Humminbird Did It To Me Again

I was at a Humminbird seminar yesterday and took 2 of my units with me. The Humminbird rep updated them to 1.84. I told him the issues I had when I updated to 1.84 a couple of months ago due to I have all mine networked along with my i-Pilot. I reverted back to 1.64 because the units would power on and off when the i-Pilot was turned on with the 1.84 software. Well he assured me that the problem had been resolved so he updated them for me. I reinstalled them on my boat this evening and it’s doing the same darn thing again.


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Ouch, sorry that happened.

that's sad! :confused::puke

This is why I have not updated my units. I hear to may bad things


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Have you updated the Link itself, problem may be in it??

There is not an update available for my i-Pilot Link. I talked to the rep, he suggested I go back to 1.64. Again!!


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They definitely have a problem. Not updating mine, everything works just fine the way they are.

The depth readings on both my units may be right, and they may not. Depends on which time I look at them, but I'm not updating until they fix this mess. H'bird ticks me off selling units that cost as much as they do and having non-working updates. To me that shows their lack of customer appreciation.

Mine works fine but I haven’t done any up date since I bought it back in March ! But I don’t have one of those fancy trolling motors like you guys have!

If the instructions on Humminbird website are followed it will work every time.

on the headunit go in and change the setting for the ipilot for the auto upload data to off. its on by default. if you read on the software update page on humminbird it tells you to do that before installing the update. if the humminbird rep didnt know that then he dont know his products very well.

It doesn’t give the i-Pilot options in settings unless it is connected to the i-Pilot. I was 300 miles away from my i-Pilot when the rep updated my units. Now it shuts off when i-Pilot is connected so I can’t get to that option in settings before it shuts down


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roll it back to previous version and then change setting then update. i didnt realize that you couldnt change the setting for the ipilot without it being hooked up. sorry about that.

That’s what I’m going to have to do but I have to get the 1.64 software from Humminbird, revert back to 1.64, turn off auto upload and reinstall 1.84


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what unit do you have?

(2) 9 MDI & a 9 MSI


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What are the improvements or advantages to doing this update anyway?

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Originally Posted by Dirt track

There is not an update available for my i-Pilot Link. I talked to the rep, he suggested I go back to 1.64. Again!!


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There actually is an update for ipilot link that came out in December. It won't help with your issue with ipilot (you'll have to change that setting to not auto update). But the update will now allow the bluetooth heading sensor and the GPS from the trolling motor to network with the bow unit and be able to use the heading sensor. This way you don't have to have the other humminbird gps/heading sensor in addition to the bluetooth puck for the trolling motor anymore to show your heading on your bow unit. Pretty good update.

Thanks. I will check in to it


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Where do you find the old 1.64 update?

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Originally Posted by akaslyguy

There actually is an update for ipilot link that came out in December. It won't help with your issue with ipilot (you'll have to change that setting to not auto update). But the update will now allow the bluetooth heading sensor and the GPS from the trolling motor to network with the bow unit and be able to use the heading sensor. This way you don't have to have the other humminbird gps/heading sensor in addition to the bluetooth puck for the trolling motor anymore to show your heading on your bow unit. Pretty good update.

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Will this new heading sensor update work for the transom 360 as well.

The issue with that would be that you would be getting the gps info from the trolling motor head unit. So in your case you would want the gps source to be closer to the 360 so it would more accurately show your distance from waypoints. This is the notes about it from humminbird.

Software Description

Controller v1.260
Remote v2.000
Use the i-Pilot Link as a GPS and Boat Heading source for HELIX or SOLIX
Affected Models:

• All Bluetooth enabled i-Pilot Link (touch screen remote) installed trolling motor models.

Updated Features:
Controller

• Use i-Pilot Link as a GPS and Boat Heading source for HELIX or SOLIX

Remote

• Use i-Pilot Link as a GPS and Boat Heading source for HELIX or SOLIX

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Originally Posted by Stainless

Where do you find the old 1.64 update?

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Unless you know someone that could send it to you for your particular model, then HB CS can send it to you. They don't keep older revisions on their website.

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Originally Posted by Rees Guide

Will this new heading sensor update work for the transom 360 as well.

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John .... The update is not for the 360, it is for the trolling motors with the new Bluetooth heading sensors and Ipilot Link. The update is actually for the Ipilot link and allows sharing the HS and GPS from trolling motor to the head units..... With the Helix units if you share the HS you also share the GPS. It can be shared to any unit on the network, but the GPS data will be from the trolling motor.