Thread: Problem with NUVI 205 w [Please HELP]

You can retrieve HWID in GarminDevice.xml in your nuvi, for example this from a 3790:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Device xmlns="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/GarminDevice/v2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/GarminDevice/v2 http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/GarminDevicev2.xsd"><Model><PartNumber>006-B1101-00</PartNumber>

but it should be 827

tli, try rename all .gpi files in POI folders on unit and SD with bak extension, restart unit and proceed installing of startup picture again...

Originally Posted by Neil

CAUTION: Your so-named '200W' is not a usual 200w. It's the innards of a 205W in a 200W case which Garmin so thoughtlessly thrust on the market for a short time about 4 years ago. This is confirmed by your HWID of 0827 and PCB P/N of 105-01392-00 and the FW verion 7.60.

You should reflash the logo as Loly said before you end up with more problems. But be cautious flashing a 200W logo bin as your unit may actually use a 205W logo. Best to extract your present rgn16 so that we can see what it is, even though it may be damaged it may still be able to be identified. Use this kit to attempt extraction: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]. Unzip it onto a clean SD card and then if it works post the file named 16_backup.bin which will appear in the root of the card if the extraction is successful.

I'd suspected this 200W-205W identity mix-up awhile back when I updated its SW initially. With the update, I'd audio directions with street-name all of a sudden after the update. Its case is labelled as a 200W--but 200W is not supposed to have street-names. I never gave it much thought--just happy with the added feature.

The region 16 seemed to have been successfully extracted but I cannot upload it as an attachment to this post. Keep getting the following error:

16_backup.bin - Invalid File

The bin file shows as a 512KB file. Anyway, I give it another try...

[Edit] Tried the extraction again, and the file seemed to have been extracted OK but I can't attached the file to this post--maybe because it's a bin file? Anyway, I uploaded the file to MediaFire at:

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

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[Edit2] Viewing this extracted file with a hex editor shows that my 200W's Region 16 doesn't seem to contain anything--no logo at all, thus the erased splash status? [/Edit2]

Originally Posted by Giomen

tli, try rename all .gpi files in POI folders on unit and SD with bak extension, restart unit and proceed installing of startup picture again...

Thanks for the input but no difference--still no pic on power-on.

[Edit] Forgot to mention that I only had one POI file, 006D135900.gpi (1,132KB). I don't have a SD card in the unit while the GPS is in-use--not needed in my application. [/Edit]

CAUTION: Your so-named '200W' is not a usual 200w. It's the innards of a 205W in a 200W case which Garmin so thoughtlessly thrust on the market for a short time about 4 years ago. This is confirmed by your HWID of 0827 and PCB P/N of 105-01392-00 and the FW verion 7.60.

You should reflash the logo as Loly said before you end up with more problems. But be cautious flashing a 200W logo bin as your unit may actually use a 205W logo. Best to extract your present rgn16 so that we can see what it is, even though it may be damaged it may still be able to be identified. Use this kit to attempt extraction: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]. Unzip it onto a clean SD card and then if it works post the file named 16_backup.bin which will appear in the root of the card if the extraction is successful.

It certainly is the correct size for a 2xxW logo.bin file at 512 KB [2x5W is 398 KB], but it's corrupt. GIR_Editor doesn't recognise it as a logo bin but opens it and then cannot find any images in it. I haven't bothered to look further at it for that reason. If you are game to flash it, here is an rgn file made from HWID 0827 boot.bin and a good 2xxW logo.bin: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]. Drag it onto updater.exe and flash it in preboot [but the risk is yours of course ]. Back up your internal files and most importantly NV if you haven't already done so before you flash this file. Hard reset before and after.

PS: The reason you couldn't attach the file is that it needed to be compressed first as a rar or zip. And yes, 2xxW doesn't support TTS. Yours is a 205W in all but name but i thought it didn't have TTS either. If you lose TTS after this we'll have to look at something else.

Your region 16 is empty, no data inside, i will create you pack for flash over SD and with TTS function

Here you have pack for flash over SD:

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

If you have folder Garmin on SD rename it to Garmin1

Extract rar direct to your SD

add SD in your nuvi and turn it ON, when process is over you will have Garmin logo picture and TTS enabled.

Now delete folder Garmin from SD and rename your garmin1 folder to garmin