Navman PINs
Submitted: Monday, Jan 31, 2005 at 19:11
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Member - Jason F (NSW)
Is anyone having issues with getting a fix. With my Navman PIN the least amount of time it takes is 5 minutes and that’s not moving and out of the car.
I spoke to Navman support over this issue and they said don't turn it on indoors, stay stationary for 30 seconds.
I think if this even resolved the problem ( It Didn't ) is unsatisfactory as you have no chance of sitting at
home setting up POI on the thing nor the fact it won’t do what’s its designed to do.
While in the Victorian Highlands in Jan it got some good testing and a fair amount of the tracks through the Highlands were on it just not named and no POI available.
I found routing in major towns to be very lacking and on many occasions clearly wrong, Also found it attempted on 3 separate occasions to put me on a motorway where there was no ramp ( turn right off a
bridge :-( )
In
Sydney when I finally get a fix it is an excellent product and routes
well.
Has anyone experienced anything like this? Have I got a setup issue or are they just lemons?
My Magellan in the same circumstances takes less than 30 seconds to fix itself.
Regards
Jason
Reply By: GUPatrol - Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:38
Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:38
Jason,
You have to understand how it works.
The Navman PIN is a windows CE 2003 pocket PC, it has an incorporated GPS which talks to any GPS software via com2.
I got one and using the cr@ppy smartST software that comes with it I had the same problem, this is due to the fact that the GPS itself gets a fix (I used third party software to diagnose/troubleshoot that) but smartst drops the almanac if it doesn't get a fix within xx number of seconds, then it has to do it all again (cold fix) that is the reason why navman tells you not to turn it on indoors (which is pathetic in my view).
If you use Oziexplorer (for example) you no longer have those problems and the maps are your maps not the smartst ones.
Conclusion: what I am trying to say is that the problem is smartst and not the GPS.
On a recent trip to the high country the GPS once lost the fix for a few minutes due to a heavy wooded area which was also surrounded by mountains while the Garmin with external antenna didn't, but the satellite view on both only had three visible satellites so it is understandable that the one inside the vehicle would loose it first.
If you use oziexplorer CE you also get a satellite view screen which makes sense instead of the silly green dot which comes with smartst.
In other words what you are having troubles with is smartst (which is OK if you only use it in the city).
For anything else you need to use other mapping software but the hardware is OK and does a good job, except for the windows CE 2003 and its glitches but we all know by now that Microsoft products are like that....
William
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Follow Up By: StormyKnight - Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 19:28
Tuesday, Feb 01, 2005 at 19:28
Jason you answered my question, I don't need the silly "smartST", I'm going to use OziCE when I get a NavMan. Thanks for clarifing the hardware/software issues.
Thanks
Richard
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Follow Up By: Member - David 0- Wednesday, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:40
Wednesday, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:40
When I install gliding software (navigation coupled to glide calculations ie will i make it!) and set to look at Com2 it won't work. I suspect SmartSt hogs the port but I don't know for sure. Anyone know if this is true befoe I delete SmartST?
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Follow Up By: GUPatrol - Wednesday, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:41
Wednesday, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:41
David,
You are correct, SmartST hogs the port, there is a service pack for it or update to version 3.
You can't have more than one GPS software talking on the same port either unless you have other software such as franson GPS
Gate.
William
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Follow Up By: Member - David 0- Thursday, Feb 03, 2005 at 17:07
Thursday, Feb 03, 2005 at 17:07
William
Thanks for that confirmation
David O
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