Current problems of Montana 700i/750i? PLEASE SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE!

Hi,

I was seriously considering buying the 700i GPS for its simple touch screen. But oh boy... Have I been scared from all the bad reviews, negatives from blog posts and on-going reported problems on this forum that Garmin did not fix for years (!!!). So now I just want to ask you so I know for sure.

Is the restarting issues, or "sudden death" problems still an isue with the absolute latest firmware of the Montana 700i (or 750i)?
What is your experience for your last usage?

I planned to use it for my yacht where people back home would track me 24/7 to make sure im safe. But with these restarting issues or that it turns itself off all of a sudden... That is perhaps not the best solution, unless they fixed it. Please be honest and share your experience.

I noticed that Garmin support Leslie is often on this forum responding and helping as best as they can which is good. But I just cant understand, as a tech engineer myself, how they can't solve this issue. For the amount of years this have taken to solve, while they still ship out defective device it seems like, its a bit of a shame put to the Garmin brand I got to say. Its not hard to troubleshoot hardware or software. Why is it taking so long? And why is Garmin still selling these devices, years after they first heard about the problem and still did not manage to fix it (it seems like)? Out of respect for peoples money, safety and security, perhaps stop selling a device thats not working correctly until its fixed. Some Garmin-CEO would say "ohh no we cant, its embarassing for the brand". Well dont you think its a bigger embarassment to sell defective devices out of the box, for years? :P Maybe its just me who thinks that...

But agian- maybe its fixed. So please let me know ALLLLLL your experiences :))

Thanks a lot in advance!!

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Garmin-Leslie 1 month ago +1 verified

Hello, if you have a Montana and are experiencing shut down issues we would ask that you contact Product Support directly for assistance with your device. We take each customers shut down issue on a case…
HammyUK1 1 month ago in reply to Garmin-Leslie +4

Trotting out the standard copy and paste reply is not endearing you to the community Leslie.

Fixing very well known and documented issues will however.
HammyUK1 2 months ago +1

It still is not fixed. All Garmin do is send out another replacement device.

It seems the issue is when there is more than two map sets on the device. It simply cannot cope.

Delete one and it works again…

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0 HammyUK1 1 month ago in reply to 7967165

Try rolling the firmware back to 19.0 first. The XT 2 has similar issues.

Easy enough to find it. Simply drag it into the main Garmin folder whilst connected to the laptop then disconnect it. When you start it it’ll install it. Ignore the warning about it being older software.

0 GertBez 1 month ago in reply to PeterJMolloy

I also think it is a piece of sh..... T. It cannot even navigate and find simple address. It is causing Garmin brand damage, and they don't care.

0 HammyUK1 1 month ago in reply to GertBez

If you can’t use it to find an address - it’s not the device that’s the issue.

0 PeterJMolloy 1 month ago in reply to HammyUK1

Not true. If you know the street name but not the number and take a guess you just hope it finds that number because if it doesn't it will tell you there are no results and to retry your search, you then have to re-enter all of the information which is an antiquated and clunky process which compared to Google maps is like you're trying to find Jesus's address carved in stone.