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ZenBalancer, of course :

Your comment triggered old memories from decades ago. I then purchased a standalone GSmart or GPSmart, can't really remember now. The device worked great, untill one day it stopped locking on to satellites, rendering the device completely unusable. It soon came apparent that many people with the same device had the exact the same issue! One clever person commented on the forum that he new what the problem was and reported it to the company selling that device but nothing got fixed by the company, so the clever person decided to fix it for all of us, free of charge. Apparently the microchip's Almanac was set up with an obsolete date that when the time came the coding would change, to start locking to fewer satellites and unless (then) it would connect to more than 3 satellites, it wouldn't work smoothly or none at all, hence loosing tracking. After installing that DIY firmware from that person, everything worked perfectly for everyone straight away. Since then I have always been suspicious if suddenly some electronic device stopped working as it should. When a microchip is involved, anything is possible. Like you, I am not moving to Stadium any time soon. To much money for very little gain (pan intended) LOL, My helix floor gives me what I need, the rest that is on the Stadium, either I won't use or have my laptop software doing it already. I use the laptop already anyway.

The question I've always asked myself is given how ridiculously fragile, expensive and essential touchscreens are on ALL devices that have them, and how only the manufacturers are capable of installing them completely dust free (who hasn't tied themselves in knots trying to get that last bit of dust out when installing a screen protector, only to make it worse and then throwing away the protector altogether and repeating the process 18 times?!) WHY OH WHY don't the manufacturers install something at the factory that ISN'T flimsy and designed to be peeled off, just to be messily replaced with a thicker version that you've bought on Amazon??