Garmin XT on BJ2 position errors.

[Guest biovirus]

My Garmin XT on BJ2 works great when it works, but once in a while it gets into position errors that leads to almost constant reclaculations with no end.

It looks like stopping and waiting for a minute ot two puts things back where they should be, but I need more testing.

Anyway, it looks that these are not the GPS errors, but rather the software's.

Anyone with the same problems?

Alex.

[Guest bgates22]

My Garmin XT on BJ2 works great when it works, but once in a while it gets into position errors that leads to almost constant reclaculations with no end.

It looks like stopping and waiting for a minute ot two puts things back where they should be, but I need more testing.

Anyway, it looks that these are not the GPS errors, but rather the software's.

Anyone with the same problems?

Alex.

I own Garmin Mobile XT and use it on my Blackjack 2 and I've never had that problem.

[Guest notninja]

Try rebooting the phone before starting garmin xt. It happens to me if the phone hasnt been restarted in a while.

[Guest biovirus]

Try rebooting the phone before starting garmin xt. It happens to me if the phone hasnt been restarted in a while.

Reboot helps, but not always (I had a bad episode even after reboot) but that is not the point. What is happening and why?

During one of these crazy sessions I looked for a whole on the GPS satellite info and the satellites were runnung all over the "radar" display like mad and my "speed" was in hundreds of miles per hour (I was standing still).

Since you also have this problem and since I have not noticed any problems with Google Maps I guess this is not a problem with GPS chip or my GPS chip or the driver.

May be Garmin XT does not initialize the driver well...

[Guest jbone]

My Garmin XT on BJ2 works great when it works, but once in a while it gets into position errors that leads to almost constant reclaculations with no end.

It looks like stopping and waiting for a minute ot two puts things back where they should be, but I need more testing.

Anyway, it looks that these are not the GPS errors, but rather the software's.

Anyone with the same problems?

Alex.

This has happened to me a couple of times. I didn't try rebooting the phone though. Each time it happened I think I only had 4/5 GPS signal strength.

[Guest biovirus]

This has happened to me a couple of times. I didn't try rebooting the phone though. Each time it happened I think I only had 4/5 GPS signal strength.

I think its a bad chip or driver because after these error start if I shut garmin down and start Google Maps, errors persist.

Will try to exchange for new BJ. This one is still under warranty.