[goodn'mad]

Requesting help from anyone knowledgeable about GPS devices. Don't intend to misuse Free Republic but need Freeper help. Please disregard if this doesn't apply.

[TomGuy]

Google search

https://en.discussions.tomtom.com/xl-xxl-home-23/factory-reset-5949

[Texas Eagle]

You're a brave soul, oops, I mean, you've come to the right place.

Wait. Nobody start until I get another beer.

[Vendome]

“Turn Right...”

[Texas Eagle]

Okay. I'm back. Let's start. Did anybody ask him if he plugged it in yet?

If not, did you plug it in?

[Rio]

If you had it running in another hemisphere, then it probably thinks it’s still there. The quickest way is to re-inaitialize it.. Usually asks wheat hemisphere you’re in...

Otherwise, most will figure it out in half-hour or so if you leave the receiver in view of the sky.

Te-initialize could be a menu item, or remove/replace the battery. Don’t know tomtom.

[Viking2002]

So, you're saying that you're wandering around Sumter, SC without a clue where you are? I think they still carry paper maps at truck stops.......

[Veggie Todd]

Are you sure you’re logged in?

[TomGuy]

Manual for your model

http://www.manualslib.com/products/Tomtom-Xl-310-2605067.html

see pg 38 for factory resets

[steve86]

I had to re-flash the firmware on one.

[P-Marlowe]

Just use WAZE. It’s free and it is 1000 times better than Tom Tom. If your phone has GPS (and almost all of them do) then just get the Waze app. I use it every day. My $200 GPS sits in the glove compartment.

[familyop]

"Flew in from S. Korea and tried to update my TOMTOM GPS"

Did you know about the geomagnetic storm? It was a G4 last night. Little less intense now but continuing.

[Crazy Jim]

When a GPS is moved a long distance while it is powered off, it needs to get the almanac from the satellites. The almanac download can takes about 12.5 minutes. This is called the time to first fix. The unit stores the almanac across power cycles so you normally see the unit come on "instantaneously" (on the order of 20 seconds).

So what you should do is put it powered on outside with the best "view" of the sky possible. For example, in your car in a parking lot with minimal trees and buildings around. Power on the unit and wait. You can select the satellite status display and see that the sats that are in use. See your manual, but the display looks something like:

If you try to do this inside or under trees the unit may never get the needed data and will not function.

Hope this helps. I've had this happen multiple times and you just have to be patient.

[DH]

I thought modern people used GPS systems on their cell phones today? I had no idea that there were some actual people still using pure crap like Tom-Tom.

Back in the past I had a Tom-Tom system and operating it was very akin to working a 1972 IBM clone. When navigational systems came out on cell phones it totally obsolesced Tom-Tom and better yet....easy to use and much more accurate.

I don’t know how many times I almost crashed my truck while trying to adjust something on the Tom-Tom and worse yet, having to pay for map updates every time you turned around.

Throw that thing away, come into the modern world. As they say in the movie “Oh Brother Where Art Thou”...”Come on in, the water’s fine!”

[minnesota_bound]

Wow you went from South Korea to South Carolina using your GPS. You need to stop looking at the GPS screen and look around from time to time! : )