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O, Woe is me!!
Well, shoot! My beloved StreetPilot 2820's digitizer is going through spells of randomizing its digitization, even without being touched. I'll look at it and find it in the search map mode, like you're trying to select a waypoint on the map, instead of the tracking mode, showing your position. If it's really schizoid that search map will be jumping around and highlighting points. By itself. And sometimes it will give up and put itself into screen calabration prompts, which of course, won't work.
It's my third StreetPilot. I started with a second-hand 2610 way back when I first got the bike in 2007. I very quickly tired of the limited memory on that device, and the need to load and unload map areas for a trip. I used it for a trip from here to D.C. and couldn't put the whole trip in the device! There was a very small corner of one of the segments that we were going through, so I simply didn't load that segment and ended up with enough space for the rest of the trip. Needed two routes, though, the southern part and the northern part, with a gap of about 10 miles in the middle!
I found a 2720 on eBay after a while and went for it. Still have it. It was so wonderful to have the entire country in the device, without having to connect to the computer to get pieces of maps into the device or clear them out! That one also introduced me to the 3D "overflying" map view. That's the one I posted about some time back that shows a max speed that an SR-71 can't do:
I'm not sure how that speed got in there, but I have a theory. When I first got it, It had not been powered up for a LONG time! When I turned it on, it took almost 15 minutes to get a fix! I think what happened is that its first fix was way off, and when it corrected it thought it had actually moved through that distance, so it thinks it went 2378 miles per hour. Reset Max is OFF LIMITS!!!!!
Eventually I discovered Bluetooth for the helmet, and discovered the 2820, which handles the phone via Bluetooth so I can keep it in the jacket pocket, or more often, under the seat on a charger. I don't need the screen because the Garmin does all of the phone stuff. I hear it in the helmet via Bluetooth as well. The headset thinks the Garmin is a phone, the phone thinks the Garmin is a headset. It has a "music player" in it, too, but it only has about 5MB of memory for music, and it's not stereo on Bluetooth. I don't listen to music when I ride, anyway, as I find it distracting. Use of the phone was SO MUCH BETTER with the GPS screen showing me what was up. Caller ID on incoming, listing the phone book, whatever. With the 2720 before, the phone directly connected to the headset, if voice dialing didn't work, the phone would be doing something and I had no way of figuring it out without stopping and getting the phone into my hand, and a lot of times I couldn't end a call with the headset buttons; the call would end but the phone never hung up!
So now I've got this weirdness with the 2820, and I've had such good luck being able to stay with StreetPilots, and not have to buy new hardware for the bike for mounting something. I took the 2820 apart, all the way to getting the screen out. I separated the boards, but did not actually pry the digitizer off of the LCD. Basically what I did was disconnect and re-seat all the connectors, and I cleaned the screen really well while it was out. It had some grunge built up under the edges of the case, and I was hoping that grunge might be the issue.
It's better, now, but still flaky. It'll stay on map view for quite a while, then suddenly just freak out. Now, stubborn as I am, and as much as I like this thing, and as much as I hate having to buy new hardware, I'm now wondering if I can salvage the digitizer out of the 2610, which still works but will never be used again. I see on the places that list replacements that they all use the same digitizer, but I don't know if the one already in there can survive being pried off of the display. If it does, then I saved 20 or 30 bucks! Ooh! Ahh! Hey, I might need that for a date someday! (That should tell you how long it's been since I've had one....) If it doesn't work, all I've sacrificed is a useless 2610, and then I'll go ahead and order a digitizer from one of those places.
I just wanna keep my StreetPilot!!!!!
It's my third StreetPilot. I started with a second-hand 2610 way back when I first got the bike in 2007. I very quickly tired of the limited memory on that device, and the need to load and unload map areas for a trip. I used it for a trip from here to D.C. and couldn't put the whole trip in the device! There was a very small corner of one of the segments that we were going through, so I simply didn't load that segment and ended up with enough space for the rest of the trip. Needed two routes, though, the southern part and the northern part, with a gap of about 10 miles in the middle!
I found a 2720 on eBay after a while and went for it. Still have it. It was so wonderful to have the entire country in the device, without having to connect to the computer to get pieces of maps into the device or clear them out! That one also introduced me to the 3D "overflying" map view. That's the one I posted about some time back that shows a max speed that an SR-71 can't do:
I'm not sure how that speed got in there, but I have a theory. When I first got it, It had not been powered up for a LONG time! When I turned it on, it took almost 15 minutes to get a fix! I think what happened is that its first fix was way off, and when it corrected it thought it had actually moved through that distance, so it thinks it went 2378 miles per hour. Reset Max is OFF LIMITS!!!!!
Eventually I discovered Bluetooth for the helmet, and discovered the 2820, which handles the phone via Bluetooth so I can keep it in the jacket pocket, or more often, under the seat on a charger. I don't need the screen because the Garmin does all of the phone stuff. I hear it in the helmet via Bluetooth as well. The headset thinks the Garmin is a phone, the phone thinks the Garmin is a headset. It has a "music player" in it, too, but it only has about 5MB of memory for music, and it's not stereo on Bluetooth. I don't listen to music when I ride, anyway, as I find it distracting. Use of the phone was SO MUCH BETTER with the GPS screen showing me what was up. Caller ID on incoming, listing the phone book, whatever. With the 2720 before, the phone directly connected to the headset, if voice dialing didn't work, the phone would be doing something and I had no way of figuring it out without stopping and getting the phone into my hand, and a lot of times I couldn't end a call with the headset buttons; the call would end but the phone never hung up!
So now I've got this weirdness with the 2820, and I've had such good luck being able to stay with StreetPilots, and not have to buy new hardware for the bike for mounting something. I took the 2820 apart, all the way to getting the screen out. I separated the boards, but did not actually pry the digitizer off of the LCD. Basically what I did was disconnect and re-seat all the connectors, and I cleaned the screen really well while it was out. It had some grunge built up under the edges of the case, and I was hoping that grunge might be the issue.
It's better, now, but still flaky. It'll stay on map view for quite a while, then suddenly just freak out. Now, stubborn as I am, and as much as I like this thing, and as much as I hate having to buy new hardware, I'm now wondering if I can salvage the digitizer out of the 2610, which still works but will never be used again. I see on the places that list replacements that they all use the same digitizer, but I don't know if the one already in there can survive being pried off of the display. If it does, then I saved 20 or 30 bucks! Ooh! Ahh! Hey, I might need that for a date someday! (That should tell you how long it's been since I've had one....) If it doesn't work, all I've sacrificed is a useless 2610, and then I'll go ahead and order a digitizer from one of those places.
I just wanna keep my StreetPilot!!!!!
