Is my Q2 knackered?

Aladdin_Sane · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 01, 2006 Posts: 79

Briefly:- Had Q1 for a year with City Select v7, great bit of kit. Got a Q2 a few days ago with City Navigator NT v8 but screen takes a long time to re-draw.

Registered my Q2 as second unit and loaded City Select v7 maps hopeing it would re-draw screen quicker as it doesn't need to decompress the maps. Still no luck.

On way home from work this morning doing 85mph screen is going blank for 300yds at a time waiting to re-draw. Twice I 'Overtook' the maps and it had to re-calculate on just a 6 mile stretch!!

I exited left and aproached the roundabout and voice command said 'Take second exit' as it normally would. Screen went blank and didn't re-draw until 50 yards after the roundabout so would be no good without voice command.

Could it be a faulty unit?

Help please.

oddsock · Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:30 am Post subject:

I Know you should not have to but have you tried turning off autozoom and setting your own mapscale ?

Is the Q2 the same as the Q1 in that when you install new maps they wipe the old ones from the system ?

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elsinga · Regular Visitor Joined: May 14, 2005 Posts: 171

Are you using the latest firmware? The 2.40 and 2.50 ondes were worse than the current one (although it's still a problem).
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Aladdin_Sane · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 01, 2006 Posts: 79

According to my Quest i'm using 2.80.

I'm gonna take both units to work tonight and see how they perform side by side.

I may well be selling a Q2 soon or asking Garmin to swap it for a Q1.

desd · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 117

It's not just me then im having the same problem the Q2 just doesn't seem upto the job it's being sold for.
My unit runs off the map every time i use it not just ocassionally £400 for not a lot so far.
Have also suffered with little or no sat reception when it's raining is this usuall ??

desd · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 117

It's not just me then im having the same problem the Q2 just doesn't seem upto the job it's being sold for.
My unit runs off the map every time i use it not just ocassionally £400 for not a lot so far.
Have also suffered with little or no sat reception when it's raining is this usuall ??

Aladdin_Sane · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 01, 2006 Posts: 79

Elsinga,

Whilst going through the Q1 and Q2 to make sure all the settings are the same I noticed in 'Map Info' that my Q2 is still running NT maps even though i've loaded V7 maps via mapsource.

I've just un-installed Mapsource from my pc and will re-install up to V7 when I get home from work later tonight.

Should the V7 maps replace the V8 maps by loading them onto my Q2??

elsinga · Regular Visitor Joined: May 14, 2005 Posts: 171

The NT maps are preloaded and non-removable. Just switch them off if you want to try using CS7. BTW, I already did that and it was a minor improvement with firmware 2.40 and 2.50, but almost not noticable with 2.70 and 2.80.
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bumpkin · Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:17 am Post subject:

elsinga · Regular Visitor Joined: May 14, 2005 Posts: 171

Yes. Not very surprising though, the Q2 has to deal with custom POI's where the Q1 does not. And I suspect that the firmware code to use the NT mapdata is also slowing the Q2-with-CS7 down a bit.
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