Geocaching List Syncing Details [Bug 9]

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Geocaching List Syncing Details [Bug 9]

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Has anyone found a way to push this to finish? I had synced like 4 or 5 lists and then the next one got stuck. It won't let me download live caches when it gets stuck.
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Re: Geocaching List Syncing Details [Bug 9]

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I usually have to reboot and start over.

Which firmware version, how many lists, how many geocaches in each list? Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connection?
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Re: Geocaching List Syncing Details [Bug 9]

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FW - 5.50
It happens when I hit about the 5th list.
Do you mean total caches across all lists or just for the one that hung?
The one that hung had 52, but by that point I probably had 2-300 total synced.
This happens on Bluetooth or Wifi.
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Re: Geocaching List Syncing Details [Bug 9]

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Ah, so each list is less than 100 geocaches...

Does it hang up every time on the same list?
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Not usually if I am rememberiing correctly. I wonder if a process on the GPS gets hung and then it can't recover from it.
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So last night I factory reset and was going to just use live downloads (no Lists). It worked ok but this morning I went to download just a single list of 60 geocaches. It said it downloaded the basic details but then when seeing it in the list it's showing "Syncing details - 48%" and seems stuck. For a single list!
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Good News :)

We were able to reproduce GC List Syncing issues with our GPSMAP 66sr also!

Bad News :(

We were unable to complete any list downloads - even though the 66sr indicated the list was downloaded, it still showed as Not Synced afterward!

We have submitted a bug report to Garmin, and we suggest others do the same.

See GPSrChive > GPSMAP 66sr > Common Issues for details on how to do that!
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Re: Geocaching List Syncing Details [Bug 9]

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More odd behavior from this. When I sync lists, it doesn't grab the entire list most often so when I am going along it sometimes will not show a cache that I know is on the list. Has anyone else seen this? I can manually search for it and get the details but it won't show it on the map.
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