[gps-talkusers] major 3.5 frustrations

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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