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Continued difficulty acquiring GPS signal

Had my 230 now for about 9 months, and for first 6 or 7 months had no problems with it, always seemed to acquire a GPS signal pretty much instantaneously.

In May I injured my knee, and therefore been running a lot less over the last couple of months, though been getting back in more regularly over the last month and a half or so. During that period, I've started to have a lot of issues with the watch that I didn't have previously. On many of my runs, I'm unable to acquire a signal at all, with the indicator never getting past the flashing first bar, no matter how long I give it to acquire signal, holding it as you should (away from tall buildings/structures trees etc. and face up), and it won't acquire at all during the run. On others, I acquire signal partway through the run (this morning managing to finally lock on on both my runs in pretty much the same position, once as I finished my jog down to my local parkrun, the other as I entered the finish straight, so not massively helpful in either case - oddly enough, the park is the one place it seems best at locking on).

I've tried a hard reset and then resyncing with Garmin Express, and as yet it doesn't seem to have helped much, as it's currently sat in my back garden, still only on a flashing second bar after over 5 minutes of trying, and hasn't even managed to sync time yet. Software is up to date with current 7.5 version.

It does occasionally acquire a full signal, so it's obviously not that the GPS receiver itself is physically completely fragged. Is there anything else I can try?
  • Update: After about 10 minutes of sitting around in the back garden lying still, finally managed to lock on. This is obviously less helpful before a race, where I can't really leave my watch lying around on the floor.
  • Does it look quicker now you have the first lock? If not you could try a master reset. You will have a long time to first fix again but it should be quicker after that.
  • It's been very variable. Tuesday night, it made little progress for about 5 minutes before starting a run, before acquiring signal about 5 minutes in.

    This morning I gave it well over 10 minutes with no joy,like. It then acquired signal 24:58 into a 10k run.

    How does one perform a master reset?
  • A master reset is the same on all watches since the 620. Turn the watch off, hold the 2 right hand buttons then turn the watch on still holding the buttons. On the first bleep release the top button, on the second bleep release the bottom one.
  • Sorry, that's what I meant by a hard reset in my original post. Appears to have had little if any effect.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Chrism1999

    I'm going through the same thing. Today was the worst. My watch didn't connect for the entire 60min run. 

    Ive done the hard reset, deleted all memory, and have an up to date software.

    So frustrating.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    I am having the same issue and it's been 4 days. I am still waiting for my watch to get GPS signal. I haven't got any, at all. Not at home, not outside. I have reset the watch, and done everything they advise to do, but still nothing.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    I have the same issue and I have been waiting for 4 days and my watch has not got the GPS signal yet. I have tried at home, outside, I have reset the watch, I have done everything they advise us to do.. Still nothing.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

    It happened the same thing to my watch. Luckily it was still on warranty so I sent it to garmin and they send me a new one.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I've just started having the same issue as well.   Tried everything recommended.   Did either of you Former Member 7 get any improvement