Hi, I've just discovered that a directory called .Spotlight-V100/ on the microSD card makes my Garmin Legend Cx crash when I switch it off. The crash leads to a continuous beeping sound, and the only way to stop it is to remove the batteries (and external power if connected to USB.) The .Spotlight-V100/ directory is created if you mount the micro-SD card on a Mac; apparently spotlight carries on to index the files on the card, thereby creating the directory. I have not investigated if you can turn this behaviour off. By "mounting" I mean setting the Garmin device in "USB-mode". The .Spotligt-V100 directory is _not_ created if you connect the device to the Mac and use Garmins programs (such as RoadTrip) to communicate with it. If I delete the directory in question, the very annoying crashing behaviour stops, and the Garmin switches off with the normal two-note beep. Cheers, Morten
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Morten Kjeldgaard<mok@bioxray.au.dk> wrote:
I've just discovered that a directory called .Spotlight-V100/ on the microSD card makes my Garmin Legend Cx crash when I switch it off.
This is not really mkgmap related, but the latest Legend/Vista updates are supposed to address this problem: cx: http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=1417 hcx: http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=3643
But don't try to use Webupdater on MAC to install this. this is known to break your device. On 1 Sep 2009, at 8:12 , Clinton Gladstone wrote:
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Morten Kjeldgaard<mok@bioxray.au.dk> wrote:
I've just discovered that a directory called .Spotlight-V100/ on the microSD card makes my Garmin Legend Cx crash when I switch it off.
This is not really mkgmap related, but the latest Legend/Vista updates are supposed to address this problem:
cx: http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=1417
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Am 01.09.2009 12:26 Uhr schrieb Apollinaris Schoell:
But don't try to use Webupdater on MAC to install this. this is known to break your device.
Really? I just installed it (before I read your warning) and it worked on my Vista Cx. Maybe I just got lucky :-) Thanks to everyone for pointing this out, I had the "beep of death" for a while, but never could figure out what caused it. And neither could Garmin support, for that matter. Alex
lucky you :)couldn't figure that out too. it wasn't a problem with older firmware. and since the update to 3.0 it was really annoying to remove the batteries all time. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Alexander Wittig <alexander@wittig.name>wrote:
Am 01.09.2009 12:26 Uhr schrieb Apollinaris Schoell:
But don't try to use Webupdater on MAC to install this. this is known to break your device.
Really? I just installed it (before I read your warning) and it worked on my Vista Cx. Maybe I just got lucky :-) Thanks to everyone for pointing this out, I had the "beep of death" for a while, but never could figure out what caused it. And neither could Garmin support, for that matter.
Alex
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On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 04:24:10PM -0700, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
lucky you :)couldn't figure that out too. it wasn't a problem with older firmware. and since the update to 3.0 it was really annoying to remove the batteries all time.
Well, at least you can remove the batteries without breaking the case open. Us poor Edge 605/705 owners do not have that luxury. :-) The SD card is removeable, but I guess the beep of death could be triggered by the internal flash as well. No, I don't have a Mac, so I don't really know if the Edge is affected. BTW, a 2.90 firmware update for the Edge 605/705 was released this week. Nothing special, and I haven't tried recording any traces with it yet. The 2.70 badly broke the recording (it routinely corrupted the XML files). Marko
Dont format the SD-Card unter Mac this made the trouble with my 60 CSX. 2009/9/2 Marko Mäkelä <marko.makela@iki.fi>:
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 04:24:10PM -0700, Apollinaris Schoell wrote:
lucky you :)couldn't figure that out too. it wasn't a problem with older firmware. and since the update to 3.0 it was really annoying to remove the batteries all time.
Well, at least you can remove the batteries without breaking the case open. Us poor Edge 605/705 owners do not have that luxury. :-) The SD card is removeable, but I guess the beep of death could be triggered by the internal flash as well. No, I don't have a Mac, so I don't really know if the Edge is affected.
BTW, a 2.90 firmware update for the Edge 605/705 was released this week. Nothing special, and I haven't tried recording any traces with it yet. The 2.70 badly broke the recording (it routinely corrupted the XML files).
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On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Morten Kjeldgaard <mok@bioxray.au.dk> wrote:
I've just discovered that a directory called .Spotlight-V100/ on the microSD card makes my Garmin Legend Cx crash when I switch it off.
The crash leads to a continuous beeping sound, and the only way to stop it is to remove the batteries (and external power if connected to USB.)
The .Spotlight-V100/ directory is created if you mount the micro-SD card on a Mac; apparently spotlight carries on to index the files on the card, thereby creating the directory. I have not investigated if you can turn this behaviour off.
By "mounting" I mean setting the Garmin device in "USB-mode". The .Spotligt-V100 directory is _not_ created if you connect the device to the Mac and use Garmins programs (such as RoadTrip) to communicate with it.
I had the same problem and reached to the same conclusion. My fix was to disable Spolight indexing on the SD card by creating an empty file on the root of the SD card named .metadata_never_index (touch .metadata_never_index), and deleted the .Spotilght-V100 directory. After that I had no problems. Best regards Aleksandar -- Aleksandar Topuzovic
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