FrankoQ

This is the same tent I bought today.

This thread covers rules and hand signals: http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=42389

I found the reset instructions in zumoforums.com That's a good place you can go look for information and/or post about your bad experience with the Z. Maybe they can help you recover your data. My Z has been flawless until now, but your experience makes me consider back up procedures just in case. Hope there is a satisfactory ending to this.

To reset the Z. Soft reset: remove battery or pressing and holding the two hard buttons on the top left and bottom right. No data is deleted in a soft reset. Hard reset: First turn the unit OFF, then HOLD your thumb on the furthest bottom right hand corner of the screen, push as far into the corner as you can on the screen itself. While holding your thumb/finger on the screen press and hold the POWER ON button until you see the ZUMO splash screen, once the splash screen is up you can release the power, but continue to hold your thumb in the right corner of the screen for another 5 - 10 seconds, you should see a window that pops up and asks "Do you really want to erase all user data?", make sure to answer YES to this window

Mmmm... Mine has been ok... for now. I better add the allen wrench to my tank bag. How do you do a hard reset on the unit? (too lazy to go look it up in the manual)

Terrible. Sorry to hear about your Z problem.

So, I had a nice 200 mile ride on sunday... with the Z of course. Someone else in the group had a Z too and set the route. I finally got to see how the logs work. My goal was to grab the log of the trip and make it into a route which I later wanted to edit. After the ride, I went to the logs in the Z, selected the log I wanted to convert to route and done! Then I hooked the Z to the laptop, opened mapsource, and uploaded the stuff from the Z. First, I noticed that the upload just grabs all the stuff from the Z. So the stuff I downloaded to the Z came back. :fing02: Oh well... I deleted all the other stuff and finally had just that new route. That is where I am. I hope tonight I will be able to see how easy it is to modify this route. I want to change a few things like start and end. Also, I'd like to break this route into 2 routes. So far, the Z rocks!

So... did you get it?

Nice. background image updated! :fing02:

Routes and Tracks: This might have been covered already. I downloaded some Tracks from the internet. I wanted to make them into Routes. You can't in mapsource. What you can do is open the track and start tracing a route following the track. then you can delete the track and you end up with the route. Unless your route takes you back to the starting point, make sure you have another route that takes you back to the starting point. The Z does not have a built in "reverse route" button.

Nada. It seems there is no other way.

Battery meter: If I unplug the Z from external power, then the battery meter shows up. if I plug it to the ac outlet to charge the battery, the battery meter is gone. :biggrin: I want to be able to see the progress of the battery charging. How can I do that? I went to the main screen where I can see the battery meter, plugged it to power source, battery meter gone.

MP3s: Keep your MP3s in the SD card. Create subfolders so not all files are on the same directory. Apparently, that helps with performance of the Z. BTW, the Z comes preloaded with some MP3s. Horrible songs. I found this the hard way... So there I was on my test ride of the Z. Listening to the MP3s I preloaded to the SD card. Then, a song ended, and a totally weird song started. wtf? I don't have that kind of music! abort abort. That's when I realized, I needed a quick way to switch from map to mp3 screen. anyway, I had to navigate the menus while riding to skip this horrible song. This happened about 3 times. Well, it turns out the Z apparently was mixing the files from the SD card and the ones preloaded. I just DELETED all those preloaded MP3s. The Z now has 48 free megs.

I'll keep posting my findings as I continue to play with this toy. I love it. I keep comparing it to my old Magellan so here it goes... POIs: I learned how to load several categories of custom POIs. Yeah!!! But now I find out that in the zumo, you either have all POIs on the display or none. In the Magellan, you can customize which POI icons you want to see on display. A good example where this makes a difference... While riding, the least you have to look at the GPS the better. I used to just give it a glance to see if there were any red light cams coming up on my road. With the Magellan, I could do this by just selecting red light cams POIs to display. The screen would be clean of other icons. With the zumo, I guess you would need to take a longer look to find the red cams among the sea of POI icons. One advantage on the zumo is that you can set proximity alerts. But the prox. alert gives you a visual alert on the screen and a voice alert. The voice alert will only work if you have a hearing device (earphones or bt headset). Auto shut off: My old magellan, when running on batteries, would shut off after 15 minutes of no movement/activity. I left the zumo on for over an hour and it was still on. I'm yet to find a setting for this. For now, I assume it does not exist.

