gps not picking up satelites
Submitted by Pluto on Sun, 2012-02-12 18:32
gday all wanting to know if anyone has had this problem before y gps isnt picking up satelites was working last time i used it but now its not says no gps
its a navman tracker 5500 just wondering if you have any ideas cheers christian
wade stenhouse
Posts: 132
Date Joined: 06/10/08
i have the same problem with
i have the same problem with my garmin unit, i rang garmin australia and they said that they cant fix it or they wont even look at it because its a discontinued model. the model is about 6 years old but the unit itself is only 1.5 years old. got me stuffed on wat to do!!
lurcha
Posts: 455
Date Joined: 29/12/09
I have the tracker 5500 and
I have the tracker 5500 and mine plays up sometimes. I just wiggle the small plug around, found that one twists up a lot when u screw it up( if u remove the unit each time). I take care now when I do it up so it doesn't twist, just have to hold the cable and twist the gold bit on the end otherwise the whole cable turns. Seems to have stopped the problem most of the time but sometimes I have to undo it and do it up again. Funnily though it never drops out once it's connected.
Might not be the same issue but worth checking.
hooty
Posts: 198
Date Joined: 25/05/10
As lurcha says or give the
As lurcha says or give the plug on lead and head unit a clean with a tooth brush. Go to gps on your menue and click restart gps, see oif that helps. It does for me when the unit wont pick up satelites.
grayzeee
Posts: 2283
Date Joined: 09/07/09
try getting hold of some
try getting hold of some CRC XTR contact cleaner and going over all your plugs
worked for me
If I spent half as long fishing , as I do reading this bloody forum , I'd be twice the fisherman I am.
Buz
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Date Joined: 28/08/07
I have the same unit and the
I have the same unit and the original external antenna started to struggle picking up satelittes, then eventually stopped finding them at all, so got another new Navman one which lasted for about 3 years and it started to play up to taking AGES to track the satelittes too. Funnily at about that time someone on here(FWrecked) was having the same dramas with his and someone else recommended just getting an aftermarket one of EBAY to suit your model. So i did just that also. Works 100% all the time everytime. Tracks onto the satelittes way quiker than the original did. All for around $7 also. So cheap i ordered two just so i have a spare that i keep in the boat!!!!!!!
Here is the same one i bought
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3M-SMA-GPS-Antenna-Navman-Tracker-5500-5500i-5505-/130522921928?pt=AU_GPS_Accessories&hash=item1e63c5bbc8
Pluto
Posts: 48
Date Joined: 03/09/09
cheers boys been googling it
cheers boys been googling it found a way to reset the gps ill give that a go
where do you plug that arial in?
fishfish
Posts: 307
Date Joined: 01/09/09
antenna plug
I just bought a spare antenna from ebay for my tracker aswell { woulkdnt pick up satellites } but while waiting for it to arrive and as usual with good weather for the weekend coming up I went to Jaycar and bought a new plug for the old antennna { was $4.50 I think} .Easy as to do just like any co-ax cable and worked straight up and been great ever since !!!
cheers fishfish