Thread: Nüvi 1690 Bricked? Can't get past Garmin logo

Hi,

My father has this Garmin Nüvi 1690 and he was upgrading the firmware and maps to it. He told me that the update application in PC said the upgrade was success and the device can be disconnected etc. But now it's stuck on the Garmin logo.

It's not recognized by PC when plugged in etc. just the Logo.

I stumbled upon this forum after some googling and found the GarminCure3 so I downloaded that and some firmware file I assume might work with it (it was the only one i could find to have anything matching the 1690...)

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I then fired up GarminCure3, Made the cure firmware and ran updater.exe. Then following guides I touched top left corned of display while powering on and the updater did detect the device for a short time! But when I click OK i get error the device is not recognized etc. and i can't get past it.

Is the Nüvi now totaly bricked or is there anything i can do?