Thread: Very slow start up of nüvi 265WT

Lol, thanks. 'Cos maybe San Francisco is greener than he seems .....

Originally Posted by SanFrancisco

I restored the device to factory default

That did you keep in mind under restoring of factory default? Due to a huge time of Reset on the screen I think you did not reset device properly. Did you perform to return to default settings in menu only? Or did you make master reset with finger holding on lower left corner when turn on device?

Sorry for the long absence, guys. Have been buried under work, both professionally as well as privately.

Originally Posted by Butters

Perhaps erasing region 41 would fix it, but that will lose its registration and unlock codes. I regard it as 'last resort' and wouldn't do it solely because of slow boot.

Have not tried that yet. Obviously, will backup rgn 41 first before erasing it, as suggested by o4i.

Originally Posted by Grizzzly

Did you perform to return to default settings in menu only? Or did you make master reset with finger holding on lower left corner when turn on device?

The device was reset to factory default by pressing and holding the lower right hand corner of the screen while switching on power.

Unfortunately, erasing rgn 41 did not speed up the boot process. When connected to Garmin Express, its entitlement to Lifetime Mapupdates is still recognised though.

Apart having to go through screen calibration, entering the locale and waiting for first satellite fix at first boot after erasing rgn 41, I notice no difference in behaviour at all. Do I need to restore the original rgn 41 from backup?

Did you use RMPrepUSB to reformat after applying Cure3 fw, or only remove some dodgy files once you had Mass Storage Mode back? If there was no format done I'd suggest make a backup of the file system and reformat it then restore the folder and files. You may as well restore region 41 too seeing it didn't alter the boot time.

Not questioning your knowledge there but can you explain how restoring an empty bin file to region 41 is different to erasing with ergn command? The device rewrites most information to 41 on every boot anyway.