Garmin Colorado GPS Chipset Type-M software 2.8 released
Oct.15, 2008 in
Garmin Colorado
After many months (about 10) of dealing with the very frustrating Colorado “location error” or “location drift” issue it seems like Garmin may have finally released a version of GPS Chipset firmware that addresses the issue. The first test results from this morning look good but it’ll take several weeks of testing to determine if this problem has truly gone away.
Note Garmin eTrex HCx owners will hopefully benefit from this as well.
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November 2nd, 2008 at 10:06 am
With the “M” chipset update I can now see the “D” reference on almost all satellites with ~17 EPE inside the house. I had no WAAS before. OK, Garmin time to look at the Oregon WAAS again.
November 4th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Dave,
Although WAAS seems to work on the Colorado do you see that it takes a long time to get lock? I’m seeing about 5 minutes give or take vs. my 60csx which seems to get WAAS in about 30 seconds. You are right that Oregon WAAS is still pretty broken.
-Scott
November 8th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Initially, it did take >=5 minutes, however on warm boot it quickly recovers into the teen’s for EPE.
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:07 pm
My wifes nuvi 760 shows it needs this update for the “GPS chipset type M” , but she already has v2.9 software loaded (latest).
Should I go ahead and download this and install this as well or not?
Not knowing what it was for or what it did I never applied this when it came up on Garmin Updater a while back
Thanks for any help
March 4th, 2010 at 8:25 am
Garmin units, including the Nuvis have two software revisions; a software revision and a GPS software revision. While your software revision might be 2.9 the updater is telling you that there is a new GPS software available. Double check the versions screen to see if you see both versions. On the Colorado this release made some improvements in GPS stability and it was a worthwhile upgrade.
-Scott