+geo climber Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I have a Garmin Etrex Vista HCx running SW version 3.00 & unit SW version 2.80. From new it's always had a 2GB Kingston micro SD card installed. Now when I go to turn off the unit, a steady tone sounds, and a battery has to be removed to force it off. With the SD card removed the problem goes away. I tried a hard reset, and tried reloading the software without any effect on the problem. I then replaced the SD card with a brand new 2GB Kingston card with exactly the same result, still broken. The only thing I did that might coincide with the problem is that I had used the GSPr in "USB Mass Storage" mode to download some track files right before the problem began. I have to now conclude that the GPSr is broken. Is there anything else I could try before contacting Garmin customer support? Thanks for any info. Quote Link to comment
guggie Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 I have a Garmin Etrex Vista HCx running SW version 3.00 & unit SW version 2.80. From new it's always had a 2GB Kingston micro SD card installed. Now when I go to turn off the unit, a steady tone sounds, and a battery has to be removed to force it off. With the SD card removed the problem goes away. I tried a hard reset, and tried reloading the software without any effect on the problem. I then replaced the SD card with a brand new 2GB Kingston card with exactly the same result, still broken. The only thing I did that might coincide with the problem is that I had used the GSPr in "USB Mass Storage" mode to download some track files right before the problem began. I have to now conclude that the GPSr is broken. Is there anything else I could try before contacting Garmin customer support? Thanks for any info. It's probably your software, ver 3.0, and the SD card. See this thread: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...=221591&hl= Quote Link to comment
+geo climber Posted July 25, 2009 Author Share Posted July 25, 2009 I have a Garmin Etrex Vista HCx running SW version 3.00 & unit SW version 2.80. From new it's always had a 2GB Kingston micro SD card installed. Now when I go to turn off the unit, a steady tone sounds, and a battery has to be removed to force it off. With the SD card removed the problem goes away. I tried a hard reset, and tried reloading the software without any effect on the problem. I then replaced the SD card with a brand new 2GB Kingston card with exactly the same result, still broken. The only thing I did that might coincide with the problem is that I had used the GSPr in "USB Mass Storage" mode to download some track files right before the problem began. I have to now conclude that the GPSr is broken. Is there anything else I could try before contacting Garmin customer support? Thanks for any info. It's probably your software, ver 3.0, and the SD card. See this thread: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...=221591&hl= That's it. Thanks so much! Quote Link to comment
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