Thread: Nuvi 1300 issues

I was doing my periodic charging of my gps and the garmin software opened and let me know there was an update available. I went ahead and ran the update. I have done this before without issue in the past so I didnt pay much attention. It said there wasnt enough space to load all data so my choice was lower us or add a card. I just chose lower us and picked update and it began. I left it on my desk and it ran for a while then said update failed.

I reached out to garmin support and provided this video

Spoiler: YT video

I was expecting them to just provide me with some sd card image and secret button something and it would flash it back to stock or something that could be updated to get me out of the issue. Instead they told me they dont repair it and I could buy a new one for a discount that appears to be at first google glance to be 22 bucks more than I could get the same thing off amazon. Kind of disappointed in garmin support but not suprised since there isnt money in fixing my unit.

I am an IT guy and could read through the site and maybe eventually pull this off but what I am interested in first is what does my video tell you? It looks to me like it failed to delete the existing space so it bombed when it tried to add and now it is missing boot files? I really want the least invasive solution that will just get it working like it was. Any help would really be appreciated.