My 496 borke the other day. Actually, the recepticle for the power supply came loose so I can't charge it or get my waypoints out of it. A friend loaned me his 496, is there another way to get the waypoints out of mine and gut them into the borrowed one. Chace a memeory card/go though a different port????????
Thanks Gary

Not sure Gary, but I got into the habit of downloading my trips and way points after each trip to my laptop (Map Source program).

Hey Pat
That might work for in the future, doesn't do much for me right now. bUT i DON'T REALLY LIKE tAKINGIT IN AND OUT JUST FOR THIS REASON. i HAVE ONLY TAKEN IT OUT A FEW TIMEs TO PUT MY WAYpoiints on friends GPS's.

Well, sorry I'm useless to you right now

shortfielder wrote:My 496 borke the other day. Actually, the recepticle for the power supply came loose so I can't charge it or get my waypoints out of it. A friend loaned me his 496, is there another way to get the waypoints out of mine and gut them into the borrowed one. Chace a memeory card/go though a different port????????
Thanks Gary

Easy to do. Here you go.


http://www.easygps.com/

If you plug it into a USB port on your machine, it may provide enough phantom power to allow transfer of data from the onboard memory.

EasyGPS is good. GPS Babel is also good.

If you have battery life left, the mini-usb to USB cable should upload and download everything just fine. If you don't, that's the same battery that's used on all 296, 396, 495, 496, and 276C chartplotters - so swap out the battery from your friend's GPS and dig in your box of stuff it came with to find the cable (or get another at a computer store, or from your friend), and the basic mapsource program to download waypoints, routes, and tracks to. If you have another GPS program, or a similar cable, works fine. Heck, I usually use a cable that came with my camera and mapsource topo 2008, works great.

For the future, for swapping waypoints / tracks:

If you have the GPS waypoints / tracks / maps loaded on your computer and a card reader for the optional memory chip, you can load them onto the memory card. When loading your GPS plugged into the computer, tracks and waypoints write to internal memory and only maps write to the memory chip. However, if they are loaded on your card via card reader, your computer reads the waypoints same as if they were loaded in internal memory.

If you're going to send the GPS into Garmin for a warranty (or even an out-of-warranty) repair, pull the optional memory chip (if you have it), the antenna if you have any other the stick it came with, the case, and send only the GPS. Do your darndest to pull all the info off, first, as well - Garmin usually just swaps the broken unit for a refurbished unit, and half the time doesn't check to see if you had additional stuff with it / move the stuff over, and does not transfer data over. (Hey, I can hope if you call and ask and plead and include a letter with, they might, but I haven't seen them do it, so I state it as a sweeping absolute.)