Darren Clemons
Well-Known Member
I installed the Jfield and GNSS updates to the pre release for the LS plus this morning and saw some oddities. The reason I anxiously installed it was hoping it took care of some of my UHF problems I’ve been having and it sure “seemed” like it did. Don’t know if it was supposed to or I just had a “lucky” spot where it worked better than it had been.
The two main things I saw was it definitely seems as if the “auto setup engines” button isn’t doing anything when I hit it. Usually I immediately see a “repopulation” of the sats and that didn’t happen all day. Most times if there’s red x’s within the engines, those go away when hitting auto setup - they didn’t today. Reset engines does work however.
The other odd thing was when flashing on/off to CDF as the plus still does quite often I got this on the engine screen
It went away immediately as soon as CDF went away.
It seemed as if not being able to get auto update to work caused the LS to take much longer to fix. I was on two separate points for 30/45 minutes each with no good results. On both points, I eventually did a hard reset of the LS. As soon as it rebooted and acquired radio signal, it locked in and fully validated a 3 phase shot in seconds - after nothing for 30+ minutes. I went to the next point I had previously been on for quite a while and repeated the exact same thing. Rebooted again - and boom - immediately a validated 3 phase shot. I’m very, very familiar with “sometimes it works better” when you go back to a bad spot several minutes later, but this wasn’t that at all. It was like both reboots kicked it into “super charged” mode.
Is the auto setup engines button bug in pre release being addressed? It is still not working and is causing a major problem/difference in the ability to acquire a fix in heavy coverage. The unit becomes very "stuck" and is not performing anywhere near where it was a few weeks ago before that stopped working....