Thread: Alpha 100 US in EU, problems after fw downgrade & cure used

Hi Butters,

I did as you instructed.
Formatted the SD Card to FAT32 (it was exFat), and it has enough space (56GB).
Then, I extracted the "Copy_To_Card.zip" to SD Card, and started the device.
The start "logo" appears and then, the device again goes to "Connect" mode, and after 3-4 seconds, turns off by itself.
Nothing appears on the screen, no word "Loader", which usually appears in other devices (and even on this device, sometimes, with the Updater.exe), or anything else (word or image).
However, everything is still accessible via Windows Explorer from the PC.
The files you mention are there, and I have compressed them into a zip archive, hereto attached.

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I hope you can find something there, which will help.

Regarding the GarminDevice.xml, and the fw v7.7 - that might also be my doing. I checked when was the fw v7.8 published on Garmin website, and it says 16th of June 2020. I had the device BEFORE that, so, I suspect that at the beginning, when I was trying to be a "know-it-all" screw-up, the initial update must've been to v7.7, and later on to v7.8
Since I only noticed v7.8 Update before it bricked, I never suspected that there have been two updates, one after another.

I don't know if this can be of any help, but, I think that is why the GarminDevice.xml shows v7.7

Yesterday, I was using the fw v7.8 with the Updater.exe, and maybe that was wrong. But, the message was saying that "The Current Version is the SAME as the update version", so, that was confirming what I thought.