Garmin GPS - GPSMAP 276C and software version 4.10

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GPSMAP 276C and software version 4.10

gilx

2006-04-28, 2:48 am

Anybody have a chance to check out this upgrade? It seems like Garmin ran
through a couple upgrades in quick succession: 3.91 and 4.0, both of which
apparently had problems. Did 4.1 fix them? Is it worth it to upgrade from
3.7?

Dirk Straka

2006-04-28, 5:48 pm

gilx wrote:

> Anybody have a chance to check out this upgrade? It seems like
> Garmin ran through a couple upgrades in quick succession: 3.91
> and 4.0, both of which apparently had problems.

There have been not just two but four crappy versions (you forgot
3.92 & 3.93, both beta, like 3.91). Very poor software development
and - seemingly - no software quality management at all. :o/

> Did 4.1 fix them?

Most of them. Voice guidance is still not perfect but usable
(sometimes instructions are incomplete); few users reporting
inferior reception, but this is not proven and may depend on
satellite constellation, too; address search is worse cause
you have to scroll through all letters now even if there's no
matching entry; route calculation takes longer then before.

OTOH voice guidance is slightly improved (last hint will not be
e. g. 100 m ahead of the turn, but very close to the turn, thus
it's easier to drive w/o looking at the display); when leaving
the route, recalculation starts earlier; "Avoid Highways" and
"Custom Road Prefs" work better, i. e. more sensible, than before.

> Is it worth it to upgrade from 3.7?

It depends. ;o) With regard to my very bad experiences with
3.91, 3.92 and 3.93 I've gone back to 3.70, waiting for 4.20.
Maybe 4.10 is indeed better than 3.70, but as I feel perfectly
fine with 3.70, I will not change my running system. Perhaps
4.20 gets better responses ...?

Suppose this was not very helpful - sorry, but that's it! ;o)

Greets, Dirk
--
Programming is like sex -
one mistake and you'll spend a lifetime supporting it

Larry D Gibbs

2006-05-16, 11:48 pm

I was using my 276C today with 4.10 installed and several times it shut down
by itself for some reason. I thought it had quit working completely because
it would try to restart over and over again until finally it showed a
message that it was going to restart and to press a key so I did and it
seemed to work after that. I don't know if this has anything to do with 4.10
or not. Ha anyone else experienced this?

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> Anybody have a chance to check out this upgrade? It seems like Garmin ran
> through a couple upgrades in quick succession: 3.91 and 4.0, both of which
> apparently had problems. Did 4.1 fix them? Is it worth it to upgrade
> from 3.7?
>

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