Our nuvi recently started dropping satellite connection. ?.can't find satellite. Love this model. Are there any easy fixes to this problem?
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Some of the drops are due to the increase of satellite usage. Some may be due to low power on your unit. Have you had a recent upgrade? This helped mine considerably. It will go in and out around large trees and buildings but usually picks right back up in less than a mile.
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Some of the drops are due to the increase of satellite usage. Some may be due to low power on your unit. Have you had a recent upgrade? This helped mine considerably.It will go in and out around large trees and buildings but usually picks right back up in less than a mile.
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I've had the Maestro 4040 for about a week, and I'm having a major problem with it. Right now while driving a route the unit will often go a bit wonky, as in it will stop announcing street names, or the map will show a completely different area than where I am, or the progress bar screen will freeze. The unit will then reboot itself, and after it comes back it will operate correctly until I power the unit off and then back on after a period of time.Still working with Magellan support on this one, this stuff seems to have started happening after a firmware upgrade.
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Zachary, Mine is broken too. I called Garmin and they want me to send the unit in for repair. They want $125. I could just about buy another one for that price. Have you figured out to fix yours? I am still trying to figure out a way to McGiver mine. David Wallace
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I've had the Maestro 4040 for about a week, and I'm having a major problem with it. Right now while driving a route the unit will often go a bit wonky, as in it will stop announcing street names, or the map will show a completely different area than where I am, or the progress bar screen will freeze. The unit will then reboot itself, and after it comes back it will operate correctly until I power the unit off and then back on after a period of time. Still working with Magellan support on this one, this stuff seems to have started happening after a firmware upgrade.
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Mine has been working for over four years without interruption. Suggest checking your registration and contacting customer support. It could also be a problem with the cord/"antenna" piece that picks up the traffic information. Hope it helps.
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Thanks!!!! I recently had the same "disconnected" problem; Garmin support took me through an upgrade and I was fixed for about a week before it returned. Since I didn't have a chnce to contact them during Support hours, I went online, and your excerpt from the longer fix above worked for me, too!! Just hope it stays fixed this time.
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Mike, I agree what Garmin said made no sense, but it is working today. So who knows what really happened. Where did you get those other updates for the traffic receiver?
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I had the exact same thing happen recently. It worked great for around a month, then the channels were gone all of a sudden. I tried my old crappy antenna again and that worked better than the Leaf Plus. Did you guys return yours? Thinking of doing that.
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Mine already had the 2010 maps preinstalled so I didn't try to update. A little off topic, but one thing that bothers me however is that the 765t I got is a bit inaccurate for my home address. My nuvi 260W is right on target for my home address while the 765t shows that I am about 800 ft away from my house. I tried it out on non-residential targets and the 260W was always right on target while the 765t was off about 50 to 200 ft. Not quite sure what the issue is but the 260W appears to have a more sensitve/accurate chip set.
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I am having the same issue. For some reason, I am not able to get this system to stay on. I have had Magellan's before and never had any issues. I love this product but cannot get it to work. Sometimes it turns on and with a slight bump turns off again. seems like some loose connection. Please help!!!!
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Voice on my 255 nuvi went off.GPS works but silently..Is there a reset or is the unit broken? Voice temporarily returned, but it was in German!
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I gave up on mine, got tired of rebooting the unit, so Directv sent a tech out to my home and it kept dropping the signal for him too. So the tech hard-wired a small box into the system running off my router and I now have internet to every tv in the house.
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I had no other way to get back to you, James so I'll try here. Question: Did I have the new remote "learn" from the other remotes. I did not. I used the published Dishnetwork codes.
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Probably too late to contact Amazon that has 30 day return policy. My bet is that your battery went flat, and it is known that when the battery is does not have any charge, satellite reception has problems. So, first try to charge your battery. If that does not help, then contact Garmin support.
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I had the same problem on a trip to Cape Cod, MA. First weakness and in-and-out of satellite reception then nothing. Unit refuses to find the satellites. I suspect a design flaw in the receiver or the antenna connection. I'm am very unhappy with their customer service. They made me register the unit first (I didn't save the yellow piece of paper with the registration code, which is different than the serial number). I am still waiting for an RMA after a week. I did try the update, reset stuff as suggested by customer service and that did not fix it.
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Just (recently) bought the 335T and I have had no problem acquiring satellite signal with this unit. In fact, that was one of my prime motivations to switch from my old Garmin Nuvi 350. I was having a lot of problems with just that issue. My two major complaints about the TomTom vs. the Garmin are: (1) You can't spell out a specific point of interest) like a Chili's restaraunt, for instance, which you can do with the Garmin. This was a MAJOR plus with my old unit and I used it all the time. Of course, it's possible that I just haven't firgured out how to do it yet, because, (2) the TomTom has very poor user documentation. I'm going to have to go online to try and figure some of the functionality out.
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I used a Samsung SGH-A437. It took me 2 days trying to synch the phone with Nuvi and just now it finally paired. I realised both the phone and the unit would be paired faster if they are fully charged or both connected to AC charger! Then I found out "No data available. note: not all phones support this feature." Now I don't know if I should return it!! I bought the GPS for bluetooth usage!!!!