Strange "Catagories" created in Favorites on my 1490T
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I'm having a strange problem with my 1490T and I'm stumped as to the cause.
When I access my Favorites, I see the various catagoies I've created along with “All Favorites”, but the unit generates its own catagories.
Here is the current set.
173.65
179.29
2010-09-18T01:06:13Z
2010-09-18T01:06:14Z
2010-09-18T01:06:19Z
2010-09-18T01:07:43Z
21.96
23.33
94.59
968.18
Obviously four of these catagoies are date/time stamps.
Most contain a single POI, but from different catagories, Food, Friends, Photo locations, etc.
One contains two. When I note these catagories have reappeared, I dutifully removed them but when they appear they may have different names, but they always contain the same Favorite locations.
It seems to me that they appear after I save my current location by tapping on the screen. I've also noted these catagort's appearance after I send a location to my unit from Google Maps, but this occurance is sporadic, not every single time.
Searching through my Current.gpx file, I find the time stamps are associated with track logs while the others come up multiple times as course entries, as an example < gpxtpx:course >173.65< /gpxtpx:course >.
Of course when I delete my tracklog, the only instance of any of these entries is as one of these false catagoies.
After manually removing the false catagories I then look at the entries for that are affected by this strange behavior and I do not see anything that stands out that would cause them to attract this random catagoy generation.
Is anyone else seeing this on their unit?
I guess one solution is to save out my Current.gpx file more often to retain my tracklogs, but this doesn't resolve the problem when I need to save my current location as a POI...
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Make sure you're running the most current firmware version for the unit which is v4.60. The changelog for v4.50 specifically states a fix for favorites:
Changes made from version 4.40 to 4.50:
* IMPORTANT: If your device is running software versions 4.30 or 4.40 your favorites will be erased with this update. Please click here to learn how to back up your favorites.
* Fixed a problem in software versions 4.30 and 4.40 with Favorites after a software upgrade.
* Corrected a problem related to starting up the unit in mass storage mode.
* Improved software updating process from update cards and GCD files.
* Added location of Language Guide files.
Garmin changelog page for 13xx & 14xx series:
http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=4551
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Not Mine.
I have a 1490T and have never seen anything like you have posted. My favorites works just fine.
Bobby....Garmin 2450LM
4.60
Make sure you're running the most current firmware version for the unit which is v4.60.
Yep,
I updated it the night it came out.
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