Thread: Boot 4NSF VW from microSD card?

You do not understand! ... or maybe I don't explain myself well ... and the translator doesn't help with the exact words.
I asked you to let the battery run down in 24h and charge it again with vehicle power so that you could sync again with the PC.
You did it?

If you want to read, to boot a software from SD, you can try that, but I say it won't work without first fixing the memory BUG...

Good luck

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I understand, the reply was to your questionmarks.

If it's the electronics that need to be discharged, wouldn't physically disconnecting the battery and leave it off (for an amount of time) have the same effect?
As far as I can tell it shuts itself off after a while so if leaving it on to be discharged would require several power on:s.

(Here's where I found the tip regarding brand change, which doesn't apply here

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Originally Posted by Grodan

As far as I can tell it shuts itself off after a while...

I didn't know that Garmin PID had auto-off behavior.
The Navigon GPS also has an automatic shutdown (30s), but I have the option to stay on.

Originally Posted by Grodan

...wouldn't physically disconnecting the battery and leave it off (for an amount of time) have the same effect?...

Yes, just open the device, physically disconnect the battery and leave it off for 2-3 minutes and reconnect, you can see here :

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I find myself in the same situation as you, Grodan.

Did you ever manage to solve your problems / revive your unit?

Edit:

Answering my own question here:

I had issues with my unit continuously rebooting, and therefore assumed the filesystem was corrupt.

Before attempting to reinstall the software/firmware of the unit, I found that you could perform a factory reset of the unit by pressing and holding a finger on the screen while powering up the unit.
(A general Garmin instruction was that one should press the bottom right corner of the screen, which I did, but I don't know if this is required.)

When the unit powers up, a message is shown that one should continue pressing the screen for 10 seconds to get it to factory reset.

After this, one is guided through an initial setup of calibrating the screen and setting units, time date format etc..

After this was done, to my surprise, my unit was back to normal operation..

So closing this on my own i guess - and I will pull a complete backup of my unit using the Fresh software in case I need it in the future..