60CSx Issue

[+Berta Nick Zoey]

Ive had my 60CSX for about 16 months and it works flawlessly. But, I noticed something this past two weekends that I havent read anything about in here.

 

What is happening, is that when I come indoors and turn my GPS on, Go to Calendar to see the caches I have found on any given date, after a few minutes, I will get a screen that says, in effect, GPS reception cant be established and it asks if I want keep working without GPS reception. This is understandable.

 

But heres where it goes bad. It seems to me that in the past, if I got this message, I could highlight my choice and move on. NOW, as soon as that message comes up, ALL of the buttons on the unit become inoperable and I have to power cycle the GPS.

 

Has anyone ever had this problem?

[gratefulHIKE]

ive had my 60 for a little over 2 years, and never had that issue....odd that it suddenly changed on you like that....did you let anyone borrow your unit?

Edited November 27, 2007 by gratefulHIKE

[+ProsperoDK]

I haven't had that problem with my 60CSx, but what I do when I turn it on inside my apartment (on the ground floor of a 3 story brick building) is immediately when it gets to the satellite page is to press menu and then use with GPS of.

 

ProsperoDK/René

[Glenn W]

The first step when the 60CSx gets wonky is to use Garmin's webupdater to upgrade to the latest firmware. If you already have the latest firmware, use the updater to re-install it. If that doesn't work, try calling Garmin's tech support.

[+briansnat]

Ive had my 60CSX for about 16 months and it works flawlessly. But, I noticed something this past two weekends that I havent read anything about in here.

 

What is happening, is that when I come indoors and turn my GPS on, Go to Calendar to see the caches I have found on any given date, after a few minutes, I will get a screen that says, in effect, GPS reception cant be established and it asks if I want keep working without GPS reception. This is understandable.

 

But heres where it goes bad. It seems to me that in the past, if I got this message, I could highlight my choice and move on. NOW, as soon as that message comes up, ALL of the buttons on the unit become inoperable and I have to power cycle the GPS.

 

Has anyone ever had this problem?

 

I do. It seems to be a software bug. Unit freezes if I'm in the calendar and the no reception message appears. It has happened since I've owned the unit and none of the firmware upgrades have fixed it

 

I do this so infrequently that I never bothered reporting it to Garmin, but it is an obvious bug. I just make sure I'm near a window so I get reception and it doesn't happen. I think it also happened with my 60CS.

Edited November 28, 2007 by briansnat