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Cannot acquire satellites and freezes

My Garmin gps c330 cannot acquire any satellites. It was working nicely in the morning but when i turned it on in the afternoon and searched for something, it showed that it was acquiring satellites and stayed like that. After a while, it would go to a screen where it says that it has trouble tracking satellites and would ask me if i was indoors(i was outdoors). It would just freeze on this screen.

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Hi,
use the web-updater at garmin
or update the firmware at garmin,
turn WAAS on

turn GPS signal off
go outside after the update
turn GPS signal back on ( takes upto 15 mins to locate satelites )

should be good

Regards
Richard.

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