Comments on: Garmin Colorado GPS Chipset Type-M software 2.8 released

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:25:33 +0000

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

By: salsaguy

salsaguy — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:07:38 +0000

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

By: Dave M

Dave M — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:21:14 +0000

Initially, it did take >=5 minutes, however on warm boot it quickly recovers into the teen’s for EPE.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:40:23 +0000

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

By: Dave M

Dave M — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:06:01 +0000

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.

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