[gps-talkusers] Re: 3.5 frustrations

Mike,

I will try going to a differen area. As far as the recalculation goes, it isn't the function I like, it is how the BN seems to do it for no reason. I will not be told anything--no turns, no "continue straights" no nothing--and all of a sudden I hear, "recalculating pedestrian". I have no idea why it does this. Should I reinstall or something? Maybe redownload and replace my map? I saved one of the routes that gave me trouble. Should I send that to anyone?

Thanks,
Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: Michael May <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:59:08 -0700
Subject: [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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