Hi Fellow F500bt owners,

 

Did you already noticed with your unit when you start your car in a basement parking or when ever you dont have any gps signal? How long does your unit acquire the gps signal once you are already in an open area. I was just asking since my unit takes about 5-10 mins or a lot of times just do not get signal at all and map frozes. In order for me to get the signal, I needed to reboot my unit. Everything works fine except for the map freeze up.

GPS is a funny technology.

 

If you drive in the open and then drive into a car park and then power off your GPS (switch your car off) and then drive back out later it can take a very long time to repick up the GPS signal.

 

This is quite common with a lot of devices. What I used to do with my PDA satnav was power off before I went into a carpark and power up after I left, this way it would get the signal faster. Now you can't do that with the Avic though.