My GT11 bombed out if i went onto speed genie before it located the sats. Either disconnect the battery or leave it until the battery runs out. both are a pain in the arse and i'm disappointed this has happened to the new version. Whatever the problems with the garmin at least it was reliable if kept dry.

yeah as FirieBob has said my GT-31 has frozen up….It is just sitting here with yesterdays Max Speed displayed together with the usual Icons. Pressing either the Toggle or the On/off button does nothing. Connecting to USB does nothing.
Eventually I removed SD card . It shows a .sbn file which is empty.

yeah, I bought it from Simon at BC and will give him a ring after 9am this morning.

I will keep everyone posted.

Hey Benny, I have sent you a email with my Addy in it. I have some info that may help that I can send you Good Luck Herby

Hi Firie, I expect to hear something from Simon tomorrow.

Carl Macdonald said...

Hi Guys,

I have a problem with my garmin gps - it doesn't read 50 knots like Chris Lockwoods and Martin Van Meurs. I am staying with the garmin's until it stops working all together.

Cheers,

Carl

Carl I have enough trouble just getting my GT11 over 30

Bloody hell!!
My GT 31 has done the freeze too.
Can't turn off, can't toggle, took ther card out though.
Managed to retrieve the track from today's grovell via Microsoft checkdisk.
It was an empty file when I got it off the card!
What to do?
I've heard let the battery go flat then recharge?
Advice welcomed
thanks
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Buy another one and use both. They are like sheep. They know when they are alone and they don't like it.

I have to report that I sent mine back to Board Crazy where I purchased and Simon replaced it.
The new one is working just fine.
Even with the first one I always gave it plenty of time to get a fix on sats.

Anyway I would like to acknowledge that Board Crazy did the right thing by me.

24 hours on and still no change - battery icon still full but I suppose that is frozen tool!
Thanks for the feedback Roo - not sure what that means for me and all the other GT 31 owners.
Daffy - Sheep - what the!
The "freeze" happened 1:45 into a 2:00 hour session. There was no sat fix issue at all. The unit stopped writing to card when it froze - this is what drew my attention to the problem - the card writing icon froze!
Managed to extract the track to the point of freeze - all good - no anomalies to that point!
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It lives!
It died! about 30 hours on it died
now I'm charging it - after death
Hmm - suspect stuff though!
Is the GT 31 a dud!!!
Sirf 3 chipset??
What ??
Gurus ??

Decrepit asked..So Herb just for clarification, did you let the battery go flat and retry it??

After a couple of days the display went off...I assumed the battery was flat. I tried the reset switch. At this time Simon asked me to send it to him which I did. I can't remember recharging it...maybe if I had of it may have be right again.

Happy to report that after a full battery discharge / recharge it booted up fine and a 45 minute dashboard test seems to indicate that all is in order.
Not really confidence inspiring stuff though!