[time-nuts] Bricked Garmin GPS 18x LVC

[Mike Cook]

Hi,
   I don’t know if you saw, but on the same page it is mentioned that it may un-brick itself after being left powered off for a long time - weeks.
Hope you get it back.

> Le 23 févr. 2019 à 09:41, Anthony Dunne <agdunne at hotmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Hi everyone
> 
> I am hoping someone will have some information on how to unbrick a Garmin GPS 18x LVC?
> 
> I was trying to rollback the firmware on the unit because I was experiencing similar issues to what is described here:
> https://satsignal.eu/ntp/Garmin-GSP18x-LVC-firmware-issue.htm
> 
> The unit kept randomly dropping the configuration I set up on it.
> 
> I could see no way to rollback the firmware from the current 4.00 to 3.90, so I renamed the 3.90 firmware to make it 4.10 (bad idea I hear you say).
> 
> All seemed to go well with it erasing the previous firmware and installing the "new" firmware, but now I think I have bricked the unit as I am getting no response at all.
> 
> Is there any way that you know of to reset the unit, perhaps by connecting two pins or something similar?
> 
> Thank-you
> 
> 
> 
> Anthony
> New South Wales
> Australia
> 
> 
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