Last week I installed version 5.83 and 5.84 and I found some bugs which were not in version 5.40. The first time, after I had installed 5.83, I followed the instructions given by Garmin to restore to a previous version. I knew I would lose all settings. And that was what happened. The second time, before I installed 5.84, I made a backup of the watch to local storage. I copied all the files. In version 5.84 there were the same bugs. I deleted the content on the watch, the whole garmin directory, and copied my backup to the watch. I restarted the watch and what happened......still version 5.84. Can someone tell me what went wrong?
Did you read the beta installation instruction that include item 9: "If you would like to revert to the last public release software, drop the gupdate.gcd file, found in the System_Backdate_v540 folder, into the \GARMIN folder of the device."?
Thanks, this will help. Probably you can help me with: It's still a partial backup and a difficult restore. I want it easy....backup....install new software....not working....restore, wait an hour....and the watch works again as it has never been touched before.
This is still no answer to my question. There may be a lot of reasons to go into a beta stream: developing, testing, fixed issues and so on. And that's why I want to know how to make a simple backup. I don't understand why the answer to my question is so difficult. Which tools can I use? Are you guys testing without taking good precautions?
See post 4, that?s how you do it. The watch maps as a drive on your PC and you drag and drop. Your question has been answered, these are the tools, and the precautions you take.
In post 4 I'm still missing the apps, widgets, datafields and so on. So this will not restore your watch, only the userdata. This restore method is unreliable. What about the data stored by an app in the datastore?
This is still no answer to my question. There may be a lot of reasons to go into a beta stream: developing, testing, fixed issues and so on. And that's why I want to know how to make a simple backup. I don't understand why the answer to my question is so difficult. Which tools can I use? Are you guys testing without taking good precautions?
No - you have an answer - you just don't like it! Even the installation instructions warn you what happens when you revert - line 9. Would it be nice to b e able to revert without an issue? Yes. Can you? No.
This is still no answer to my question. There may be a lot of reasons to go into a beta stream: developing, testing, fixed issues and so on. And that's why I want to know how to make a simple backup. I don't understand why the answer to my question is so difficult. Which tools can I use? Are you guys testing without taking good precautions?
The simple answer is that you cannot take a backup and restore. The watch does not give you the ability to do this as this is not part of the watch design. It is possible to restore some items as described above, but you will always lose some data which cannot be restored and will need to restore other things manually.
Clearly this is not the answer you want, but it is the reality.
How can I request a documentation change so that there is an 'official' list of the files that may be saved away and later restored by dropiing in newfiles? The reason I would request it is because of the of the last statement that added the APPS files. I am saving files to a git repo every time I sync.
