my gps nav ,NEXTAR brand locked up day before yesterday . i entered a destination , it began making the route , but never finished. now it only shows the "pre screen" screensaver? that comes on 1st before it goes to the map. has anyone ever seen this on any gps nav???

 

ive not heard of it but when similar devices lock up i just wait till the batteries die or unplug it for a day or two. then give it another try.

 

they have some kind of update for it online at the manufactures site. if i can figure out how to load it. i wonder if that will fix it , or if i should keep waiting or it to fix itself ??? i've ran the battery up and down , and unpluged it , turned the gps on and off with the little switch it has on the back. i've done all this a few times.

 

I had that problem, just after I purchased a Magellan and used it on a vacation. It locked up in the middle of the vacation about 1000 miles from home. When I talked with Magellan they were aware of the problem and had a free update for it. So after running the battery down and recharging I connected to the website with a USB and updated the firmwear. Haven't had the problem again.

The update was easy by Magellan, and actually did all the "work" itself, after a couple of clicks.

Good luck.

 

When I was down in Indy a bit ago i had my tomtom with me, and realized the address i wanted was in in internal mem and not the SD card i was running. So i shut it down, popped the card out, turned it on and it freaked out. Went into the initial setup mode, couldn't get it to pick a map. it was screwed. Luckily i had an idea where i was going and how to get home... otherwise i would have been screwed. Took awhile for me to reset it with reinstalling the software in it. No idea what really happened, but I don't want it to happen again.