Device bricked due to firmware upgrade

Edy_s over 4 years ago

Tried to upgrade firmware.

During upgrade, device stuck in rebooting for more then an hour.

Finally, I can't communicate with device.

Upon start power green/red light toggles and all lights turn off later.

I guess I need factory reset.

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Garmin-Matthew over 4 years ago +0 verified

If you are experiencing this issue, please reach out to Garmin Product Support (https://support.garmin.com/en-US/) for additional troubleshooting.
TaaviKasela over 1 year ago +2

Anyone got this sorted?
I bought brand new Tacx Flux S, first time everything worked fine, next day after firmware update it connects to app but no power, cadence, speed data. Power led is constantly flickering…

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0 7989256 over 2 years ago in reply to wilcra6

Ffs, I only just bought it, £300 2nd hand, what a waste of money.

0 gdownes over 2 years ago in reply to 7989256

I thought I was going to have the same issue, when firmware upgrade stalled and wouldn't progress despite turning off and on etc. Managed to get it going again by deleting the app and reinstalling and starting over. Definitely worth trying before giving up!

0 TaaviKasela over 1 year ago

Anyone got this sorted?
I bought brand new Tacx Flux S, first time everything worked fine, next day after firmware update it connects to app but no power, cadence, speed data. Power led is constantly flickering red/green, ant+ led is on(green), bluetooth led is off - very strange because I have disabled ant+ in trainer's settings and trainer is connected via bluetooth. Or maybe it is actually not connected....no idea.
Very frustrating!

0 afarrance over 1 year ago in reply to TaaviKasela

No, absolutely not sorted. My year old Tacx Flux was bricked by Garmin’s recommended firmware upgrade. As in, it worked before the upgrade, wouldn’t work after even with help and suggestions from Garmin tech support. The best Garmin would offer was a new device for which they would charge me £285. They bricked it with their upgrade and they wanted me to pay £285!!!

0 Héctor 11 months ago in reply to TaaviKasela

Hey! Could you fix it?

0 RogerioSF 11 months ago in reply to Héctor

0 ctbrinkman 11 months ago in reply to afarrance

I bricked mine 2 years ago, reverted to factory default after much work. I never heard back from support. My lesson was (1) Never update firmware (2) Start saving for a wahoo.

0 helio.abreu 7 months ago in reply to ctbrinkman

And how did you revert to factory default?