Electronical mysteries

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Posted by JDK (A) on May 4, 2024 at 03:04:10

My Garmin watch is about 4 years old and was suffering badly from screen burn. The display became blotchy and dull and was getting harder and harder to read in the sun.
I thought of ditching it, but I really like it, and it was about $450 back then, so damn it! I didn't give up.
I ordered a new display. How hard could it be to crack it open and change the display over?
The bonus with a new display is that it will be as good as new. No scratches even.

Removing and replacing seemed easy enough, except that when I rebooted it I got the dreaded Garmin "blue triangle of death" :-(
Nothing I could do could fix it.
I opened it back up and double checked the connectors.
I then swapped the old display back in. To my horror, the same blue triangle came up and stayed there, blinking at me.
I put it on charge for a while. No change.
Google! I googled. No help, except learning that they can be fussy and sometimes just go bad.
I spoke to a Garmin repairer who said the motherboard might be fried.......
But he suggested leaving it on charge for several hours.
No change.....
I was just about ready to throw it in the bin.

But then I unplugged it, leaving the blue triangle on, thinking that in a few days the battery may be fully discharged and maybe then charging and restarting will kick it back to life.
So it sat on my bedside table with the blue triangle blinking. I checked a few times. Still blinking.
Then I checked maybe 4 hours later and the screen was off.
I plugged it into the charger and lo and behold, it booted up. Good as new.

The moral to the story is be patient and try everything ;-)
It was soooo close to the bin!

Trying to hide from entropy
John K

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Topic - Electronical mysteries - JDK 03:04:10 05/04/24 (17)

RE: Electronical mysteries - tygersmoke 15:03:26 05/04/24 (7)

Sounds like an excuse to buy a spot welder! - JDK 19:07:06 05/04/24 (6)

RE: Sounds like an excuse to buy a spot welder! - tygersmoke 21:19:10 05/04/24 (5)

Good to see you keep yourself busy ;-) - JDK 15:10:28 05/05/24 (4)

RE: Good to see you keep yourself busy ;-) - tygersmoke 17:26:59 05/05/24 (3)

RE: Good to see you keep yourself busy ;-) - JDK 18:18:56 05/05/24 (2)

RE: Good to see you keep yourself busy ;-) - tygersmoke 22:41:54 05/05/24 (1)

RE: Good to see you keep yourself busy ;-) - JDK 00:20:11 05/06/24 (0)

doesn't everyone suffer from reboot anxiety? - Jim Pearce 06:32:35 05/04/24 (3)

I never really had reboot anxiety - JDK 10:30:07 05/04/24 (2)

too many functions eating power... - Jim Pearce 09:53:41 05/05/24 (1)

It never had a problem, except for long term screen deterioration - JDK 15:20:48 05/05/24 (0)

hope it survives, and wasn't just rallying before death! ;) - mhardy6647 06:24:12 05/04/24 (2)

RE: hope it survives, and wasn't just rallying before death! ;) - JDK 10:33:17 05/04/24 (0)

more on Einstein ;) - mhardy6647 06:32:57 05/04/24 (0)

You must have used the right combination of swear words. - ghost of olddude55 04:36:45 05/04/24 (1)

RE: You must have used the right combination of swear words. - JDK 05:22:11 05/04/24 (0)

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