geotapo Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 hi, since today my Magellan Sportrak displays wrong data. It says I am 6km or 46km in the sky, and kilometers away from where I am. Is this a WAAS problem? My location is about 51N 8E in germany. Can I disable WAAS? I found two recipes, but they don't work: Pressing GOTO and NAV on PowerOn does nothing. Pressing LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT.... and 03 shows no WAAS dialog. Is there another way? When the device boots it says "Version 1.10, 2002". Shall I update my firmware? Any help welcome! Quote Link to comment
bradgigalo Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 I just had to take my sportrak back to the store where I bought it because it was not working corectly. Mine wasnt locking onto sattlites and when it did it would give me really messed up info Quote Link to comment
thorin Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 How many satellites were you in contact with when that happened? If it was only 2 then your altitude info wouldn't be correct. Thorin Quote Link to comment
geotapo Posted June 30, 2004 Author Share Posted June 30, 2004 How many satellites were you in contact with when that happened? I had 4 and more big black satelites. Plus one black and one light W. Quote Link to comment
geotapo Posted June 30, 2004 Author Share Posted June 30, 2004 (edited) I had 4 and more big black satelites... I had my camera mobile with me: http://www.taponet.de/waas/Photo0002.jpg Later this day I made some more photos with my digital camera: http://www.taponet.de/waas/ Edited June 30, 2004 by geotapo Quote Link to comment
+IMLost Posted June 30, 2004 Share Posted June 30, 2004 I was just having some trouble with my Sportrak Map. It was saying that I was moving at 30 MPH when I was standing still and my location on the map wsn't even the right mountain. I upgraded the firmware and all is working fine now. I am in the Northeast US so I don't know if this is the same problem you are having. I upgraded to version 5.0 Quote Link to comment
Major Catastrophe Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 Try clearing ALL memory, then reinitialize the unit. Quote Link to comment
ertyu Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 I had a similar issue, same symptoms plus the clock would tick fast. A complete reset of the memory put it back in working order. What I encountered is apparently a long standing firmware bug. Quote Link to comment
+Spoo Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 (edited) This page left blank intentionally. Edited July 5, 2004 by Spoo Quote Link to comment
+MsChief Gps_y Posted July 5, 2004 Share Posted July 5, 2004 I'm having problems with my Magellan SporTrac also. A while ago, night caching it started saying NO POS. The batteries were fine. The next day it worked fine...so I figured maybe one of the batteries was out of whack....But...yesterday when I went to use it..bright cloudless sunny day, open area, fresh fully charged batteries etc it would not work....got NO POS. Put in another set of fresh batteries, dble checked they were in right and got NO POS. Re-initialized it 3 times and it would not work. Gave up, hours later at home...it worked fine!!!! Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment
snakeitg Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Mine did the same thing three different times,as of today i sent it back to magellen for repair. Quote Link to comment
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