![]() ![]() In short, this is no longer how Garmin expect you to manage your XT. Once you’ve put content onto the GPS, if you’re refining your route, correcting your waypoints etc in Basecamp, it’s not a simple job to over-write the content on your GPS, new versions will be copied and saved with an incremental numeric suffix on the item’s name. Gone are the simple days of pulling all of your newly captured tracks off the device and removing them simply from within Basecamp. This affects how the device is presented to your computer when you plug it in, and also how you’re able to work with it from within Basecamp.įor example, you can see the device, and you can copy content onto it, but you cannot delete content on it from within Basecamp. Other Garmin GPS units do not yet use this same approach, I believe there might only be one other Garmin model on the market right now which also uses the Android OS. So, why the difference? – The underlying system beneath a Zumo XT is the android operating system. To which I was told, that if I wasn’t listening for them to call out my Americano, that I might miss my coffee. I pretty much said, yeah – whatever I’d like a Long Black. It’s a bit like when Starbucks first arrived in NZ and I was told in an insistent manner that my order of a ‘Long Black’ was actually called an Americano. ![]() These changes are not major, but they are significant enough that if you choose to try NOT to engage with them, then you’re going to become stuck. This unit does not work in exactly the same way which you will be used to, and there will be a number of changes which you’ll need to be willing to get used to – if you don’t know this going into it, you may well find the XT frustrating while you continue to expect things to work ‘as normal’. The first comment I’d have about this is aimed towards people who are already used to operating Garmin GPS units. ![]()
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