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ShirleySerious
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:45 am    Post subject: StreetPilot i3 shuts off for no reason Reply with quote

I've had my i3 for a while now and has worked well since I got it. I've always used it plugged in, but the other day I decided to try it on battery power in my friend's car (his cig lighter outlet is busted). Now the batteries are close to new and have a good amount of juice left in them. Every time I took a route, the unit would shut itself off without warning right before taking a turn. I can't confirm if this is the result of the firmware (2.60) because I have never used previous firmwares under battery power before.

Note that navigation works fine when it's plugged in. Anyone else have this problem?
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 2:49 pm    Post subject: Re: StreetPilot i3 shuts off for no reason Reply with quote

ShirleySerious wrote:
I've had my i3 for a while now and has worked well since I got it. I've always used it plugged in, but the other day I decided to try it on battery power in my friend's car (his cig lighter outlet is busted). Now the batteries are close to new and have a good amount of juice left in them. Every time I took a route, the unit would shut itself off without warning right before taking a turn. I can't confirm if this is the result of the firmware (2.60) because I have never used previous firmwares under battery power before.

Note that navigation works fine when it's plugged in. Anyone else have this problem?


What's the battery settings set to? (ie NiMH, or alkaline)
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ShirleySerious
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Alkaline
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ShirleySerious wrote:
Alkaline


Which presumably matches the type of batteries in your i3?

In which case, try some brand new batteries.

What version of firmware are you running?
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ShirleySerious
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well here's the problem, I put in new batteries and still had that problem. Yes, they were alkaline and it's set to alkaline. I am running 3.30.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ShirleySerious wrote:
Well here's the problem, I put in new batteries and still had that problem. Yes, they were alkaline and it's set to alkaline. I am running 3.30.


Well if it were me, I'd backup any favourites with easygps, and downgrade the firmware to 2.70, and see if it still happens.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've today experienced the same problem. In my case it seems (hopefully!!) to have been remedied by the replacement with NMIH batteries of what I suspect were faulty NIMH batteries.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 12:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have this problem to even if plugged in to car or on the batt
is there some sort of fault
cheers
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 8:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi Shirley. Almost certainly your batteries. Had a similar problem myself last weeek. I usually use rechargeable and keep plugged into car but left cable in another car and the usual batteries were flat so so used ordinary ones. Ran fine for around 2 hours then just switched off. Swapped for fresh ones and worked fine.
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