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> Whilst trying to navigate to a GPS position, the GPS Position icon is
> greyed out and Im unable to select it.
>
> Is there a minimum amount of satellites the TomTom should be picking up
> for this option or am I doing something wrong?
>

>
> Jumpyjimmy wrote in message
> news:43bd643c$0$82646$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
>> Whilst trying to navigate to a GPS position, the GPS Position icon is
>> greyed out and Im unable to select it.
>>
>> Is there a minimum amount of satellites the TomTom should be picking up
>> for this option or am I doing something wrong?
>>
>
>
> The latter. GPS position is used purely to mark where you are at this
> time so you can navigate back to it later, and thus only works in the add
> favourite mode.
>
> It is *not* used to say I want to enter a GPS position so I can go there
> now.

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> Tumbleweed
>
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>

> Jumpyjimmy wrote in message
> news:43bd643c$0$82646$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
> > Whilst trying to navigate to a GPS position, the GPS Position icon is
> > greyed out and Im unable to select it.
> >
> > Is there a minimum amount of satellites the TomTom should be picking up
> > for this option or am I doing something wrong?
> >
>
>
> The latter. GPS position is used purely to mark where you are at this
> time so you can navigate back to it later, and thus only works in the add
> favourite mode.
>
> It is *not* used to say I want to enter a GPS position so I can go there
> now.
>
> --
> Tumbleweed
>
> email replies not necessary but to contact use;
> tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com

>
> Tumbleweed wrote:
>> Jumpyjimmy wrote in message
>> news:43bd643c$0$82646$ed2619ec@ptn-nntp-reader03.plus.net...
>> > Whilst trying to navigate to a GPS position, the GPS Position icon is
>> > greyed out and Im unable to select it.
>> >
>> > Is there a minimum amount of satellites the TomTom should be picking up
>> > for this option or am I doing something wrong?
>> >
>>
>>
>> The latter. GPS position is used purely to mark where you are at this
>> time so you can navigate back to it later, and thus only works in the
>> add
>> favourite mode.
>>
>> It is *not* used to say I want to enter a GPS position so I can go there
>> now.
>>
>> --
>> Tumbleweed
>>
>> email replies not necessary but to contact use;
>> tumbleweednews at hotmail dot com
>
> That was a good explanation. Thanks for posting. i had sort of been
> wondering the same thing when I used my friends 300 recently.
>