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Need help - ifinder H20C won't read new Navionics chip

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If anyone has any ideas I am all ears. Just bought the Nav Lake of the Woods chip and my GPS won't read it. I have the Lakemaster chip and it reads this great. checked map data to Navionics map choices and Navionics is not listed. I'm thinking I got a bum chip. Any ideas?

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I had a problem with an older Navionics LOW chip. What I figured out was I had to put the chip in when my GPS was already on. If you're running your H20C on battery, this will be impossible to do because of the design. If you have a power cord that came with it, run it off that, turn your H20 on, and then pop the chip in. If your GPS doesn't beep or doesn't display Navionics under the map data, then your chip is unreadable.

Either way, you shouldn't have to do that. I recently upgraded to the Premium North chip and that reads fine.

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Tried it, no luck that way either. Unit didn't even beep when inserting the chip. Has to be a bad chip.

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May be a bad chip. There were a few out there. Take it back to the place you got it with your GPS and see if a different chip works. If not they should be able to show you how to get it set to work right.

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Is your H2O in advanced mode? It needs to be in advanced mode in order to read the new Navionics. If its in easy mode then it won't read it...

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also the new navionics chips in a h2o has to be told that you want to view it go into the map data area and you have to reconize which region you want to see and enter it for your unit to read it..just highlight which region you want and hit enter and it should work..there might be a few bad chips but i bet that this is your problem..now if you would have got the lakemasters chip it would have read it right when you turned it on...hope this workks for ya..

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That did it!!! I had it in Lowrance mode and once I highlighted a area I could SEE. Thanks for the help. Going to Vermillion and Superior this week it will be fun to play with the new tool.

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I've got the iFinder H20 and it worked great. I bought the Navionic's LOTW chip and took out my LakeMaster chip to insert the Navionic's chip. When I went into Map Data -> Map Choice I only see the Lowrance option and the Miami Demo. So I thought I got a bad Navionic's chip, so I took out the Navionic's chip and put the LakeMaster chip back in and now I can't view the LakeMaster chip. I've got the chip in correctly, I've even reset the device the factory defaults and I still can't view either chip. Can anyone assist? I tried to call the Lowrance support line but there only open to 5 p.m, makes it difficult when I guy has to work until then. Grrr! I'm leaving for Canada in couple days and I need this baby to work. I appreciate any help.

Thanks, Matt

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Matt and others, hopefully you can help me. Have had Navionics Premium North since 2004. Has worked fine in h20 and Eagle 642c. On advice of Navionics rep (and good advice, so not complaining there) I updated the Lowrance/Eagle software on h20 to the latest v1.5.0 software. It went fine, and it works fine.

But the problem now is that when I use the Navionics chip (and it is loaded properly to correct map data) it no longer gives me the nice detailed map contours that is should, and that it had been giving for years. It is simply an ugly outline of the lake, with some contours, but no numbers and the contours look like a kids etch-a-sketch. No kidding.

I place the same chip in the Eagle 642 and the lake looks beautiful the way it should. I do know how to use the h20, and I even reset it to default settings, to see if that would help. No dice. It just seems like the v1.5.0 software hates my 2004 Navionics Premium North.

Any suggestions? As the chip is fine. Tomorrow I will try my Lakemaster chip on it and see if that works properly. Thanks for any suggestions,

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Box,

I'm not sure why that would cause your maps to get ugly. I would call Lowrance or check out there support site online. I called customer service today, my device will no longer read any chip so I have to send it in and it's a 4 week turn around...grrr! I leave for Canada in four days so I'm heading back to cabela's to see if they will exchanget he device since I bought it less then three months ago.

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Hey all, just wanted to post that my issue was indeed user error. I figured I had some settings wrong, but in the end I had the wrong map - exactly the thing "I" said that I had correct - doh! Stupid users (*me*). It is working and looking normal again, the way it should.

What confused me was that normally when I pick the wrong map, no lake shows up at all. This time, an outine of the lake in question did show up, even though I was in the wrong map data. I should have known after using it for years already. Oh well, stupid me. On the Eagle 642c the map choice is much easier than on the h2o, as the regions are named instead listed as "reg09b.dat" etc.

Hope your unit gets back to you quickly, or that the store will exchange it so you can use it. That stinks if you can't. Sorry for my mistaken issue here, all is working on both Lowrance and Navionics side, despite my dumb user error smirk.gif

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Box,

Maybe you can help. I got the device replaced last night, the retailer let me exchange it so I have a brand new iFinder H20. So now I can see the Navionic's chip when I go into map data and choose seul.nv2 in map choice. But when I look through the list of lakes I don't see Lac Seul? And none of the lakes show up with the lake bottom contour mapped out. The chip that I have is the Lake of the Woods + 2K, I must be doing something wrong? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks, Matt

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Hey Matt,

My chip is different, so I am not sure what map you should check, but I would work through all the maps, and zoom in to see. The naming in my chip is not that great, and possibly yours as well. I.e. we would assume the "seul" is what you are looking for, but it could be "south east upper lake" or something like that. So check each one.

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I ended up figuring it out but it wasn't easy. You can't pull the lake up by name like you can with LakeMaster. You have bring up the map of North America and basically zoom into the location of the lake and Lac Seul didn't show up until I zoomed in pretty close, I wasn't impressed. Thanks for the help.

Matt

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