David Earl wrote: >Sent: 19 September 2008 9:37 AM >To: osm >Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Is my Garmin Geko dead? > >On 19/09/2008 09:08, David Earl wrote: >> I was just strapping my Garmin Geko 301 (gently) onto my handlebars >> yesterday when the screen went black - as if every pixel were turned on >> - though it is still just possible to see a very slightly darker image >> of what should be on the display. The 3D, satellite and battery >> indicators are not in the main screen but are permanently on. It's still >> recording tracks, and responding to buttons (though it is almost >> impossible to see dialogs). >> >> So it looks like the display has failed. Does anyone know of anything I >> can do other than buying a new one? Has anyone else had this kind of >> failure? > >Doh. It was the display contrast setting. The strap must have got caught >over the buttons when I was mounting it, and on the start up display the >OK button pressed enough times (with one crucial press of the down arrow >key) will push the contrast up to unusable. It does require the button >to be pressed _and released_ many times, not just held down, so I am >still puzzled how this could have happened. > >So thank you Garmin support for suggesting the answer - and on a >freephone number too!
Sounds like one to note on the wiki Cheers Andy > >Relieved Garmin owner, >David > > >_______________________________________________ >talk mailing list >talk@openstreetmap.org >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
