's method by gluing the little plastic bumpers to the glove fingertip, but they kept falling off and didn't seem to improve matters all that much. I may try them again with this approach, now that I know just how sensitive the screen is to different types of touches.

I'm still hoping that the Beta team will enlalrge these buttons as that's the only sure fix.

[AlaskaDave]

Originally Posted by Rocky TFS

Well, I guess you get to learn something new every day!

So I thought I'd do some experimenting with the zoom buttons, with which I end up getting a pin instead of a zoom about 2/3rds of the time; one of the most annoying things about the unit, since that's the control I use the most. It appears that the zoom buttons have a similar reaction to how they are touched. If you stab at them you are very likely to get a pin, much more so when riding, because your hand is bouncing somewhat and the stab is not real accurate.

I'm still hoping that the Beta team will enlalrge these buttons as that's the only sure fix.

Thanks to all for helping resolve problems I've been having with two of the most annoying "features" on the Montana, that blasted pushpin and those troublesome zoom controls. In short: Don't tap, press. Awesome!

Furthermore, if you press and hold the zoom control, you can zoom in or out as many levels as you like without seeing the pushpin.

And I agree that best results are obtained if you approach the zoom controls from the edge of the display rather than the middle. Larger buttons would help as would left side zoom contols on the Nuvi dashboard.

[Rocky TFS]

One other thing I just noticed is that whenever you are in a list, i.e. drawer, POI list, Waypoint list, Setup list, etc. you can page down the list by a finger flick, just like an Ipod, as long as you don't stab at it.
A narrow scroll bar appears on the right margin while doing so. Quite handy for long lists.

It's not too surprising that Garmin has not touted this much!. (Don't tell Apple fanatics!)

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by Rocky TFS

One other thing I just noticed is that whenever you are in a list, i.e. drawer, POI list, Waypoint list, Setup list, etc. you can page down the list by a finger flick, just like an Ipod, as long as you don't stab at it.
A narrow scroll bar appears on the right margin while doing so. Quite handy for long lists.

It's not too surprising that Garmin has not touted this much!. (Don't tell Apple fanatics!)

Being an iPhone and iPad user, I knew about this long ago.

Also, like the iDevices, if you hold your finger on an icon, it sticks to your finger and can be placed elsewhere.

How long before Apple sues for copyright infringement, you figure?

[Rocky TFS]

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

How long before Apple sues for copyright infringement, you figure?

Not long, I figure!

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

Garmin is sending me a new Tempe to replace my flawed one which doesn't update the 24 Hour Maximum and Minimum values without requiring battery removal. They don't want the flawed one back.

Got my new Tempe in the mail yesterday - there's no way of telling the difference between new and old, as far as I can tell, except the new one should work properly.

I marked the flawed one with an X just so I know which is which.

[mass-klr]

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

Got my new Tempe in the mail yesterday - there's no way of telling the difference between new and old, as far as I can tell, except the new one should work properly.

I marked the flawed one with an X just so I know which is which.

So are the problems with the Tempe sorted out with the new one?

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by mass-klr

So are the problems with the Tempe sorted out with the new one?

I hope so. Time will tell but I have no reason to think I ended up with another defective one.