[allory]

Only the 400 is live so far, but there are nonfunctional links for 500, 600 and XL.


http://www.magellangps.com/en/support/prod...plorist_400.asp


looks like version 2.01?

[Dosido]

They're baaaack...

Version 2.03. Who's gonna try it first?

[geognerd]

Oooh! Oooh! And they gave us a list of changes this time! For the 400:

Quote

  1. BlueNav XL3 support for both North America and Europe
  2. Updated Tides & Currents algorythm
  3. Improved Language Support
  4. Added card utilities to Advance Features
  5. Improved alarm backlight functionality
  6. Added Save As to the Mark function
  7. Used same datum transformation as eXploristXL and MobileMapper
  8. Added waypoint projection
  9. Modified the default USB mode from Power Only to File Transfer Mode
  10. Updated text strings for localization issues
  11. Made GPS performance improvements
  12. Added option to turnoff geocache and waypoint names to MapSetup
  13. Find geocache by date\time stamping
  14. List “found” caches
  15. Added show / hide found caches option
  16. Added point-to-point routing option to the reroute menu when using Direct Route
  17. ID/Name Cache Sorting Ability
  18. Improved Keyword Search to handle new language support

Most curious to me is #11 - "Made GPS performance improvements." I also like that found caches are time stamped because I like to put the found time in my logs.

I'll sit back and watch for a couple weeks before installing this.

This post has been edited by geognerd: 22 December 2005 - 11:01 AM

[northernpenguin]

I've applied the patch to my 600 (yes the 600 link is up!). No obvious signs of trouble yet ....

[allory]

when i click on the 600 link i get another copy of the 500_2.03 file. is that what you applied to your 600?

[Fathergoose]

When I click to download the 600 update I got: ex500v2_03

So are the 500 and 600 updates the same or is their link bad?

[northernpenguin]

The file I got was eX500v2_03.exe. My 600 took it and seems happy. Compass, thermometer and barometer all still function so my guess is that it's a platform.

I like the card utilities menu -- wonder if bad data will still hang the unit on startup. They made some nice strides on waypoint/geocache sorting but not on the detail map POI sorting. Looking for a Tim Hortons using an alpha search still renders me the one 259km away before the one 1.2 km away. And there are a LOT of Tim Horton's entries in between that distance.

Some of the menus appear to be a bit cleaner (Active Setup menu comes to mind). I'm real curious to see if DirectRoute still insists on going to full brightness when prompting a turn - I'll try that out later tonight.

The 'keyboard' screen for entering waypoint names, etc now supports accent characters.

The 'projection' screen is there under Advanced.

I've figured out how to mark a cache as found, but not how to mark it as 'unfound' yet.

[northernpenguin]

Boy the eXplorist XL got *it's* firmware update pretty fast....

[vagabond]

Just updated my 500, fingers crossed

HOO BOY We can delete geocache waypoints

This post has been edited by vagabond: 22 December 2005 - 11:40 AM

[Jhwk]

The Mapsend Manager link is up also. Any takers?

Downloading the 600 exe now and waiting for the lid to blow off...

OK - maybe magellan gets a smilie for Christmas, but what about the other items on the bug list?

[vagabond]

Just noticed I am now picking up 7 sats where as before in the same place 1 or 2 sats.

[Jamie Z]

About to do my 500 installation.

Jamie

[Jamie Z]

The .exe file can't find my GPS. I'm following the instructions to the letter. Not sure what else to do.

Tried it a few times now. Restarted my computer... plugged into a different USB port.

Jamie

[Fathergoose]

Mine has uploaded fine. everything seems OK so far. The sort by GC # looks cool, still haven't figured out the name sorting.

[vagabond]

It went smooth as silk when I did it, hope you get it Jamie

[Fathergoose]

Even got a 3D signal inside (no windows) and it picked up that new #17 sat.

[Jamie Z]

Hmm.. the "Find by" text box doesn't change to "nearest." Mine's locked on Alphabetical. Is there a different way to access nearest waypoints?

Jamie

[vagabond]

Jamie, its not changing by moving the click stick left or right? mine's ok

[gdps]

Update loaded just fine on my 500 and everything seems to be working great. I also downloaded the manager program. It seems to work fine, but doesn't do anything that I couldn't already do. Just puts it all in one place. I probably won't use it much if any.

[docdigit]

WOW! I'm not even going to try out my 600 on Christmas! After I charge the batteries, I'm just going to install the new firmware first (anything to avoid ANY of the issues I've been reading about in these forums!)

