car icon off route

tonygold · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 14, 2006 Posts: 417

tomtom ONE v2 w europe.
maps 7.20
just had a prob today. my car icon showed me well off the road on a route i've used many times without this issue.
seem to remember that gpsquickfix can cause this but i havn't updated that for a couple of weeks??
just in case it is this, could u tell me how to uninstall this please.
thanks

richard345 · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:40 pm Post subject:

Hi Tony, I had exactly the same issue this afternoon on a journey to and from a new location. I got some really weird directions at first and then after going up from 4 satellites to 5, everything seemed to go alright again. I was driving on the A56 towards Warrington, yet my 520 showed me to be on a parallel, residential street for a couple of miles.

I know it was very overcast and had just started to rain, but that normally has no effect.
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tonygold · Frequent Visitor Joined: Jul 14, 2006 Posts: 417

hi richard
mine happened when i had 7 satellites registered!!

Darren · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:27 pm Post subject:

Just soft reset, it'll sort itself out.
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richard345 · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:32 pm Post subject:

Hi Darren, Quite right, I did that on my return home and so far, all is well.
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mikewall · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:49 am Post subject:

I have this issue with the Banbury to Brackley road just past Farthinghoe, i go off route for about quarter of a mile! Tried soft reset but still the same. I believe it's a map error, i've reported it to TT everytime i travel it via mapshare! Our database shows a reported camera also off the road!

Daggers · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:24 am Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:18 am Post subject:

DaveMatthews · Regular Visitor Joined: Dec 25, 2004 Posts: 221

I had this problem once with some Navigon software on a PDA as I drove north up the M6 (by Stoke-on-Trent). Everything was working fine until I overtook a police Range Rover which had an unusually large collection of aerials attached to its roof, whereupon the car symbol jumped about a half a mile to the west! As I drove on, the symbol gradually "converged" back on to the road, in the same manner as Andy_P describes - took a good ten miles for it to sort itself out, though!

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richard345 · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 3:47 pm Post subject:

When I had the issue on the a56, my outbound journey track was exactly on the road, however, the inbound leg some 4 hours later, the icon to the right of the main road, to such an extent that TomTom was instructing me to turn left down a side street to regain the correct track.

After the soft reset, I did a run to Lytham St Annes and then up to Bispham and back home without any problems whatsoever.

I've wondered about the QuickGPS Fix in the past and if it serves any useful function at all. What do others think?
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Robin2 · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:47 pm Post subject:

I had it happen a few years ago when I was running TT Navigator on a PDA - for the last 40 miles of a 200 mile journey my position was shown about 100 yards to the right of the road.
In that case I also had CoPilot in the same PDA. I switched to that and it showed exactly the same effect. Soft resets did nothing. Next day all was well.
It's possible that one of the satellites was sending out duff data and it corrected itself.
Robin
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Robin2 · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 5:26 pm Post subject:

By an extraordinary coincidence, having written above that it happened to me about 3 years ago on my PDA, I experienced the same thing today with my TT One as I was driving south towards Carmarthen (or Caerffyrddin if Darren is reading this!). In a few miles I stopped in a layby and a 30 second paperclip reset sorted things out
Robin
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mrfreeze · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject:

Hi Guys,
I live in Florida and oddly today my icon seemed to be out by 50yds or so. When your travelling along a road its not too bad but every time you get near a side road it tries to get you over on that instead.

It has never done this before and immediately i did the reset and it seems ok now.

Is there something wrong with the satellites providing the fix, surely all these units can't be having the same problems at the same times?

Don't tell me those aliens from "Independance Day - The movie" have finally turned up Very Happy

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Tom59 · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 1:18 am Post subject:

Well, I've only just noticed this forum and on Tuesday, I was in Nottingham, an area that I have never been to, when it went silly, about 16:00 if I remember. I chose navigate to a couple of times which did nothing. I eventually had to stop and do a reset.
I think someone at CERN must have hit the wrong switch! Twisted Evil

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Calomax · Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject:

I've turned mine on several times today at home, and each time it's shown me to be in different parts of the district, up to a mile away. I've even been able to "Navigate to" my home address, and plan routes varying from 1 to 5 minutes journey time.
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