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How to rollback firmware

theo1_
1 month ago

As often with Garmin's software update policy: one step forward, two steps back. It has became a serious issue, already for a long time. My Edge 1040 is on latest beta and want to go back to a stable firmware that at least offer me the basics for navigation. At this moment my Edge is constantly rebooting and freezing. Hard resets doesn't help anymore.

I managed to download firmware 26.17, the format gupdate.gsp. What procedure has to be followed for downgrading the beta firmware 27.09 to firmware 26.17????

  • 0 1 month ago

    Create an empty file named force.tmp, copy this file and gupdate.gsp to the Garmin directory. Restart the device.

  • 0 1 month ago

    Thank you so much for this instruction. It is of great help now I am at the start for 6-week bicycle trip. After using Garmin navigation for decades, I think Garmin has become very close to a point of no return for me to switch to another brand, like Wahoo. But thank you very much for your help, that has saved my Edge at least for the short term.

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to theo1_

    Have you tried s factory reset before downgrading?

    my 1040 is on latest beta, too and it is flawless.

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to Cristox

    Yes. Each time I install a new update, I hard reset the Garmin. After long time experience with Garmin's udate policies, hard resets have become a habit for me after each update. Like I did this time after downgrading from beta 27.09 to 26.17

  • 0 1 month ago

    For my tasks, training up to 100 km, 27.09 works fine, does not reboot. Did a reset, uninstalled IQ apps, deleted all tracks, workouts and activities. So far so good. But the thought of Wahoo is haunting me more and more often)

  • 0 1 month ago

    Just a note on this, it's important to share your error/debug logs of you're in the open beta, this is how the issues get diagnosed and resolved. So before rolling back, do share your logs via the usual safe upload process. 

    Secondly, I had also done a full factory reset before giving up (and before a race I needed a working computer for), so only as a last resort given the circumstances did I do the rollback. 

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to felixrising

    I don't understand why many user HAVE problems and many users DON'T.

    On the same beta.

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to Cristox

    Because different people use the device differently. I had 3 consecutive workouts with no problems with the device on fw 27.09. Yesterday installed the WindField app and after saving the activity the device rebooted 2 times

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to Igorinho

    I use the windfield app for months now, never had a problem 

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to felixrising

    I know about Garmin's policy. However you and I can type blue fingers in the beta- and non-beta fora, as much as you and I like. Proper solution for most known and evident issues are not offered in successive updates. Garmin prefers to go on with introducing new functionalities at the expence of basic functionalities that were okay before. And yes, after decades of using Garmin machines, I never became in such a state of frustration with Garmin's update policy since about two years ago.