Weird occurrence in California
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Last week we were driving on Interstate 40 across the desert toward Lake Havasu City, AZ. The GPS (a Magellan Roadmater 2200T) stopped counting down the miles at about 73 miles before the next turn on Arizona 95. For about 5 miles it said 73 to the maneuver. A reset started it off working again. It was weird.
I thought it was a fluke and dismissed it.
On the way back, at about the same place it did it again, stopped counting down the miles to the next turn on I-15. Again, I had to reset the unit to get it to wake up and start working again.
It seems odd that it would do this both ways, clearly it's not a fluke as I originally suspected, more likely some actual programming error in this unit or in the Navtec data (which I have noticed a number of issues with, so I know that is not perfect by any means.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Desert Security?
I have read about this type of thing from users traveling near the Pentagon, but haven't seen it myself. Maybe you found -
Area 51.2200T.
- Keith
As A Native of California
"weird" and "California" are redundant. :+)
My first thought was the possibility of the timezone change must have messed up the GPSr. I haven't had the chance to test that scenario anywhere. ( I don't get out much ).
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That does sound odd... My
That does sound odd... My c330 never did anything like that... I'm still waiting on TomTom to actually announce and release the 920 before I replace my GPS, so I can't give any current accounts...
So, really, why am I posting my reply? I've gone and confused myself again.
Move along, nothing to see here.
"Never fight an ugly guy, he has nothing to lose."
How to catch a "wild" POI
Last week we were driving on Interstate 40....
Yo Steevo -
You had two (2) separate chances to catch a wild POI with that fancy GPSr of yours and all we get is, "Somewhere along the long winding highway..."? What's up with that? <-- ;-S
"weird" and "California" are redundant. :+)
Fruit & Nut Land
Left Coast
As a native Angelino, I always find the humor in these and similar "epithets."
Thanks for the smiles.
- Keith
it's not the timezone
My first thought was the possibility of the timezone change must have messed up the GPSr.
GPSr doesn't know anything about the timezone boundary. It receives and runs internally on UTC. The timezone you set is only used to calculate the offset for displaying the local time.
Garmin nüvi® 660, iPhone 8gb (Technology is not the solution. It's only a tool to help you achieve it.)
I'll drive that route again . . .
I have read about this type of thing from users traveling near the Pentagon, but haven't seen it myself. Maybe you found -
Area 51.2200T.
Heh. I hadn't thought of that.
But it's clear there are "issues" with the navteq data. I have noticed a number of times where the directions were just plain wrong.
I expect to drive that route again and I will document the whole thing completely.
I didn't think it was reallllllllllll !
Last week we were driving on Interstate 40....
Yo Steevo -
You had two (2) separate chances to catch a wild POI with that fancy GPSr of yours and all we get is, "Somewhere along the long winding highway..."? What's up with that? <-- ;-S
Yeah, well, I didn't expect this to reoccur. I thought it was a weird fluke, like I said. Or another defective Magellan.
But I will document it completely next time. If it reoccurs.
It did re-occur
Well, 60 miles east of I-15 on I-40, westbound, sure enough it happened again, same place.
The thing stopped counting down the miles, got stuck at 60 mi.
I reported it to the QA guy at Magellan, he said "It could be Navteq, it could be us".
He also mentioned they are finally going to clean up their act and start releasing new data for their units annually, "expect an update for the 2200T next year". We'll just see.
I have had a beef with Magellan over that, Garmin releases new data every August (I think) whereas Magellan never has. They just want to sell you a new unit.
I wouldn't buy anything else from a company that didn't update live data like this vehicle nav data. That's just ridiculous.