Garmin satnavs come with a charge out of the box.
In some cases your device may have lost a charge during shelf life. In this case you can charge these units in three ways:
Some cars continue to supply power to the cigarette lighter socket when turned off and others don't. If yours doesn't you can charge it from your computer. There's no indicator to show that it's charging or when it's charged. However when you disconnect the satnav from the computer and turn it on there's a battery state indicator which shows if it's fully charged or not.
New out of the box Garmin 1490t will not acquire satellite... now what?
having same issue... fully charged but when taken outside only shows first signal bar as red. gps not normally a problem (use my phone gps all the time - htc hd2)
chettm4645 - i took my device outside for a long time (left it in car while popping to friends - safe enough during massive thunderstorm!) - about 10-20mins and it finally worked!
seems ok now... already registered and updated maps (took hours even with 20MB broadband - be warned!)
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