Backlight Level Does Not Stay

I have a Vista Cx and am really enjoying it. This is my first GPS and I'm
glad I went higher than entry level.

I did the setup as shown in the manual. No problems with the directions. One
thing I noticed, though, is I selected 25% for the backlight level, but
everytime I turn the GPS on in a dark situation, the backlight level is at
the lowest setting and I have to manually reset it. Nothing else seems out
of the ordinary.

Is anyone else having this problem? For me, this falls into the category of
"minor annoyance" so it's not like I'm ready to pack it back up and send it
off to Garmin. I just don't thing this should be behaving like it is.

I have a new Legend Cx and it does exactly the same thing. Sure woud
be nice if the backlight setting would actually stick like all the
other settings...


emanon wrote:

Nice to know I'm not the only one. Hmm... I'm a newbie at this, so I'm only
guessing, but is this possibly a factory defect? Maybe there's a firmware
fix in the future for this. I'm going to drop Garmin Tech Support an e-mail
and see what they say.

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out

Been playing with this some more and I found that the backlight setting
in the display setup screen does actually do something. If you hit the
On/Light button twice after turning the unit on, it comes back to your
preset level (was previously using the thumbstick each time). So it
seems it was meant to act this way. But I emailed them too - perhaps
we can get them to update the firmware. :)

Ok, Garmin's Tech Support said the reason it does this is "in case the
batteries are drained to the point where it will not power the unit on
a higher backlight level."

So there we have it.