Thread: nuvi 2589 acting strangely after GarminExpress Update

Thanks again Butters. I really appreciate you taking the time to go through it with me step by step.

So I removed the gupdate.gcd from .System folder. It seems helping a bit. I am able to reboot without connecting to the charger. After restart, the device now prompt "Update Your Device with Garmin Express", then I got end user license agreement, "Cannot unlock maps", "Maps are corrupt...", "Updates the following content was installed to your device: software version 8.50 There are additional updates that require the device to restart. This may take several minutes. Restart now?" After clicking Yes, the device restarts and get into "Installing update files..." but this time with a longer status bar then before (see attached pic).

However, it seems stuck there again for the past 15 min, and nothing happened. I plugged it to the wall charger so it doesn't loose power again. I will leave it there over night and see what happen. If nothing changes, what would you suggest I try next?

I found this post in the forum - [Only registered and activated users can see links. ], do you think I can follow similar approach to rename the nuvi25x9C4_880.gcd to gupdate.gcd and saves it as \Garmin\GUPDATE.GCD on the device? Is that something worth trying before formating the internal memory with RMPrepUSB?

Thanks and Best Regards, James

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