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satellite locating very slow

Former Member over 13 years ago

I live in the SF Bay area and run there and down the coast and in Palm Springs and have 2 405 units.

Both of them have been unbearably slow to locate satellites lately (last 3 weeks or so).

Is there some satellite problem or is it a watch issue? I'm thinking satelitte since it is the same issue with two watches.

thanks

Tom

0 DW152 over 13 years ago

When you move to a new location, it will take a little longer to locate the satellites because it assumes that it is in the last location when looking up the satellite data.

On some of the older Forerunner models, you clear the satellite cache, and that would often improve its acquisition time. The first time after you do that, however, it will take longer to acquire the satellites since it is starting fresh. I don't know of you can do this with a 405, so you might want to check the owner's manual. If it's unbearably slow, you could always perform a reset to clear out any bad data.