Hello All

Next task it to try to recover my spare Garmin GPSMAP 296 Splash Screen:

Main issues started when using xImage on a spare 296, to change the splash screen to a custom BMP of (yes!), my Citabria aircraft.

xImage quit mid-operation, I manually rebooted the 296 to find only half Splash Screen with half photo of aircraft, half blank. so I tried xImage again, with same BMP I’ve used 10 years ago, seemed to uploaded correctly, but when I reboot the 296, just a black screen shows up, no Splash anymore. retried xImage, but gives me error every time, with the correct BMP sizes (uploaded the same BMP to a 396 OK), it dowloads any screen shot OK, updates waypints images, but does not update Splash screens.
Suspect some damage was done to internal memory, or some address wrongly written and now xImage cannot access that region to write (gives erro saying image is not of correct size, BUT IT IS); If I try to READ the Splash Screen from the GPS, it freezes, only rebootable by taking the battery out.

GPS works great, boots with a blank screen, or with a blank with the text I write on settings, but no Spash Screen image.

So after some internet search I’ve ended in this GREAT forum, and really learned a lot.

Intentions now are to get my plane’s 296 home, backup/dump region 03 to have Atlantic v.1 backup, dump region 16 (hex 0x10) and try to upload the backed-up region 16, to the spare Splash-missing 296.

Any help from you guys would be highly appreciated.
I'll let you know how it went

Regards,