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Offline curt66973

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humminbird keeps freezing
« on: May 12, 2016, 08:17:48 PM »
every time I put my SD card in my unit freezes and doesn't  work. iam going to buy a new one any advice on what one i should get. heres one iam looking at Sandisk Extreme SDHC 16GB Class 10 UHS U3 Memory Card, Up to 90MB/s Read Speed 


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Re: humminbird keeps freezing
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2016, 12:55:49 AM »
That card should work ...

When you say freezes ... Does that mean the screen goes blank ...??

Go under the Views tab and make the GPS diagnostics view Visible ...

Then exit out of the menus and cycle thru the views until you see the GPS diagnostic screen ...

Watch the 2 boxes in the lower right as you insert the SD Card and see if the unit is recognizing the SD Card before the unit freezes ...

BTW ...weird things happen in these units when the power supply is intermittent or too low from a bad battery or insufficient size wiring ...

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Re: humminbird keeps freezing
« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2016, 01:09:24 AM »
Ya when I would power it up if would freeze. I would have to pull the cord to get it to shut off. I called the 1800 # and eventually she had me remove both my cards and then it worked but the second I put the sd card in it would freeze. I put the lake master chip back in and works. I'll try this new card.

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Re: humminbird keeps freezing
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2016, 01:11:11 AM »
This still sounds like a possible power related issue ...

Have you load tested the battery ... ?? All connections clean and tight ... ??

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Re: humminbird keeps freezing
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2016, 01:18:38 AM »
I bought 3 brand new batteries and it still did it. Connections are good. I'll let u know if a different chip works

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Re: humminbird keeps freezing
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2016, 10:56:38 PM »
You might format the card ...

And make sure the format is set to FAT32 ...

I'm not versed in what the FAT means ...but I do remember Greg mentioning the format must be in FAT32 ...

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Re: humminbird keeps freezing
« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2016, 08:08:44 AM »
Here are some things I found when I Google "Humminbird formatting SD card".
There is all kind of answers that you can find using Google.
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http://www.thehulltruth.com/marine-electronics-forum/495039-sd-card-questions.html#b
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV1u-x6XhuM
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Re: humminbird keeps freezing
« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2016, 10:03:28 PM »
Phil

    Thanks for the youtube link.

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Re: humminbird keeps freezing
« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2016, 05:56:10 PM »
You might format the card ...

And make sure the format is set to FAT32 ...

I'm not versed in what the FAT means ...but I do remember Greg mentioning the format must be in FAT32 ...

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