Bricked Garmin GPSMAP 66ST Firmware issues now fixed

Wanted to do some GPS maintenance today by seeing if there were any software updates for my garmin gpsmap 66st as I haven't seen any since I bought it. Normally I would have seen 1-2 by now, but as I'm discovering a number of bugs, I was wondering what was going on.


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But hooray!! there were a few updates to install. I had to plug in my device into my computer and use Garmin express as even though you can sync with garmin connect, you can't update firmware via bluetooth.

Another problem was that I bricked my 66ST after plugging it in. So the live way to fix it is to remove the battery if holding down the power button doesn't work. That's the beauty of being able to replace the batteries unlike the inReach.

Now on the second go, we made sure that the garmin express was already open and then we plugged in. Once the software updates have been transferred onto the device, we unplug then press the power button.

This is new as many previous devices would reboot to install the updates as soon as you unplugged.

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