Garmin 64 not acquiring satellites

[+Lizrdh]

HI! I've had this unit for almost five years with no problems. All of a sudden it's stopped acquiring satellites. I've done a hard reset a couple of times and as soon as I power it on, it works, then loses satellites minutes later. Has anyone experienced this and if so, have you learned of a solution?

Edited July 14, 2019 by Lizrdh
wrong terminology

[+Aguila317]

Yes, mine does this.

 

To get round it, I change the GPS setting (setup / system menu) from 'GPS+GLONASS' to 'GPS' only. If I use it like this for a couple of hours, then change it back to GPS+GLONASS, it works fine ......... until the next time !

 

I'm in the UK.

[+The A-Team]

I've run into this issue a few times in the past with my Oregon 600, and a previous discussion here showed that a few others had experienced the same thing. In fact, I experienced this issue again this weekend. I guess I had switched GLONASS back on at some point, but it decided it didn't like that again, so I'm back to just GPS again. I think the 64 series uses similar software/firmware as the Oregon 600 series, so there must be a bug in there somewhere.

[+BlackRose67]

I've encountered that problem as well with my Oregon 600.

 

Will work fine for months then lose satellites or not lock on.

Disabling Glonass usually fixes it, but if I'm under a thick tree canopy it may not.

[+Atlas Cached]

Not having any trouble with my 64sc or 64csx. Will keep testing... 

[+K13]

I saw a story a coupledays ago about the Galileo system having issues due to a control station in Italy. 

Could that be the issue?https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/world/europe/galileo-outage.html

[+Atlas Cached]

1 hour ago, K13 said:

I saw a story a coupledays ago about the Galileo system having issues due to a control station in Italy. 

Could that be the issue?https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/16/world/europe/galileo-outage.html

 

Not with GLONASS.