Mike's Bike Blog

For a few months now I've been having a problem with the Garmin Training Center on my Mac where it would not download imported tracks to my Foreruner 305. Whenever I would select Download to Device from the Training Center the device would freeze and I'd have to do a soft reset. Everything else with the Training Center  continued to work, it would download my data.

On Friday I ran the web update and downloaded and installed a firmware update and also updated the Training Center to the latest version. After the update once I plugged in the Forerunner the Training Center would immediately crash. I managed to make it even worse!

After some googling I found some hints that all that might be needed is to do a complete reset of the Forerunner. Holding down the Mode key while powering on will bring up the Reset Confimation dialog. Once I confirmed that I did want to reset and all my data would be lost I was able to plug in and not get a crash. Plus I could send imported routes to the device.

I didn't lose any information really, all I had to reset was the display fields. I think in all I was back up within 10 minutes.