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On a tangent — if you were to find a lost Garmin InReach device, Garmin won't let you notify its owner: https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=gpi2lWn8aE0dPyEfx6
by almog 4y ago
On a tangent — if you were to find a lost Garmin InReach device, Garmin won't let you notify its owner: https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=gpi2lWn8aE0dPyEfx6wQ78 https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=gpi2lWn8aE0dPyEfx6wQ78
Assuming the device has been lost for a while, it's likely that its subscription is over, thus you cannot use it to contact any of the previous owner contacts, which makes sense from privacy perspective, yet I see no reason why Garmin will deliberately not have any process of notifying the owner once your possession of the device has been established
- californical 4y agoI think that makes sense, many people don’t want their contact info given out to someone who happened to find their lost device. If they wanted that, they could always just add a keychain tag with their name and phone number to the device
- bagels 4y agoSimple solution is for Garmin to accept and reship the device since they already know the owner?
- mlyle 4y agoWhich might be too much of a hassle for them to take on for occasional lost devices. But passing on contact info of the finder doesn't seem too bad.
- almog 4y agoI agree and pointed to the fact that it makes sense they wouldn't let you contact the owner directly and added that one solution could have been to have Garmin notify the owner that someone found their device. When I lost my PLB (an emergency only type device) I contacted NOAA to notify them of it so that in case it accidentally gets activated, COSPAS SARSAT won't send an SAR team to the midi pyrenees. Not only did they respond within minutes but they told me that in case someone will find it and contact them, they can share my details (to which I happily agreed).
- nradov 4y agoThe Garmin inReach device allows you to display the owner's name on the home screen. https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/GUID-802DEF62-EBB2-463C-8C51-C58FB29F89E3/EN-US/GUID-00A15AAD-F56E-43D9-9914-BC96DF6C5B25.html https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/GUID-802DEF62-EBB2-4... If there are any contacts set then you will also be able to see their names, phone numbers, and emails even if the satellite service subscription is inactive. Any saved GPS tracks or waypoints will also be visible. Those devices have no security features and can't be locked like a smartphone.