I emailed you the manual... its a bit large, let me know if you get it. On Sat, Jan 8, 2022 at 9:40 AM Jaime Kopchinski <jaime...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hm... despite having developed and tested that system for several years of > my life, I'm having trouble remembering the details! (I've worked on too > many in the last 15 years since).... but lets try. > > If the position information at the bottom of the map is showing 9 > satellites, then its probably accurate. Does it change sometimes, and > start out with 0 and work its way up to 9 after running a bit (from a cold, > overnight start)? The lat/lon shown there isn't raw GPS data, but an > output of the dead reckoning module which takes into consideration speed of > 4 wheels, gyro, and matching of GPS position to the map data (sticking you > to a road). > > If you drive, does the position and vehicle direction on the map move or > is it completely stuck? > > Its reasonably possible you have a hardware issue which is causing the DR > module to not do its thing. > > In the system menu there is an option to delete all the user data. Try > that (you'll lose all your presets, etc). > > Also keep in mind that if the car was woken up from a dead state for a > long time, it might need to recalibrate. That just involves driving around > a bit, ideally city blocks with 90 degree turns... shouldn't take more than > a few miles. > > Post a picture of the 5 blocks you're talking about. Is it not phone > signal strength? > Jaime > > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 7:28 PM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> This “new” 09S550 I got to fix up has a quirk in the COMAND Navi system. >> It doesn’t seem to know where it is. Looks to be stuck someplace up around >> DC where Pennsylvania Ave meets 95/495.That’s what shows on the home >> screen. I think that’s where the car lived, more or less. >> >> I put in my home address and it figured out where that was and how to get >> here from DC, but it thinks it is not here. It says it can see 9 sats but >> thinks it’s located at those DC coordinates. >> >> There are 5 little boxes at the top right of the screen making me think >> something is buggered with it, not sure what that’s about. >> >> I know, RTFM (which I managed to find online somewhere as the actual >> paper manuals were missing, MB doesn’t go back that far it seems with what >> is online) but I would think once it booted up the system would know where >> it is. Is there some way to force it to rethink its status? Or is it truly >> buggered somehow? >> >> --FT >> Sent from iFōn >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > -- > Jaime Kopchinski > http://www.jaimekop.com/ > > -- Jaime Kopchinski http://www.jaimekop.com/ _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
