[time-nuts] Slightly OT - Magellan Car navigation displays wrong time FIXED

[Glenn Little WB4UIV]

The problem is now fixed.
This was a rollover problem just now showing up.

Magellan had me do a cold start.
That did not fix it.
They had me to reset the GPS and that did not fix it.
They sent me a link to fill out with my email inf and unit serial number.
This resulted in me getting a zip file with a warning to only apply it 
to the serial number unit that I provided.
I had to download a program to format a microsd card fat32.
After formatting the card and unzipping the file to the card, the gps 
booted to a screen showing image update and version number.
The GPS then booted normally and now displays time properly.

I have the files if anyone is interested.

So, there still may be some fallout from the last rollover event.

Thanks for the suggestions and help.

Glenn

On 5/20/2019 3:19 AM, David J Taylor via time-nuts wrote:
> I do not think that is a jammer unless it was placed on my van.
> Today the offset changed.
> The minutes remained at 40 but the hours changed.
> I have opened a ticket with Magellan about this.
> I am not real happy with their products, the POI database was wrong
> right after an update and they will not release a tool to correct this.
> This database is XML so tools do exist.
> I am waiting for their reply to this ti\me decode issue before I start
> changing database entries.
> It still navigates well and I have been able to change time zones so
> that the time is now only 10 minutes off.
> I think that I set GMT offset to plus 5.5 hours where it should be - 5
> hours.
> I do not know of a way to display day number on this device.
> That may be a clue, if I can get it to display date.
> 
> Thanks for the information.
> I will continue to pursue this with Magellan and let the group know
> their answer.
> I might be a hardware failure in my unit, but, I do not think so.
> 
> Glenn
> ================================
> 
> Glenn,
> 
> You would have thought that if it was a firmware/software issue there 
> would have been many more reports - is there a user group somewhere?  If 
> yours is the only report it suggests your unit is faulty, so I hope it's 
> within it guarantee period.  If not, and you are unhappy with Magellan, 
> perhaps it's time for a change?
> 
> No chance it was a voltage spike or RF getting into the unit?  Can you 
> reload the firmware?
> 
> Good luck, and please let's know how you get on.
> 
> 73,
> David GM8ARV

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