What happened to Navionics

[KW21]

I am extremely dissapointed with Navionics right now! I used to run a 2008 navionics chip that I used in my handled H2O. It was a great chip. Many of the large lakes in otter tail county had 1' contours and the maps were easy to read, even on a small screen like the H2O. So when I purchased a new Elite 7 HDI I had no reservations about purchasing a new navionics chip for the new unit. I bought a new chip, plugged it into my computer to get all the latest updates and when looking at the maps on the Elite 7 it was like I was looking at a chip from 2005! Most of the big lakes I fish were 5' contours including Ottertail and West Battle and when zoomed in to 500 feet or more you were lucky if there was more than one depth number showing on the screen. I am at a complete loss for words at how I spent $150 to get an outdated inferior product! BTW, this is a Lakes North chip. Should I have bought the Minnesota only chip? Would that have greater detail on more lakes? If that is the case I sure hope Navionics is willing to work with one PO'D customer for an exchange. Thanks for any help

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

Bummer. Are you sure you are reading the chip and not the base maps?

[Pat K]

Did you do the Lowrance update on the Elite 7? I've heard they don't show all the contours without doing the update.

[jerkbait]

X2, try the update.

[Sea Hage]

If It's like my Elite 5's You need to change it over from reading the internal Lowrance info to Navionics, press menu, menu, select chart, enter, enter, arrow up or down to Navionics, enter. that should fix you up. My 2010 chip is great compared to the 08, I leave the 08 in my H2o and use it for back-up. I mount the Elite5 on the dash of the truck or the wheeler or the sled.

[BoxMN]

X2, try the update.

We needed to do this as well. Had to work with the Lowrance support (gulp, bu tit has gotten much better than years past) as we got the unit on an upgrade from them directly. Once the upgrade file took hold, it works fine again. But we needed to contact them directly, as the update they had online was bad, but that was about a year ago.

Good luck.

[KW21]

Thank you for the replies, much appreciated.

I have menu'd through on the unit so it is reading my navionics chip, so I know that is not an issue.

However, it could be that I need to run the Lowrance update. Please advise, I am not very tech savvy, how do you run an update on the unit itself?

[jerkbait]

The update is specifically for the navionics contours. Go to the lowrance webiste and to the elite 7 and the update is on that page. I would post a link, but i think it would get blasted.

[KW21]

Thanks, sounds easy enough. I will give it a try.

[KW21]

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction jerkbait. The update did the trick. Most all of the lakes that I look at now are in HD and much easier to read. I'm a Navionics fan again:)

[Wish-I-Were-Fishn]

Good to hear it you got it working. Have fun using it

[jerkbait]

Your welcome KW. Good to hear it did the trick.