[OSM-talk] [Talk-GB] NaviGPS is rubbish !

[Tom Higgy]

I've one. Generally I find it to be pretty good, but as it's my first
and only GPS I don't have anything to compare it to.

Make sure you have it on 'navigation' rather than 'sports' mode. In
sports mode it'll only claim to have a fix if PDOP < 4. Works if PDOP <
10 in navigation mode.

Be aware that there's a bug with turning bluetooth on/off that resets to
sports mode for some reason. Took me a while to work out why I wasn't
getting a fix where I used to get one no problem.

Make sure you're not on low power mode, too, at that sometimes has some
effect. Also set DGPS to SBAS.

I've not had any problem with it turning itself off. Just my last one
developed a fault where it could only 'see' one satellite at a time and
wouldn't even lock onto that, which Storage Depot were extremely good
about replacing.

Cheers,

Richard Shaw wrote:
> Does anybody have a BGT-11 ? What do you think of it ? Do I have a dud ? 
> See below for my experiences with it –
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> I took up the offer to buy the NaviGPS at the SOTM conference because I 
> liked the fact that it had a rechargeable battery and SD card. My Garmin 
> Geko uses batteries and has a limited memory.
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> I went geocaching last week and too both GPSs the Garmin kept a steady 
> signal for the complete 2 hours walk even when we walked through the 
> woods. The NaviGPS gave up at the first sign of a tree.
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> It was strange because the satellites page showed that 10 satellites 
> were visible but the track page had a ? showing no position found.
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> Eventually after it had record just short of 4000 track points it record 
> a point with a timestamp of I4/I5/55 22:36 – after this it wouldn’t 
> record anymore track information at all. When I got home I downloaded 
> the track (which caused the Navilink software to crash (fortunately it 
> created a GPX file first)) and then cleared the track history. It seems 
> to be working again.
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> It’s very slow to find a position when I turn it on – usually a couple 
> of minutes even though the satellite page shows that it can see at leave 
> 4 satellites.
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> It sometimes turns itself off. My cycle bracket hasn’t arrived yet so I 
> put it in my back pocket and quite often when I take it out it has 
> switched itself off. I can’t work out why. I did wonder if it turned 
> itself off when it hasn’t had a position for X minutes, but there 
> doesn’t seem to be a setting in the system menu for anything link this.
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> Richard Shaw
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