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855 taking long time to 'discover' satellites

 
Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:19am

For the last couple of weeks, my 855 has been taking an inordinate amount of time to find satellites, sometimes a couple of minutes.

Comments?

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DougJ - Ottawa, ON, CA
Sun, 05/13/2012 - 12:47am

My nuvi 360 did took a while

My nuvi 360 did took a while to find satellites for almost 2 days in a row a week ago...both with heavy clouds cover here.

Must be the weather.

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-Chris
Sun, 05/13/2012 - 5:16pm

PND almanac

When was the last time you had the unit in use?

How far away were you from the place you last turned the unit off?

Neither of my units had problems find satellites recently.

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Garmin 38 - Magellan Gold - Garmin Yellow eTrex - Nuvi 260 - Nuvi 2460LMT - Google Nexus 7
Sun, 05/13/2012 - 8:12pm

I use the unit daily;

I use the unit daily; doesn't matter if I'm at the same place I turned it off or elsewhere.

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DougJ - Ottawa, ON, CA
Sun, 05/13/2012 - 8:26pm

Clean out the track files

Clean out the track files and any extraneous data you have on the unit such as Favorites you no longer need. You could be running out of memory and the unit is having to shuffle data around because there isn't enough free space. You DO NOT NEED TO REORGANIZE THE STORAGE!. It won't make it any faster.

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