hey all,
I've had this Inreach Explorer+ for a couple of years now, usually on the expedition plan, and have used it to track my progress sailing long passages at sea - see https://share.garmin.com/farotherside
at some point in the past few months, something has changed, and now my device apparently only sends tracking points when the screen is turned on or accessed! I don't understand.
I've checked all the settings a hundred times and can't find anything that would suggest this behaviour - I set it to (for example) "logging" tracks at 2 mins, and "sending" tracks at 5 mins. then I will put the device into the USB charging cradle thingy mounted to my binnacle, outdoors with a clear view of the sky, and wait. in thirty minutes, I go and hit any button on the Inreach, the screen lights up and I see the 'triangle' icon at the top showing an empty triangle with a flashing question mark, then the triangle becomes solid/filled, and the up/down icon flashes next to it. the tracking screen says "1 point sent". if I continue using the device for five or more minutes, it will send another point.
however, if I walk away and the screen turns off, and an hour later I return and hit a button, the same thing happens. the triangle arrow icon is empty with a question mark, then it fills and shows the up and down arrow, and then the tracking screen says "3 points sent". I have it set to 5 minute sends, and I'm actively sailing at the time, there should be *twelve* points sent!
please see my recent sail from Catalina Escarpment to San Diego on my share.garmin.com/farotherside page as an example. I was testing constantly trying every setting I could find, but nothing seemed to change matters at all. this device *used* to work perfectly - if you set the filter on the share page to 'all tracks' you can see a lot more tracking, where it would send track points every five minutes for literally weeks at a time.
I have tried holding down the X and the power button until the device reboots, multiple times now, and that seemed to make it quicker to get a GPS lock, but did not affect the "tracking points sending only when the screen is on" behaviour...
what's going on??
thanks in advance.
