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GPS is disabled

My Garmin Nuvi 350 is indicating "GPS off" at the top of the screen. How do I restore the GPS ?

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1:Turn the Nuvi on.

2:Touch the tools icon on the main screen. The tools icon is represented by a wrench surrounded by a blue circle.


3:Touch the "Settings" icon which appears as a wrench.

4:Push the "Restore" button at the bottom of the screen. A confirmation message will appear asking to confirm restoring the Nuvi to factory settings. Push yes to restore the factory settings
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Try this for hard reset .

Turn off Garmin device. Press down on bottom right corner of the touchscreen [ Don't let go ] , and then power on the GPS unit. You should be prompted whether do you really want to erase all user data, or asked if do you really want to start up in maintenance mode. Press “Yes” to reset (warning: all data will be erased and lost, so backup before proceeding) or enter maintenance mode.

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Why do a factory reset? Here's the proper solution:

http://www.sharc.net/discus/messages/6/307.html?1252938489

factory reset may cause you to lose settings that you hace already set and you will lose your recently found data.

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Lift up the antennae if that doesn't work then you may have a hardware problem

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