Thread: nuvi 2599 bricked?

There's a reason for me defining 'bootlooping' (unilaterally powering off and back on) as compared to cycling endlessly within the boot process. They can be from quite different causes and initially i thought you meant the first not the second although both require the power button to be held down for up to 30 seconds to force it off completely.

I think it's fixable and the problem is a faulty file onboard, most likely a recently added detail map causing the cycling. The more recent devices have notoriously short preboot mode periods and possibly you just aren't moving quite quick enough to start updater.exe in time and the device drops preboot before the flash is established, look again at the tips in (1) of [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] and follow them precisely. Be persistent, it might take dozens of attempts to catch the right moment for a flash to initiate and then successfully complete.

Thanks again Butters. I know Im getting closer. The fact that I can get to the ' initialising ' part means its nearly there and details have been read from the unit, so Im getting into pre boot ok to get this far ? So the download is just about to start on the progress bar, again shows a positive ... then error .... 'Garmin application failed' pops up with no progress on the bar. Ill keep on trying as you suggest. Thank you for your patience. Ill read again all your info too.