Thread: Garmin nuvi 1490lmt stuck at splash screen. [Solved].

dani9678
So your device is currently visible as a flash drive by Windows, right? Then format it exactly as suggested [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]. Using original Windows formatter is a bad idea.
After that flash the firmware using ORIGINAL option of GarminCure3.
And see if the device boots and if it creates the Garmin folder.
If it doesn't boot, we will try something else.

I checked for Garmin/GarminDevice.xml and it is there. I used webupdater to re-install updates to the unit and proceeded to load Garmin Base Camp because it has all of my saved routes. When it loaded, it gave me an error message stating that it couldn't work with the "current.gpx" file. I loaded my routes back to the GPS and I'm now re-loading the most recent map update. It's taking forever-and-a-day to install. It currently is transferring at a rate of 771.2 KB/s.

Did you select the ORIGINAL option and pressed Make firmware? Yes I selected the original option.

Did you put the unit into pre-boot mode, executed updater.exe from GarminCure3 by pressing updater.exe
button, and used updater.exe for flashing? Yes I found that I had no choice but to put it in pre-boot mode because updater wouldn't connect to it until I did.

After it completed, the unit rebooted and gave a progress bar along the bottom and then the Garmin logo with the icon of the GPS and PC popped up. That is when I started installing the updates and transferring my routes back over but not before verifying that it created the file garmindevice.xml. I'm still skeptical until this thing completes and I find that I can actually power it up and go to the main menu. That is when I will be celebrating. As of now it is a third of the way completed.