Newer vehicles include an increasingly spectacular number of options. Whether it’s bluetooth to enjoy the music on your phone, WiFi to keep the internet connection, or integrated GPS, car manufacturers have not finished surprising us. In this article we’re going to focus on a very useful feature that can handicap you if it doesn’t function. Indeed, we are going to help you to solve problems of GPS which doesn’t work anymore on a Mini Mini 3 . To achieve this, first, we will discover how the GPS of a car works, then, why the GPS of a Mini Mini 3 isn’t functioning? And, at last, how to resolve it.

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How does a Mini Mini 3 GPS work?

Before discovering why the GPS of your Mini Mini 3 doesn’t work anymore , we will first check out how it works so that you can understand all the parts of this article.
We now know all the GPS on Mobile phones that help us greatly in our everyday life, however we do not always know how they operate, here is a list of their most important features:

  • The GPS of a Mini Mini 3 works like all devices using this technology, they use the network of satellites in earth orbit (24 satellites at 20 000km altitude). These satellites allow you to triangularize the position of the GPS device and thus give exact info on the position of your Mini Mini 3. It is necessary to capture 4 satellites at the same time to have exact info, hence the reception bugs when you are in landlocked or mountainous areas.
  • A playback screen and touch or button controls to interact and set it up.
  • Use your radio’s antenna to optimize GPS reception. That’s why a car GPS will be more correct and effective than a Smartphone GPS.

Why is the GPS on my Mini Mini 3 not functioning anymore?

Now we’ll proceed to the GPS problems on your Mini Mini 3 . There are few of them, we will try to list them all so that you can find an reason for your GPS not working anymore:

  • The GPS of my Mini Mini 3 doesn’t pick up the signal anymore: If you have problems with the reception of the GPS reception on your Mini Mini 3, if you have no signal reception at all or if it bugs recurrently, you must have an antenna problem. Indeed, it is the antenna that will take care of improving the signal of your GPS. It is possible that you have suffered the bug of April 6, 2019 which concerns the GPS of the years 2000, we explain later how to resolve it.
  • The GPS of my Mini Mini 3 gives me bad navigation info: If the GPS of your Mini Mini 3 gives you bad info and has a tendency to get lost or mislaid, it is highly possible that you have a mapping problem, obviously, the road network is constantly evolving and it is possible that your cartography is not up to date.
  • My GPS screen is frozen: : Well, if your GPS screen bugs, freezes, or doesn’t respond, you’re most certainly struggling with an electrical problem or a bug in the operating system of your Mini Mini 3’s GPS.

    • How do you resolve the GPS on a Mini Mini 3?

    We now proceed to the last part of our content which will allow you to repair the buggy GPS of your Mini Mini 3 . To do this, we will review in turn the problems that we founded in the previous part and give you the solution to each of them:

    • GPS reception problems Mini Mini 3: If you have reception problems, if frequent or permanent, the problem will absolutely result from your reception equipment, i. e. the antenna on your roof. So ensure that it has not been subjected to any shock, twisting or other damage, if this is the case, change it with a new one.
    • GPS Mini Mini 3 bug of April 6, 2019: This bug is now well known by the car dealers, it’s a software problem, indeed, every 20 years there is a problem with the management of the date of the GPS software, and this date arrived on April 6, 2019, many old generation GPS stopped functioning. To correct this problem, just go to the settings of your GPS and change the date manually.
    • GPS Mini Mini 3 mapping problems: In this scenario, if your GPS gives you bad information, you will have to update the GPS of your Mini Mini 3, don’t hesitate to seek advice from our content page on this subject to identify the process to follow. This may as well fix some operating system bugs.
    • Finally, if your GPS doesn’t turn on anymore and the screen freezes, you are almost certainly experiencing an electrical trouble . We recommend you to verify the condition of the fuses. If it’s the screen of your Mini Mini 3 that doesn’t work anymore, we’ve made an article to help you solve this problem.

    If perhaps you have any additional questions about the Mini Mini 3, do not hesitate to consult our Mini Mini 3 category.