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06/01/2008 at 8:52 pm #1726621
Today the whole crew set out to finally score a bunch of puzzles we solved, only to find that our Magellan Meridian was off. WAY off. I thought at first it was input errors, me being the inputter. <--- New word! :D But, then I took a new waypoint by the car, waked a couple hundred feet away and back, and found the GPS reading 300 feet off. The closest I could get on the day was when we down by the lake receiving 10 satellites at 100%. I was still 140+ feet off. The GPS worked just fine last week, and has been sitting in it’s mount since. What could have possibly gone wrong? Anyone know how to fix this ❓
06/01/2008 at 10:14 pm #1889894I can do you better than that. I took my Meridian out for a day of caching in Ontario Canada on a beautiful, clear day – not a cloud in the sky. It kept telling me that the caches I was hunting for were about 600 miles away. It still insisted I was in Wisconsin. I finally gave up and went home. A week later I tried again, and it figured out I was in Ontario. Darn good thing “I” knew where I was and wasn’t relying on the gizzie to save me.
06/02/2008 at 12:14 am #1889895Isn’t this the normal Magellan accuracy? 😀 Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
Seriously, I wouldn’t be surprised if your unit is shot. Even solid state electronics fail eventually due to wear. Before giving up, change the batteries, reload the ROM, hard reset the unit and see if it gets better.
06/02/2008 at 12:30 am #1889896@tyedyeskyguy wrote:
The GPS worked just fine last week, and has been sitting in it’s mount since. What could have possibly gone wrong?
That mount it was sitting in for a week… would that have been in a vehicle? Parked out in the sun?
06/02/2008 at 12:54 am #1889897@Thraxman wrote:
@tyedyeskyguy wrote:
The GPS worked just fine last week, and has been sitting in it’s mount since. What could have possibly gone wrong?
That mount it was sitting in for a week… would that have been in a vehicle? Parked out in the sun?
No, it was inside the house where I always keep it.
06/02/2008 at 12:55 am #1889898@Team Deejay wrote:
Before giving up, change the batteries, reload the ROM, hard reset the unit and see if it gets better.
How do you reload the ROM and how do you hard reset the unit.
I’ve emailed Magellan support. I’m sure they’ll get back to me by 2012.
06/02/2008 at 1:00 am #1889899Performance Update:
The unit is drifting, and not in a good way like a performance car.
I started at my home coords, and just sat. In about two minutes it said I was 65 feet away. So, I followed the compass around to the back of my hous, and to the new GZ and zero’d there. Waited a few minutes, and now it said GZ was 70 feet back the other way.
So I took a new WP right where I was standing, then put it in as a got. When I did, it said I was 6 feet away. It drifted a foot for about every 3-5 seconds I stood there. After about 2 minutes, I was 70 feet away again.
Is my Magellan drunk?
06/02/2008 at 1:40 am #1889900You can download the most current ROM on the Magellan website. You have to register to get it, otherwise I would get it for you. To return your GPS to factory settings, hit the menu key, then select Setup, Clear Memory, Reset to Factory Defaults. (Amazing what you can find in the manual!)
06/02/2008 at 2:47 pm #1889901@Team Deejay wrote:
You can download the most current ROM on the Magellan website. You have to register to get it, otherwise I would get it for you. To return your GPS to factory settings, hit the menu key, then select Setup, Clear Memory, Reset to Factory Defaults. (Amazing what you can find in the manual!)
I found that after some digging in the manual last night. Didn’t help. The only difference I can see is that all my WP’s are gone. 🙁
May be time for a new GPS.
06/02/2008 at 5:14 pm #1889902Afetr a very short call (10 min or less) to Magellan Customer service, they have my meridian working good as new!
Way to go Magellan, it’s about time!!!
06/02/2008 at 9:16 pm #1889903@tyedyeskyguy wrote:
Afetr a very short call (10 min or less) to Magellan Customer service, they have my meridian working good as new!
Way to go Magellan, it’s about time!!!
I’m surprised Magellan didn’t offer you the even trade for the craptastic Triton 400-500, maybe they only offer that to explorist owners with issues or owners who mention not receiving WAAS as advertised.
Magellan may have got the unit working but not quite like new, it won’t get WAAS like when new because Magellan never updated the firmware after the satellites changed a few years back. The only Magellan GPS that will get WAAS is one that hasn’t been reset and was used at the time of the satellite change.
There was things I really liked about all my Magellan gps(I owned 5 I think), though a couple of them started only being accurate 80% of the time. The other 20% it would have you 50-200ft in the wrong place, and only a power off/on would correct the issue. you also had no way to tell when it was being off and when it was correct, which is when I bought my first Garmin & Lowrance units & never looked back.
good luck, and I hope your Magellan GPS last longer than all of mine.
06/03/2008 at 6:34 pm #1889904@hogrod wrote:
@tyedyeskyguy wrote:
Afetr a very short call (10 min or less) to Magellan Customer service, they have my meridian working good as new!
Way to go Magellan, it’s about time!!!
good luck, and I hope your Magellan GPS last longer than all of mine.
27 months and counting.
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