nuvi 350 slow to acquire satellites

xtraseller · Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject: Try

Try (if you are not already) keeping the car still while they acquire the sats., and if the weather is anything like down here in Abergavenny (very snowy) then that could be another reason too (all my GPS systems SEEM to take longer in occluded skys)

Honda · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 26, 2005 Posts: 61

The most recent software upgrade 2.90 appears to have cured it for me. I get acquisition within less than a minute most days even when driving off before it has happened.
However I find now that it does not pick the route up immediately. I have to drive a couple of hundred meters with just a the map showing before it bursts into life and starts directing me! Perhaps the same problem coming out in a different way.

xtraseller · Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2006 10:21 am Post subject: Slow

Is it now waiting to find which direction we are pointing, rather than "second guessing" which is now it used to be done???

Honda · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 26, 2005 Posts: 61

Could be. It seems to take some time to identify which direction I am going in though.
I still find that the nuvi does not like to be switched on in a multistorey car park where it can't find a signal. It seems to stop looking and then take an age when in the open air.
I might try parking up outside the car park and then switch it on and see if that makes a difference.

riggazone · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 15, 2006 Posts: 3

Me to it took about 5 minutes this morning, yet under old software it took seconds........

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