It seems my stock nav unit is having trouble acquiring satellites. I noticed it randomly one day, every once in a while the little satellite icon will turn green and i get a signal but it doesn't last long and 99% of the time I am driving around with no signal. I did a search but couldn't find any related posts about this problem. Any ideas?

 

maybe you're in a bad area.. i don't think it stays connected 100% of the time.. I think the nav calculates how fast you're going to move you.. sometimes i'm not even on the road on my screen and it takes a long time to readjust, so I think it only connects to the satellites every now and then

 

I'm in a fairly big city (Norfolk, VA) and have never had this problem before. You can tell how many satellites you're receiving by the little satellite icon in the upper left corner.

I ran the self diagnosis on it and it reset some things I guess so now it thinks I'm in California and probably won't put me back in VA until it picks up a satellite.

 

did you just upgrade your DVD Nav disc?
It might be the issue with the disc.

 

No, it's not

 

Do you have metallic window tinting?

 

No, it has worked well for about a year. Nothing has been changed.