Doc

[Fathergoose]

Jamie Z, on Dec 22 2005, 01:39 PM, said:

Hmm.. the "Find by" text box doesn't change to "nearest." Mine's locked on Alphabetical. Is there a different way to access nearest waypoints?

Jamie

Jamie, Mine is working, as well.

However what is not working is the option to switch from street route to point-to-point.

[Fathergoose]

Fathergoose, on Dec 22 2005, 02:34 PM, said:

However what is not working is the option to switch from street route to point-to-point.

OK after some testing I have figured out that on my ex600 using the "switch from street route to point-to-point" works with Geocaches but not POI's.

[embra]

This looks like an improvement...not all the way there, but nearer my God to Thee.

Let me pass along a suggestion that may merit carrying over from the Meridian updates: be liberal with your clear memory/all in the update process. The current directions say to do one to start the process off, but no mention about doing one at the end. At least one individual in another venue had some odd stuff happening on his that went away after another clear memory/all was performed.

Won't hurt, might help.

Edit: First a change list, and now an email notification in my inbox of a new firmware! They've got a long ways to go to woo me back into contentedness, but two marks for Magyllyn.

This post has been edited by embra: 22 December 2005 - 03:37 PM

[BadAndy]

I have 3 words...


Halle friggin leuia

[BadAndy]

It looks like many of the bugs have been resolved on my e600, even the new bug on the compass screen lagging. No lockups on usb transfer.

The found it and projection additions are nice. Just in time for Christmas.

[BadAndy]

You can calibrate the thermometer from the weather screen on the e600.

I imagine we'll find a host of improvements.

[Jamie Z]

Fathergoose, on Dec 22 2005, 03:34 PM, said:

Jamie, Mine is working, as well.

However what is not working is the option to switch from street route to point-to-point.

The second and subsequent times I tried to use the nearest/alphabetical switch, it worked fine. Strange.

The Street Route to Point-to-Point is a great feature. It's worked good for me 4 out of 5 tries. The first time I tried it on a POI I got to the last leg of the street route and attempted to change it to a point-to-point. Nothing happened. It simply returned me to the map screen with the street route highlighted. The other four times I've tried it with a POI, it switched as expected.

The "Found" geocache option looks nice... is there somewhere to see the list of found geocaches?

Jamie

[Fathergoose]

Jamie Z, on Dec 22 2005, 06:00 PM, said:

The "Found" geocache option looks nice... is there somewhere to see the list of found geocaches?

Menu-poi-geocache pts-menu-show found caches

[Fathergoose]

Jamie Z, on Dec 22 2005, 06:00 PM, said:

The other four times I've tried it with a POI, it switched as expected.

So you where able to switch to a point-to-point with a POI? I will have to work on that. Any luck switching from a point-to-point to a street route?

[pghlooking]

The XL update doesn't address anything about the projection or found caches. I wonder how long before they add these features?

[Jamie Z]

Fathergoose, on Dec 22 2005, 07:18 PM, said:

So you where able to switch to a point-to-point with a POI? I will have to work on that. Any luck switching from a point-to-point to a street route?

Yes, I had a street route to my house and when I got close I was able to switch it to a point-to-point. Like I said, the first time I tried it, it didn't work... but it's worked ever since.

Point-to-point to street route doesn't seem to be an option.

Jamie

[Jhwk]

anyone notice a change to the max number of caches? (200)

please, oh please, oh please, oh please.......

[gpsjeep]

pghlooking, on Dec 22 2005, 05:20 PM, said:

The XL update doesn't address anything about the projection or found caches. I wonder how long before they add these features?

The XL, according to magellan web site, has area calculation to find the distance between three or more points of interest. Is that the same as projection?
-Jeff

[Jhwk]

gpsjeep, on Dec 22 2005, 06:01 PM, said:

pghlooking, on Dec 22 2005, 05:20 PM, said:

The XL update doesn't address anything about the projection or found caches. I wonder how long before they add these features?

The XL, according to magellan web site, has area calculation to find the distance between three or more points of interest. Is that the same as projection?
-Jeff

nope

my upload went well, but I had to switch over to the wife's notebook. Couldn't find the 600 via usb on my desktop. Seemed to get a sat lock (3d) in under a minute?

This post has been edited by Jhwk: 22 December 2005 - 06:48 PM

[Jamie Z]

Jhwk, on Dec 22 2005, 07:58 PM, said:

anyone notice a change to the max number of caches? (200)

please, oh please, oh please, oh please.......

