[gps-talkusers] 3.5 frustrations

Alex,

It is hard to know what is exactly happening without being there. Two 
suggestions:

Try a route in a completely different area and see what happens.

And, you can turn the automatic route recalculation off in the GPS Options Menu 
if you don't like the behavior.

Mike

At 01:34 PM 4/30/2006, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I finally got a nice day, with little wind so I could hear my BN.  
>I took a walk with GPS 3.5 and my mPower, using the Earthmate Blue Logger.  I 
>created a route, and intentionally went the wrong way at first, but was never 
>told I was wrong.  I turned around, giving up on being notified of my error, a 
>feature I was looking forward to.  After a while of NOT being told to turn 
>(there was only one street to turn on anyway) I was told I had missed to 
>points along the route.  I was told to turn left, correctly, and I must say 
>the accuracy was amazing; I was told to turn at the exact moment when I would 
>have still been on the sidewalk.  That narrow a margin and it still got it 
>right!
>
>Anyway, things like that kept happening--going the wrong way but only being 
>told so once, randomly being told I had missed two points of which I was never 
>notified...  and I was always being told "recalculating pedestrian route" when 
>I had never been told to turn.  Why does this happen? It is absolutely 
>maddening; I was looking forward to all the new features, and the accuracy is 
>amazing.  Now, however, it seems my GPS refuses to give me any information on 
>where I am going.  I read the routes section of the manual, and it told me 
>nothing I didn't already know.  Oh, what is the "connecting to street" in the 
>route? For example, the first waypoint would be a few feet away, called 
>"connecting to (street name)", where street name was either the street or 
>intersection from which I was supposed to start.  BTW, I was never below 
>having 5 satellites (48? feet) the whole time.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>Alex

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