Magellan TRX Mobile App Quick start guide

Brand: Magellan

Model: TRX Mobile App

Type: Quick start guide

Magellan TRX Mobile App is a powerful tool for outdoor enthusiasts who want to track their adventures, find new trails, and share their experiences with friends. With the TRX Mobile App, you can:

Track your rides and record your progress, including distance, speed, and elevation gain.
Add waypoints to your tracks to mark important locations or obstacles.
Search for trails and points of interest (POIs) near you or in a specific area.
Use your journal to log your tracks and wish list of trails you want to ride.
Publish your tracks on TRX Web to share with friends and family.

Magellan TRX Mobile App is a powerful tool for outdoor enthusiasts who want to track their adventures, find new trails, and share their experiences with friends. With the TRX Mobile App, you can:

Track your rides and record your progress, including distance, speed, and elevation gain.
Add waypoints to your tracks to mark important locations or obstacles.
Search for trails and points of interest (POIs) near you or in a specific area.
Use your journal to log your tracks and wish list of trails you want to ride.
Publish your tracks on TRX Web to share with friends and family.

Mobile App

Quick Start Guide

(iOS & Android)

App Quick Start Guide.

Welcome to the Magellan TRX Nation!

This Quick Start Guide to the TRX Mobile

App brieﬂy describes how to:

• Create your TRX Account

• Track and record your adventures

• Add Waypoints to Tracks

• Search for Trails

• Use your Journal (Log and Wish List)

• Publish Tracks on TRX Web

Note: For the best experience while getting

started, make sure you have a Wi-Fi signal

or good cellular data connection, and that

Location Services is ON before setting up

your TRX App. Your carrier’s rates apply to

your data usage with this app.

You can also synchronize your TRX App with:

Visit Magellan Outdoor Navigation for

more information about TRX products as

well as Magellan’s complete line of outdoor

navigation products.

Magellan eXplorist TRX7.

TRX Web.

Create Your Account.

1. Tap from the TRX Dashboard.

2. Tap .

3. Tap .

4. Enter account details.

5. Tap to conﬁrm your account.

6. Tap to complete registration.

Tip: Tap on your Account Proﬁle

page to log out of your TRX account at any time.

Tip: Log in to TRX Web with the account you

create on the TRX App.

App Overview: Dashboard & Map Screen.

Track Me button: Tap to begin tracking

your route right away.

Dirt Miles traveled, Trails traveled, and

Achievements earned are accumulated

by the TRX App.

Journal: Contains Log of user tracks

and Wish List of saved Trails.

Search: Search for trails, tracks, and

POIs around you or in a speciﬁc area.

Settings: Edit your user account,

vehicle proﬁles, and connectivity.

Detail Waypoint: Mark a Quick

Waypoint or pause tracking to add a

Detail Waypoint.

Social Post: Share your adventures

with friends with an automatic Tweet.

Start/Pause: Tap to pause tracking or

resume tracking.

Backtrack: Follow your active Track

back to your starting point.

Finish: Save your Track with detailed

terrain and rating information.

Tracking & Saving.

1. Tap on the TRX Dashboard to start riding!

2. Tap to stop tracking.

3. Enter the Terrain Spec details to create an User

Difﬁculty Rating, then rate the overall experience on

the Track.

4. Tap to add the Track to your Log, or

to delete your track.

Tips:

• Tap to add a Quick Waypoint to your Track.

• Tap to toggle between North Up and Course

Up views and, when the map is not facing North,

to snap your map view back to North Up.

• Tap to re-center the map to your current

location after panning around the map (and

toggle 2D/3D map views with a TRX App premium

subscription).

Pausing and Resuming Tracking.

1. Tap to pause tracking.

2. Tap to resume tracking.

While paused, you can:

Add a Detail Waypoint.

Follow prompts for each waypoint to add detail, then

save the waypoint to your Track.

Tip: Refer to Detail Waypoints for more

information about these Waypoints.

Post a Tweet.

Tip: This button automatically generates a

Tweet indicating how many Dirt Miles you’ve driven

with the hashtag #MagellanTRX.

Backtracking.

Backtrack to the beginning of your Track.

Tip: Use caution when backtracking. Route

difﬁculty varies with direction of travel.

Finish and save your Track.

Tip: All of your saved Tracks are stored in

your Log. Refer to Using your Journal for more

information about your Log and your Wish List.

Quick Waypoints.

To add a Quick Waypoint:

1. Tap while tracking or routing.

2. Select a waypoint type.

3. Tap .

Tip: Many Quick Waypoint options are also

available as Detail Waypoints. Refer to Detail

Waypoints for more information.

