Garmin’s GPS watches began to be plagued by the “blue triangle of death”.
An embarrassing trouble. The defective GPS file caused many interfering problems with Garmin watches. Samuli Leppälä
Known for his sports watches, Garmin’s GPS positioning watches were hit by a serious problem on Tuesday. Countless users began to report to the “blue death triangle”, which shook on the screen, and the clock did not respond to anything. Some, on the other hand, manifested an endless spiral of reboot.
Sports watch specializes DC Rainmaker has conducted a fundamental report on the problem. Harm was caused by a faulty so -called pre -collar file used by satellite bells to accelerate the combination with satellites.
The watches receive a new version of the regularly updated file every few days. The file allows you to connect to satellites in seconds when you would take tens of seconds without this file.
Sometimes it happens that that file can be defective. DC Rainmaker mentions that a similar problem also occurred four years ago, but at that time the fault also occurred in the watches of Polar, Suunto and other manufacturers, which used the district made by Sony.
Garmin is on their support pages said It is aware of the problem and the correction has already been published in the form of a new file.
The clock must be done so -called Soft Reset Press the power button until the clock goes out. After that, the clock is started as normal and, before other actions, it will be synchronized with the Garmin Connect or Garmin Express, whereby the defective file is rolled with a new version.
According to some sources, some users have had to resort to the clock to the factory settings. In this case, the activity of the activity is maintained in the Garmin application, but depending on the clock model, it may be in front of the settings you like if you have no backup on the watch.
DC Rainmaker also has instructions for manual removal of the defective file if Soft Reset does not help and the factory settings will not seem like an attractive idea.