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gimporter/gexporter - import FIT/GPX courses from your Android phone

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This is the support thread of "gimporter" (Connect IQ app and widget) and the Android companion app "gexporter".

gexporter and gimporter bring GPX and FIT tracks and places from your Android phone onto your Garmin device: no cable, no upload to Garmin Connect. Free, open source, without ads and without tracking.

Features

  • Share a place, navigate there: share a place from Google Maps, Organic Maps, a chat message with coordinates or any other app to gexporter. The place arrives on the watch: press Start, choose navigation and off you go.
  • Tap a track, it's on your watch: choose a folder with your GPX/FIT files in gexporter (or share files to it), tap a track, then press Start on the watch to follow it as a course.
  • Or open gimporter on the watch and choose from the list of tracks on your phone.
  • See and delete gimporter's tracks and places on the watch from the phone.
  • GPX tracks are converted to FIT courses on the phone, with options for speed, 3D distance, course points and point reduction.

Notes

  • gexporter must be running on the phone.
  • On some devices (like the Edge 1030) you have to disable Wi-Fi on the device so it uses the phone connection.
  • The Garmin Connect app needs internet access on the phone, even though gimporter does not (a Garmin limitation).
  • Oregon, Rino, GPSMAP and eTrex devices receive the GPX track unchanged.

What's new in gimporter 7.4.0 / gexporter 20.3.0: https://harald.hoyer.xyz/gexporter-gimporter/

ConnectIQ App: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/de11adc4-fdbb-40b5-86ac-7f93b47ea5bb

ConnectIQ Widget: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/fac50ef3-77b2-466c-9f4f-4dcb2feb49a3

Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.surfsite.gexporter

Source code and issues: https://github.com/gimportexportdevs

  • in reply to #Matthias#

    No idea about if theres a topic lol..... ODD though as like I said I send them via BT even when phones in Airplane mode.. Even checked to confirm lol(even tjhough had done it three times this weekend just gone)

  • Super app.  Thank you very much.

    No wifi off required in my edge 1040 either.

    But, in the Android app could the top red field  please be removed about the ciq app not having been installed? It confused me many times to download uselessly, before neglecting it and just activating the Edge 1040 import widget at last proved the simple truth. 

  • Updated both apps: gimporter 7.4.0 and gexporter 20.3.0

    The biggest update in years. Highlights:

    Share a place, navigate there
    Found the trailhead, the car park or a meeting point on your phone? Share it to gexporter from Google Maps, Organic Maps, a chat message with coordinates or any other app. The place arrives on the watch: press Start, choose navigation and off you go. Watches with maps calculate the route there themselves.

    Tap a track, it's on your watch

    • gexporter got a new main screen: choose a folder with your GPX/FIT files, tap a track, and it is sent to the watch. gimporter is started on the watch if it is not running.
    • The watch shows the track name, and Start opens the course. Until you press Start, you can send more tracks from the phone.
    • A watch icon marks what is already on the watch.

    Manage the watch from the phone

    • gexporter lists the tracks and places gimporter has put on the watch, for the app and the widget, and deletes them with one tap or swipe.
    • Sending the same track twice no longer creates a duplicate.

    More

    • The start screen fits every display, and the version is shown in the Instinct subscreen.
    • Track lists scroll and show long names in full.
    • gexporter is now available in 29 languages.
    • New devices: Approach S72, D2 Mach 2 Pro, Edge 1060, Enduro 4, eTrex Touch, Forerunner 70, MARQ (Gen 3), Venu X1.
    • Old and new versions of the two apps work together. With an older gimporter, pick the track from the list on the watch as before.

    Details with screenshots: https://harald.hoyer.xyz/gexporter-gimporter/

    As always: if something does not work with your device, please open an issue at https://github.com/gimportexportdevs