Garmin ETrex 20 User manual

Getting started with an eTrex 20 29/12/2015

When you first switch on your eTrex you’ll get the Main menu screen appearing after a short time.

From here you can move around the screen using the thumbstick (also called the joystick or toggle)

Toggling - moving the thumbstic up or down or left or right - will highlight a different submenu . Initially

the one in the top left-hand corner is highlighted – in this case Ma

Clicking – pressing the thumbstic down gently – will bring up the submenu.

Pressing the menu button will bring up a list of options for the menu visible on the screen.

The zoom in/out buttons are only used to alter the image size when a map is shown

Since it is often easiest to navigate around by first returning to the main menu it is important to now that:

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back button

on/off + light button

thumbstick or joystick or toggle

zoom out button

zoom in button

menu button

if at any stage you are in a submenu and wish to return to the Main menu just

press the menu button twice [occasionally you may need to press the back button

first]

The main menu has 25 submenus of which only 6 can be seen on the

screen at any one time.

These submenus “wrap around” so that from Ma to Adventures you

can toogle down 12 times or, more simply, up once

Many of these submenus are not of immediate interest to a hill wal er

and can be removed from the main menu – they can be restored very

quic ly should they become of interest.

Example:

If the main menu is reduced to the 9 submenus above

and arranged as shown then, whenever you return to

the main menu, Ma is highlighted and the three most

commonly used submenus can be selected very quic ly.

toggle u to reach Setu

toggle right to reach Track Manager

toggle down to reach Tri Com uter

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Customising the main menu - rearranging and shortening

Press the menu button once to bring up the Change Item Order

option.

Click – by pressing the thumbstic down gently – to select this

option.

You can see that the submenus are in the default order of

Ma – Where To? – Com ass – Mark Way oint

– Tri Com uter – Setu …………

We want to find Track Manager and move it so that it comes

after Ma

Use the thumbstic to toggle down to Track Manager

Click to select Track Manager.

Click to select Move.

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This will bring you bac to the previous screen but this time, by toggling up,

you can move Track Manager up until it comes just

after Ma .

Click to accept this position.

Now toggle down to Tri Com uter, click and select Move and

toggle up to move Tri Com uter up until it comes just after

Track Manager.

Repeat this process to get the first 9 submenus in order to

Ma – Track Manager – Tri Com uter – Mark Way oint

– Where To? – Com ass – Active Route – Way oint Mgr.

– Setu

Now to remove [ temporarily – they can be restored at any time ]

the remaining 16 submenus.

Toggle down to below Setu to Geocaches, clic and this time

select Remove

Clic and Geocaches is gone.

Now remove all the other submenus in the same way.

Note that when you have done this you will find a submenu

Add Page at the bottom. Clic ing on this allows you to restore

any submenu.

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Setting u your eTrex for hiking

Toggle to the Setu menu [toggle up if you have customised the

main menu as described above] and clic .

This instruction and future instructions will be shortened to

Main menu > Setu

The Setu submenu has itself a further 16 submenus. It is not

possible to customise it.

Of these Tracks and Reset are used before and after every hi e

and Ma is used from time to time.

Others need only be chec ed, changed from the default values where

necessary and then left alone.

Main menu > Setu > System

WAAS/EGNOS should be set to On

Set Battery Ty e to the batteries you are using

USB Mode should be set to Mass Storage.

This ensures that the eTrex behaves li e a USB memory

stic when plugged into a computer.

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Main menu > Setu > Tracks

The default Track Log is Record, Show On Ma .

Clic on this and change it to Do Not Record

Only set this bac to recording when you really mean to record

i.e. just before you ta e your first step of a hi e.

At the end of a hi e always change it bac to Do Not Record

Main menu > Setu > Units

The default units are metric [unless you bought your eTrex

in the USA]

Main menu > Setu > Time

Time Format can be changed to 12-Hour am/pm

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Main menu > Setu > Position Format

The default is latitude/longitude given in degrees/minutes/decimals of

minutes

Change this to the usual Irish Grid

Main menu > Setu > Heading

The default heading/bearing is Directional Letters

i.e. N, NE, SW etc.

Change this to Numeric Degrees

During a hi e your present position will be shown on the map

screen as a blue triangle.

The white arrow/cursor can be moved by toggling.

As this is done the distance and bearing from the

triangle to the arrow is shown at the top of the screen.

Customising the Tri Com uter

By default the Tri Com uter displays a lot of information in rather small

lettering.

The fields can be reduced to just three in a larger size as follows.

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With the Trip Computer selected press on the menu button to get the options.

Clic on Big Numbers then press on the menu button again and clic on Change Data Fields

Toggle down to Location (Selected), which will give you the Irish grid coordinates, and clic

Now toggle down to the second field, Moving Time, and clic to change that, in the same way, to Elevation.

Press the back button to accept these changes.

Press on the menu button again and clic on Change Dashboard > Large Data Field

Press the back button to get a screen showing Battery condition, Time, Satellites, Distance, Location and

Elevation.

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NOTE: If at any stage you wish to start all over again you can reset all these changes to the factory

defaults by going to

Main menu > Setu > Reset > Reset All Settings [you will be as ed if you’re sure ?]

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