I noticed that since new the Montana 700 was very slow to start up to a usable state after putting a new waypoint file on it.
Just updated my personal waypoint file with a few new ones and pasted it to the 700, deleting the old file first as I always do with my Garmin devices.
It's a .gpx file containing 791 waypoints.
Included the xml header etc. and all the waypoints have the same format as between the <wpt </wpt> tags.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gpx version="1.0" creator="GPSBabel - https://www.gpsbabel.org" xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/0">
<time>2023-04-14T11:40:24.607Z</time>
<bounds minlat="-25.289173000" minlon="0.000000000" maxlat="0.000000000" maxlon="152.287072000"/>
<wpt lat="0.000000000" lon="0.000000000">
<name>WPT791</name>
<cmt>WPT791</cmt>
<desc>WPT791</desc>
<sym>City (Small)</sym>
</wpt>
</gpx>
I never have any issues with this waypoint file, except the 700's slow first startup when a new file is added to the device, and the old file is always deleted first.
I remembered to time it tonight after adding the updated .gpx file.
On first startup after adding the file the 700 takes 4 minutes 20 seconds from pressing the power button until it can be used.
After the first startup it then starts much faster, as expected.
For comparison, a 276CX with the exact same file added takes 34 seconds at first startup from pressing the power button until it's usable.
And a Montana 610 takes 44 seconds at first startup from pressing the power button until it's usable.
Any ideas why the poor startup time on the 700?
Is it indexing the entire .gpx file before starting up to a usable state where the 276CX & 610 do not?
If it was a file with near the 10,000 waypoint limit it would probably take a week before it's usable