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I came to Malaysia, and tried to do some hunting in Kuala Lumpur. The thing is that I got no signal - I tried a few days.

I tried again today in Kuala Terengganu (on the east coast) - still no signal.

I have a Geko 201 - which I have extensively used in Europe. Is it possible that I have to change some settings for Asia? Or am I just unlucky :(

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This might work, go to the satellite page and go to the menu and select "Use with GPS off" then go to the menu again and select "New Location" and leave the GPS switched on and in the open for a half an hour.

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This might work, go to the satellite page and go to the menu and select "Use with GPS off" then go to the menu again and select "New Location" and leave the GPS switched on and in the open for a half an hour.

This ought to work. You can also tell it your rough (within a couple of hundred km) location via the map (after selecting "new location") or have it do it automatically. Telling it the new location helps a lot. I've never had to select "Use with GPS off" when I've changed the location, but I guess it can't hurt, as long as it gets switched on again.

 

Going from Europe to Malaysia is a long way and the GPS is looking for the satellites that would be in view in your last known European location (assuming that was where you last had a fix). It needs to figure out what satellites to look for in Malaysia, so you need to tell it that it is in that area. Otherwise, it will take quite awhile to find the right satellites, since it has to search the sky. Also, if it has been quite awhile since you had it on, it will have to download a new almanac, which takes on the order of half an hour.

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Going from Europe to Malaysia is a long way and the GPS is looking for the satellites that would be in view in your last known European location (assuming that was where you last had a fix). It needs to figure out what satellites to look for in Malaysia, so you need to tell it that it is in that area. Otherwise, it will take quite awhile to find the right satellites, since it has to search the sky.

 

Thanks, that was it. After some time, it asked me if I was indoors - at that point I was switching it off. But the next question was if I have moved hundreds of miles away from my previous coordinates. After that it finds the satellites :)

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