A new year, a new (gps) update.
Sunday, December 30th, 2007A lot of folks got GPS units this year. Remember like any computer they require updates. My dad gave us a Garmin 2820 for our wedding gift last year. I had been forgetting to update the firmware and voice module until yesterday. We were over a whole version number behind on the firmware. It can update interface bugs, bluetooth firmware to interoperate with your phone etc. What got me on the path was we gave my inlaws a Garmin 650 for Christmas. They were driving down to a wedding in Florida this past Friday. Somehow a unit that has no bluetooth module came up on the screen to discover a bluetooth device. Talk about a bug. It completely froze his unit and he could not get control. So he called me and I found that the unit has a reset button off to one side he had missed. Pressing that then powering back on fixed the issue.
Map updates always cost money every year. But most firmware updates are free. So be sure to register your unit, install the software on a pc, connect the gps via usb cable and run your updates.
