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Very strange that yours is taking so long to load a map.

I am beginning to think that this model is flawed. Mine gives incorrect "stopped time" when hiking. E.g. If I walk about 10 minutes, NON-STOP, it will record about 3 minutes of STOPPED time. This defeats the purpose of monitoring average speeds, etc.

I bought the eTrex20x and it had this same problem. So I returned it and now this 30x is doing the same thing. Very frustrating.

Throughout this process, I have learned how to make my own custom maps, so perhaps this was a blessing in disguise.

I have a lot of high quality printed maps & images of the places I hike, kayak, etc., and I am finding that it's better to just use the scanned images that I have, to make into custom maps.

I never even knew you could do that. It would be more helpful if Garmin made it easier to find info about their products. Some of the info in the manuals is very vague.

Thanks for the responses.

Thanks a bunch for the response.

I tried the following to bypass using BaseCamp: I copied a single .IMG file, using drag & drop in Windows Explorer, and that particular section of map works just fine on my GPS unit.

The problem is that there are HUNDREDS of individual .IMG files and there is no way to know which one is which. So even if I only wanted a few dozen of them, I don't know which ones to choose. Otherwise, I would just copy them manually like I did with test file.

If somebody else has any knowledge of what's going on, I would greatly appreciate you sharing it.

All the maps which I downloaded show up in BaseCamp. They even appear to load to the GPS unit successfully. Everything goes smoothly. But the maps are not showing up in the GPS unit. But when I open Windows Explorer, all the map files are there.

This is a brand new unit, with the latest software, and all the maps that I am trying to load worked just fine in a previous model.

Also, at one point, one of the maps did show up, but it's random, and now they will not show up.

Any thoughts on why these maps are not showing up in the unit?