can 595 firmware be loaded on a 590 ?

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Re: can 595 firmware be loaded on a 590 ?

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Drag the RGN file to the Updater program and see this image on your screen.

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Select USB device, not Serial Port.

Move the mouse pointer over the OK button and leave it there - OR tap the tab key until the OK button gets the focus.
You MUST be ready to click the OK button or tap ENTER with the focus set on the OK button.
Make sure that your Zumo is fully powered off.
Then without moving the mouse:

I find it easier to have the USB cable attached to the Zumo, but NOT into the computer.
Make sure Basecamp is not running.
Plug the USB cable into the ZUMO

Now the crucial bit.

You have only two hands, and you have to do 3 things in succession.

Press the lower (and hold) right corner of the Zumo screen.
Insert the USB cable into the computer
Check that you are ready to hit the OK button when the computer 'ding dongs'.

At that moment the Updater program dialog box will flash up the name of the Zumo.
When it shows up (ie immediately after ding dong, and before the Zumo name disappears again) you have to hit the OK button on the screen - while still pressing on the lower right of the screen.

You have less time than it takes to find the pointer on the screen, move the mouse to the OK button and click it - or make sure that the OK button has the focus so that you can tap ENTER instead of using the mouse.

So you have to decide what hand is going to do what.

I have the USB cable already plugged into the Zumo. The mouse pointer is already positioned over the OK button.
I hold the Zumo with my left hand, plug the USB into the PC with my right and immediately get my finger on the mouse button to press OK.

The Computer will report the wrong version of the software. It reports the software version that it is replacing rather than the new one.

The computer seems to indicate that it has finished early on. It hasn't. It hasn't finished until it says "Update Complete / Update Successful"

I think you can let go of the bottom left corner when the 'System' message appears on the Zumo screen.

Don't worry about 4.50 or 4.60

Once you have 4.50 on, you can use Garmin Express to find the 4.60 software. You will also need to update the keyboard files. Its OK, it recognises your device as a 595 now, even though it has the same serial number as your 590.

When finished, restart the Zumo. The boot up screen reports 'Zumo', not Zumo 595.

Note that you can return your 595 to a 590 using the same technique - but you cannot change an original 595 to a 590. Well, you can try and the operation appears to work, but the interface doesn't function as it should. I've forgotten what it did.

I took a copy of my original gcd file before trying this. When I reinstated it, it stopped calling it a Zumo 595, and it is now still Zumo. I don't know how to fix this - it must be something in the update process.
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Re: can 595 firmware be loaded on a 590 ?

Post by Oop North John »

Thanks for the reply, tried it again, and it worked first time, though I had my finger on the lower right-hand corner. :D

"All I have to do now" is try and work out how / what to change on the GarminDevice.xml document, as they might as well be speaking Dutch on the linked forum on how to update the 590 :shock:
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Re: can 595 firmware be loaded on a 590 ?

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Oop North John wrote: 04 Jan 2023 16:12 Thanks for the reply, tried it again, and it worked first time, though I had my finger on the lower right-hand corner. :D
Oh, goodness.

Yes, I know that. That is what I thought I had written. Goodness, that is stupid. How can I think 'right' and write 'left'. It's not the first time that I've spotted that I have made that error.

Thanks for spotting it. I've corrected it and I'll go and have a lie down now.
Have owned Zumo 550, 660 == Now have Zumo XT2, XT, 595, 590, Headache
Use Basecamp (mainly), MyRouteApp (sometimes), Competent with Tread for XT2, Can use Explore for XT - but it offers nothing that I want !

Links: Zumo 590/5 & BC . . . Zumo XT & BC