Garmin Map Updater

 

Here's my vote for using MU. Unbeknownst to me, my USB cable has apparently gotten flaky. After downloading the map and beginning the install, a fly buzzed the cable and apparently moved it enough to disconnect. I went through several cycles of killing the unsafe disconnect messages and rebooting the GPS before I changed the cable.

MU picked up right where it left off, at installing, and continued on without a hiccup. GE won't do that. You have to start the whole download process over.

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Frank DriveSmart55 37.322760, -79.511267

Moral

Moral: In a buggy environment, use GMU.

twisted

A Fly?

You must have some super flys there in Virginia
with the strength to move cables. razz razz

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Nuvi 2460LMT 2 Units

Not as big as the bugs in

Not as big as the bugs in northern New Brunswick. Those ones splattered my windshield so badly that windshield wiper fluid and the wipers couldn't keep up. I ended up having to use the sponge and fluid at a gas station plus a fair amount of pressure to clean the windshield.

I should have just taken the car to a car wash.

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"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." --Douglas Adams

Cicadas

It was like that last spring here in VA when the "locust" hatched. They are locust at all but actually cicadas. Made a nasty splat the size of a saucer and if not cleaned before drying required a lot of effort to get off.

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Frank DriveSmart55 37.322760, -79.511267

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since downloading the new maps I went on a roadtrip to try it out, several times along the way the gps shut down and had to be turned back on. It also took several minutes to accuire the sattelites. I want to take an extended road trip in a few weerks. I have had it for over a year. Can anyone HELP??

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Pierson Jones

Trip log? Reset?

prjones520 wrote:

since downloading the new maps I went on a roadtrip to try it out, several times along the way the gps shut down and had to be turned back on. It also took several minutes to accuire the sattelites. I want to take an extended road trip in a few weerks. I have had it for over a year. Can anyone HELP??

How much free storage does your nuvi have? Is the map installed to the nuvi or to a SD card? Here are some thoughts. I suggest trying one at a time and in the order posted from least effort required to most effort...

Let the nuvi acquire satellites while your nuvi is not moving--and leave it on for around 15 minutes to download the almanac. Once done, future sat acquisitions should occur faster as long as the device is powered up in the same area it had been turned off.

You could try clearing your trip log. If that doesn't work, a hard reset is in order:

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/26136

Some folks here do a hard reset after each map update or firmware update while others do it only when something flakey is going on.

If the hard reset doesn't cure things, it's always possible that your recent map update was corrupt and a reinstallation of the latest map may help.

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To add to that, maybe a firmware re-install if all else fails.

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nüvi 3790T | Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK

Same Problem

phranc wrote:

Here's my vote for using MU. Unbeknownst to me, my USB cable has apparently gotten flaky. After downloading the map and beginning the install, a fly buzzed the cable and apparently moved it enough to disconnect. I went through several cycles of killing the unsafe disconnect messages and rebooting the GPS before I changed the cable.

MU picked up right where it left off, at installing, and continued on without a hiccup. GE won't do that. You have to start the whole download process over.

I had the same issue but it turned out to be my USB hub, not the cable. For some reason, some, but not all of my Garmin units won't update correctly using the hub. The problem goes away when I connect directly to a USB port on the computer.

I vote with you on using MU over GE. I wonder how much longer Garmin will support it though.

Hubs

Some hubs don't provide enough power for the Garmin and other type units. Think milliamps, not volts.

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Frank DriveSmart55 37.322760, -79.511267