On road trip my Garmin nuvi 350 stop acquiring satellites (?) I followed resetting instructions in quick reference guide, but to no avail.
Help,
My nuvi is only a few months old. Where can I have it sent and how much would it cost to repair.
My e-mail addtress is; Spyder.Thomas@faa.gov
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Posted on Jan 02, 2017
SOURCE: garmin nuvi 350
Heres what to do:
- Connect to computer using USB cable
- Flip up antenna and hit reset button.
- The unit should power up.
- Then put unit on wall charge to get a full charge.
That should do it if not call 1-800 800 1020.
Posted on Jan 07, 2008
SOURCE: Garmin Nuvi takes a long time to Acquire satellite
No. 98% of the time it took 45-56 seonds for your NUVI 660. Thats the compagny set up time acquisition and it did very well.
Be sur you had your flip antenna parallel to earth surface.
660 has THE BEST SIRF Chipset for acquiring satellite.
I had 2 NUVI 660 since 2 years. It work much better than those new 7xx series who it really took 2-3 minutes to acquire satellite.
Be sure you update your version to the last one.
----> https://buy.garmin.com/shop/store/downloadsUpdates.jsp?product=010-00540-00&cID=134&pID=400
Best regards
Posted on Jan 21, 2008
SOURCE: Garmin NUVI 660 - can not locate satellite
These are the instructions I got from Garmin as how to do the Master reset:
Here are the steps to backing up the
favorites on your unit and then performing the master reset. First, you’ll want
to plug your unit into your computer via USB cable. Once it’s plugged in, you’ll
want to go to My Computer in your start menu or from your desktop and
double-click on the Nuvi. At this point, you should see a few folders, but
you’ll want to double-click on the Garmin folder. Here, you’ll want to look for
the “GPX” folder and you’ll double-click on that. In this folder, you’ll want to
drag and drop the file titled “Current.gpx” to your desktop to copy it. Now you
are able to do the master reset.
To do that, you’ll want to start
with the unit turned off and press and hold on the upper left hand corner of the
touch screen. While holding the touch screen, power the unit on and continue to
hold. You should get a message that asks if you really want to go into
maintenance mode and you’ll want to select “Yes”. At this point, you’ll want to
select “clear user data” and then select “Yes” when it asks you if you really
want to clear user data. Now, the unit should restart and you’ll want to take it
where it has a clear view of the sky and let it sit for up to 30 minutes to
acquire satellites. If after 30 minutes it does not acquire satellites, you can
go ahead and reply back to me.
Either way, once we have your unit
back working again, you can follow the first set of steps again to get to the
GPX folder and drag the “Current.gpx” folder from your desktop to that folder on
your unit. This will replace your favorites.
Posted on Oct 07, 2008
SOURCE: Nuvi 360 cannot acquire sattelite
Thanks for the good info. What is the GPS S/W is reading 2.9, but it still wont acquire sattelite is the entenna bad?
Posted on Nov 10, 2008
SOURCE: Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS Can't find Satellites
Try this and see if it fixes your problem...first disable bluetooth then follow these steps....
1. Power off the unit.
2. HOLD down the power button and you will see "Pre Boot Mode" appear on the lower part of the display. KEEP HOLDING the power button down and the display will flicker, do this until the pre boot mode message disappears. This seems to take a long time (60 seconds at least).
3. Once the pre boot mode message disappears release the power button and your device will perform some activites to recover from the problem.
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Bolton UK
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