Stored my Garmin 48 over the winter with weak rechargeable batteries. Probably, this depleted the memory backup battery, and the unit lost memory. Started my Garmin on fresh batteries, but was unable to initialize either via country or "autolocate" - just could not get any satellites in. (My older Garmin 45 worked in the same place) Checked the date of the Garmin 48 unit - it showed April 10 in mid May. Presumably it uses the Almanach of April now, no wonder it does not find the proper satellites. Is there any way to reset the internal date of the Garmin 48 to the proper value of today? Is there a "hard reset" that can do the job? Thanks for your help! Rolf
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I have similar problem with Garmin 45 that has been in store and as yet no answers from the experts on this site, just suggestions to try the obvious or do things that are impossible wirth the unit in question. Same date problem in the unit. I think that the only solution will be to send the faulty unit back to the manufacturers via your local agent or store. Let me know how you get on.
Regards,
Jon.
Hi Rolf,
To date your comments/solution have been the only good advice that I've received. All I need now is a cable and hopefully the Garmin 45 that I have that works will sort the problem on the one that doesn't work.
I've not seen the command anywhere on the menu to send the almanac. Hopefully if I connect the two units this might appear as an option. What do you think?
best regards,
Jon.
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Same problem on my Garmin 45. see my earlier posting.
Dear Jon
Thanks for your comment - our local Garmin agent did not impress me too much, he did not seem to know a solution. But there is one, if you can get hold of another Garmin 48 or 45 (that works properly!): Join the units with a Garmin-to-Garmin cable, and make the working unit send the almanach (Interface - Garmin/Garmin - Send ALM). This solved my problem, the defective 48 cold-started up again properly (takes a while) and did work ever since. Be careful not to mix the units up and accidentally "Send ALM" the other way, or you will lose both...
Good luck and happy sailing
Rolf
April 2013 I bought a Garmin approach S1 258-155-144 which I used up to September 2013, when I tried to use in February 2014 it is dead? please advise dealers addresses in London
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