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by SSpranKK
Feb 07 2011 8:44 pm
Forum: GPS & Electronic
Topic: Web updater crashed my GPS
Replies: 10

Re: Web updater crashed my GPS

The web updater crashed while updating, and after that all I got was a quick flash of light on when starting the etrex and that was it. Sounds like the exact thing you got. Here's the catch ... I downloaded the relevant files to update and fixed it using a PC, not my Mac. If you don't have access t...
by SSpranKK
Feb 06 2011 11:59 am
Forum: GPS & Electronic
Topic: Web updater crashed my GPS
Replies: 10

Re: Web updater crashed my GPS

The web updater crashed while updating, and after that all I got was a quick flash of light on when starting the etrex and that was it. Sounds like the exact thing you got. Here's the catch ... I downloaded the relevant files to update and fixed it using a PC, not my Mac. If you don't have access t...
by SSpranKK
Feb 06 2011 7:41 am
Forum: GPS & Electronic
Topic: Web updater crashed my GPS
Replies: 10

Re: Web updater crashed my GPS

Thanks all for the responses, I will try to find info online. If it is a common thing, it's sad that a company charges money to fix their own known "bug".
Thanks
by SSpranKK
Feb 05 2011 3:35 pm
Forum: GPS & Electronic
Topic: Web updater crashed my GPS
Replies: 10

Re: Web updater crashed my GPS

azbackpackr wrote:First, try changing the batteries. Maybe something you did used them up quickly.
Thanks, but that was the first thing I tried. I think it got wiped clean, Their was an error during the update that shut it down.
by SSpranKK
Feb 05 2011 2:34 pm
Forum: GPS & Electronic
Topic: Web updater crashed my GPS
Replies: 10

Web updater crashed my GPS

Hello, Sorry if this is a old topic, I did search for it but to no avail. I have a Garmin eTrex Venture HC and just hooked it up to the computer to do the 3.30 update with wed updater and now my device is a $170 paper weight. Any one experience this before, or knnow a fix. I press the power button o...
by SSpranKK
Dec 28 2010 7:33 am
Forum: Trail Chat
Topic: little info please
Replies: 5

Re: little info please

Sorry... I haven't heard of any particular name for that area. If by chance, your objective was in fact the butte above the Massacre Grounds or Massacre Falls itself, from Jacob's Crosscut TH you will want to head in a slightly more easterly direction when leaving the TH, and you should start comin...
by SSpranKK
Dec 24 2010 12:34 pm
Forum: Trail Chat
Topic: little info please
Replies: 5

Re: little info please

I think the area you're talking about is included in this hike: Praying Hands Loop http://hikearizona.com/decoder.php?ZTN=2326 I don't think the area has any special name, though. Ah yes I do see part of it on the "praying hands loop map" except I have been continuing up past the 3rd form...
by SSpranKK
Dec 24 2010 9:37 am
Forum: Trail Chat
Topic: little info please
Replies: 5

little info please

I am a little confused about an area I have been hiking. I thought it was "massacre" trail/falls area. I looked into and found that Massacre falls is more to the south of where I have been going. I have been starting at Jacobs CC, heading striaght up a small unmarked trail that meets up wi...
by SSpranKK
Nov 01 2010 6:11 am
Forum: Packs
Topic: how do you clean/disenfect your hydration pack?
Replies: 43

Re: how do you clean/disenfect your hydration pack?

I usually use soap or bleach and multiple rinses of hot water. Air dry and then I store my bladder and hose in the freezer between uses,keeps anything from growing in it.

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