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  • cavalry Apr 15, 2008

    Can not acquire satelite,Worked fine last 9 months but the last week it's only found satelite twice just for a moment then loses it. Tried updating but no changes. Changing location Doesnt help either

  • Anonymous Apr 17, 2008

    We live in Pennsylvania and we took our Garmin Nuvi 660 to California. It worked there for a while . Then it lost satellite connections. From then on up until today (that's over a month now) it still can get any satellite feed/connection & we're back in PA already. How do we acquire back that satellite connection?

  • snowy500 Nov 24, 2008

    My nuvi 660 worked ok in Spain but since I returned to Ireland I have been experiencing problems with acquiring satellites and none of garmins solutions work

  • peter-sch Dec 26, 2008

    I have purchased my GPS in Dec.2006 and it will not aquire sattelites.I paid $1024.00 incl. taxes for it at that time and am quite dissapointed in the short performance of it.I realize they have dropped significantly in price and I can get a recond. one for $327.00 incl. taxes. Should I abandon this product and get another one? P. Schlecht

  • nasukaren Mar 16, 2009

    I had the same problem with my Nuvi 660 where it wouldn't see any satellites. I connected an external antenna and it started to work again.

    Trying to contact Garmin to see if there is a recall on this since so many people are having problems with it.

    karen

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    SHARCNET-USA May 11, 2010

    Please see this lin for more info:



    http://www.sharc.net/gps_antenna_repair....

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I've tried master resets and it does not fix the problem. Only fix is to buy a $30 garmin reciever extension and attach it to the side of your flip up receiver. This is the only fix.

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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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Make sure you have a clear, wide view of the sky - the GPS needs to have a direct view of at least 3-4 satellites to triangulate your location. If there are tall trees or buildings around it won't be able to.

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My Garmin nuvi 660 will not acquire satelites.Stopped working while driving in rain. All other functions OK. Recently downloaded free Garmin firmware and all OK for a week.
Some good troubleshooting tips here: Too many to retype.

http://www.sharc.net/gps_antenna_repair.htm
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http://www.sharc.net/gps_antenna_repair.htm


- Jim
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Garmin Nuvi 660 cannot acquire satellites
Hi I had this problem and its an antenna fault, give garmin a call and see if yours is still under warranty, if it is they will tell you to take it back to the retailor who will call garmin for a RA Number and they will replace it there and then. If your warranty has run out then call garmin to ask about repairs
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Jul 19, 2009 • Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS Receiver
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My nuvi 660 all it says is acquiring satellites
Try reuptdating your GPS or reset it it might be a bad patch.
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Jun 23, 2009 • Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS Receiver
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Garmin Nuvi 660 Can not locate Sattelites
Please read the solution that resolved this problem for someone else. Most likely, you have already tried this. However, the antenna of your Nuvi 660 is the same as the 3xx Nuvi series. I know this because I have worked on them.

http://www.fixya.com/support/t1115882-garmin_nuvi_360


If the above procedure does not work for you, the entire antenna assembly will need to be replaced.
The other option is to purchase an external antenna for your Nuvi and plug it into the external antenna port (gold connector) on the Nuvi antenna assembly.

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If you start it up and are located in the place where the pin code was set, then the unit should unlock once it acquires sufficient satellite signals.
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Sep 05, 2008 • Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS Receiver
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Nuvi 660 cannot acquire sattelites
do a proper reset like take the battery out if its optional then press the power button for 30 seconds without connecting the power,if that doent help then you need to reset the software to the factory setting thorugh the menu itself.
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Jul 04, 2008 • GPS
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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
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