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Garmin Fe*k of and leave things alone.

  • 02-05-2016 10:39PM
    #1
    Pablo Rubio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 365 ✭✭


    Garmin did an automatic update of my 520 yesterday and now its stuck on powering up screen. Third garmin frozen after their updates . Anyone else getting this with the 520. 6 months old and perfect until update of software.


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  • #2
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    Pablo Rubio wrote: »
    Garmin did an automatic update of my 520 yesterday and now its stuck on powering up screen. Third garmin frozen after their updates . Anyone else getting this with the 520. 6 months old and perfect until update of software.

    Words to live by from OldBean. Never update your Garmin until word gets out that the version is stable.


  • #3
    mamax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭mamax


    Yeah I was caught a few times with updates that fecked up bluetooth etc so garmin can kiss my ass, now that its working Im leaving it

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  • #4
    funnights74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭funnights74


    Garmin are notorious for their Glitches, then the site goes down for a day or 2 while they backtrack and sort out a fix. The units themselves are fine until these automatic updates appear and f**k it all up for a few days.Try pressing the on/off button for a few seconds and the unit may power down.


  • #5
    OldBean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭OldBean


    The worst thing about Garmin is everything having to be on the same update - I've found a stable update from about last June for my 510 and probably won't touch it until it's got something I need and I'm sure everything is compatible and works smoothly, otherwise either my Garmin, my phone, the application on my desktop or the application on my laptop is slightly out and nothing works, which means I have to dig through the bloody thing to find out I'm only going at 22kmh.

    /rant


  • #6
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Pablo Rubio wrote: »
    Garmin did an automatic update of my 520 yesterday and now its stuck on powering up screen. Third garmin frozen after their updates . Anyone else getting this with the 520. 6 months old and perfect until update of software.

    Can I ask how it done it automatically? I was uploading a spin on saturday through Garmin Connect and got a message advising that an update was available but it was only a message and not a prompt to update. I clicked 'ok' and forgot about it. My unit works as I want it and so i have no intention of updating it.

    my 520 is on version 3.1 and the newest version is 6.0 (there have been 4 updates which I have so far ignored)


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