Thread: nüvi 1490 LM - from boot looped to dead? - case slosed

Originally Posted by gagatt

I downloaded the "nuvi13xxand14xxseries_GCDFile__630.gcd", converted it in GarminCure3 to Cure, send my device to pre-boot mode and flashed it via Updater (the nüvi shortly display "LOADER LOADING" and then "SOFTWARE LOADING").
The "Erasing..." step of flashing the firmware ended with the nüvi restarting and "boot looping" again.

of course it won't boot after cure firmware, the right steps are:

1.Flash cure firmware with Updater
2. Format the unit using RMPrepUSB:
Use following settings:
- Set 1. Partition Size (MiB) to ‘MAX”.
- Set 2. Volume Label to “GARMIN”.
- Set 3. Bootloader Options to “MS-DOS bootable (IO.SYS) (CC3 and CC4DOSUFD)”
- Set 4. Filesystem and Overrides to “FAT32” and “Boot as FDD (A: no MBR)”.
- Set 5. Untick (uncheck) “Copy OS files from here after formatting (if box is ticked)” and untick (uncheck) “BartPE -> Drive”.
- Click 6. “Prepare Drive”
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

3. Flash ORIGINAL firmware into the unit, using GarminCure3 and Updater.exe.
- Follow the same procedure as in paragraph 1, but now select “ORIGINAL” instead of “CURE”: