my navman s100 cant get a gps fixed for the last two days why?

I had set a route to work, waypoints to two other destinations.. One waypoint less than 1Km from home, the other over a motorway harbour bridge and in the Central City, and the final destination in the South of the city (Auckland) – This Navman had me drive from home, over the bridge and motorway to the city waypoint, before re-routing me back almost home again to to the waypoint less than 1Km from home, and then taking me over *The Same* motorway and harbour bridge to take me to the end point of the journey.

No matter what route option I chose, it consistently made this route plan for me… and although it seems to have learnt not to do this, (unsure how that happened) when I added a 3rd waypoint to the mix, it did the same thing with that one.

Not good if you have no idea of the area you are driving in and want to go from A – E via B,C,D… it could take you from A – C back to B and then to D and finally to E — which could be miles out of your way.. and you might have no idea.

I love the look of the unit, and while you say making the changes on the road is hard, I have not really experienced that too much.. Generally because I have set it at home before I travel and once it’s calculated your route, I have never found any reason to modify it.. and once I have stopped I just enter it there.

I would bin it, but it was a gift, and I don’t have the heart to do this.

I have noticed that sometimes it will ask you to do a U-Turn if you do not listen to it, and other times it will not and will just re-calc your journey fairly quickly.

Being a New Zealander I decided to support a New Zealand company and buy a Navman… but with the lack of local support, and this, my next unit will NOT be one… unless they can resolve these mapping / routing options.

Navman traffic modules do provide an option to re-route you around traffic problems ahead, I didn’t test TMC on the Navman S100 but I would expect it to do the same.

Thank you for taking the time to read my comment.

I have two more questions to ask, 1. How do I set the Junction Views? I know I’ve turned it on but it doesn’t show when I’m viewing the demo. At first the speed alert was off so I turned it on then it came up on the demo. So I did the same for the junction view. But that did not come up on the demo when it was going along the motorway. 2. The TMC think, does it just tell you there’s traffic ahead or it also re-route you?

Thanks.

The traffic (TMC) is an optional extra so I did not review that aspect of the device.

Personally the Garmin still wins over Navman, but the Garmin models with lane assist are very expensive at the moment.

I have been interested in the Navman S100 for some time. In the way it looks and on some features comparing to the Garmin. But the Navman was cheaper and it comes with a free 2009 map update if you buy and register your Navman within January.

And now that I have bought it, and after a little tip from a friend of mine, and reading your review after that just to make sure (little too late). I just don’t know what to do now!

It’s all true on what you’ve said. I have semi tested it at home, not on the road yet, but I will do, and when I entre my post code in it doesn’t seem to fine my address. It fines the street but doesn’t ask for the number and it fines other addresses with my pose code which I find it bizarre. The battery power is very poor last only one hour compare to the Garmin’s latest modal, five hours, so they say. The Glide Touch is not as good as it suppose to be, some time you need to press it hard to give the command. Which I think its goanna be annoying on the road. I don’t even know if it will re-route you if you take a wrong turn and re-calculate quickly. This is one of the main features that I need. I know Garmin has it, but it’s pricey. I need it to re-route me if there is traffic build up like the IQ. I know Tom Tom doses it. But don’t like the look of it.

I just hope the map update will solve the problem on the addresses and on the POI.

I just also bought a main charger and a leather case for the S100 (cheap, both for under £8 from Ebay). The sat nav was £175 from Dixons. But with those performances of the sat nav I just feel like throwing it in the bin.

I need a sat nav to do what its build for. To take me from A to B safely, quickly and with added features of speed limit and camera alert, re-route and on busy traffic, text and speak, lane assist and all other features that is useful to navigation. Don’t need things like hands free blue tooth, MP3 player and picture viewer.

If only I read the reviews of what I want to buy then I wouldn’t have made this mistake.

I hope you can help and guide me on what to do next. Thanks.

Regards
Shalim