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

1) Bricked device MODEL, Firmware version, HWID.
Garmin fenix 5 PLUS (Nno idea of the FW, probably latest)
edit:got him into preboot mode ID 2900

2) Why and how the device got bricked.
for no apperrent reason, when bricked I got a chanche to update and restore factory defaults but it's now completely bricked)

3) Symptoms: what's wrong in your device?
after a soft reset it hangs at the garmin display, saying garmin fenix 5 plus copyrigth etc

4) Does your pc sees your device ?
unfortunately not

5) List all the procedures you already tried to unbrick it and their results and errors messages obtained.
soft reset with top left button, tried one and both rigth buttons for hard reset. no beeps or effect. updated with garmin expres when responsive but got unresponsive again.

6) Do you have Garmin USB Drivers installed ?
Yes
7) If you don't know HWID get it by
could not get the watch in preboot mode
Edit got him in pre boot mode

8) Write down if you already read and tried everything in these two threads: tried it

9) Can you reach preboot mode? If no ,have you followed this?
edit:yes

10) Probably no , but do you have NV backup?
no

Thanks in advance

Frank