Arbitrary nuvi reboots

Yes, just going down the road, my 3490 just decides to reboot for some reason. It comes back on and resumes the route. Don't know why it does this.

The traffic indicators are incorrect a little more often than not in my experience. It'll tell me the freeways are backed up when indeed it's smooth sailing. I can't rely on it and sometimes I have to make decision to believe it or not as to if I should detour. Sometimes I'll flip the radio over a station that does traffic reports to see what they're saying. Sometimes the nuvi is on, and sometimes it's not consistent with the radio report.

Every Nuvi model I have ever owned suffered from these ghostly reboots.

Battery condition good, power cord and connections all good, they just "happen".

None of my old StreetPilot models ever had this affliction.

Occasionally it will go into a boot loop on startup where for between 3 to 8 times it will just restart over and over, but once it's on it will stay on until the power runs out.

My 1490 has rebooted a few times, but never while navigating. However when I arrive at a TourGuide destination, I hit the stop button because for some reason the unit gets confused when I start the car at a TourGuide while navigating.
BoBHPY wrote

I will upgrade also if the 3590 gets good reviews.

It's a Garmin!!!!!

it just happend to me the other day on my Volvo Garmin GPS...have no idea why, just did. I restarted it again, probably not knowing that the bugger would do it on it's own, all fine now. If I knew what caused it, I'd be makin' the things...LOL

If you have issues (or success!) with the Traffic service, please post which subscription you use (NavTech or Clear Channel's Total Traffic Network), as well as what metro area and if the unit is actively receiving new traffic information.

The type of traffic subscription you have can cause your results to vary greatly, and some cities have much better coverage for one or the other service. If you lost the traffic signal, your unit will still display traffic congestion that it previously received for an indefinite time.

I have not noticed that yet with the 3970.

My 1450/1390 generally only reboots during startup.

This version seems to have fixed the shutdown on start up with my 1490.

I have a 1450LMT and I don't recall it ever rebooting on it's own.

Like jjen reported, startup and random reboots also seemed to have stopped for me. I updated the 1490 to 5.80 when it came out in early January.

Question: Why does my nuvi 1200, 1300, 1400, series devices reboot or shutdown while navigating an active route?

Answer:
Please note that if your nuvi is experiencing any of the following symptoms, a software update was released in order to help prevent these issues from occurring:

Unit shuts down while navigating an active route
Unit reboots while navigating an active route, powers back on, however reboots again once you attempt to View Map on the device
In order to update your nuvi please utilize Garmin's Webupdater program which will update your unit to the latest available software. If your unit continues to experience a rebooting issue please contact Garmin Customer Support for further assistance.

Never had a re-booting problem with my 1490. I update as soon as there are new updates.

I think my issue had to do with the ecoroute HD. I cleared the MPG and Ecoscore data and it hasn't rebooted since.

On my 750, there was one firmware rev that caused reboots, but otherwise it's been very reliable.

Same here. Happened to every single one I ever owned: 765T, 885T, 3790LMT, 3490LMT. No matter old or new firmware.

Come one Garmin, work out the bugs before release.....

My 3490 reboots on occasion and my 3790 did as well. My old StreetPilot 2610 never did. I sure miss thoses days.

I must be one of the lucky ones, I never had any of my 3 Nuvi's reboot while on a trip. And that includes updating firmware whenever available.

My 1490 reboots quite a bit. I called Garmin and arranged an exchange but never followed it through since I had to move at the time. This was back in August and the unit still does it. Warranty is up though, and I'm not sure if I still can exchange. Maybe I should try the Jan update first

As soon as I cleared the data off the EcoRoute feature and stop using it, all the problems I had with the nuvi 1490 went away..

Hmm, you are the second to report a possible interaction issue with Eccoroute. I too purchased this gadget, but can say that I was experiencing reboots prior to using the Eccoroute HD, but not as often.

I'm a gadget freak and bought the thing but virtually never check on statistics its providing. I'll pull it out to see if things improve.

Hmm, you are the second to report a possible interaction issue with Eccoroute. I too purchased this gadget, but can say that I was experiencing reboots prior to using the Eccoroute HD, but not as often.

I'm a gadget freak and bought the thing but virtually never check on statistics its providing. I'll pull it out to see if things improve.

Even with 4 firmware updates in the last year, it just seems like nuvis are buggy whether it's freezing up etc. Yesterday, I was not driving on the route the nuvi suggested, it showed me on a parallel road, and never recalculated. Sometimes I don't get the logic behind their software. This same unit 2350LMT was unable to route me one one occasion, on a major bridge in a city of 5 million. LOL

This is my 2nd 2350LMT, the first one simply froze up--could not power it off. The only thing that could be done was to let the battery drain. After it did it twice, I returned it.

Just one of the advantages of road lock.

Maybe it's memory management of these units? I have a 3790LMT and it reboots if I do editing a lot. It does that all the time so I did it in chunks. I loaded some routes from basecamp and when I deleted the route and re-loaded it, the unit locked up totally. I did the reset as instructed by Garmin and the unit locked up again. The next time it locked up without loading a route. I reported that and they asked me to send it in for repair. My garmin is only 4 Month old! I wish I would have returned it to Cosco before the 3 month limit.
Garmin should be able to fix this with a software update. (I hope)

Now that you posted this, you started have re-boots galore didn't ya?

Because that post is over 2 years old.

My 1490 used to do it a lot. Even with a decent amount of free memory.

Well I only have two Nuvi's now, two years later I still never had a reboot while traveling on a route.

Generally it comes from device over heating. It happened to me when I got the initial release of my 755T, and as well as my recent upgrade unit the 3597LMTHD.

Being my job is driving related, my unit stays on for hrs at a time, and it will reboot every now and then. Under the worst conditions in the summer time under direct sunlight, I often feel heat from the back of the unit when it will not reboot. My solution is place the unit right by the AC vent for a few seconds, and it will reboot itself once again.

If you have an old unit using normal traffic, then it is time to upgrade to the digital traffic. The status is night and day. Here in NYC, normal traffic (755T) won't even work during rush hours, and using digital traffic (3597LMTHD), it hasn't been more then 5 mins off in worst conditions.

jc

FWIW, last summer I had my iPhone 4S in direct morning sunlight for a bit less than an hour, out in the open on backyard table. Temperature was probably in the 70's. The phone flashed a warning on-screen that it was overheating, and shut itself down. I put the phone in the shade, and in about 10 minutes or so it could be restarted.

To perhaps revive an old thread, has this been fixed? My guess is that it hasn't because I have been seeing random reboots on my 3490 lately. Wondering if it has something to do with the number of POIs I have installed and/or the size of the recent maps?

... I haven't had a random reboot on my Garmins since I moved from my 1490. My 2508 and DriveSmart 50 are rock solid.

Have had this occur on my Garmin.

COME ON GARMIN - GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER!