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RickyT wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 7:05 pm The ° sign is still missing in position format.
Example: N 5249.1000 E 01414.2000 instead of N 52° 49.1000 E 014° 14.2000

I hope it will be fixed with Firmware Version 3.20, in 2.10 it was right

Since 3.10 I have the same problem . Have you already fixed the problem? Firmware 3.00 worked without any formatting issues.

paaast wrote: Wed Jul 24, 2019 6:31 pm

RickyT wrote: Fri Jul 05, 2019 7:05 pm The ° sign is still missing in position format.
Example: N 5249.1000 E 01414.2000 instead of N 52° 49.1000 E 014° 14.2000

I hope it will be fixed with Firmware Version 3.20, in 2.10 it was right

Since 3.10 I have the same problem . Have you already fixed the problem? Firmware 3.00 worked without any formatting issues.

Cant seem to duplicate this fault. Can you post screen captures, please?

Here some screenshots with firmware 3.10

Perfect! Thank You!

Is your Language set to 'German'?

gpsrchive wrote: Thu Jul 25, 2019 5:52 pm Perfect! Thank You!

Is your Language set to 'German'?

Yes, but even if I change the language to english, the problem persists.
I have already tried a factory reset, no change.

That makes it even more interesting!

Added to the GPSMAP 66 Common Issues page as Bug 61, and reported to the Garmin software engineering team!

Gpsrchive, do you know how many people are engineering the gpsmap66-sosftware?

No, I do not.

Fix for missing ° symbol:

The ° symbol may fail to display if specific font files are inadvertently removed from the GPSr, either intentionally or accidentally.

These files can be found in the Garmin\ExtData directory on the GPSr. There should be four *.bin files here.

To recover these files, connect your GPSr to your computer, open Garmin Express, allow any syncing to complete, then navigate to Tools and Content > Utilities > Optional Updates > Language Files.

Select any/all available files and click [Install Now]:


Once complete, reboot the GPSr and check to see if your ° symbol has returned and let us know.

We just tested this method on our GPSMAP 66 and it corrected the issue for us!

Thank You!

Great, that worked.

The sign is back and the coordinates are displayed correctly.
Before this step the folder ExtData was missing.
I can't explain why it didn't exist.

Thank you very much for the help