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Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2018 2:18 am
by JeffJ
Seems like a lot of people have lost there Time on their Lowarance units. What is going on? I lost it on all 3 of my HDS 9's. I have done factory restart and deleted from over lay and added back. Is Lowrance working on a fix?

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2018 5:28 pm
by steve black
I have two Hook 9TS and I too have lost my time. I've reset mine as well but just have three small boxes where the time would be. Glad to know that its not just me. I lost mine around Oct 27TH before the time change when i first noticed it.
Hopefully its fixable, Thanks Steve.

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2018 8:33 pm
by Ken Sauret
I have not had any issue with my HDS Carbons but in the past if any overlay data stopped reading just go to "Edit Overlay Data" and delete the item, in this case delete the Time. Then go back into Edit Overlay Data and reinstall it on each screen. If you need to change the time, go to the Settings menu, then to System and select Time. Here you can adjust the reading to the correct time.

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2018 8:42 pm
by NG
Lost time on both my HDS 9 Gen 2 touch units a few weeks ago. Just shows three dashes. Seems like mostly Gen 2 users, many of them. It also affects my Tide Charts, they are way off now. On another site, it recommended contacting Lowrance Customer Service, the more people they are made aware of who have this issue the more likely they will do something about it. Right now, they seem to say it is a satellite issue of some sort and not something they control.

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2018 2:58 am
by JeffJ
I have already done all that. It seems a lot of people are affected by this. Not just gen 2, on BBC there are a lot of guys with gen 3 and Carbons that have same issue. I got email from Lowrance and from what I was told the Gov't is doing some testing on the GPS system and that is what is causing this.

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2018 6:29 am
by mark poulson
JeffJ wrote:I have already done all that. It seems a lot of people are affected by this. Not just gen 2, on BBC there are a lot of guys with gen 3 and Carbons that have same issue. I got email from Lowrance and from what I was told the Gov't is doing some testing on the GPS system and that is what is causing this.
Wow!

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2018 6:31 am
by scott39
JeffJ wrote:I have already done all that. It seems a lot of people are affected by this. Not just gen 2, on BBC there are a lot of guys with gen 3 and Carbons that have same issue. I got email from Lowrance and from what I was told the Gov't is doing some testing on the GPS system and that is what is causing this.
They told me the same.

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2018 6:25 pm
by steve black
Thanks Ken, yeah I did just that and no changes. I too have been following BBC, sounds as if were all in the same boat, no pun intended :D

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:00 am
by billdozer
This forum is invaluable. I have a Touch 7 and 9 with the Point1 GPS upgrade. For me, the time issue started a couple of weeks ago. I have tried everything. I was going to come here and ask Ken for advice. Now I see that I am not alone. I have reset my time and edited my overlays and it has not helped. I will stand by to see if a fix is found.

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2018 5:15 pm
by smallmouth00
My units lost time and tides as well on oct 27th I posted here 2 weeks ago about this ..called lowrance and have had no help..both units gen 2

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2018 3:50 pm
by sluggo42

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 3:15 pm
by Ken Sauret
The best information I have to this point on the lost time issue is that the United States Air Force is conducting some testing with the GPS satellites and this is somehow creating an issue with our units keeping correct time or any time at all. This will pass and everything will return to normal when this testing is done so keep your smart phones or the old fashion wrist watch handy for a while. This is not the end of the world as we know it. Focus on finding structure and fishing smart and you will be fine.

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 8:40 am
by mark poulson
Ken Sauret wrote:The best information I have to this point on the lost time issue is that the United States Air Force is conducting some testing with the GPS satellites and this is somehow creating an issue with our units keeping correct time or any time at all. This will pass and everything will return to normal when this testing is done so keep your smart phones or the old fashion wrist watch handy for a while. This is not the end of the world as we know it. Focus on finding structure and fishing smart and you will be fine.
This sounds like an episode of X Files.

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 9:27 am
by Edd
If we Marines had taken on this test, it would have been completed in 24 hours.....'Fly Boys' [pffffffd]!

:lol: My attempt at 'vain' humor. BTW not all Lowrance units are affected, just units with certain GPS receivers. Had a 2014 Elite-7 in my shop and time worked perfect.......but, the date read 11/26/2055 ?

Edd

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 12:05 pm
by Marc
Sluggo has the answer. Go to the website he suggested (most of the posts in the beginning are incorrect so be sure to read all the way through). The short answer is that the Gen 2 units have a GPS chip in which the chip manufacturer failed to properly program it. The "good" news is that the problem should fix itself sometime after April. Hope this helps.

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2018 10:05 am
by Rob
The time issue supposedly will fix itself sometime next year, but the date will never be correct which means the tide tables will be useless feature as well.

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2018 1:42 pm
by Edd
Rob wrote:The time issue supposedly will fix itself sometime next year, but the date will never be correct which means the tide tables will be useless feature as well.
That is correct Rob, tides & moon phases.

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 9:29 am
by Rob
For those having issues there’s a patch posts on Lowrance site to fix this issue. Gen 1 and 2 (all I looked for so maybe more).

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 10:17 am
by Edd
Can you post a link?

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 2:39 pm
by 1sharphook
Edd wrote:Can you post a link?
I recommend that you consider navigating to Lowrance.com > "Help & Support" > "Manuals & Software Updates" > Select your Product Series > select the Software you are interested in.

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 4:49 pm
by Rob
Here you go, but this is for Gen 2. There a separate download for Gen 2 touch and Gen 1 as well. I didn’t look for any others but there may be.

https://downloads.lowrance.com/software ... tml?r=1756

Re: Lowarance Time Issue

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2018 5:37 am
by JeffJ
Thanks Rob. The update worked!! Just in time before first tourney.