Haiti OSM problem on Garmin 76CSx
Hi all, I am with Inveneo (www.inveneo.org) and arrive in Port-au-Princd tomorrow to begin deploying a wireless network in support of relief efforts there. I have successfully loaded the latest OSM on my Garmin 76CSx and it's fantastic, will be very useful there. However, when I turn off the unit, I get I constant low alarm tone. The only way to make it stop is to remove batteries. When I reinsert the batteries, the unit remains in a powered off state until I turn it on..after that it acts normally until I turn it off again. Any thoughts? Andris -- ................................................................ andris bjornson inveneo project engineer office: +1.415.901.1969x 1215 skype: andris.bjornson yahoo: a_bjornson1 AIM: andris@inveneo.org gTalk: abjornson@inveneo.org ................................................................ Watch Inveneo in action on CNN http://www.inveneo.org/?q=CNNPrincipalVoices Subscribe to Inveneo via: - Email: http://bit.ly/inveneo-email - RSS: http://bit.ly/inveneo_rss - Twitter: http://bit.ly/inveneo-twitter ...............................................................
Quoting "andris@inveneo.org" <abjornson@inveneo.org>:
Hi all,
I am with Inveneo (www.inveneo.org) and arrive in Port-au-Princd tomorrow to begin deploying a wireless network in support of relief efforts there. I have successfully loaded the latest OSM on my Garmin 76CSx and it's fantastic, will be very useful there. However, when I turn off the unit, I get I constant low alarm tone. The only way to make it stop is to remove batteries. When I reinsert the batteries, the unit remains in a powered off state until I turn it on..after that it acts normally until I turn it off again.
Any thoughts?
Andris
-- I'd be incredibly surprised if this problem was caused by the OSM data or the mkgmap build process. I have successfully used many OSM maps on my GPSMap76Csx (though, admittedly, not Haiti) without this issue. Are you running the latest firmware? And have you tried other OSM maps?
-- Charlie
Hi, and thanks for your quick response, I can check the firmware version, that's a good thought. This is my first OSM map. I've never seen this problem with the GPS unit before, and it started immediately after I loaded the map. I'm on OSX, and I copied into a folder called "Garmin" on the device using USB mass storage mode. Andris On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:50 AM, <charlie@cferrero.net> wrote:
Quoting "andris@inveneo.org" <abjornson@inveneo.org>:
Hi all,
I am with Inveneo (www.inveneo.org) and arrive in Port-au-Princd tomorrow to begin deploying a wireless network in support of relief efforts there. I have successfully loaded the latest OSM on my Garmin 76CSx and it's fantastic, will be very useful there. However, when I turn off the unit, I get I constant low alarm tone. The only way to make it stop is to remove batteries. When I reinsert the batteries, the unit remains in a powered off state until I turn it on..after that it acts normally until I turn it off again.
Any thoughts?
Andris
-- I'd be incredibly surprised if this problem was caused by the OSM data or the mkgmap build process. I have successfully used many OSM maps on my GPSMap76Csx (though, admittedly, not Haiti) without this issue. Are you running the latest firmware? And have you tried other OSM maps?
-- Charlie
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:26 PM, andris@inveneo.org <abjornson@inveneo.org> wrote:
However, when I turn off the unit, I get I constant low alarm tone. The only way to make it stop is to remove batteries.
This symptom is similar to that caused in certain units (eTrex) when a SD card was used which had been previously written o on a Mac OS X system. Mac OS copied hidden files to the SD card, which interfered with the unit. If your SD card has been used in a Mac OS machine, you may wish to investigate this. Cheers.
Ah, great...this gives me a great starting point. thanks for the info! Andris On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Clinton Gladstone < clinton.gladstone@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:26 PM, andris@inveneo.org <abjornson@inveneo.org> wrote:
However, when I turn off the unit, I get I constant low alarm tone. The only way to make it stop is to remove batteries.
This symptom is similar to that caused in certain units (eTrex) when a SD card was used which had been previously written o on a Mac OS X system. Mac OS copied hidden files to the SD card, which interfered with the unit.
If your SD card has been used in a Mac OS machine, you may wish to investigate this.
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Thanks Clinton, that was the fix. I accessed the device only from the terminal and removed all the dot-files placed on the card by OSX. Thanks again! Andris 2010/1/19 andris@inveneo.org <abjornson@inveneo.org>
Ah, great...this gives me a great starting point. thanks for the info!
Andris
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Clinton Gladstone < clinton.gladstone@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:26 PM, andris@inveneo.org <abjornson@inveneo.org> wrote:
However, when I turn off the unit, I get I constant low alarm tone. The only way to make it stop is to remove batteries.
This symptom is similar to that caused in certain units (eTrex) when a SD card was used which had been previously written o on a Mac OS X system. Mac OS copied hidden files to the SD card, which interfered with the unit.
If your SD card has been used in a Mac OS machine, you may wish to investigate this.
Cheers. _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:59 PM, andris@inveneo.org <abjornson@inveneo.org>wrote:
Thanks Clinton, that was the fix. I accessed the device only from the terminal and removed all the dot-files placed on the card by OSX.
Add a .metadata_never_index on the card so that you don't get those files created again. http://www.mail-archive.com/mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk/msg01921.html Best regards. -- Aleksandar Topuzović Sent from Zagreb, 01, Croatia
upgrading to latest firmware will fix it permanently. but don't use the webupdater on OSX it may leave the device corrupted. On 19 Jan 2010, at 6:59 , andris@inveneo.org wrote:
Thanks Clinton, that was the fix. I accessed the device only from the terminal and removed all the dot-files placed on the card by OSX.
Thanks again!
Andris
2010/1/19 andris@inveneo.org <abjornson@inveneo.org> Ah, great...this gives me a great starting point. thanks for the info!
Andris
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Clinton Gladstone <clinton.gladstone@googlemail.com> wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:26 PM, andris@inveneo.org <abjornson@inveneo.org> wrote:
However, when I turn off the unit, I get I constant low alarm tone. The only way to make it stop is to remove batteries.
This symptom is similar to that caused in certain units (eTrex) when a SD card was used which had been previously written o on a Mac OS X system. Mac OS copied hidden files to the SD card, which interfered with the unit.
If your SD card has been used in a Mac OS machine, you may wish to investigate this.
Cheers. _______________________________________________ mkgmap-dev mailing list mkgmap-dev@lists.mkgmap.org.uk http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/mkgmap-dev
-- ................................................................ andris bjornson inveneo project engineer
office: +1.415.901.1969x 1215 skype: andris.bjornson yahoo: a_bjornson1 AIM: andris@inveneo.org gTalk: abjornson@inveneo.org ................................................................
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office: +1.415.901.1969x 1215 skype: andris.bjornson yahoo: a_bjornson1 AIM: andris@inveneo.org gTalk: abjornson@inveneo.org ................................................................
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