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Jon Allen
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« on: February 28, 2012, 07:50:12 pm »

Anyone had their Garmin 205 stop beeping and know how to fix it?  Mine has decided that it can't make a peep anymore which is rather annoying.
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« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2012, 08:53:21 pm »

i dropped mine on cement a couple of years ago and it quit beeping. then after about a year it started beeping again ?? now it beeps about half the time. apparently it has the power to heal itself.
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« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2012, 09:47:20 pm »

i dropped mine on cement a couple of years ago and it quit beeping. then after about a year it started beeping again ?? now it beeps about half the time. apparently it has the power to heal itself.

I think some Garmins must be possessed.  For 1 full year my Garmin was in some weird mode where I would have to do a full reset never once but always twice just to get it to turn on.  Then magically after a year it started working mostly normal again, except some days it just turns off randomly during a run. What the heck?  Mine has also mostly lost the beeping ability, but not completely as it will still sometimes beep but just super quietly.
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Mike Davis
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« Reply #3 on: February 29, 2012, 09:39:32 am »

A hard reset might help. If not, the little piezo beeper in there may be corroded from moisture getting in.
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« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2012, 01:24:16 pm »

Hard resets work a lot of the time.  My 205 has been doing funky things as well and won't turn off unless I do it 2-3 times!  I am returning mine for a new one.
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