Navman 3450 with SmartST 3 & GPS fix, slow

[JV]

Hi,
It's been a while sine my last post.
I decided to take the plunge and upgrade SmartSt from v2 to v3 purely becuase I could import POI and had the latest Australian Maps.

The problem is that it now takes about 5-6 minutes for the unit to get a GPS fix since the upgrade. I didn't have this problem with v2.
I usually got a fix within 1min - 1.5min.

I have the sleeve on a Ipaq 5450 running ppc 2003 (same config as v2)

Any advice on how I can improve the time for the unit to get a GPS fix would be greatly appreciated.

Apart from this quirk I am really happy with the changes Navman have made to v3.

Thanks in advance
JV

[Tim Buxton]

Is yours the original sleeve or the SE flavour? The SE has an external antenna jack on the side as well as saying NavmanSE on the front. The SE is a lot quicker to acquire a signal and lots of people have used antistatic bags between the iPAQ and the sleeve on the original type, which appears to speed up lock times substantially.
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Tim

[JV]

Hi Tim
Thanks for your post.
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner, I have been away.

My version is the SE Sleeve with external antenna. As I said I didn't have this problem using SmartSt v2 only has been happening with the latest SmartSt v3 software. I have downloaded service pack 1 for ppc but has made no difference.


John

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