Garmin eTrex Legend GPS Receiver "problems acquiring satellites" Questions

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acquiring satellites except under dense canapy cover. In open view you should always be able to acquire enough satellites. You should be able to see the available satellites on the start up screen and

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acquiring-satellites/ Hi, You may want to check: 1. possibly an internal/backup memory battery near end of its life; and/or 2. possible software/firmware update from here. Hope this be of initial help

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...problems in that it will no acquire satellites (says it is searching....). Is there a way to reset the unit so that it will acquire satellites? Thanks, Do the following: 1 - Make sure you have fresh ...

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I am having trouble getting location. Even when I get good satelite coverage (many showing on the screen) No location shows. It also seems to be slow in acquiring upon power up. How do a restore the ...

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acquiring satelite signal, the unit will go blank screen and will not respond. Powering off and restarting produces the same result. While the unit is up the stop navigating option is available to see

screen goes blank after locating sattilites. after the unit(etrex legend) locates the satilites, and i go to navigate, after a couple of seconds the screen goes blank, except of a single narrow ...

...satellites. I have attempted new batteries and plugging into the USB port and other trouble shooting ideas none of which have worked any other suggestions besides tossing this device for another more ...

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...acquiring a satellite fix (took several minutes) - lo and behold - my time AND date both seem to be correct! Oddly, neither Garmin tech support nor the local reseller seemed to know about this method ...

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...problems. Last fall we started having trouble acquiring satellites...but it would usually pick them up after 5 minutes or so. Now we can't pick up a signal at all...neither in the car nor outside. ...

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...acquiring satellites. Please know that there can be several different factors that may cause a GPS unit to not acquire satellites: If your unit is trying to acquire satellites for the first time, it ...

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