Problem Acquiring Satellite
Thu, 12/20/2007 - 9:33am
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16 years
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Yesterday my Garmin 680 was working fine. I set my location, it took me there. I turned it off, got out of the car and transacted my business. When I got back in the care and turned on the GPS it displaced a map of my current location and kept displaying acquiring satellite. As I drove, it kept displaying the original location and continued to show acquiring satellite. Next it displayed "Problem Tracking Satellite. The signal strenth bars indicated no signal. I tried resting the unit but it never helped. Even after I was miles away it continued to display the original map and never acquired a satellite signal. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.
Stand still...
Yesterday my Garmin 680 was working fine. I set my location, it took me there. I turned it off, got out of the car and transacted my business. When I got back in the care and turned on the GPS it displaced a map of my current location and kept displaying acquiring satellite. As I drove, it kept displaying the original location and continued to show acquiring satellite. Next it displayed "Problem Tracking Satellite. The signal strenth bars indicated no signal. I tried resting the unit but it never helped. Even after I was miles away it continued to display the original map and never acquired a satellite signal. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.
It just happenned to me last week and no matter what I do it won't acquire the signal. After 15 minutes driving and reseting the button and no luck I then stop the car completely and let it does it job and it did it. It is very strange and it just happen to me the 1st time last week after did the software upgrade.
drjeckyl wrote: Yesterday
Yesterday my Garmin 680 was working fine. I set my location, it took me there. I turned it off, got out of the car and transacted my business. When I got back in the care and turned on the GPS it displaced a map of my current location and kept displaying acquiring satellite. As I drove, it kept displaying the original location and continued to show acquiring satellite. Next it displayed "Problem Tracking Satellite. The signal strenth bars indicated no signal. I tried resting the unit but it never helped. Even after I was miles away it continued to display the original map and never acquired a satellite signal. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.
You may want to see this thread:
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/3468
My advice -- to whom it happens -- call Garmin customer services as soon as you can.
The only things you regret in life are the chances you never take.
Haven't seen a serious problem
As others have noted, several factors affect acquiring satellites. These are what I have noticed 1) time since last acquired 2) distance moved from the last known position 3) antenna orientation, 4) obstructions (buildings).
I cannot acquire satellites if I'm indoors and not near a window. Takes longer to acquire if my unit is standing on end with the antenna pointed straight up. Acquiring after the unit has been off for a short while takes less than 30 seconds. In those cases where the takes too long, I have considered purchasing an antenna, but so far doesn't seem to be necessary.
Joe - nuvi 370
Lost signal on GPS
I have a Garmin Nuvu 360 and had a lot of problems with lost signal, well I read some reviews and many people said the problem is the Antenna. Well Itried all the normal things to fix problem and no luck. I finally bought a $9.95 antenna from Amazon and the unit works just fine. Also when the GPS could not get va signal it had me locked in a location Kansas, so that cleared up. I hope this helps some people with the same problem cause ti can drive you nut,s, Don C