Downgrade Fenix 6

5707064 over 1 year ago

Hey folks,

So here we go again... my fenix got bricked again (3rd time) right after the undesired 26.00 upgrade.

In the past, I am managed to fix it myself by opting in/out of the beta program, forcing a new software upgrade.

This time, I am stuck as there is no newer version and it's already been months.

Garmin support sends me ridiculous piece of advise to fix the watch so I am turning myself toward the community :)

Does anyone know how to downgrade to a previous version, like 25.xx?

Thanks

0 Deggial over 1 year ago

As ordinary manual update. Watch connected to computer is visible?

0 Pierrotsc over 1 year ago

ask many times., search the forum.

0 5707064 over 1 year ago in reply to Deggial

Yes, thanks - watch is recognized when connected to MacBook, although it takes an incredible amount of time. It syncs properly. But the watch itself is super slow (takes 45s to display menu after pressing the button, no gps, no heartbeat, altitude is stuck at -16m, when it vibrates it always does it for 20sec continuously, etc)

0 5707064 over 1 year ago in reply to Pierrotsc

I did, couldn’t find anything useful - although I tried every vague solution I found or I got from customer support

0 socorsu over 1 year ago in reply to 5707064

hi flocsy🤠 has a similar issue like you.

0 Deggial over 1 year ago in reply to 5707064

Downgrade firmware.

0 #Matthias# over 1 year ago

The same was asked just 9 days ago forums.garmin.com/.../fenix-6-x-pro-downgrade

0 mariospr over 1 year ago

Fwiw, the same problems are happening to me after updating my Fenix 6 Sapphire yesterday to the version 26.00: watch is incredibly slow moving through menus (or even responding to button presses), no sensors seem to work among the ones I've tried (i.e. altimeter, HR, GPS) and when it vibrates it does it very intensely and for a long period (didn't measure it but well beyond 10 seconds).

I have tried to reset it to 25.10 or 25.91 with the files from https://my.hidrive.com/share/8z6g1evyp0#$/ but the watch does not react after copying the GUPDATE.GCD file into the GARMIN/ directory and does not offer me to do the update at all, not even rebooting it manually to try to force it. Even more, if after copying the GUPDATE.GCD file y unmount the folder, disconnect the cable and connect it again (have to wait a bit as it takes a while for the computer to mount the device)... then I can see how the watch has deleted the GUPDATE.GCD file from the GARMIN/ directory on its own, so there's not much I can do other than trying to copy it over and over again....

In this state this (expensive) smart watch is basically useless, not just because nothing advanced (sensors, smart notifications...) works as it should, but also because even the clock has issues, as you can see that the seconds get stuck often due to the overall slowness.

I hope Garmin publishes soon enough a fix for this, as it doesn't seem to be just me but a lot of users complaining about serious problems after upgrading to 26.00, and any manual method did not fix it so far so it's basically going into a drawer now....

0 #Matthias# over 1 year ago in reply to mariospr

The file you downloaded is for the Fenix 6X. You need another file for your non X model.

0 mariospr over 1 year ago in reply to #Matthias#

Ah! I thought they would share the same files but if that's not the case that certainly explains things, thanks for clarifying.

Btw, does anyone know where I can get the right files for my model?

Thanks!