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Garmin users say their watches are bricked with a ‘blue triangle of death’ (www.theverge.com)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Yes "click me click me" title for sure. Looks like those that can plug Into a PC can do a special boot to get write access to the GPE.bin file and remove it. (Fenix 8 for example)

Then keep BT off until Garmin fixes their side.

I'll attempt this in a bit since today is a run day!

[–] krimson 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This worked for me and was the only way to get my Epix Pro Gen2 to boot normally again. Hope Garmin releases a fix soon as this is only a workaround afaik.

Edit: I think this was related to uploading activities and not gps. Garmin sent me an email saying they fixed an issue on their end and how to reset the watch. Everything is working fine now again.

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