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Corrupt courses sync from Explore

I’m finding in the last few weeks that if I sync a course from Garmin explore (any method does this but I use selective sync) then the course appears to be corrupt on the device and displays weirdly on the map. Trying to record an activity if you have selected such a course for navigation results in no navigation and the resulting fit file from the activity also corrupts at around 25kb.

Ive tried deleting all activities, repairing with explore and different GPX course files. Nothing works. Recording an activity without the course is fine and if I manually add the same course file to the device it’s also fine (although explore deletes it on the next sync).

The only thing changed is recently buying an Inreach mini. I also changed the email I login to explore with although I’ve logged out and in again.

Any thoughts? It’s fairly urgent that I fix this

0 TKERBY over 3 years ago

This is how the courses show on a map after uploading. Should also note that it worked fine previously. The map updated a few weeks ago but normal map display is fine. It’s bot running the latest firmware with the stalled rollout

0 TKERBY over 3 years ago

Looks like the gpx is converted in explore to a fit file which seems to have the right headers to get the course distance etc but no actual course points. Analysed after pulling the files from the watch,

0 ondrejbrablc over 3 years ago

I'm getting this only sometimes and only with Connect. Sometimes watch (Fenix 6Pro) reboot helps. But I was able to import the same gpx file to Export and sync from there fine.

I guess the problem must be in watch when receiving thr data.

0 ondrejbrablc over 3 years ago

Things changed on my device, instead of the pattern that can be seen on your picture, I now had blank screen with coordinates grid. It looked as if it opened the map with location N22 E22 (somewhere in Africa), I was able to pan back to Europe, and saw my position, but during zooming the position disappeared. Anyways I have found this post https://www.reddit.com/r/GarminFenix/comments/qbcm0w/blank_mapno_course_showing_on_new_courses_i_sync/ and in my Garmin/Courses my there was a file .fit which I deleted using the USB cable and now it seems to work (may be too soon to know this for sure).