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I definitely admire your persistence jfheath, in trying to get the XT2 to behave as intended!

But IMHO, for the "average" user, the XT2 is still a bloody nightmare with way too many "hoops" to contend with.

In "some" praise of the XT2, it's definitely a much more rugged Nav unit, and able to handle the environmental extremes of MC ridding, far better than any smartphone!

Ridding temperatures here in Australia, can easily hit the high 30C (in the shade) and beyond during the summer months, which will cause smartphones to completely shutdown.The screen on the XT2 is also fantastic and easily viewed in even the most harshest sunlight.

The XT2 has so much potential and at the same time sadly ... so much unreliable complexity.

No argument here. But to be fair, the XT also had similar issues with Explore. I didn't test it after the later updates. But its behaviour was 'odd' when explore was enabled, and not when it wasn't. I just left it disabled. The RUT. issue was a nightmare - but the 'fix' cured that. Both fixes seem to work well on the XT2

I have to go back to the Zumo 590 if I want trouble free, predictable routing. But that bulky cable. But that was the state of the art then. I had wired intercom and phone connection. I still have them - sealed away in zipped poly bags. it was only a few years ago in the days when pedestrians used to watch where they were going.

There's still a lot to be said, for good detailed paper maps a compass and good mapping skills!

Oh yes. Compass and map, and a good torch. Plenty of warm gear and a shelter.
All of those go with me on the bike - except oddly, I've just realised, I don't take my compass.
Phone is for emergency use only, but you can never rely on a signal in the hills where I like to ride.

I was going to manchester airport a few weeks ago. The satnav in the car does a job, but it doesn't alert early enough. If I am going to be turning off, I need to know that information a mile ahead if I am on a motorway.

So I took a piece of paper with the route written on it:

Junction numbers, road numbers and direction. eg west M65 ->Jn 4 South on M6
It was much better than the satnav. Made me take more notice of the signs on the way.

Like I used to do.

But do like gadgets - but really dislike mobile phones. They do not excel at anything.
Photos are quite poor 'processed' images.
Music isn't top quality, but it'll do
Satnav is poor
Phonecalls are fiddly compared to thick phones
Internet is difficult to read in small bite size windows requiring lots of scrolling left, right, up, down. Popups take over the whole page.
They are always somewhere else - in the wrong pocket, upstairs, in the car, in the garage. I often wondered what I would do when I retired. I spend most of it looking for and sorting out my phone.

jfheath wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2025 9:08 am I often wondered what I would do when I retired. I spend most of it looking for and sorting out my phone.

Does anyone have the incident number for this case?

It is so that Garmin does not tell me as always that I am the first in the world to have this problem happen.
Today I used the XT2 a lot and it is impossible to listen to music from Spotify or Podcasts downloaded to Ivoox, the playback continually speeds up.

Another step back.

I haven't reported it yet. If I do so they will want to know when it happens and I do not have that information. Without the clear pointer to the XT2 rather than the phone or the headset - they will blame one or the other and dismiss it. It has to be a clear enough description to be passed on to the development team - otherwise it never gets past the triage desk. When it happens again, I'll recognise the same symptoms - and then hopefully I'll be able to make it do it.

That's what happend when I cracked what caused the RUT issue on the XT1. I tried loads of times to get it to go wrong, and I couldn't. And then it would do it in different places. Then one day on my usual test it happened again. And I couldn't work out why. I woke up during the night and said out loud - "Of course, you pressed skip". It was about an hour earlier near the start of the ride - badly placed via point. But that put me on the right track - so to speak.

They still didn't fix it though - worse, they carried over to the XT2 and applied what seems to be to be a half hearted hide-away of the symptoms.

RIght - Update on this cached sequence of instructions.

Last night, riding home, I decided I wanted some Music. For some reason my MP3 files were not on the SD Card - I've been repeatedly resetting my XT2 to factory condition and the restoring the Tread connection in order to help Frank get TripManager working for the XT2. So - mY XT2 was in almost factory condition last night without Tread set up to Synch. But I had no MP3 files.

So I took the opportunity to see if Hey Google works with the XT2 set as the hub of the Phone---XT2---Headseat arrangement. I thought that it started to respond - but then it didn't do anyhthing. So at a fuel stop, I loaded a playlist on spotify and set it running.
That played perfectly well to the headset, via the XT2 and the XT2 could see what was playing. After about half an hour, the phone disconnected from the XT2. Or maybe the XT2 disconnected fromt he phone. Nav instructions lost - I could hear them coming through the XT2 speaker.

At a traffic light, I reached round the back of the XT2 and turned it off. Short Press. A couple of seconds later I turned it back on again.
And I started getting instructions from the XT2 again. Old ones. And then the sequence of all of the instructions that it should have given me when it lost contact with the phone.

So that seems to be it. BT is broken when it had been working. All navigation commands are then buffered to be played one after the other as soon as the connection is re-established.

I was recently on a 2,000Km Motorcycle trip. I was with 1 other rider, and we were both using SENA comms units on our helmets, which would override any spoken turn by turn directions from my XT2 unit.

Everytime the SENA comms units where disconnected from each other , my XT2 would then do the same thing as you have said in your post!

Sean OZ wrote: ↑Wed Apr 09, 2025 10:46 pm I was recently on a 2,000Km Motorcycle trip. I was with 1 other rider, and we were both using SENA comms units on our helmets, which would override any spoken turn by turn directions from my XT2 unit.

I'm envious. I wish I could get my Cardo's to do this with an XT. Does anyone know whether this ability is a 'fix' to the XT2 over the XT?