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Old 12-28-2016, 10:47 AM
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One thing I have found is that if I plug it into the wall charger, it turns on. If I turn it off after it powers up, the screen stays black and there's no indication that any charging is occurring. I'm still not sure if it charges in this state or not.
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Old 12-28-2016, 03:05 PM
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One thing I have found is that if I plug it into the wall charger, it turns on. If I turn it off after it powers up, the screen stays black and there's no indication that any charging is occurring. I'm still not sure if it charges in this state or not.

I sort of wondered this too. I noticed the same thing.

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Old 12-28-2016, 03:10 PM
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If I remember when I turned my off here at home it faintly said "charging" or something like that on the screen.
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Old 12-28-2016, 05:40 PM
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Update......
I did the update last night and put it on the wall charger. It powered on as soon as I plugged it in so I turned it off, screen is black. Took it off the charger this evening, wouldn't power up, r&R battery, came on. But, it was one bar LESS on the battery condition than when I put it on the charger last night.

So......looks like I'm back to square one.
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Old 12-28-2016, 06:29 PM
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Is there a way to turn off the background? I mean the green/yellow shading.

I can do it by selecting the decluter. But I have to do that every time. and when it auto zooms in the back ground comes back.

I really don't see the point of the green/yellow. For me it just detracts from the clarity.
Hello Tomww,

It seems you are referring to Topo Shading. From the map page select Menu and deselect Topo Shading.

See page 23 of the Rev. B manual.

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Old 12-28-2016, 06:47 PM
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Another thing I noticed was, the battery indicator never did show "fully charged". Even after being on the charger for 24 hrs. I'll check it this evening to see if that was something else with the update.
Hello RV10Man,

Page 3 of the Rev. B manual explains that a new battery will not show full charge until discharged and charged back up. The battery pack includes a battery fuel gauge IC that needs to "learn" the capacity of this battery and will adjust for the meaning of "full charge" as the battery pack ages.

Page 3 of the manual also explains how battery charging mode works when you turn the unit off after plugging in the wall charger.

We keep hoping you will contact us with regard to the issue you keep reporting with needing to remove and re-install the battery pack. Please email G3Xpert@garmin.com so we can work this issue with you.

It seems possible that you have a slightly bent battery contact that is barely making connection with the battery pack that re-establishes this connection each time the battery is removed and re-installed.

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Old 12-28-2016, 06:53 PM
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Hello RV10Man,

Page 3 of the Rev. B manual explains that a new battery will not show full charge until discharged and charged back up. The battery pack includes a battery fuel gauge IC that needs to "learn" the capacity of this battery and will adjust for the meaning of "full charge" as the battery pack ages.

Page 3 of the manual also explains how battery charging mode works when you turn the unit off after plugging in the wall charger.

We keep hoping you will contact us with regard to the issue you keep reporting with needing to remove and re-install the battery pack. Please email G3Xpert@garmin.com so we can work this issue with you.

It seems possible that you have a slightly bent battery contact that is barely making connection with the battery pack that re-establishes this connection each time the battery is removed and re-installed.

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Steve

Thanks Steve. I will contact you.
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Old 12-29-2016, 11:02 AM
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Hello Tomww,

It seems you are referring to Topo Shading. From the map page select Menu and deselect Topo Shading.

See page 23 of the Rev. B manual.

Thanks,
Steve
Hi Steve

That was what I meant, sorry I wasn't very clear.

I had tried what you suggested and it didn't work, lots of times before posting on here. I just sat here for several minuets reading the manual and doing it, then reseting it, then turning it off gain. I was getting a bit fed up.

Then I took the SD card out of the slot. Now it works fine! Not only that the topo shading is far better than it was. But I will probably leave it of most of the time as we don't hve much in the way of mountains here in the UK.
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Old 12-29-2016, 11:25 AM
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Hi Steve

That was what I meant, sorry I wasn't very clear.

I had tried what you suggested and it didn't work, lots of times before posting on here. I just sat here for several minuets reading the manual and doing it, then reseting it, then turning it off gain. I was getting a bit fed up.

Then I took the SD card out of the slot. Now it works fine! Not only that the topo shading is far better than it was. But I will probably leave it of most of the time as we don't hve much in the way of mountains here in the UK.
Hello Tom,

Ok, that makes sense.

All Aera 660 units come with a worldwide basemap that generally gets the job done, but the Atlantic units also ship with an SD card that includes quite a bit of additional enhanced basemap detail for Europe.

Obviously too much detail for your taste, so just leave the SD card out of the unit and it will work fine.

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Old 12-29-2016, 12:48 PM
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Overall Garmin Portable lineage question.

Is there a chart that gives the specs of the 660/795/796 side by side?

The 660 appears to be recently available and may contain newer processor/speed over the older 795/796? Are newer 795/796 models coming soon? Any time horizon we may consider for this?
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