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Aug 25, 2020
Sometimes you get a bad one
I installed it next to the existing 4GB stick. As the 4GB filled up, everything ran normally. Once the 8GB started being used, I had errors and segfaults.
I shut the machine down, took the original RAM out, so it was just the new 8GB stick. Booted into Memtest, and almost immediately started seeing errors. In less than 5 minutes, Memtest found 17 errors. I pulled the RAM and installed it in the other slot, booted Memtest again. 3 errors in less than a minute, so I shut it down and sent the RAM back for a refund.
(The A-Tech I got instead tested/worked flawlessly)
Oct 26, 2010
Extremely susceptible to heat stroke
7 of 11 found this helpful I got this Garmin Nuvi about a month ago for a cross-country trip. For the most part, it functions as expected, giving directions that are useful and sensible. When you happen upon a "bridge closed for construction" and have to turn around, it seamlessly recalculates the route without any "complaints" to "return to mapped route" as some others do.
On the way northeast, it randomly rebooted a few times for no apparent reason. On the way southwest, the sun hit it more often, and in addition to randomly rebooting, it would often just shut down completely. It had to be removed from the windshield/dash for several minutes to thoroughly cool before it would come on again. Eventually I made a "hood" of aluminum foil to keep random reboots and shutdowns to only several a day. If the unit is incapable of being mounted in the sun, why do they include a suction cup for windshield mounting?
Maps are quite out of date. My street isn't included even though the house has been here at least 20 years. When I enter my street, I get "No matches found." When I'm sitting in my own driveway, the map shows me "off road."
There are supposedly some sort of updates to download, but they require Garmin software incompatible with my computers' operating systems. You'd think they'd use something universal like Java rather than requiring specific OS/versions.
There are a LOT of dead zones for the cell connectivity. This means that the fuel price, weather, and traffic features are all inaccessible. Heading east, we had ZERO connectivity the entire length of I-40 across Oklahoma. Strangely, on the return trip some 10 days later, connectivity was hit or miss on that same stretch.
Rest areas should be easier to find... possibly even with a feature to have them displayed on the map by default. Instead, the Nuvi requires you to navigate several menu levels to find them: Where To -> Points of Interest -> [down] -> [down] -> Auto Services -> [down] -> Rest Area or Tourist Info -> [specific rest area]. I find that to be extremely cumbersome.
Overall, I'm happy with 90% of the functions, but the problem is that it just isn't reliable. Between connectivity problems and overheating/rebooting, we only have 100% functionality maybe 50% of the time... AFTER insuring the unit was shaded from the sun. Definitely would NOT buy this model again.
01/23/2012
At some point, called customer service. There was a known
problem with the charging rate when mounted in the vehicle...
which had a software fix. Had to borrow a Windows machine to
upgrade the software. Once upgraded, the reboot / overheat problem disappeared. I'm a lot happier now, (upgraded overall rating from 2 to 4 stars) but still wish there was a
more universal upgrade/maintenance path than the way they do
it now. Why not a direct upgrade over the cell network? Why
not Java/Python that would work on any OS?