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the unit will be show the time when I had turned the car off and will take anywhere from 3 minutes to 15 minutes to connect to satellites. Customer service for Garmin is great. so I'm not entirely unhappy with it,. (great customer service, very flexible).
Even though at times it would say something like "charging the battery" in it's off setting, it was NOT charging the battery (since when taken off the mount it would not work at all). BTW, I'm sure the locating satellites delay issues is a problem with the unit, since I'm in a very urban city (Los Angeles) and it did not have these problems prior to the battery issue.Oh, one other issue, in downtown Los Angeles, it gets very confused.(maybe due to streets with freeway overpasses; though this happens when i'm not near the freeway too).so even when it has mapped a nice set of directions and I'm following them, out of nowhere it'll recalculate and ask me to make some turns when the location is straight ahead.Also, there are several locations where it will tell me to take an inconvenient onramp to a freeway where there is a perfectly good one, one block ahead on my right (make sense).I've still had the unit for 3 years or so. I won't go over all the specs and positives, because others have gone through all of that and there is no need for repeating. The Garmin is everything great that other reviews are mentioning, but I'm just going to review the battery issue I have continued to have on this Garmin. There's no convincing or "did you plug the unit in" sort of questions. but customer service were more than willing to switch it out again.
There have been times that i've had to turn it off and on (usually around the 10 minute mark) to see if maybe it was "frozen" or something. With this 3rd unit, it didn't take more than a couple months for it to have the battery issue again. The main inconveniences of this battery not working is that it seems to lose it's satelites since it's a dead unit when the car isn't on. When I turn my car on now. they just took your word for what was happening and replaced the unit. It seemed before that with the battery working, the unit connects immediately to the satellites and maps your way very quickly. After having the GARMIN c320 for about 9 months or so, i had the problem of the battery not working on it's own (the unit would only work when sitting on the car charger mount.
I've been too cheap to buy another unit, and there isn't really a reason, since this one does work when it's connected to the car charger mount. This time I was out of the 1 yr original warranty and the 90d warranty of the replacement. I procrastinated for about 3 months, because I didn't take the unit out of my car much so it wasn't such a big issue, but almost on the last day of warranty, I called and just had it replaced. I had the second unit for about 4 months or so before the same battery situation happened again.
this device charges in its cradle/mounting device. It also comes with updating software, and my dad reports that even dirt roads will show up on the maps (don't know how well it works in the city). I bought this as a gift for my dad last year - he loves it and uses it all the time. Often he gets lost in his thoughts or misses a turn, this will reroute you and send you back on your way if you need to.
I would not recommend any one to buy this GPS unit. It falls down easily after you used it for a while. Buy the light weigth GPS like Garmin Nuvi series. I would like to give 5 star to the GPS function. It takes several minutes to connect to the satellite.The problem is that GPS unit is too heary.
No. I have owned this for 4 months now. We are in TX right now and I would be lost without it. Hubby has the "older version" now Ha ha
It helps relieve tension on getting to where you need to go and you can concentrate on your end result and not have a tension headache when you get to your destination. P.S. I would recommend everyone get a GPS navigator no matter what brand it is. This is an older version of course though which is why I graded a bit gentle.
No. I turned it on and it started up immediately. My husband and I travel for work so it is used almost every time we get in the car. 2 reason is b/c my husband got me a newer version that automatically detects what city you are in so you dont have to involve your computer in the situation.
Most often though, she will be in the area you at least need to be in so you need to switch over from tech gear to brains. I left off a star for 2 reasons. 1, she has taken me to the wrong place several times.
It works nicely, but will upgrade soon. I needed to upgrade the memory chip, but good product for the price at the time.
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