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philai3
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Ok, roll it back to 2.7; I've done this because of freezing/hang ups, although yours sounds more severe than my case. This will tell you if it's power supply or a software issue.
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Lester_Burnham
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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| philai3 wrote: | | Ok, roll it back to 2.7; I've done this because of freezing/hang ups, although yours sounds more severe than my case. This will tell you if it's power supply or a software issue. |
Too much effort have to mess around with easygps to save my favourites.
Without batteries suits - I suspect it will be perfectly stable like that, and I can live with longer acquisition times. Around 5 minutes is perfectly livable. 20-30 and I'd have to reconsider, though. |
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philai3
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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I don't find EasyGPS much of a fag - it takes about 30 seconds to back up or restore my favourites from loading the program to finishing, and is surely well worth doing anyway. And, apart from the acquisition times, aren't you fed up with it crashing all the time?
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Lester_Burnham
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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| philai3 wrote: | | I don't find EasyGPS much of a fag - it takes about 30 seconds to back up or restore my favourites from loading the program to finishing, and is surely well worth doing anyway. |
I'm not disagreeing with occasionally backing-up with easygps - but I'd have to do that, then mess around reverting to 2.7, then importing everything again.
| philai3 wrote: | | And, apart from the acquisition times, aren't you fed up with it crashing all the time? |
Well I'm speculating that it won't crash all the time with no batteries in - didn't to me. And it's not all the time, it's just once the batteries have been in a week or two.
As to why I'm not overly keen on reverting to 2.70, one of the "improvements" I've liked since 2.70 is the changes to the timing of the voice prompts.
So, ideally, if I was to revert, it would be to 2.82 - but that version had a bug in the grouping of POI categories - so there's not one ideal firmware version I'd choose to revert to.
It may sound an odd thing, but I'd rather just workaround a problem in 3.20 that I find acceptable, than revert and be disappointed in something else. |
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zogman
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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lester , you haven't made it totaly clear whether you running with car charger and without internal battery's has solved your lock-up problem...
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swanson2
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| Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject: I prefer Dry Cells |
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Hi Lester_Burnham,
As you rightly say I did mean "AA" batteries.
I prefer the "dry cells" to rechargeable because as well as lasting a long time, (I always use the 12v car power supply), it is easy to carry a spare set of batteries.
If rechargeables run down you normally have to take them home to reecharge them.
Hope you have sorted out your problem.
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Robert swanson
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Lester_Burnham
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| zogman wrote: | | lester , you haven't made it totaly clear whether you running with car charger and without internal battery's has solved your lock-up problem... |
Well that's how I ran it today, and I had no lock-ups.
I heavily suspect it will, though, 'cos I firmly believe - and there's been other mention of it, here - that whilst running using the car charger, batteries when not fully charged have been known to cause issues and crashes. |
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zogman
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thats good news in a way i suppose, only time will tell now.. 
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:56 am Post subject: Constant Hanging with 3.20 on i3 |
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Hi, I installed 3.20 on my i3 a few days ago and used it today on a trip to london on well charged Ni-Mh batterys (still showing 4 bars!) It constantly hung and stopped navagating several times, and said "trouble accuiring satellites" loads of times (on a motorbike???) It never did any of this on my old version (2.70 I think, but I didn't note it before upgrade) and I have done the same journey several times before now, with no problems.
Please can someone advise me how to revert back to 2.70, and where I can get the software? Many thanks. Gerry. |
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