Oregon Series

[fauzee]

ehem..ehem..
bro fauzee..dont forgot what i told you..

sorry..

[fruitplus]

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[tsechien]

Beta Firmware V2.95 seems to have "numbed" the GPS signal sensitivity of the Oregon.

Set up side by side with a Nuvi660, (with the Oregon set to GPS Mode-WAAS)

-it is capturing less satelites than the Nuvi (both have same sat sky map but a lot of sats on the Oregon are grey-ed out aka no signals).

-with that accuracy also affected with the Nuvi consistantly getting 4-8 m accuracy while the Oregon was 125-180 meters=(!) alongside, same time, same location with a clear overhead sky. This was only intermittent and only lasted about 3-4 hours. The Oregon seems to be showing 2-3m accuracy today with "D" WAAS on many sats

- The nuvi was still performing well inside a tinted car while the Oregon said Poor Satellite Reception when carried outside unobstructed under a clear sky. This again is intermittent lasting a few hours yesterday. Removed batts and rebooted to try to sort the problem but it kept re-occuring.

- many a time, the signal bar shows signals from e.g 8 sats but there are only 4 or 5 green lit sats on the circular sky map, where are the rest of the sat signals coming from?

- side by side with the Nuvi, the Oregon has less number of sat in the sky map regardless of whether they are green or grey-ed out. The nuvi consistantly showing a full house (sometimes as many as 12-14 sats) while the Oregon only shows 4 to 6 sats. What happened? Some sats went stealth on the Oregon!

chien

[tlchuan]

yap these firmware sometime will hang also when you mark your waypoints and try to edit it,

reverse back to version 2.85

[tsechien]

yap these firmware sometime will hang also when you mark your waypoints and try to edit it,

reverse back to version 2.85

Oh crud! I love the Trip Manager screen options now.

Sorry to ask but how do you go back to previous firmware version?

chien

[tlchuan]

just get the firmware from http://www.gpsinformation.org/perry/oregon/ download and install

[waypoint]

Bro tsechien,

Can I confirm that this happened to you between 1600-1730hrs yesterday afternoon? I'm asking because this was exactly happened to me; although I was comparing it to my Legend HCx! It was like as if the Oregon 300 suddenly went 'deaf'?!

And I was thinking WTF as I was on a family outing along some trail near Pierce Reservoir where the kids were enjoying themselves in their rain parkas. I was worried it might have been some hardware failure due to water incursion. It seems as though the Oregon had a sudden loss of the satellite almanac. Even the chipset 'HotFix' feature couldn't 'rescue' it.

I restarted it a couple of times but to no avail. On the way home I had it set-up in my phone holder near the wind-screen to help it 'hear' more birds next to the Nuvi but met with limited success; it only finally managed to acquire a lock about 3-minutes before I drove into the multi-storey car-park. And I was starting to get really moody thinking I had screwed it up in the rain. Mind you, with the Legend HCx and even the Etrex H in the past, I have crossed chest-deep water-bodies with them in my pockets without even putting them into Zip-Loc bags(or what have you) without batting an eye-lid. So thinking that the Oregon should hold-up in the rain was only to be expected.

I didn't revert to an older version of firmware as I enjoy having the latest enhancements too much. But it was working fine again this morning. Upon driving out of the multi-storey car-park, the Oregon acquired a lock at least a good 5-minutes before the Nuvi; almost as fast the E71 with A-GPS.

Can't help but feel a tinge of regret for selling off my Vista HCx to help off-set the cost of the Oregon.

Let's hope they'll release a more credible and working version of non-beta firmware for the Oregon soon...

It bloody hell not be a hardware issue they have to resolve through RMA!

BR,
w a y

Beta Firmware V2.95 seems to have "numbed" the GPS signal sensitivity of the Oregon.

Set up side by side with a Nuvi660, (with the Oregon set to GPS Mode-WAAS)

-it is capturing less satelites than the Nuvi (both have same sat sky map but a lot of sats on the Oregon are grey-ed out aka no signals).

-with that accuracy also affected with the Nuvi consistantly getting 4-8 m accuracy while the Oregon was 125-180 meters=(!) alongside, same time, same location with a clear overhead sky. This was only intermittent and only lasted about 3-4 hours. The Oregon seems to be showing 2-3m accuracy today with "D" WAAS on many sats

- The nuvi was still performing well inside a tinted car while the Oregon said Poor Satellite Reception when carried outside unobstructed under a clear sky. This again is intermittent lasting a few hours yesterday. Removed batts and rebooted to try to sort the problem but it kept re-occuring.

- many a time, the signal bar shows signals from e.g 8 sats but there are only 4 or 5 green lit sats on the circular sky map, where are the rest of the sat signals coming from?

- side by side with the Nuvi, the Oregon has less number of sat in the sky map regardless of whether they are green or grey-ed out. The nuvi consistantly showing a full house (sometimes as many as 12-14 sats) while the Oregon only shows 4 to 6 sats. What happened? Some sats went stealth on the Oregon!

chien

[tlchuan]

Any can copy their gmptz.img from oregon files to share thank

[tsechien]

Bro tsechien,

Can I confirm that this happened to you between 1600-1730hrs yesterday afternoon? I'm asking because this was exactly happened to me; although I was comparing it to my Legend HCx! It was like as if the Oregon 300 suddenly went 'deaf'?!

And I was thinking WTF as I was on a family outing along some trail near Pierce Reservoir where the kids were enjoying themselves in their rain parkas. I was worried it might have been some hardware failure due to water incursion. It seems as though the Oregon had a sudden loss of the satellite almanac. Even the chipset 'HotFix' feature couldn't 'rescue' it.

I restarted it a couple of times but to no avail. On the way home I had it set-up in my phone holder near the wind-screen to help it 'hear' more birds next to the Nuvi but met with limited success; it only finally managed to acquire a lock about 3-minutes before I drove into the multi-storey car-park. And I was starting to get really moody thinking I had screwed it up in the rain. Mind you, with the Legend HCx and even the Etrex H in the past, I have crossed chest-deep water-bodies with them in my pockets without even putting them into Zip-Loc bags(or what have you) without batting an eye-lid. So thinking that the Oregon should hold-up in the rain was only to be expected.

I didn't revert to an older version of firmware as I enjoy having the latest enhancements too much. But it was working fine again this morning. Upon driving out of the multi-storey car-park, the Oregon acquired a lock at least a good 5-minutes before the Nuvi; almost as fast the E71 with A-GPS.

Can't help but feel a tinge of regret for selling off my Vista HCx to help off-set the cost of the Oregon.

Let's hope they'll release a more credible and working version of non-beta firmware for the Oregon soon...

It bloody hell not be a hardware issue they have to resolve through RMA!

BR,
w a y

It was between 1300hrs to 1500/1600hrs on Saturday 4th April.

Tot the US DoD guys shut down the sats above us in preparation for something more sinister!

It looks to be okay today so I shall refrain from going back on the firmware for now. Will keep you guys posted in case this happens again.

The number of birds on the sky map is still less than the Nuvi660 side by side but accuracy is good so I am not really complaining for now.

chien

[tsechien]

Any can copy their gmptz.img from oregon files to share thank

What does that file do?

chien