Nuvi 660 GTM software updated to version 4.00!!!!!

GJF · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 08, 2007 Posts: 894

Sorry if it offended, I'm also from an "immigrant" I was trying to add a sense of humour!
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mikealder · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:23 pm Post subject:

northender · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject:

paul9018 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 12, 2006 Posts: 23

well since updating from V3.90 to v4. I have had non stop traffic, travlling all around the kent, sussex area. well happy now. will be going upto leicester in a couple of weeks plus will be travel all around the southern area.

swing · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:37 pm Post subject:

I've spoken with both Garmin and Trafficmaster on the question of publishing information on outages on the TMC network, and neither are interested in their customers enough to do anything.

Trafficmaster may well know this information, and may even share it with Garmin...
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satnavman · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:59 pm Post subject:

Finally It Works! Well all throughout East Anglia at least........... Pages upon Pages of Traffic....

With regards to Swings previous post,

Garmin kept promising to sort this mess out with the V4.00 TMC Upgrade and they did eventually!
But now maybe some customers are going to have to go through it all again with the transmitter outage situation........ God I hope Not!

For those of us with free lifetime subscription to TMC or for even those who pay for other services, We still bought the Garmin TMC Product that included that service, and the product should do the job it was designed for.
If Garmin or Trafficmaster do not care enough about their customers (And that is what we are) to share the information about the tranmitter status I think we should all put a request in writing for this information to Garmin and ask them to explain why the transmitter status information is such a National Secret.
After all if I get no signal on my mobile phone in a location where I normally would then I can phone my "Network Service Provider" from a landline telephone and they will check if they have a transmitter problem for me.

And wether they like it or not in this situationthat is exactly what Garmin/Trafficmaster are A "Network Service Provider" so they should provide or explain why they are not providing!

northender · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject:

Well, I've written off to Trafficmaster asking for this information.

Let's see what comes back before making any judgement, but I must admit that previous posts don't give me any cause for optimism so far.
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satnavman · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 10:26 pm Post subject:

I have just now written to Garmin and emailed them telling them I have sent the request in writing and also asking them to confirm reciept of the communication.

Will report back!

Hopefully Soon.

However knowing how this topic is going then it would not surprise me in the least if they ask some of us to move to get better reception!

Joke!

Or is it!

HeliMan · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 16, 2006 Posts: 4

The lack of TMC RDS information form Winter Hill is interesting. On the day of the high winds a month or so back was when my traffic information stopped, I used to be able to receive traffic with no problem in the house in Southport Lancs. On v3.7. It was that night I updated to v3.9 and the misery started.

Did the transmitter aerial suffer damage in the winds or was it coincidentally switched off that day? It may explain why on v4.0 there is still no TMC information to the West of Winter Hill???

marksnsparks · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:03 pm Post subject:

I agree with Mike alder. I've travelled from Manchester to Liverpool then on to Stoke this morning. No blue diamond or traffic messages at all. I went slightly further down the motorway to Stafford, blue triangle appears and loads of traffic messages. Back to Stoke - nothing. Back to Liverpool - nothing. Back to Lancaster - nothing.

At least we now know it's not the GTM software. Wonder how we can gang up on trafficmaster to get the transmitter sorted?? Anyone any suggestions?
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mwfox · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject:

Is it the transmitter though - could be the relevant radio station that is not broadcasting the TMC signals? Do they even know its not working?

northender · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject:

Write to Tim Owen of Trafficmaster, address is on this page like I've done:-

http://www.trafficmaster.co.uk/page.cfm?key=RDS_TMC

He may not know the answers, but we've got to start somewhere.
If not, I'm sure he knows a man who can...
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marksnsparks · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:59 pm Post subject:

I sent Mr Owen an email last night. If he's kind enough to respond I'll let you all know what he says.
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BAVC10 · Lifetime Member Joined: Dec 20, 2005 Posts: 752

I have found Version 4 to be fairly robust - received 13 pages of Traffic info whilst on the M23 - showed reports over 250 miles away!

The only "slight" niggle would be that on the 3.80 version, the blue diamond would display after 2 or 3 minutes whereas on version 4, it now seems to search for 10 - 15 minutes before kicking into life.

GJF · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 08, 2007 Posts: 894

My "Blue Diamond" comes on almost immediately, you might find that although the aerial is obviously working, another position might help. The actual position does make a big difference.
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