Thread: SCDB or Cyclop - which is best for Garmin device?

Ok I don't know what the gps was formatting that way.
I thought it was enough to format once it connected to the computer.
I just do not understand why gps will get faster by renaming the current.gpx to temp.gpx folder after formatting, just by putting the new radars.
So far GPS has worked well until the new July radars show up.

If I want to format the gps again later the current.gpx folder will be named temp.gpx
How do I do in this case where the folder will already be named temp.gpx?

Being they radars cyclops directionnal or SCDB and other similar POIs are radial they do not repeat themselves with each other in gps?
Best regards.

Originally Posted by frenchma

Ok I don't know what the gps was formatting that way.
I thought it was enough to format once it connected to the computer.

You seem to be confusing 'reset' with 'format'. Neither of us suggested that you FORMAT the device. I suggested that you try a RESET which is another thing entirely. I gave you this link in Post no. 12: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]. If you want to reset your 255 just turn it off, hold the lower right corner of the screen, turn it back on and follow the prompts. However, there is NO good reason to format it so please don't do that unnecessarily.

I just do not understand why gps will get faster by renaming the current.gpx to temp.gpx folder after formatting, just by putting the new radars.

No, that's wrong too. I did NOT say that it 'will get faster' by doing that. The only reason for making a copy of the gpx file is so you can restore favorites after a hard reset, but if you neither reset nor are concerned about losing favorites then you don't need to do that at all.

So far GPS has worked well until the new July radars show up.

You said: 'new SCDB speed cameras for Garmin _ 07 Aug 2017' slowed it. Yet when I put the same files in a very similar nuvi 255W there was no problem. Maybe you should remake the SCDB from the Garmin.zip as per the official SCDB tutorial I linked in the code box of Post no. 12.

If I want to format the gps again later the current.gpx folder will be named temp.gpx
How do I do in this case where the folder will already be named temp.gpx?

Hopefully you now understand (i) that you don't need to format; and (ii) you only need to copy current.gpx before a reset and replace it as temp.gpx after the reset, and that's only if you intend resetting.

Being they radars cyclops directionnal or SCDB and other similar POIs are radial they do not repeat themselves with each other in gps?

Yes, you will see a lot of false alarms with SCDB and possible duplicated alarms when using both Cyclops and SCDB. Both systems rely on using coordinates and the coordinates for a particular camera are unlikely to be exactly the same for both.

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