+bladesedge Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Hi, Sorry for the last minute urgent nature. Its my own fault! shouldn't have tried to mess with my GPS the morning before a week-long caching trip! My Garmin GPSMaps 62s is now at a point where I installed the beta version but it freezes and shuts down before I can select Yes to update it. How did it get to this state? Well a few months ago I decided to connect it and Update it. I used the Garmin website, then I loaded my maps back onto it, and then my GPX. The GPS started, but when I tried to select a geocache it would freeze and shut down. Because it was picking up that it was uptodate on Garmin support there was nothing I could do to revert it to the old version. So I loaded the beta version from the Garmin website. And that worked ok for a while although it had a few 'features' on it I didn't like. So today I decided to try to update it again, and did so. And it started freezing on startup after I'd loaded a GPX. Not cool. So I tried to load the beta version again. And that's where I'm at now. I am flying out in about 2hrs 45mins. Need some help to fix it before then if anyone can help! Quote Link to comment
+bladesedge Posted January 5, 2013 Author Share Posted January 5, 2013 OK I may have got it to load the beta - I started it and just kept pressing the Enter button.... then it loaded a window with all sorted of system info on it and a Start button at the bottom. Nothing happened and it faded out again. Next time it started it had the caches on it I had loaded prior to the Beta install.... weird. Quote Link to comment
+Atlas Cached Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 If it only crashes when reading the GPX file, the GPX file is the issue, not the GPSr. Try Forced USB Mass Storage Mode and remove all GPX files from the GPSr, and see if it boots OK after. Quote Link to comment
+bladesedge Posted January 5, 2013 Author Share Posted January 5, 2013 Hi Atlas, thanks for the response. The GPX seems OK now. Its just one I made from GSAK, exported in version 1.0. Its loading fine now that the GPS will turn on. I was trying to force Mass storage mode, but wasn't working as the GPS wasn't staying turned on long enough! All sorted however, thanks for your help! Quote Link to comment
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