troya
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In a couple of words "Frustrating piece of junk". First, Garmin Base Camp, welcome to the early 90's and how software looked and operated. I bought this to use as a GPS on my motorcycle instead of using my phone. After spending 2.7 hours (yes that's not an exaggeration) in BaseCamp, I was able to put together a route for a day trip. The road names are impossible to read and the road overlays are not transparent. The software isn't flexible enough to allow free form route creation. The way that it stores way points and routes is very confusing.
So, I uploaded the trip to the GPS (should be POS), attach it to my bike mount, get geared up, press all of the buttons to tell the GPS what route I want to use and then clicked "GO!". GPS politely says "You have arrived at your destination". What? Wait? Why is this telling me that I've arrived at my destination? Remove GPS from bike, boot up computer and wait for BaseCamp to open. I must have set the destination and return points backwards. Checked everything (I'm a computer engineer by trade) and the route in Basecamp is correct. Deleted the route from the device and re-add it from Basecamp. Start the device and tell it to used said route "You have arrived at your destination". Wasted a total of 5 hours of my life with this thing. If you're still convinced that you want to buy one of these, hit me up, I've got one real cheap. Has a few scratches, dents, some wires are hanging out and it smokes a little bit, but she's cherry! I just purchased a TomTom 550 to replace this steaming pile of ****.
In the end I grabbed my 7 year old cell phone and was able to get the same route without using a computer and/or a dedicated app and was ready to roll in 5 minutes. You would think that Garmin would be better, this is my first dedicated GPS, what a let down. Serious though let me know if you want to buy it. I didn't destroy it, was only joking above.
So, I uploaded the trip to the GPS (should be POS), attach it to my bike mount, get geared up, press all of the buttons to tell the GPS what route I want to use and then clicked "GO!". GPS politely says "You have arrived at your destination". What? Wait? Why is this telling me that I've arrived at my destination? Remove GPS from bike, boot up computer and wait for BaseCamp to open. I must have set the destination and return points backwards. Checked everything (I'm a computer engineer by trade) and the route in Basecamp is correct. Deleted the route from the device and re-add it from Basecamp. Start the device and tell it to used said route "You have arrived at your destination". Wasted a total of 5 hours of my life with this thing. If you're still convinced that you want to buy one of these, hit me up, I've got one real cheap. Has a few scratches, dents, some wires are hanging out and it smokes a little bit, but she's cherry! I just purchased a TomTom 550 to replace this steaming pile of ****.
In the end I grabbed my 7 year old cell phone and was able to get the same route without using a computer and/or a dedicated app and was ready to roll in 5 minutes. You would think that Garmin would be better, this is my first dedicated GPS, what a let down. Serious though let me know if you want to buy it. I didn't destroy it, was only joking above.
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