+captnemo Posted October 4, 2019 Posted October 4, 2019 I just got a notice from Verizon about GPS Week Number Roll Over which stated that "Starting November 3, 2019 for specific devices manufactured between 2006-2016, users may experience Global Positioning System location related issues". Per Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Week_Number_Rollover "products that were affected by the rollover include cellphones that were sold in 2013 or earlier". As I plan on out of town when this starts and geocaching will my phone GPS work. Not sure if what if anything can be done. Quote
+cerberus1 Posted October 4, 2019 Posted October 4, 2019 Your thread header says GPS. Is it sorta like what was supposedly gonna happen here in April as well ? Remember y2k ? I'll just wait n see now. Haven't had any issues earlier, even with a blue legend I still use time-to-time just for the heck of it... Quote
joesdolphins Posted October 5, 2019 Posted October 5, 2019 My Garmin Colorado and Garmin Nuvi 500 we’re infected by this in April. Stuck in the year 1999. After I called Garmin a month later they issued a Software update for the Colorado but I’m still waiting for the Nuvi 500 update. Quote
+errvee Posted October 5, 2019 Posted October 5, 2019 On my Nuvi550 time is correct, but date is off. I can see this wrong date on GPX data files and incorrect day/night (color) changes. It's related to actual sunrise/sunset Missing too this update Quote
+hukilaulau Posted October 5, 2019 Posted October 5, 2019 I would love to be stuck in the year 1999. Although I would prefer '89, or '79, or '69. Yeah! Give me 1969 again! 1 Quote
+captnemo Posted October 5, 2019 Author Posted October 5, 2019 17 hours ago, cerberus1 said: Your thread header says GPS. Is it sorta like what was supposedly gonna happen here in April as well ? Remember y2k ? I'll just wait n see now. Haven't had any issues earlier, even with a blue legend I still use time-to-time just for the heck of it... Yes it sounds like the same as April. It is just what I noticed on my Verizon Bill doing their CYA and was concerned that I would be out caching and everything would go dumb. I have and when the phone losses service use my old Garmin GPS V but both it and my Garmin Nuvi show the same location. Will just have to wait and see and maybe use orienteering to find caches after Nov 3. I wouldn't mind being stuck in 1989. Quote
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