[BaseCamp] Zumo 396 won't connect to computer
Jerry White
jerrywhite518 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 4 12:01:48 PST 2020
Oh that's an interesting idea. What would the correct folder be?
On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 11:36 AM Eric Bray <edb4378 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you have a SD card in the Garmin, you could take it out, connect it to
> your computer using a SD card reader, and then manually add the .gpx files
> directly from your computer. Once you reinsert the SD card (assuming you
> put them in the correct folder), Garmin should see them. I have manually
> added .gpx files to a Montana (never tried with a Zumo), but I don't see
> why this wouldn't work. Good luck.
>
> Eric Bray
> Alexandria, VA
>
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 2:13 PM Jerry White <jerrywhite518 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have a problem that's gone from bad to worse and now it's completely
> > broken. My 396 refuses to connect to my laptop so I can move data from
> > Basecamp to it.
> >
> > I plug it into a USB cable (have tried multiple cables) and into the
> > laptop. It says "USB Connection detected" and counts down from 20 to
> zero.
> > Then it switches to the screen with Garmin in large letters, and an icon
> of
> > the GPS connected to a tower computer. That icon is sometimes white and
> > sometimes orange. No matter what color it is, it never appears as a
> mounted
> > drive in Windows, and it never appears in Basecamp.
> >
> > I have gone into the secret menu and changed the MTP settings to all of
> the
> > available options. Nothing ever works.
> >
> > This is very frustrating because I'm about to go on a week-long trip and
> I
> > want to put my stuff into the GPS. Garmin support is of course closed on
> > weekends. Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Jerry
> >
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