i3 Calibration required or fault?

20vt-rs · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 15, 2006 Posts: 40

Hi - I've had an i3 for about a month now, not really used it much until this week. I've travelled up and down the M5 and M6 over the last couple of days, and on occasions the i3 seemed to think it was travelling parallel with the motorway, i.e the triangle was left of the M5. This causes the unit to confuse and keep re-calculating whenever you pass a local road.

Does this sound like it needs calibrating, or is there a problem with the GPS signal, or is it faulty?

Thanks in advance.

alix776 · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:19 am Post subject:

might be low signal strength do your car have a heat reflective windscreen or the unit might need a factory reset
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20vt-rs · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 15, 2006 Posts: 40

No the car hasn't got a heated or reflective windscreen, but the unit is mounted to a vent mount and not the windscreen, would that make much difference? It' has full view through the window...

PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:33 am Post subject:

Better to put it on the windscreen, although mine carried on working fine from the glove compartment of my car when i popped it in there whilst re-fuelling. Didn't bother to switch it off and then pulled away with this muffled voice coming from the car! It was only when it bonged for a Camera that i realised what I'd done!

What car do you have?

Aitch2 · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:13 am Post subject:

Make sure that:

1) You're running unit Firmware v2.7
2) You've selected WAAS/EGNOS mode for the GPS

Aitch
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Trajet · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:33 pm Post subject:

Aitch2 · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:49 pm Post subject:

Mine appears to work fine in this mode...

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Lester_Burnham · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 17, 2005 Posts: 618

bumpkin · Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 7:48 pm Post subject:

I have mine set up to use the EGNOS signal, it seems to work fine. According to this page (http://www.tracklogs.co.uk/cgi-bin/publ/user.cgi?obj=home&page=gpsfaq&id=2040) it went live almost 2 years ago.
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