Garmin Inreach Mini 2 Share your tips/advice/tricks.

Johnny3000

Section Hiker
I think their elevation model is quite coarse. If they were to add more contour lines, this would become more obvious and could lead to dangerous situations in the mountains if people took it for real. Until they get better data, better keep it like this and force people to use a proper map alongside when planning courses. It's still a good tool to manage courses and waypoints and get them onto the watch. Hope they would integrate osm map data.
 
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Johnny3000

Section Hiker
I think their elevation model is quite coarse. If they were to add more contour lines, this would become more obvious and could lead to dangerous situations in the mountains if people took it for real. Until they get better data, better keep it like this and force people to use a proper map alongside when planning courses. It's still a good tool to manage courses and waypoints and get them onto the watch. Hope they would integrate osm map data.
Actually, it seems I was wrong. The Explore app used to show contour lines every 10m in the previous version. Not sure if the 50m are a bug or if you can get the 10m lines with premium+ maps. Not going to try as you don't even get proper survey maps for my region with the subscription.
 

WilliamC

Thru Hiker
I have the first version of the Inreach Mini. Before last week's trip, the device did an update. I used it nine times on the trip to send preset messages, cold starting each time. It was noticeable that it was considerably quicker to get a location fix and to send the messages. I'm aware of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, so I wondered if I was just lucky, or has anyone else noticed improved performance following a recent update to their device?
 

Diddi

Thru Hiker
I have the first version of the Inreach Mini. Before last week's trip, the device did an update. I used it nine times on the trip to send preset messages, cold starting each time. It was noticeable that it was considerably quicker to get a location fix and to send the messages. I'm aware of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, so I wondered if I was just lucky, or has anyone else noticed improved performance following a recent update to their device?
I have the inreach mini 2 and will try when away this weekend if I remember.
 

timday

Trail Blazer
I have the first version of the Inreach Mini. Before last week's trip, the device did an update. I used it nine times on the trip to send preset messages, cold starting each time. It was noticeable that it was considerably quicker to get a location fix and to send the messages. I'm aware of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy, so I wondered if I was just lucky, or has anyone else noticed improved performance following a recent update to their device?
With my old SE+ , there was one update years ago which noticeably made it more snappy. Think it was more to do with the UI and clicking into lists of past messages sent had become very slow; I got the impression there was something needing to chew over all the previous history before it'd let you do anything like send a preset and it felt quite sluggish the more history the device accumulated. Then an update fixed all that.
 

Diddi

Thru Hiker
Just changed my plan from the yearly £13ppm to the new inreach £7.99 enabled plan.
£5pm and no yearly subscription saving is tempting me to possibly buy another 😆 ,then if either of us fall off a mountain we both covered 😆😆😆...
 

edh

Thru Hiker
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The 'help' files I read did not mention it.
Anyway, walking to be done.... I'll live with the potential extra seconds lost in using the device 🤗...if I even switch it on...
 

echo8876

Thru Hiker
What exact plan do I choose now for standby so it doesn't charge me every month? Just cancel current basic plan I've got when activating and turn it on as needed?
 
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