Just an update warning for those with the Oregon. There have been a few firmware updates this year, a few recent ones.
5.10 was released on 08 JUN 17 - I did not see much change in this from V5.00
Changes made from version 5.00 to 5.10:
Improve NMEA sentence ouput.
5.20 was released 10 NOV 17 - This was a horrible update. The screen display was negatively impacted. Icons were there but there were errors in the display. Thankfully Garmin removed the firmware 11 days later on 21 NOV 17.
Changes made from version 5.10 to 5.20:
New GPS Version: 53001
Fixed potential GPS issue.
5.30 was released 28 NOV 17 - there may be issues with this firmware release.
Changes made from version 5.10 to 5.30:
New GPS Version: 53001
Fixed potential GPS issue.
I'm not sure what the GPS firmware update to 53001 did, or the "potential GPS" issue, but this 5.30 firmware isn't great at the moment. It appears to muck around the track logs. Tracks record, but the recorded distances do not change on the display. Anyone else experience this?
I would hold off on updating to this 5.30 firmware at this point in time.
While I'm happy Garmin keep firmware updates on a mature (now superseded) model, I wish their software guys do more testing before unleashing faulty firmwares on these devices. The user pool is fairly low, and a lot of users not regularly updating their firmware, feed back about the errors can take a while to get back to Garmin and for them to fix it.
So for me, as at December 2017, the best firmware for the Oregon 6xx series to be on are either 5.00 or 5.10.As an addendum, those with Etrex 20/30s, a firmware 4.60 was released 4 Dec 17. It skipped a few (from previous 4.30) which usually means it was withdrawn by Garmin. There only seems to be minor changes:
Changes made from version 4.30 to 4.60:
Improved detection of USB connection to a PC.