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As long as you found your HWID 2077 from the device not Ai
nuvi 2xx7 and 2xx8 C4 006-B2077-00 Release 8.80 from the source
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Yesterday, 04:06 PM #1Junior Member
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Hello Folks
I have been tearing out my hair after 2 days of hell with a Garmin NÜVI 2597 Sat Nav. I tried an update & to cut a long story short if formatted the Garmin & not the Micro SD card. So far as an Apple user I have had to build a windows machine on an old lappy. Follow all your kind help by reading every post & installing software. I managed to get into the Garmin & retrieve the following:
ID2077 NÜVI 25x9 Version 8.80. Grok tells me I need NUVI 2xx7and 2xx8c4_800.gcd. I cannot for the life of me get that firmware anywhere without it going corrupt. Can anyone please email me that file please? <Removed-not allowed publicly>
I believe these are the next steps:
Open the .gcd in GarminCure3.
Create the Cure version and flash it with Updater.exe in preboot (same timing technique you’ve been practising).
Once the unit stays connected and appears as a drive, check/delete any obvious bad files (especially anything in the root or .System folder that looks recent or corrupted).
Then create and flash the original (non-Cure) version of the same firmware.
I am hopeless at text forums so apologise in adance
Any help appreciated,
regards
Steve
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If you mean by "the Garmin" that you either (i) got it into Preboot Mode (aka Garmin Mode) and obtained it's HWID as 2077 via [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] or (ii) from a backup of its file system, then you are safe to use the "C4" version as per above post#2.
Originally Posted by Solentmancub
Because you've likely formatted it with a Mac OS the format won't be properly acceptable to the proprietary Garmin OS. Even Windows built-in tool sometimes isn't perfect. Therefore, you need to use [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] to format it correctly in FAT32 so please read the guide in kunix's [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] carefully. The are no corrupt files on it because the previous format attempt, albeit perhaps incompatible with the device, has completely removed all folders and files. Note the final point in #2 of "The typical curing algorithm (in general) looks like this" carefully and read the entire initial post. If you have a 'known-good' backup you may restore files from it or use GarminExpress to recover them but it won't give you a [Only registered and activated users can see links. ].I believe these are the next steps:
Open the .gcd in GarminCure3.
Create the Cure version and flash it with Updater.exe in preboot (same timing technique you’ve been practising).
Once the unit stays connected and appears as a drive, check/delete any obvious bad files (especially anything in the root or .System folder that looks recent or corrupted).Not needed, redo the format instead - see below
Then create and flash the original (non-Cure) version of the same firmware.
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