Subject: RE: Garmin 305 issue update. Just out of curiousity, how frequently/infrequently do you use your Forerunner? GPS units have a "warm acquisition" and a "cold acquisition". Warm is basically where the unit has current ephemeris (satellite) data and cold is when that data has expired and it has to basically download again. Usually Garmin publishes these times as part of the specs but I don't seem to see it. Unofficially just browsing around I've seen that the times are both below 1 minute but I know that it can take longer. On a rare occassion if I haven't used my watch for a while it can take some 3 minutes.
It especially won't be happy if you start moving before it has had a chance to acquire. Glad to hear you've worked it out though!
Edited by merlin2375 2009-04-02 10:36 AM
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