My answer to the wife... Sorry honey, I'm still learning my way with this gizmo... I can't make it work with my cellphone... lol :biggrin:

Regarding loading POIs... Instead of repeating information, I'll just point you to a thread in zumoforums. Look for Motorcycle Mama's explanation. http://www.zumoforums.com/index.php?topic=5106.0

Ok now how do you view the tracks in the Zumo?

I might just do a new thread on how to add custom POIs. There are a few threads about that already. I'll check them to make sure I'm not repeating info. I found a thread in zumoforums.com about this. In short, the options are: - Like you said, try to fiddle the zumo to backtrack (this is a pain if you don't remember the route and requires a lot of stops) - when you build a route, make sure you build a copy of that route and do a "reverse route" in mapsource. make sure you review the reversed route to make sure it follows your original route. You end up with 2 routes: one to go from A to B and one to go from B to A. - Oh just click the "go home" button. This of course will likely take you on roads you don't want to take. - just build a second route for the way back. You are my hero. :fing02: I can live with that... I have no choice. hehe.

I went for a ride today mainly to test the zumo. The setup: I had a route loaded, a list of Speed and redlight cam POIs, I had an SD card with music, and I had earphones. A few observations... - 1/4 mile before getting to a POI location, I got a warning voice and visual message. - The route worked fine - I think I got Gill upset, I took a little detour and her tone when saying "Recalculating" did not sound nice. I also got some "turn LEFT" that sounded like she was really getting upset from me not doing what she wanted. - Now I got to my destination and I want to go back. :rolleyes: - how do I reverse my route to get back to my starting point? - It was great to just have one device for GPS and music. - I wish there was a quick way to switch from the map and the MP3 screen. or better yet, have both on a split screen like the nav in my bimmer. - I wish the headphone jack was on the actual unit and not in the cradle. if I want to get off the bike and go somewhere and keep listening to music... I can't. Also, if I remove the keys from the ignition, keep the zumo on battery, and try to listen to music, I can't. The cradle has no power. - All in all, I'm REALLY happy with this device.

I take a minute to salute BonusVFR for this thread. My only complaint is that there are not enough umbrella girl pics. Back on topic... I was able to load routes and created my own route too. I was also able to load my list of red light cams and speed cams. I'm going for a ride today and will see how this baby works. Wish me luck!

I went back to page 1 on this thread to start reading about using mapsource. Just as an FYI, some of the links to zumoforums.com take you to a "page not found"

Maps took a while to download but they are done and installed. Next was to install the mapsource software. I got confused here... once I started the mapsource software, it gave me a message about unlocking the maps. wtf? (mental note... why oh why do I need to unlock maps?) so I go thru the wizard to unlock the maps, I enter the 25 character code, it says they are unlocked and done. I open mapsource and it tells me again to unlock maps. :biggrin: I repeat about 5 times, reboot PC, try and try again. the same. I finally notice that the wizard has an option to grab unlock code from the zumo itself. Let's try that... it worked!!! Now, I have no clue on how to use mapsource. I opened a route file I got from a friend. It opens, but not sure how to modify it. I was able to sync it to the zumo. I started to create a new route and I think I got it after playing with the tool. I need to go back to read more about all this. but why does the route on the map change from yellow to purple? what's the diff between a route and a track. Do I need waypoints on my starting and ending points? I'm sure I'll find my answers reading this thread or the manual. ok, back to mapsource...

Well, here is where I'm so far... Zumo ordered on Thursday night. Zumo arrives sat. morning. Installed Blue Sea fuse box to bike ran wires from zumo to blue sea fuse box Registered zumo Downloaded latest firmware 4.2 (the unit came with 3.7) Installed latest firmware Currently downloading free update to maps.

Thanks. I did some research and 12 gauge seems what is used to hook up the fuse box.

I forgot... what gauge wire did you use to wire the fuse box to the battery? and what size fuse?