my 3500 was working fine last time out but the yesterday it wouldnt record my trail in the usual way it normally does by leaving a solid red line behind it. But what it did do was leave random straight lines from A to B but not actually following the roads. Also it did not leave any line until I stopped moving then suddenly a line would appear from each place the car had stopped moving. There was full satallite signal and It was locked on. Tried resetting it and everything please can anyone help?
ps until now I have been really happy with this one after having the old one replaced by memory map with no quibble whatsoever.

just to confirm been out in the car tonight with with my adventurer 3500 and it still wont recording my trip and its locked onto satelites
just as it always has there is the red circle with the direction arrow following the route I am taking but it,s still not leaving the trail behind it at all.

Tried everything now all the setting properties active and so on checked gps signal etc taken the battery out and tried it again and reset it but nothing. Any ideas?

I wonder if it is the same as this thread, or is there now another fault with the software as with most MM products
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Hi stumpy,

The Adventurer software is completely different to the iPhone/Pad software in the above link.

Have you checked the properties of the last recorded track (which is normally used as a "template" for the current "Active" log), in particular the (minimum) Update time/distance and the Max points?

Cheers, Alan.

Hi Alan
Thanks for the reply I lowered the number in the min update time box and found that I got a track back but straight lines from point to point so I lowered it to 1 in both boxes and it seems to be leaving a trail like it did when I first got it but not perfect it seems to be slightly out of position for instance when arrive at a junction the gps is a bit behind where my actual position on the ground is. do you know what the factory setting for these numbers are in the 2 boxes on properties?

Thanks Andy

Hi Andy,

Sorry, I don't have an Adventurer so I don't know the defaults, but I believe 10 seconds and maybe 10 metres are typical. Personally, for walking, I use larger figures to keep file sizes smaller, perhaps 30 seconds.

The gps engine will at best only calculate a position once each second and there may be some further processing delay within the MM software (before the red circle moves). Are you seeing a delay of longer than a few seconds? Then, it will only draw a line from the last logged trackpoint after the minimum update interval has elapsed.

Cheers, Alan.

I understand how it works now the higher the update number basically the longer straight line you get from the distance you have travel
in the set amount of time. So now that I have lowered it 2 second when travelling on my bike it follows the route exactly but in the car when travelling faster it seems to cut corners off slightly.
not sure how these settings got changed because had it almost a year and not had this problem before. But hopefully all is ok now
Ps I did read a thread that someone wanted to be able to disable the automatic track recording well the answer to that is to put a really high number in the update box and no track will be left behind.

thanks for your help Andy