{"id":7849,"date":"2009-06-26T08:07:11","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T08:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/?p=7849"},"modified":"2015-03-13T13:10:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T13:10:35","slug":"update-your-garmins-7x5-800-8x5-zumo-660-gpsmap-620640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/update-your-garmins-7x5-800-8x5-zumo-660-gpsmap-620640\/","title":{"rendered":"Update your Garmins: 7X5, 800, 8X5, Zumo 660, GPSMAP 620\/640"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nIf you recently updated your Garmin Firmware and i essentially killed your GPS, the fix is here. Garmin has posted fixes and FAQ&#8217;s all over the place to get you back and running via &#8220;Mandatory&#8221; updates; shouldn&#8217;t have let that first one out the door, but hats off to Garmin for getting a fix out quickly. The good news is that for many, it&#8217;s a simple update, the bad news for some is that you need to send the unit back in for repair. From Garmin&#8217;s Blog:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Garmin n\u00fcvi 7&#215;5 series products that are no longer able to acquire a GPS satellite signal may download a firmware update immediately that will correct the software issue. This firmware update may be downloaded using Garmin&#8217;s WebUpdater.<\/p>\n<p>Garmin n\u00fcvi 7&#215;5 customers who are no longer able to power on their GPS device will need to visit www.garmin.com\/support, and select the first FAQ titled &#8220;My n\u00fcvi 755T, 765T, 775T or 785T is giving me the message &#8216;Updating GPS Firmware&#8217; or will no longer power on&#8230;&#8221; Customers will then need to follow the instructions to request a return authorization so that the device may be repaired under warranty. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you are having trouble, start a the <a href=\"http:\/\/garmin.blogs.com\/my_weblog\/2009\/06\/ask-garmin-free-mandatory-gps-software-available-now.html\">Garmin Blog<\/a>, then move to the proper download or FAQ page. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you recently updated your Garmin Firmware and i essentially killed your GPS, the fix is here. Garmin has posted fixes and FAQ&#8217;s all over the place to get you back and running via &#8220;Mandatory&#8221; updates; shouldn&#8217;t have let that first one out the door, but hats off to Garmin for getting a fix out&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1064,13,14,16,18,1130,25,27,30,31,32],"tags":[1146,1541,1545,1546,1453,1542,1544,1543,366,1005],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-7849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garmin","category-gps-map-news","category-gps-sat-nav-news","category-handhelds","category-in-car-navigation","category-iran-gps-maps","category-navigation-system","category-outdoor-gps","category-personal-navigation-device-pnd","category-pocket-pc-gps","category-satellite-navigator","category-satellite-tracker","tag-garmin","tag-garmin-7x5","tag-garmin-800","tag-garmin-8x5","tag-garmin-gpsmap","tag-garmin-gpsmap-620640","tag-garmin-zumo","tag-garmins-zumo-660","tag-gpsmap-620640","tag-zumo-660","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7850,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions\/7850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iranmap.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}