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

I am assuming that while using updater to flash the rgn file I need to press the top left of the screen before inserting the USB cabke. At what point am I able to to take my finger off the top left of the screen? Approximately how long will I need to be holding it?

Update:

So, after a couple of practice sessions, I ended up taking my finger off the left upper corner after seeing a successful flash of the rgn file in the boot patch using updater.exe. This is what happens after that (done this a couple of times, each time starting with a freshly formatted memory card):
- "Software Loading" appears at top of screen
- "Loader" appears at top of screen
- "Software Loading" appears at top of screen
- "Loader" appears at top of screen
- Green horizontal line at bottom of screen

After that the Garmin logo appears for a minute or so followed briefly by a blank screen. This process seems to continue indefinitely.

During this period, the Garmin device (i.e., its 8gb memory chip) is seen as a USB device in my PC, but I do not see any additional files. The first time I did this exercise, I saw a 41.bin file in the root, but after redoing this process, it does not appear.

If I turn off the 1350 and plug it in, it does not appear as a USB device in my PC and I basically have to start over.

If I try to use Garmin Express or WebUpdater, neither program detects this device.

Not sure how long to let this Logo followed by Blank Screen activity continue. I will let it go for a half hour more, but it does not appear to be moving forward in any way. It looks like there was some progress in getting it into file reading mode, but not much more.

Second Update:

Let it run for about an hour, but nothing else happened. After turning if off and restarting with a PC cable, it would not reconnect to the PC or respond to Garmin Express or WebUpdater. And the PC would not recognize it. I took a look an the memory card and saw the 41.bin file had been added. The update.log file in the 0972 folder indicated that both the device ID and the HWID werre 3827336719. That is the device ID. I would have thought the HWID should be shown as 0972. Perhaps that would eventually change if the new fllashing worked correctly.