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

Hi there,

I've stumbled across this forum and thread in my search to bring life back to my nuvi 40. I last used it around 2 years ago moving from Melbourne to QLD and have not touched it since. I am now trying to bring it back to life, it is stuck in a boot loop when it is plugged in (either on my laptop or powerpoint).
I have managed to download the last nuvi40and50_GCDfile__400 and am trying to find the correct program to convert it to RGN so I can try and flash this to the GPS with updater.exe

Can anyone point me in the right direction to a tool for this? I have found a few on various sites however as it is so old, all the links are dead.

1) Bricked device MODEL, Firmware version, HWID. Not Sure

2) Why and how the device got bricked. Old?

3) Symptoms: what's wrong in your device? Boot loop, only displaying GARMIN on screen then restarts all over again (when plugged in) when not plugged in, I cannot get anything to display on the screen.

4) Does your pc sees your device ? No

5) List all the procedures you already tried to unbrick it and their results and errors messages obtained. Just what I described above, also tried resetting with finger on bottom right hand corner while turning on

6) Do you have Garmin USB Drivers installed ? Garmin: USB Drivers Updates & Downloads Yes

7) If you don't know HWID get it by Use program G7ToWin to retrieve your HWID - where can i find this program?

8) Write down if you already read and tried everything in these two threads: GarminCure3 tool - the new way to create cure firmwares for Garmin devices and How to unbrick a nüvi - step by step guide I cant find the how to unbrick nuvi guide? can someone link me please?