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Curious Problem with Cork City Locale Geocaching Pocket Query
If you’re a premium member with Groundspeak’s geocaching.com then you will be aware of the ability to create pocket queries. These are really useful for throwing up to 1000 waypoints onto your GPSr for a days, or even a holidays caching. As some of you know we were in Ireland recently (the reason for lack of posts) and I decided to take advantage of Stena Ferries free satellite wifi on the boat. I set a PQ for Cork and waited for it to build. When the query was ready I saved as usual to my shared Dropbox folder and then attached my Garmin 60CSx but despite loading fine onto my CacheBerry – the PQ just wouldn’y upload to the Garmin. Puzzled, I tried an older PQ and verified that my script was working, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Geocaching, Technik, Troubleshooting
Just GPSBabel
A while ago I posted my frustrations with running GSAK on Linux, and how I’d found a way of getting the function to send to my Garmin 60CSx to work. I thought I owed an update to anyone who read that to say I gave up on GSAK and now just use GPSBabel from the command line. Here’s the script I run: #!/bin/bash GPXZIP=$1 NAME=`echo $GPXZIP | cut -f1 -d.` unzip $GPXZIP GPXFILE=`ls *.gpx` for FILE in `echo $GPXFILE`; do gpsbabel -i gpx -f $FILE -o garmin -F usb:0 done I called the script ‘sendtogarmin.sh’. I saved it in the directory where I save all my pocket queries are stored as zip files. When it comes to load them, I just hook up the Garmin and then run: sudo ./sendtogarmin.sh pquery.zip Works for me, but I never bothered … Read entire article »
Filed under: Geocaching, Troubleshooting
Fixing A Bricked Garmin GPSmap 60CSx (Part 2)
In Part 1 I explained how my Garmin 60CSx booted up with a completely blank screen and doing a firmware update didn’t work – despite the update being successful. Now I’m going to tell you what I did do. Frustrated I googled a bit more and happened upon this forum post where someone had taken their 60CSx apart and posted photos. The topic here was a broken receiver but the images were useful to me nonetheless. I decided to pop open my own device and have a look to see if anything came loose. I didn’t take pictures, though I wish I did now, however I can provide detailed steps I took below on taking the 60CSx apart. Disclaimer – I am not a Garmin technician, and doing this may void your warranty. You may simply … Read entire article »
Filed under: Troubleshooting
Fixing A Bricked Garmin GPSmap 60CSx (Part 1)
Last week I had a minor panic attack and bout of depression. After coming back from one of the 10 Year Lost and Found Geocaching events late at night, I dropped my Garmin GPSmap 60CSx on the floor, picked it up and thought nothing of it. The reason being is that the 60CSx is a rugged piece of equipment which can withstand a lot of shock and even full immersion – this one in particular in an unrelated incident has survived being tossed 20-30 feet in a field – hardly a dent on it. However the next evening I was preparing to load a new pocket query onto the device and powered it up the screen was completely blank! Nothing was loading, I tried banging it, replacing batteries powering up with … Read entire article »
Filed under: Troubleshooting
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