The other day I was plugging in my Garmin 110 to charge it. I saw the Garmin logo, then the screen went blank. Blank, blank. Nada. A dead screen and nothing was responding blank!
Yikes! What will I tell the wife when she comes looking to use it?
In my desperation, I scoured the web for a potential fix to this dilemma. What I found were a few fix ideas that worked for other people and I did find one that worked for my situation. I’m putting the suggestion that did work for me at the end of the list.
Here we go with suggestions for fixing a Garmin 110 Blank Screen:
Fix #1:
- Press and hold “Page” & “Lap” buttons to soft reset the Garmin. (There was no suggestion on how long to do this.)
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Fix #2:
If #1 does not work, then try the following:
- Press and hold the “Lap/Reset” & “Light” buttons at the same time. At this point, the GPS device is supposedly going to prompt you if you want to erase your stored run data.
(This didn’t work for me. The blank face just stared back at me.)
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Fix #3:
I saw this in addition to the above 2 suggestions:
- Hold down the light button for 6 seconds.
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Then I hit upon this one suggestion, THE suggestion that did work for me.
Fix #4:
- Hold the “Light” button down for 10 seconds
- Wait for the screen to go blank & 10 more seconds for the watch to come back to life.
- If it does not wake up, plug it into a power source!
{I don’t know if it mattered or not, but rather than the wall outlet plug, I had my Garmin 110 cabled into my computer. It probably doesn’t matter. But since I’m superstitious about sensitive electronic devices, if this were to happen again, I’d probably plug it into the computer like last time. Exactly the way it worked for me. But that’s your call.}
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Here’s hoping one of the above suggestions works for you.
Curious Observation: What has me curious is how some suggestions say press the Light button for 6 seconds, while others have a 10-second wait time.
OH!!! And one other thing… I immediately uploaded whatever new data there was to my free account on the Garmin Connect site, just in case.
-Bruce
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[sources:
justanswer.com/gps,
fixya,
fix #4: surgicalartistrymarathon.com.]
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[Originally published Sep 14th, 2012]
About Bruce Simmons
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thanks for this, fix 4 seemed to kick my watch back into life… thanks
You’re welcome Nilan. Yep, I was pretty panicked when my Garmin seemed to go belly up… Totally glad I could help!
Thanks Bruce. Your fix #4 also did the trick for us. If only the official support lines for these companies could be as helpful.
Thank you so much for posting this! The same thing just happened to my 210 and fix #2 worked…I was getting a bit worried! You’re awesome!
Thank you so much for saving me the trouble of sending my forerunner 210 in for repair and cost of $89. I tried the first 3 fixes and nothing works. i even tried pressing and holding just 2 and sometimes 3 buttons but no success. Then i tried fix #4 and voila, my watch is now back on. Should’ve have tried fix #4 first. Thanks again.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Bruce! I thought my Forerunner was well and truly gone, but your fix worked! Thank you!
#3 worked for me…thanks!!
THANK YOU ! Fix #4 worked ! THANK YOU
THANK YOU! I freaked out for a second! Fix #3 (hold down the light) worked for me.
Thanks! Fix #2 did it for me!
#4 worked. Thank you!!!!!! I’ve been pretty unimpressed and unhappy with this thing because this happens every time I plug it in.
Worked for me, only for the exact same to happen again when I plugged it in! Now even this won’t work. Not happy!
I have a Forerunner 210 and it finally got the screen back at step #3. Thanks for your original post!!
That last one worked for me! THANKS!