Garmin Etrex Legend C question

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Squashman

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I'm hoping one of the many GPSr experts can help me. My receiver has a thumbstick which is used for a lot of features. However, it has an odd glitch: it won't allow me to select any number higher than "5" when I call up the "keypad" for manually entering waypoints. :mad:

Does anyone know of a fix or a work-around? Before posting I searched the site to see if anyone else had commented on the problem, but finding nothing I decided to post this question. Thanks
 
Never heard of this one. You might check the manual for a reset command (usually some combination of buttons pressed while turning the unit on.). There is also a manual (pdf file) available from the Garmin website which might be more up-to-date than your paper manual.

There is info on resets at http://www.gpsinformation.net/, but I couldn't find any for the Legend C. Some units have data resets, and some have master resets. (A master reset may cause other problems in some models.)

If your problem is that the click stick won't register in one direction, try bringing up the diagnostic screen (hold click stick in and power on), and moving the click stick in all directions--the display will show if it is working. I have always been able to "free" the click stick on my eTrex Vista by this procedure. There have been a number of reports of problems with click sticks.

If you can't find anything in your manuals, call Garmin. Their customer technical support is pretty good.

Doug
 
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my mistake!

I posted the question on another forum as welland a kind soul pointed out my error - figured I'd share the response to help other GPS newbies :cool:

"The field that you are trying to enter info into is the first character in the minutes* field, if the unit is set to hddd mm.mmm (hemishere, degrees, minutes.decimal minutes). Or more likely, you are trying to enter a decimal minute chacter into the unit in the first character in the seconds* field, because you have the unit set to format hdd mm.ss (hemisphere, degrees minutes. seconds).

If you are trying to enter coordinates from the Geocaching web site, be sure to change the format to hddd mm.mmm, and you'll be good to go.

*For obvious reasons, the unit won't let you enter minutes or seconds to 60 or higher, since 60 minutes would be one degree (and 60 seconds would be an extra minute), so the first digit won't go over 5."
 
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