Quote Originally Posted by Butters View Post
I would think his (tentative/hesitant) advice to "contact Garmin's technical support, I guess" is the best we can do here unfortunately and he only gave those links as an example of Garmin's attempts to help users revert from a flaky, albeit working, fw rather than as serious help for bricked devices.
Butters, you've hit the nail as always. Yes, that's exactly it!