Tom Tom 510 GPS Probs

[uuf361]

Just got a Tom Tom 510 and it seems to take ages (e.g. 8-10 mins) to find a GPS signal and that's only when I leave it outside. Inside it has never found a signal.

Once it has found a signal it doesn't lose it at all, but it's just a pain in the a@se hanging around waiting to leave while it finds a signal

Any suggestions ?

[Godfrey H]

Assuming you haven't got a heated windscreen take it back, it's faulty.

[uuf361]

No heated screen on either car.......ans i borrowed a 700 which got a signal in about 10 seconds.....Tom Tom themselves suggested it takes longer on the newer models but not that long.

[DennisTheMenace]

And i thought they were asupposes to have better GPS performance ? , ill stick with me 700 then .

[mad mark]

We got our 510 a couple of weeks ago. It did take ages to find the signal to start with.

My first trip with it was to work 15mins 5-10 miles and it still hadn't picked up a signal, same on the way home. But after that it has been fine, no troubles at all in either of our cars and both have heated front screens.

[Podie]

The x10 range need about 40 minutes outside to set themselves up... it's fairly well documented on SatNav forums.

The new ones have a "quickGPS" feature that you can download, so it can lock on quicker... certainly worth doing.

Any Sat Nav that is off for more than 6 hours has to go through a cold boot... so it can take a little while.

[Podie]

What's the Firmware version..?

Some of the early machines were sent out with V6.000, and the upgrade to V6.020 solves a lot of GPS issues.