sat nav switches off

dougvcd · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 15, 2006 Posts: 7

hi all dont know if you can help me but
i bought this system off ebay
but when i went on a 6 hour journey from plymouth to stoke on trent
it cut out about 3 times on the journey
what should i be looking at
cheers
Doug

nitelife · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 11:08 pm Post subject:

Are you running off batteries? Thats quite a long time if you are.

dougvcd · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 15, 2006 Posts: 7

the batts are in the set but pluged in to cig lighter in car
cheers

mikealder · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 11:56 pm Post subject:

Doug, is this a Nuvi device or i3 ? do you get any prior warning of the unit about to switch off on the display, or does the unit simply dump and switch off, I would start by checking the cig lighter socket is correctly plugged in to the device and the car. Mike

dougvcd · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 15, 2006 Posts: 7

its an i3
and no warning just goes blank and have to switch back on
cheers
its in a renault espace

totalsolutions · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 13, 2006 Posts: 20

Check the lighter socket is clean and the plug is firm in the socket. Also is there a fuse in the lighter plug end, it could be loose or replace fuse as they dont 'blow' just go high resistance. Another thing, just a guess does the cig. socket switch itself off after a while? to prevent the cig. lighter (a real one) causing a fire....?

Ooh, and the connection to the i3 is good. Can you get the i3 to turn off by touching the power swich, poor switch?

Funny the time stamp here is tomorow!!!
Paul

Lester_Burnham · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 17, 2005 Posts: 618

snowboardcriminal · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:56 am Post subject:

I Have just started having the same problem too. It just switches off and wont re start with the 12v cable attached, but will with batteries. Then you plug the cable back in and all is fine, and just select view map and it is still navigating.

All very random.

I have ordered a new power cable as i think it may be that, as mine has some bad kinks and knicks, but not totally convinced!

Im running 2.7 and it has just started to happen this week gone.
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Beerbellybill999 · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:08 pm Post subject:

you could have a failing power car adapter. It may not be giving the i3 enough power.
Try reducing the screen brightness do say 3 and the volume to 3 also. If that works it is your adapter.
You can use the adapter for a motorola v3 phone and i would recomend the one from Tesco's( £3-£4) as this has anough power for full brightness and volume(some cheaper ones don't have enough OOMPH)
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Lester_Burnham · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 17, 2005 Posts: 618

snowboardcriminal · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:32 pm Post subject:

Beerbellybill999 · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:51 pm Post subject:

snowboardcriminal · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject:

The power adapter light changes colour as if it is supplying power then back to the original state either red/green/red or green/red green cant remember which.
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snowboardcriminal · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:54 am Post subject:

Just got my new power cable and the problem still exists, back to garmin i think.
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