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  Re: Erratic Behavior of Nuvi
| Howard Lester | 06-05-2010 |
  Re: Erratic Behavior of Nuvi
| Thibaud Taudin ... | 06-06-2010 |
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"MLD" wrote
My 350 did that once or twice. I had to STOP the routing and start over. Did
you turn yours on and resume a route that was already in progress?
MLD schreef:
> Have a nuvi 260. Using it on a trip and it was doing what it was
> supposed to do---Then turned it on after a stop and it seemed to go crazy.
> 1. Arrival time became very inconsistent--Gave times in the past-
> predict arrival at 3 pm when the time was actually 3:30 pm. Then it
> would predict a time way too long for the distance--eg. to go a mile it
> would predict an arrival time more than an hour later. Then at times
> the arrival time was blank. Then instead of arrival time, it gave the
> "Speed and Compass" info along with the highlighted route.
> 2. Said to follow the "Hightlighted Line" and the vehicle icon was
> positioned on another road.
> 3. Set up a route that was way off base, longer and through small towns
> despite having "faster" selected and even though I was on a highway that
> led directly to the destination. Kept recalculating and wanting me to
> get off at every off-ramp.
> Am thinking of trying an Master Reset before calling Garmin. Am caught
> up with all the latest software etc.
> Comments appreciated.
> MLD
My 760 had it once. It happenend after I had to interrupt the startup
> supposed to do---Then turned it on after a stop and it seemed to go crazy.
> 1. Arrival time became very inconsistent--Gave times in the past-
> predict arrival at 3 pm when the time was actually 3:30 pm. Then it
> would predict a time way too long for the distance--eg. to go a mile it
> would predict an arrival time more than an hour later. Then at times
> the arrival time was blank. Then instead of arrival time, it gave the
> "Speed and Compass" info along with the highlighted route.
> 2. Said to follow the "Hightlighted Line" and the vehicle icon was
> positioned on another road.
> 3. Set up a route that was way off base, longer and through small towns
> despite having "faster" selected and even though I was on a highway that
> led directly to the destination. Kept recalculating and wanting me to
> get off at every off-ramp.
> Am thinking of trying an Master Reset before calling Garmin. Am caught
> up with all the latest software etc.
> Comments appreciated.
> MLD
process because the loading wasn't finished even after 10 minutes. So I
interrupted the startup process by switching the nuvi off. Next time I
switched it on it looked all ok. Normal startup time. Could find its
position. But when I typed in a destination it gave the instructions in
a different language. So it looks asif a few bits were reset to
something different. And if those bits could have changed in the setup
other could also have changed. So I checked all setup items and found on
other one that was reset: not the fastest route but the shortest route
was set. That would give very long (in time) routes through very little
roads etc.
Perhaps the same happened in your case. After this (some months ago)
everything went ok.
On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:19:03 +0200, Thibaud Taudin Chabot
>MLD schreef:
>> Have a nuvi 260. Using it on a trip and it was doing what it was
>> supposed to do---Then turned it on after a stop and it seemed to go crazy.
>> 1. Arrival time became very inconsistent--Gave times in the past-
>> predict arrival at 3 pm when the time was actually 3:30 pm. Then it
>> would predict a time way too long for the distance--eg. to go a mile it
>> would predict an arrival time more than an hour later. Then at times
>> the arrival time was blank. Then instead of arrival time, it gave the
>> "Speed and Compass" info along with the highlighted route.
>> 2. Said to follow the "Hightlighted Line" and the vehicle icon was
>> positioned on another road.
>> 3. Set up a route that was way off base, longer and through small towns
>> despite having "faster" selected and even though I was on a highway that
>> led directly to the destination. Kept recalculating and wanting me to
>> get off at every off-ramp.
>> Am thinking of trying an Master Reset before calling Garmin. Am caught
>> up with all the latest software etc.
>> Comments appreciated.
>> MLD
>> supposed to do---Then turned it on after a stop and it seemed to go crazy.
>> 1. Arrival time became very inconsistent--Gave times in the past-
>> predict arrival at 3 pm when the time was actually 3:30 pm. Then it
>> would predict a time way too long for the distance--eg. to go a mile it
>> would predict an arrival time more than an hour later. Then at times
>> the arrival time was blank. Then instead of arrival time, it gave the
>> "Speed and Compass" info along with the highlighted route.
>> 2. Said to follow the "Hightlighted Line" and the vehicle icon was
>> positioned on another road.
>> 3. Set up a route that was way off base, longer and through small towns
>> despite having "faster" selected and even though I was on a highway that
>> led directly to the destination. Kept recalculating and wanting me to
>> get off at every off-ramp.
>> Am thinking of trying an Master Reset before calling Garmin. Am caught
>> up with all the latest software etc.
>> Comments appreciated.
>> MLD
>My 760 had it once. It happenend after I had to interrupt the startup
>process because the loading wasn't finished even after 10 minutes. So I
>interrupted the startup process by switching the nuvi off. Next time I
>switched it on it looked all ok. Normal startup time. Could find its
>position. But when I typed in a destination it gave the instructions in
>a different language. So it looks asif a few bits were reset to
>something different. And if those bits could have changed in the setup
>other could also have changed. So I checked all setup items and found on
>other one that was reset: not the fastest route but the shortest route
>was set. That would give very long (in time) routes through very little
>roads etc.
>Perhaps the same happened in your case. After this (some months ago)
>everything went ok.
>process because the loading wasn't finished even after 10 minutes. So I
>interrupted the startup process by switching the nuvi off. Next time I
>switched it on it looked all ok. Normal startup time. Could find its
>position. But when I typed in a destination it gave the instructions in
>a different language. So it looks asif a few bits were reset to
>something different. And if those bits could have changed in the setup
>other could also have changed. So I checked all setup items and found on
>other one that was reset: not the fastest route but the shortest route
>was set. That would give very long (in time) routes through very little
>roads etc.
>Perhaps the same happened in your case. After this (some months ago)
>everything went ok.
Interestingly, my 760 did exactly the same thing about a year ago. One
time when I turned it on, it wasn't able to finish loading, so I
turned it off. When I turned it on again it was speaking in a
different language and some of the settings had changed. I walked
through all of the menus and straightened everything out, and no
problems since then.
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> to do---Then turned it on after a stop and it seemed to go crazy.