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When it's turned on, and not in the cradle, the battery icon in the upper right will show a charge status/level. found the icon when turned on like you said, it was at half charge, now i feel dumb, lol you are helping me thanks, guaranteed i will post more dumb questions in the future lol 8-) If yo...

I always put routes into the SD card as that way if after importing and messing around with it, I don't like the result, I can delete it and re-import the original route.

Not yet found how to send favorites to the SD card instead of the XT / 59x though.

Gee whiz, there is lots of stuff here I did not know. Thanks for all the responses. One rule of thumb I'd say is that the newer the unit, the better the screen and how many functions it tries to do and how configurable it is. How many it succeeds at is the problematic area, the biggest one being ho...

Bottom line, 590 or 396. I have a XT, 396 and 595 One issue with the 396 is that like the XT is the "fastest" routing option means faster roads, but it does use imported routes correctly. The 396 does have a much brighter screen than the 590 /595. The 396 is almost a halfway house between...

A second-hand Zumo 590 or 595 would probably work for you as it still has the possibility of wired audio along with BT. They're an evolution and shouldn't take much extra learning. I don't know if they work with Mapsource, so that might be a negative, I suspect they don't as when I got one I had to ...

A USB charger like this is useful to see what power is being supplied by it, especially to see what a Garmin GPS is doing:

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I don't know if it would provide any additional information, but it doesn't help not having that tool visible. I can't remember how to show it. A right click on a blank part of the menu bar perhaps ? Im not at my PC at present to check. Top line select - "View" select - "Toolbars&quo...

I've changed the map themes, which helps, and turning off the 3D map layers can also assist in making things more visible. And, zooming out past 3 miles dramatically increases the background grey darkness, and that doesn't seem to be adjustable in the themes.

Why not just have a power bank with a USB lead to power the 396?

On most modern Garmin's pressing on the battery icon for about 10 seconds brings up a diagnostics page with the battery and charging information.

I just received an email response from Garmin cartography. I was thanked for submitting this issue and told that it would be escalated to engineering. The optimist in me will take that as an indication that they have not given up on the XT. And the pessimist looks at what 6.60 did for the XT :(