Thread: IMPORTANT! If you want HELP in case of a bricked Garmin device, please follow this

Some bricked devices do indeed reboot spontaneously when forced off by holding the power button and with them preboot can only be attained during that brief couple of seconds when it's actually OFF. Others thankfully remain in the fully-off state rather than boot-cycle. Devices that (a) boot-cycle; and (b) are tricky to get into preboot; and (c) remain in preboot for a very short time do make the user's workload very high. Your DS50 was all 3, so the luck, timing and skills levels required for success in flashing via Updater.exe are similar to getting a good outcome while juggling two live monkeys and a running chainsaw in one hand while tapdancing and eating a full bowl of runny custard with the other. So good work you!

Seeing you've reformatted it, you may need to add a base map because GarminExpress won't supply that like other map entitlements. The one from your backup should be ok to use because never have i had one of those get corrupted like detail maps easily do. It'll be an older one in of your backup or just get the latest version 6 from here: [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]. It must be named gmapbmap.img and placed only in .System folder to work however the version isn't too important.