Robert Lipe posted in another thread which was discussing the probable features of the firmware update before it was formally released. RL got his hands on some data from an Explorist 400 which had the new firmware. He confirmed that it rejected waypoints beyond +200. If I recall, he did mention that the GPS gives a error message just so you know.

Jamie

[Fathergoose]

Jamie Z, on Dec 22 2005, 08:04 PM, said:

Jhwk, on Dec 22 2005, 07:58 PM, said:

anyone notice a change to the max number of caches? (200)

please, oh please, oh please, oh please.......

Robert Lipe posted in another thread which was discussing the probable features of the firmware update before it was formally released. RL got his hands on some data from an Explorist 400 which had the new firmware. He confirmed that it rejected waypoints beyond +200. If I recall, he did mention that the GPS gives a error message just so you know.

Jamie

I can confirm that. It looks like 200 still.

[Fathergoose]

Jamie Z, on Dec 22 2005, 06:22 PM, said:

Yes, I had a street route to my house and when I got close I was able to switch it to a point-to-point. Like I said, the first time I tried it, it didn't work... but it's worked ever since.

OK it will switch from Street Route to Point-to-Point either with POI or Caches, Only if they are active. I was "going to" a POI that was not in the active file.

[flir67]

just got the e-mail,, going to snag it now.. holy cow... owe,owe

[Jamie Z]

Fathergoose, on Dec 22 2005, 09:34 PM, said:

OK it will switch from Street Route to Point-to-Point either with POI or Caches, Only if they are active. I was "going to" a POI that was not in the active file.

Ah.. That explains it. I was going to a POI which was not in the active POI file. You know, that's a stupid limitation.

I guess I shouldn't complain about limitations of a feature I think otherwise quite useful.

Jamie

[flir67]

embra, on Dec 22 2005, 02:35 PM, said:

Edit: First a change list, and now an email notification in my inbox of a new firmware! They've got a long ways to go to woo me back into contentedness, but two marks for Magyllyn.

I was thinking the same thing, I was impressed with the e-mail , wonder how they got it, off here? or from techsupport e-mail.. who's cares they sent one out...

they seem to be trying.

hum..

can't wait. going to upload mine tomorrow night...

flir67----

[Jamie Z]

I never got an email. I'm sure I unchecked that box when I registered my GPS.

Jamie

[gconner]

A note to Mac users -- I was able to update my Explorist 500 using Virtual PC 7.02 under Mac OS 10.4.3. It failed to see the explorist the first 5 or 6 times I tried, but once it found it everything went swimmingly. The problem with recognizing the explorist comes down to (I think) a timing issue between VPC grabbing the USB port from OS X and the updater doing a hardware scan (which seems to cause VPC to drop the port and then regrab it). Anyway, a big YIPEE here! I wish Lowrance and Garmin made their gpsr software as Mac friendly as Magellan.

[EScout]

The update for my 500 worked very smoothly and quickly. First impression is very good on the improvements. Seems to switch between screens quicker. Also seems to scroll between waypoints quicker.

You can mark caches as found. They then do not show on the list when you search, and are displayed on the screen with a check marked icon. When you have activated a GOTO to a geocache, and press GOTO again, you can get the info on the geocache or mark it as found.

Happy to see the projection function, and it allows you to set it to one-hundredths of a degree.

[Jamie Z]

EScout, on Dec 22 2005, 11:33 PM, said:

You can mark caches as found. They then do not show on the list when you search, and are displayed on the screen with a check marked icon.

Unfortunately, I sent off my 500 for repair a few hours ago. I couldn't find a place to list my found caches. I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. You say they are removed from the list (I've observed this) and then they are displayed on the screen with a checkmark. Those statements seem to be contradictory.

How can I find this list of found caches?

Jamie

[CondorTrax]

Just finished my update. Went well. Picking up more birds inside than before and faster. The "Switch to pnt-to-pnt" feature will come in handy when approaching a cache site

[KZ45]

Updated my 500 so far so good.
No hang ups, smooth running
Able to bring in my saved so.cal - so az map from sd card

Irv

[GIN51E]

anyone yet worked out how to remove a cache from the found list?

[ADKcachers]

I just uploaded the firmware to my 500. Looks like my basemap was wiped out.

[D0T-C0M]

allory, on Dec 22 2005, 02:56 PM, said:

when i click on the 600 link i get another copy of the 500_2.03 file. is that what you applied to your 600?

Not to worry, the 500 and 600 use the same firmware.

[D0T-C0M]

double post

This post has been edited by D0T-C0M: 23 December 2005 - 06:33 AM