Zumo 660 wont boot...

WindyChuffer · Jun 23, 2009

OK - Had it ~2 weeks. Tonight when I switch it on, it starts, loads maps, switches off, and repeats as above. Have taken battery out for a proper re-start, and have tried it plugged into the mains. No joy.

Will try Garmin tech support in the morning, but any ideas in the mean time?

Ta
Mike

original_concept · Jun 23, 2009

No but their replacement policy works a treat... I had a 660 on which the audio packed up. Got a replacement one a few days later with the 2010 maps installed, which saved a bit of mucking around. As the original unit had the 2009 maps installed.

Joybringer · Jun 24, 2009

WindyChuffer said:
OK - Had it ~2 weeks. Tonight when I switch it on, it starts, loads maps, switches off, and repeats as above. Have taken battery out for a proper re-start, and have tried it plugged into the mains. No joy.

Will try Garmin tech support in the morning, but any ideas in the mean time?

Ta
Mike

Try a hard reset but you may lose some Favourites and other saved data.

Press and hold the bottom right of the screen. Keep pressing and switch on the unit. Keep pressing and after 3-5 seconds it will start the reboot process.

Once rebooted, leave it in clear line of sight of the sky for a while (up to 30 mins) to reorient itself.

Try Garmin support first, though.

WindyChuffer · Jun 24, 2009

Just been onto Garmin tech support and got that hard-reset tip from them, and was just going to post it here !

That fixed the problem.

But as its a hard reset, trashes all your settings.

And there's no way of backing up your settings !!! :blast

By settings I mean volume, north up as opposed to 3D, mph as opposed to kmh, bluetooth parings etc etc. Fine if a hard reset is needed once in a blue moon; not funny if its a regular occurrence. Waypoints and tracklogs can of course be backed up.

Joybringer · Jun 24, 2009

Oops! Sorry!

I found it didn't take too long to redo everything, but it is a pain, I agree. There's always something you've forgotten when you're miles from anywhere... :blast

At least you can now get lost with an accuracy of 10 metres, again

WindyChuffer · Jun 24, 2009

Joybringer said:
Oops! Sorry!

I found it didn't take too long to redo everything, but it is a pain, I agree. There's always something you've forgotten when you're miles from anywhere...

At least you can now get lost with an accuracy of 10 metres, again

No apology needed. I sincerely hope that's the first and last hard reset required...but we'll see. They can swap it out if it does it again.

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