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Tips and Techniques
Here are a few tricks to make the WayPoint navigation software perform better.
• Turn on the City name display in map setup in the Pop-up Information box of the setup
screen. This will let you tap anywhere on the screen and find out what city you are in. It
can be frustrating to be able to see the roads and not know what city you’re in, yet
displaying the city name all of the time can cause clutter on the screen.
• The GPS is more accurate than the maps in many areas. If the GPS seems to be
jumping to the wrong road too much try turning off Lock to Road. It may be easier for
you to determine the correct road visually that for the computer to do it.
• If you plan on using the same route again be sure and save it. This will save time since
you won’t have to enter the locations again. A route can be reversed and then saved to
find your way back easily. Do this before you even start to use it.
GPS takes too long to get a lock. 1. Let it get a lock before moving. Drive out from
under trees or other obstructions that may be
blocking the sky view and then stop.
2. If you have traveled a couple hundred miles
since the last use then it may need initialization.
Do step one and expect it to take 10 minutes or
more to initialize.
Program can’t find the GPS Make sure the COM port is set to 3 for a CF GPS and 8
or 9 for a Bluetooth GPS. Baud rate must be set to 4800.
The program can’t find my maps
on an external card.
Under Tools > Choose Map select ALL FOLDERS.
Pressing the right button does not
launch the WayPoint
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software.
Select the WayPoint application on Settings > Button
for Button #5.
GPS shows all satellites in the
center in one row. Most or all
show 0
1. The GPS unit was left on while inside and you
didn’t have a fix.
2. You have moved 200 miles since the last time
you used the GPS.
The solution to both of these problems is to take the
unit outdoors with a good sky view and wait until it gets
a lock. See
“Using the Cursor Keys” on page 43
Problem Possible Cause / Solution