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Drive 50 won't connect via Garmin Express
Hi,
I always have difficulty connecting my Drive 50 to Garmin Express. I have tried a number of different cables. I tried turning the program off and on.
Any suggestions?
I always have difficulty connecting my Drive 50 to Garmin Express. I have tried a number of different cables. I tried turning the program off and on.
Any suggestions?
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I tried everything in the vid including restarting my Mac.
I am running GE 6.16
If these steps did not resolve the issue
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Out of almost 20-25 mini USB cables I have, only 2 of them can detect the device on the laptop. All charge the device though.
Just a few data points to figure things out.
I tried your suggestions and no joy. I used the Garmin connection cable.
I called Garmin and got a fellow who dissed my computer. No reason given. Every other thing on my computer works fine BTW, so I did not find his sharpness to be helpful.
I ended up getting the GPS to connect to my PC and uploaded the info.
I continued to explore the problem, changing USB ports with no luck. Then I changed to another cable which I had used before (one of 4 cables I tried and not a Garmin cable) and it connected. All of the cables had been tried a number of times and then spuriously this cable worked.
As far as the USB world when you have some time try researching it in Wikipedia, you will find it is a minefield of variations within the standard with USB 1, 2, 3, 3.1gen 1 gen 2, PDS (power distribution standard) all on the same connectors then there is, USB Mini, Micro and their variants.
Evolution is a wonderful thing, as is backward compatibility. Not just speed but voltage too up to 20 volts on that simple standard 5v connector with variations up to 5 amps and all standard.
Now there is USB 3.2 and 4 on the C type connector to provide a new layer of adaptability and backward compatibility.