Expedition mode in 8.80 ?

after update to 8.80 , I was on a mission and have set a fully charged 66i to expedition mode (auto)

Surprised that instaed this would preserve power for longe time as I was used to before, this time the battery was drained to less then 5% after abt 12hrs

Is there some bug in exp mode in 8.80?

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skyeye over 2 years ago +1

Can pls someone check with the 8.80 what the expedition mode does?

In the earlier FW, this was used to save battery power. It did not any logging, no BT or Wifi, less IR tracking points. Saving lot of…
7652493 over 2 years ago +1

It looks like version 8.80 is a step back. I recently installed it and was totally surprised how badly my device behaves now. Tracking? Forget it. Only the first point is recorded, after 2 minutes the…
skyeye over 2 years ago in reply to Jordan249 +1

I did this probably abt 30 times. It is an issue in the Firmware 8.80

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0 skyeye over 2 years ago in reply to Jordan249

great news! So I will check now daily if it comes here too (europe)

Hope they fixed some other issues as well

0 mccgsm over 2 years ago in reply to skyeye

OK, I had the 9.00 firmware update available and installed. No change log posted yet although I found one on a French GPS site and it did say if fixed "possible" problems with Expedition Mode. Hopefully this will tidy up the myriad glitches induced by the 8.80 version. Update 2.1.21: modest testing on dog walks suggests they've fixed the tracking issue, and no obvious major battery drain although I've not been able to run it several days yet. And they DID email me--except that the email referred to a problem with my "Montana." Go figure. I love Montana, but I don't own a Garmin one! But at least they did follow up after taking my email upon the initial report in December.

0 Wombo24 over 2 years ago in reply to mccgsm

Part of a long list:

• Fixed possible issues with expedition mode.

See separate discussion for the full list

0 skyeye over 2 years ago in reply to Wombo24

9.0 propagated to the old world now too.

So far I can see that some things are fixed, other issues still remaining, I reported them on 8.50 already.

I started some basic test with expedition mode now, will see how it behaves tomorrow.

0 jlg2 over 2 years ago in reply to skyeye

Hey, skyeye. If you have time to do tests on Expedition Mode. Please take notes on the battery life and on how it records elevation on a multi-hour movement with elevation continuous disabled and where you resume out of Expedition Mode and back in a couple times during the track.