transfer from phone to zoom xt

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@Peter-Zehentreiter There's alway more ways to get where you wanna go

[Mike wiruth]

@Marinus-van-Deudekom What do you mean by "use the connector"? What connector are you talking about?
Thanks,

[Peter Zehentreiter]

@Marinus-van-Deudekom sent you a PN

[John S Parry]

There are a few posts referencing SD card here. I'm not sure if some of the advice given is to use it to store routes on your XT, or not.

My advice is to use the SD card you place in the XT slot. Simply create a Garmin/GPX folder on the card and copy your GPX file directly into it. The XT will recognize it existence, import/recalculate it, and store it for execution. The advantage is that if your route ever gets corrupted, you can quickly re-import it from the SD card and be on your way. If you import into Garmin internal storage and corruption happens, you have to go back to MRA and perform the transfer process from scratch. Admittedly, this a rare occurrence, but the one time it happened to me was at the worst possible instance. As always, plan for the worst, but hope for the best.

In any case, a direct wired file copy (manually performed by you) from your PC/Mac to your Garmin is always the safest method. Anytime you use a transfer intermediary (Drive app, Tread app, MRA Connector), there is a possibility that the process can break. For reasons totally out of your control.

[Travellexxie]

@Marinus-van-Deudekom read my post again...

[John S Parry]

@Marinus-van-Deudekom said:

What I meant was if you want to tranfer using the cable connection wait for Windows to recognise both the XT and the SD card. Don't trafer the export to a SD card. You're completly wright about that.

If you want to learn about the use of the SD Card for routes, reference the following from user "jfheath", the moderator of the Zumo XT Forum out the UK. If you don't know of him, he's probably forgotten more about the XT than most of us know. Anyway, here is some of the documentation he's compiled:

First, the master list of topics:

https://zumouserforums.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=3361

And the specific 3.08 section on using the SD Card for GPX Files:

https://zumouserforums.co.uk/XT2-P338

From the link:

**You may notice in older posts about other Zumos that I have recommended using Internal Storage for GPX files. Not any more. For the XT2 I always transfer my GPX files to the SD card. The files cannot get altered and nothing gets deleted.

More than anything - the behaviour is predictable. And if your Zumo Collections get messed up, you can delete the lot and import them again.**

He's talking about the XT2, but from my personal experience, it also applies directly to the XT and XT3.

That forum is a treasure trove of Zumo XT/XT2/XT3 information. If you ever decide to give the XT's a try again (hopefully an XT3), following the teachings in that forum will give you a fighting chance of success the next time around.