Garmin nuvi 250W GPS Receiver "acquiring signal 5 minutes complete" Questions

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5 to 8 satellites (or more) at any given time through the windshield and windows. When you go inside a house, GPS would not be capable of seeing enough satellites. And on top of it GPS do not like it,

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...acquiring satellite signals, you may need to download and run our WebUpdater program. Go to: http://www.garmin.com/products/webupdater/ If you are still having issues after updating the software on ...

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...5) touch the signal strength bar on the GPS to get you into the satellites screen. 6) For me, the bars immeadiately started coming up and then filled. 7) I took the small wire out and my unit ...

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...5) Once this folder is deleted, open the 'Downloads' folder and delete everything inside of it. Now let us delete the Ephemeris folder contents from the computer first, since it saves the GPSFix ...

...acquiring satellite signal even when it's a clear sunny day. After 30 mintues, it was still searching! The unit appeared to have "stuck" in this acquiring mode. The following worked for me: 1) open ...

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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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