Weird eTrex Legend backlight problem

[chilipadi]

Hi all,

 

My Legend has this weird problem lately. When I turn on the backlight, the LCD display goes blank! As in, all white! It comes back when I turn the backlight off.

 

Anyone encountered this? I'm using s/w version 2.50

 

thanks.

[+Pharisee]

I'm using a Legend with the same firmware version but I've not encountered that problem. Mine works fine.

 

John

Wild Tupperware Hunter

[chilipadi]

so was mine... working fine, I mean.

 

This little bug popped up over the weekend. Not sure what went wrong. Looks like I'm gonna have to check with Garmin.

[pdumas]

Not sure we have two legends one a year old and one just a few months old, I would send it back in to garmin.

[+apersson850]

Bad display connections is a problem that seems to haunt the entire eTrex series.

When my Vista suffered fromt he flickering lines in the display, it quite often blanked out completely when I turned on the light. I think these two things are related.

 

I got my Vista replaced for a new one, but after four months that one shows a new display problem. Sigh.

 

Anders

[+WVDan]

Have you put fresh batteries in your GPS unit? I have a watch that when the battery gets week, it dose the same thing when the backlight is turned on.

[chilipadi]

guess what? my screen is alright again - no more blank screen with backlight switched on.

 

The only thing i did was to leave it in my daypack which i bring around with me all the time. Maybe it got bumped and everything's fine again. Will see if a few more bumps will bring back the problem.