What happened to my 66i after update??? no route planner, no reverse route, no proximity alarms to start with

I would really appreciate some help with this. and thank you in advance for your assistance

From the main Menu, hit Menu again and select Change Item Order. From the list, see if the Route Planner is available to add. If so, select it and choose Insert. If not, you could try a Reset from the Setup Menu.

Thank you very much for your help.

I tried your suggestion route planner does not exist.

However if I click FIND I do see routes. When I open routes all my routes are in there. In the main menu there is a new COURSE PLANNER. It provides no option other than create course which then asks me to select the first point.

Those options are useless to me. I need to be able to select a route, enable notifications for waypoints, and reverse the route. All basic stuff that I have used on my Garmin units for the last 20 plus years.

I think the route planner and all of its features have been deleted for whatever reason

I am not sure what is going on with the software, but you have some work-arounds.

Courses, Routes and Tracks can all be converted to each other. The difference between a Course and a Route is that the Route Planner only requires a destination (because software assumes you're starting from your current location) and the Course Planner requires both a destination and a starting point. The file types are also different (Course is FIT and Route is GPX). Tracks are also GPX, but the software doesn't give you much instruction (only "on course" or "off course"). 

If you find Routes in the FIND menu, it's probably not deleted. I don't find Routes in the FIND menu, only in the main menu. I think I used to have Routes and Courses in the FIND menu, but they seem to be missing, They are in my main Menu.

I guess I"m lucky because I only use Tracks!

I FOUND A SOLUTION - actually an answer to one of your previous posts. I will post a separate thread to help others searching for at least one of these problems.

the Route Planner is in the system, but needs to be listed in the menu

Open -  MAIN MENU     click on MENU button,   Select CHANGE ITEM ORDER ,  scroll up to and select ADD PAGE, Select APPLICATIONS and in my 66i iRoute Planner was listed there. Select ROUTE PLANNER, click ENTER and it should appear in the Main Menu listing

Test it - go to MAIN MENU Route Planner should be at the very bottom of the page (you can move it later) +select ROUTE PLANNER, select & click on the route you want, press MENU button, then select REVERSE ROUTE. Interesting that you can also save the route as a course. I'll never use that but there it is. on my 66i, Route Planner is found in the main menu, Routes is found after clicking Find.

As for the proximity alarms, I think I know what happened and if so it was my fault. It is enabled, all my original settings are there. At the time I noticed I no longer had the alarms, I was walking a route back to the trailhead. I could not reverse the route, so as far as the GPS was concerned, I was walking it 'backwards', no alarms. I'll test it tomorrow and reply again with the results.

Thank you for your assistance and my apologies to the community for my snarky original post. Just a bit frustrated.

Great!

Great!

A Course is kind of a combination between a Track and a Route. It was first introduced on the Garmin fitness devices like the Edge cycling computers.

The benefit is that it provides you with a trace of the path independent of the map being used (like a Track) and still allows for turn-by-turn instructions when following that path (like a Route), depending on how you configured your device.

profiles:

when I first managed to have the unit set up as I want it, meaning also all the icons in place and all possible settings to be as I want it, I create a profile for that and give it a name I understand.

I copy the profile then to my computer, repectively to my home server or cloud or what ever.

When there is a need to make a reset og the unit, I simply copy back the profile from my backup storage to the profile folder under garmin.

Go to profile change and select the profile I created so previously.

All settings should be now as they were before.

(with some minor exceptions)