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Took out old batteries last night. Put new one in this morning (I know they are good) and the unit would not boot up. Any suggestions.

Can you be any more specific? Does anything happen at ALL? Do you see the Garmin logo? Does it appear to be loading caches, then the progress indicator stops 1/2 way across? Black screen, nothing at all?

There are many phases of the boot cycle where it might fail, so you're going to have to help us out.

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Try a hard reset.

https://support.garmin.com/support/searchSupport/case.faces?caseId={84e4b670-e316-11dd-f45b-000000000000}

 

My husband and I have had lots of strange problems with our Garmin devices (all of them actually). Back when we purchased Oregon 450 & 62, Garmin claimed they could hold 5000 gecoaches. So- we loaded them with 5,000 geocaches and we had tons of problems with them locking up, not booting up, etc. So now....we only put 3000 or less in them at any given time and haven't had any problems since.

 

I don't know if that's your issues but....live has been a whole lot better for use.

 

Good Luck!

 

(we've never used an SD card in ours)

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Try a hard reset.

https://support.garmin.com/support/searchSupport/case.faces?caseId={84e4b670-e316-11dd-f45b-000000000000}

 

My husband and I have had lots of strange problems with our Garmin devices (all of them actually). Back when we purchased Oregon 450 & 62, Garmin claimed they could hold 5000 gecoaches. So- we loaded them with 5,000 geocaches and we had tons of problems with them locking up, not booting up, etc. So now....we only put 3000 or less in them at any given time and haven't had any problems since.

 

I don't know if that's your issues but....live has been a whole lot better for use.

 

Good Luck!

 

(we've never used an SD card in ours)

 

Great !! the hard reset seems to have worked. Thanks very much you have saved me a few hundred quid on a replacement.

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I have run into a similar problem with my Oregon 550T. I have traced it down to the Birdseye V2 satellite imagery. If I remove the Birdseye .jnx files, it will boot up fine ... put them back in, and it powers down part way through boot up. I never had this problem with the Birdseye V1 images of the same areas. I have tried loading a few different regions of Birdseye V2 and I get the same problem, so I don't think it is tied to a specific corrupt .jnx file. I have also tried a hard reset, and it does not resolve the problem.

 

I have found that I can get it to boot all the way up with the Birdseye files (sometimes) if I hold my thumb on the middle of the screen while it is booting. When I get it to boot with that method, all the Birdseye .jnx files are loaded and display correctly.

 

I should report this to Garmin as a bug, but don't know if I am up to going through all the explanations and troubleshooting with them.

 

Strange, but true.

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