Etrex 20 Total Ascent / Descent

I assume you did what it says on page 20 of the owners manual?
http://static.garmincdn.com/pumac/eTrex_10-20-30_OM_EN.pdf

If the assent goes to zero for a few seconds and then starts to increase again that is because the gps is getting readings every few seconds and even tho you are not moving the readings move a little because the satellite readings are changing a little all the time.

I have found that setting the Record Method (page 14 owners manual) to Distance and the Record Interval to 0.01 miles makes the unit work like it has auto pause. If you do not move more than 50 feet the unit does not record another trackpoint. Also does not fill up the memory with useless points based on time even tho I am not moving.

That's the weird thing! I did exactly what it says on page 20 and everything BUT the total ascent / total descent reverts back to 0. The speed, odometer, total time, etc. all reset but the ascent does not. It stays on whatever value it was (600 feet or whatever) before I did the reset.

Is this maybe a software problem?

Same thing

I can't reset the ascent either...??

Hi,

I just got a new Etrex 20 for Christmas!

I'm having trouble resetting the total ascent and total descent; I can't get them to revert back to 0. I tried resetting the data but it didn't work!

Any help would be great, thanks!
Merry Christmas!

I recommended this GPS to a friend and he now has the same problem....unable to reset total ascent....come on Garmin are you reading this???

Also why can the total ascent field not be set as a field on the main odometer page?
It can only be displayed on the map page.

Odometer can't be reset either, it could on the older Etrex. There's no logic as to why these can't be reset, and every reason for them to be resettable. Garmin say that a hard reset will clear them, but I don't want to have to hard reset every time simply to do what should be easy to accomplish. I have raised this with Garmin, don't believe the relevant folks read this forum.

I'm exactly in the same situation (can't reset total ascent /descent values). Doing a "hard reset" is not an acceptable solution. Many threads in many different forums refer to this problem and Garmin seems not to be doing anything. As far as i'm concerned, this issue was present in 2.5 firmware version and it still remains unresolved in 2.8 version. Come on Garmin it's time to do something.

Sorry Garmin but you are pretty pathetic!

I have the same problem and after update to 3.10 now can’t even display Total Ascent on Map page but,
after messing with the unit nearly daily for three weeks I have found a means to get at the data that was easily attainable in my Etrex VISTA HC, without a decent manual it is painstaking to find things by trial and error.

If you save the track that you are interested in then you can get at the data as follows:
From the main menu – select Track Manager, Select your saved track, select View Map, press menu (Key), select Review Track.
You will then be presented with a summary containing Distance, Area, Total Ascent, Total Decent, Max Elevation, and Min Elevation.

Interestingly you can do this same thing for a Route and get Travel Distance, Total Ascent, and Total Decent. (At least if you have topo data installed). For my test run the totals were significantly higher for the Route than for the actual track (45% & 25%), due I believe to the fact that roads go through cuts and fills and bridges that the topo data does not account for.

Page 15 of the manual ...