Another Lowrance 334 question...

[hanson]

Small problem with my unit.

Friday night, worked great!

Saturday night, it didn't.

I turned the unit on and all I can get is a GPS screen, I can't get my depth to work. When I hit 'Pages' to move between GPS, Flasher, etc, I get that annoying beep. So I can't even pull my pages menu up.

Other problem is I shut the unit off with my brightness turned down, it was night when I was using it. So to adjust brightness, I have to hit 'Menu' twice to pull up the 2nd menu screen, to get to the 'screen' menu. Well, when I hit 'Menu' twice, the first menu pops up and when I hit it again, it shuts off. I can't get the 2nd Menu screen to show up.

I've heard all sorts of problems about the GPS in these things but the GPS is the only feature that works right now. What's up? The transducer is plugged in, it is ticking as well.

[Central Bassman]

Chris, have you tried resetting your unit?? If you turn the unit off…then hold Zoom in, Zoom Out and Power all at the same time tell the picture of the USA comes up!!! Try that it should fix it.

FYI there is two ways to reset your unit and I can only remember this one, but here what might be the problem it might delete your waypoints. So im not sure if its this one or the other one Sorry

[CrappiesNeyes]

I have a 332c (same thing with the external antenna) and the "soft" reset ( you will not loose your waypoints but it will reset the unit to factory defaults) is to hold in the pages button until the unit comes on. Hopefully this helps.

[Central Bassman]

Ok then the one i was talking about is the "Hard Reset"!!! And it will delete your waypoints!!!

[hawkeye43]

Mine did the same thing tonight. I pushed the page button and nothing. I thought I would have to send it in and it be weeks before it would come back. I will try the reset tomorrow.

[hanson]

I called a friend of mine last night who had similar problems a few weeks ago.

"Soft Reset" is the solution to this problem.

With the unit turned off, push & hold the 'Pages' button in. Then push & hold the 'Power' button in. When the unit starts up and the map of the USA appears, release both buttons. Worked like a charm!

You won't lose waypoints, tracks, etc with this kind of reset.

[Central Bassman]

good to hear that it fixed your unit... Hanson, have you done the updates for you unit??

[iffwalleyes]

I would hold off doing any updating to version 1.8. It seem to cause problems with losing depth reading when in shallower water. If the unit is running good don't update. Version 1.8 is mainly suppose to help with networking so if you don't have plans to do this I wouldn't update.

[hanson]

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Hanson, have you done the updates for you unit??

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I haven't updated yet. Been reading about it and decided to hold off. Bad shallow water performance is not what I'm looking for with my unit and mine reads pretty good right now. I fish the river nearly 90% of the time and am constantly hovering around 3-6' of depth in areas. I need to read these areas well.