Garmin customers are reporting that their watches crash when utilizing apps that require GPS entry after which get caught in a reboot loop, exhibiting a blue triangle emblem.
Since early this morning, 1000’s of consumers have complained on social media that their gadgets are unusable. The difficulty impacts a number of watch collection, together with the Garmin Descent, Forerunner, Epix, Fenix, Intuition, Tactix, Vivoactive, and Venu collection.
The corporate up to date its standing web page earlier at present to acknowledge the continued reboot loop issues impacting prospects’ watches. It additionally requested these affected to show their gadgets off and resync them with the Garmin Join or Garmin Specific apps.
“We’re conscious of a difficulty inflicting some gadgets to be caught on the beginning up display or a blue triangle,” Garmin stated on its system standing web page.
“To resolve this, press and maintain the ability button till the gadget turns off, then energy it again on, and sync with the Garmin Join app or Garmin Specific.”
The corporate additionally suggested prospects whose watches are nonetheless caught in a boot loop to do a manufacturing unit reset utilizing the directions accessible right here.
Nonetheless, it is vital to notice that manufacturing unit resets may even delete Join IQ content material (watch faces, apps, information fields), Physique Battery and Garmin Pockets information, shortcut and hotkey controls, and extra.
Whereas Garmin has but to share the basis trigger of those crashes, the most definitely clarification is a foul firmware replace impacting the affected watches’ GPS subsystems.
A Garmin spokesperson was not instantly accessible for remark when contacted by BleepingComputer earlier at present.
4 years in the past, in July 2020, Garmin was additionally hit by a WastedLocker ransomware assault. This assault brought about a worldwide outage of its Garmin Join, Strava, inReach, and flyGarmin navigation and health providers after the corporate was pressured to close down all methods to forestall them from being encrypted.