Etrex Legend won't locate satellites

[Herman Lesley]

Yesterday I used WebUpdater to update the software on my 76Cx. I found an update for my Legend and decided to update it. The batteries were down, so I changed batteries. I turned it on and used WebUpdater to update to 3.90. I did notice that my clock was off by several hours.
Now my Legend will not locate any satellites. I put it in a plastic bag and left it out all night. It still did not locate any satellites. I did not try to locate any satellites before the update.
Does anyone have a fix for my problem?

Thanks

Herman

[Herman Lesley]

False alarm. I do not know what happened. I went home at lunch, took the batteries out of the charger, put them in the Legend. I turned the Legend on, put it on the dash of my pickup and went back to work. When I pulled into the parking lot at work, the Legend had found enough satellites to show 17' accuracy and the clock was showing the correct time.
Beats me.

Thanks

Herman 

[Siskiyou]

Herman



Taken from the Garmin FAG page:

1.   Go to the Satellite status page and press the ‘Menu’ button
2.   Select “New Location”
3.   Select “Automatic”
4.   Let the GPS acquire for a bout 15 minutes, stationary with a clear sky.
 I found the above before finding you had resolved the problem.



At times I treat a gps unit, the same as I treat a home computer.  If the home computer glitches I will shut it down and restart it.  I do the same thing with a gps unit.  It seems to correct about 99% of the problems. In effect you reset you unit when you shut it down and restarted it.

Before doing an update on my gps units I connect to Maps Source and save my waypoints, tracks, and routes.  A couple of times I have had the waypoints, tracks, and routes showing on the desk top from one gps unit, and downloaded the data from a second unit to the desk top.  It requires a little housekeeping because of waypoints with duplicate names, but the new waypoints are now added to a master file along with the old.

I also maintain a downloaded update in a Folder for my gps units incase I encounter a problem it gives me a starting point.