So after talking to garmin it seems the issue only happens when the sd card is loaded with more than around 4mb of data. It appears the 320 would run 232 JNX files. The new birds eye seems to slow the system down much more. This makes it slow to a point and then it shuts down. Sounds like no big deal rite?

Yeah try that when you are 6 miles in off a dead end dirt road and when you turn the system back on you loose all tracks and the truck location! Can you say bad day!!!! I never had an issue with the 320 and began to trust garmin had there stuff together.

The reason I chose the garmin product over the sportdog was it had the Birds eye. But if I can only load a tiny bit I might as well save the money and buy the other. This is my

I will yell you this. If you have the old birds eye backed up on your computer it will work and the system will not shut down. Also if you are willing to fumble with multiple small sd cards in the woods you can download small amounts of the new birds eye onto different cards and it will work. But if you try to just use the base map and download the location you are going to hunt the next day then garmin will keep hitting you for the $30 for a subscription each year! Kind of seems crooked to me!

Let me get this straight you messed with the system now it don't work as well as it did and it costs me an extra $30 a year. They tell us it will take a 32 gig sd card. So you go out and spend $60 on a good card just to find out the dam thing will only work with 4.5 mb on the card? NICE! I could have got one of the 8mb cards for ten bucks!

Final review, alpha is a very disappointing upgrade so far. The fact that when you call garmin they pretend you are the first person to ever complain about the issue is insane! This is no joke the 7th garmin product I own and the first big letdown! If they want to fix the issue they can either update the processor to handle the info or say oops sorry if you bought the alpha your birds eye subscription is on us for the time you own it!

I am a garmin fan I sure hope they make it rite!

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i got the 320 great machine only prob is loose dogs for a few seconds then back and running. i didnt get the alpha cause its new i never buy electronics that just come out i always wait over a year so i dont get a dud. hopefully. i like the fact its a gps and tracker in one. i always run a radio collar with it. and leave a collar on the truck so if the garmin quits the quicktrack will get my dogs and me out in a timely manner