[time-nuts] Bricked Garmin GPS 18x LVC

[Hal Murray]

> If you open it up, then simply connect a load resistor, perhaps in the
> neighborhood of 100 ohms (but definitely not a direct short!) across the
> super cap to drain it faster. 

I couldn't open mine up.

I got one into a useless state.  I don't know how I did it, but it wasn't 
updating firmware.  Mine recovered after a while, but I don't know how long it 
took.  I tossed it on the junk pile because it was useless.  Eventually, I 
tried again and it worked.

Note that trying too soon probably charges up the super cap and thus restarts 
the clock.


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