Tip: Edit Quick Waypoints later when you view

your saved Tracks in your Journal or on TRX Web.

Detail Waypoints.

To select a Detail Waypoint type:

1. Tap while tracking is paused.

2. Choose a Waypoint option:

Audio Waypoint: Record audio waypoint.

Current Location: Pick waypoint type and add detail.

Point on Map: Add waypoint anywhere on the map.

Coordinates: Deﬁne waypoint using latitude/

longitude.

3. Follow the prompts to add waypoint detail.

To add a Current Location Waypoint:

1. Tap

2. Select a Waypoint type and sub-type (if

applicable).

3. Tap .

5. Enter a name and comment.

6. Tap to add the waypoint, or

to stop adding the waypoint.

Tip: Tap to add photos from

the gallery on your device to a waypoint. Simply

select a photo and tap .

Detail Waypoints.

Searching.

1. Tap from the TRX Dashboard.

2. Tap to view nearby Trails or POIs on the

map, or to see a list of nearby Trails and

POIs.

Tip: When you ﬁrst enter ,

you’ll only see the 50 Trails and POIs nearest to you.

To specify or reﬁne search results:

• Tap and type in the name of a city, trail, or POI

that you want to locate. Try multiple searches in

an area for more results.

• Tap to reﬁne results by Type, Difﬁculty,

or Rating. Tap again to reﬁne your

search results.

• Use TRX Web to view all TRX basemap Trails and

expedite your search.

Tip: If you’re just looking for nearby Trails

to ride, tap > to see the 50 Trails

nearest to you.

Tip: In List view, you can also sort your

results by Difﬁculty, Distance, Name, and Rating.

Viewing and Saving Searched Features.

Map View

3. Tap a Marker Label for a Trail or POI on the map

to view details about the item.

4. Tap to add the item to your Wish List.

List View

5. Tap a List item to view detail.

6. Tap to add the item to your Wish List.

Using Your Journal.

The TRX Journal contains your Wish-Listed Trails

and POIs as well as the Log of your recorded Tracks

and Waypoints.

To use your Journal:

1. Tap from the TRX Dashboard.

2. Tap or from the Journal.

3. Tap on an item from the List. You’ll see basic

details about the list item.

4. Tap to see more detail about the

item.

5. Tap , then select or

to ride a Track or Trail.

Tip: You’ll receive audio guidance when you

follow an ofﬁcial basemap Trail, but not when you

follow an user-generated Track.

Using Your Journal.

6. Follow the arrows to ride along the Track or Trail.

Tips:

• If desired, the TRX App can also provides audible

off-track alerts.

• When you ride Tracks you have previously ridden

and waypointed, the waypoints will pop up as you

ride.

• If you need to backtrack, pause tracking and tap

to backtrack to the beginning of your Track.

To delete items from your Journal:

1. Tap from your or .

2. Tap the check box to the right of the item.

3. Tap .

4. Tap to delete the entry, or to stop

the action.

Using Your Journal.

To create a new Trip from your own Tracks or from

Trails saved to your Wish List:

1. Tap from the Log screen.

2. Tap .

3. Enter a name for the new Trip and tap .

4. Tap the check box to the right of each item you

want to add to the Trip.

5. Tap to add the new Trip to your Log.

Publishing Your Tracks on TRX Web.

To publish your Track on TRX Web once you’ve saved

a Track from your TRX App:

1. Go to TRX Web.

2. Sign in with your account details.

3. Tap and select your Track from the list.

4. Tap and review your Track details for

accuracy.

5. Tap again to publish the Track to TRX

Nation, or to stop publishing the Track.

Tip: You can also search for Trails, edit your

Log and Wish List, upload GPX ﬁles, create Trips,

and more on TRX Web. Refer to the Magellan

eXplorist TRX7 User Manual for details about TRX

Web.

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Magellan TRX Mobile App Quick start guide

Brand: Magellan

Model: TRX Mobile App

Type: Quick start guide

Magellan TRX Mobile App is a powerful tool for outdoor enthusiasts who want to track their adventures, find new trails, and share their experiences with friends. With the TRX Mobile App, you can:

Track your rides and record your progress, including distance, speed, and elevation gain.
Add waypoints to your tracks to mark important locations or obstacles.
Search for trails and points of interest (POIs) near you or in a specific area.
Use your journal to log your tracks and wish list of trails you want to ride.
Publish your tracks on TRX Web to share with friends and family.

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