Strange "Catagories" created in Favorites on my 1490T

 

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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Drivesmart 66, Nuvi 2595LMT (Died), Nuvi 1490T (Died), Nuvi 260 (Died), GPSMAP 195 (Departed company)

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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:

Garmin wrote:

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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nuvi 760, nuvi 765T, nuvi 855, nuvi 3790LMT, nuvi 3490LMT - SoCal area

Not Mine.

I have a 1490T and have never seen anything like you have posted. My favorites works just fine.

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Bobby....Garmin 2450LM

4.60

DorkusNimrod wrote:

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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Drivesmart 66, Nuvi 2595LMT (Died), Nuvi 1490T (Died), Nuvi 260 (Died), GPSMAP 195 (Departed company)