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900bt - frozen map screen when startup with no GPS signal

By weaponofchoice · Dec 22, 2008in Problems/Troubleshooting💬 8 posts👁️ 1,572 views
Posted Dec 22, 2008 · 19:32 UTC#1

Hi All,

 

I have a new 900BT and I'm having a puzzling issue. I park in an underground lot so when my unit starts up there is no signal. When I get out of the parking lot my map screen is frozen and does not move with my vehicle. Music plays and if there was a previous route in place directions are still given. In order to make the map work, I have to hit menu, and then hit map again, at which point the map redraws and beings working. This only seems to happen when starting with no signal as far as I can do.

 

Has anyone else experienced this or can provide me with some insight?

 

thanks

Posted Dec 22, 2008 · 20:09 UTC#2

The map is somewhat buggy. I've encountered a lot of problems and most are corrected by hitting menu then map (or even just map). Your issue isn't the only one. :(

Posted Dec 22, 2008 · 20:44 UTC#3

Yeah, I can tell there are, but I'm wondering if anyone has had this one specifically or knows anything about it.

 

Thanks.

Posted Dec 23, 2008 · 01:17 UTC#4

Ok I've now determined that this is unrelated to the GPS signal. It seems to just happen anytime it is turned on after the car has been off for a while.

Posted Dec 23, 2008 · 01:31 UTC#5
Ok I've now determined that this is unrelated to the GPS signal. It seems to just happen anytime it is turned on after the car has been off for a while.

 

Hmm, nice find. How did you figure this out? If we can possibly pinpoint when this happens it will make it much easier to fix.

Posted Dec 23, 2008 · 17:48 UTC#6

I figured it out because after parking outside at work for the day it occured again. I'll do some more testing, but it seems to work fine if it starts up again within a short amount of time. Very annoying/frustrating issue.

Posted Dec 24, 2008 · 13:03 UTC#7

this also happens some times with my deck. driving on a route and then at some point the map isn't moving any more. the pointer is gone and the only way to get it back is to press menu and then map again. this can happen every where, country roads or in the city...

 

the problem is that it's intermitted so i can not find a reason why it happens like in a tunnel or so with no gps signal but no even on a clear night on a country lane it happens :roll:

Posted Dec 24, 2008 · 16:38 UTC#8
this also happens some times with my deck. driving on a route and then at some point the map isn't moving any more. the pointer is gone and the only way to get it back is to press menu and then map again. this can happen every where, country roads or in the city...

 

the problem is that it's intermitted so i can not find a reason why it happens like in a tunnel or so with no gps signal but no even on a clear night on a country lane it happens :roll:

 

One reason it might be happening (by design... there might be a bug where it happens otherwise, but I haven't seen it) is if you hit the screen and set a cursor on the map. Then the map stops moving and your car arrow will eventually drive off of the visible portion of the map. Hitting the MAP button restores car visibility...