Garmin express stuck downloading files

Step 3 : In the pop-up window, uncheck all the boxes of the items containing. Step 4 : Now, go to the official download page of. NET Framework and choose the latest version to download. Then, install it according to the onscreen instructions. NET Framework is installed on your Windows 10? If you are not sure about it, you can read this post to learn about how to check. NET Framework Version. You can delete these configuration files to let the program regenerate new configuration information to fix the problem.

Download Partition Wizard. How to Check. Then you will need to flash a modified firmware which bypasses loading common file types. This previously would involve using a hex editor to laboriously change the file extension in the firmware [e. Thanks to a brilliant guy with nickname 'kunix', we can now do that process with a small application he named 'Cure3' [i guess he got it right on his third attempt to create it].

So let's now deal with scenario 2 above in detail. Once you've flashed Cure firmware [full details below] there are two possible situations: If you think you know the suspect file because of what you did immediately before the problem simply remove it. Make a full backup of your other files first then re-flash with original firmware [full details below].

If you're not sure please ask first in this thread or the linked Cure3 thread [see below]. Just because you get away with using windows one time doesn't mean it'll always work, but using RMPrepUSB will always format a Garmin properly.

Garmin's proprietary OS is very sensitive to the formatting of the file system. Before formatting make a backup of the files system. After curing you must flash original fw again to the unit. Make sure that only known good files are replaced on the cured unit, if you add a corrupt file from your backup it will just brick again.

Best don't add any suspect files, replace them with WebUpdater etc. Here's all the vital links to help you fix your 'bricked' unit [you'll need to be registered]: RMPrepUSB [even if your unit has a damaged USB socket common with 1xxx devices, especially 14x0 you can maybe still delete files and folders from it and replace with known good ones to allow it to boot].

See in there for making patched boot. Notes: Always use a rear port of a PC for USB connections in pre-boot, avoid a front port or an external hub because they might be insufficiently powered. Remember that Cure3 fw cannot boot the unit. In fact that's the whole idea of it so that any corrupt file cannot be partly loaded to 'brick' it.

I thought you sounded too happy for a not. She thinks that there might be something downloading in the background, we checked and Windows 10 was downloading an update As we have discussed in other threads, Windows 10 is doing its thing in spite of what the user wants to do!

That's exactly why I learned and now use this method, if anything goes wrong from the beginning up until the end with either Garmin Express, your computer or whatever else at least it won't brick the unit. Glad you figured it out. You just gave me more reasons for not sic upgrading to Win I started garmin express and took long. I thought something was wrong, but after a while the message that the gps was updated.