Unfortunately, this sounds like the case. Flash quit part way through,
unit's dead. There's usually no way to recover from a flash. Your best bet
is to keep hounding Magellan. Have you tried calling?

One day, hardware manufacturers will put two copies of the firmware on their
board. One overwriteable, the other not. The 'backup' copy is the original
version. If a flash ever fails, you should be able to hit a hardware reset
button on the back and the 'original' firmware should be flash copied onto
the 'normal' one. I'd pay an extra few dollars for the priveledge.

Paul

<JW> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> My son was trying to flash upgrade from version 1 to 1.1 I think and
> his upgrade stopped and now the Companion does not work. It freezes
> the Visor when he clips it on and Visor must be reset to start again.
> He's tried everything, reset on Companion of course, and nothing will
> bring it back to life. Magellan has not answered his correspondence
> asking for an RMA. Any ideas. TIA

Actually, it would not even need to be the original version -- all
you would need is to be able to fall back to a basic loader
function which does not take up much memory at all. It could
be placed in a sector of the flash and write protected (many
flash chips support this) at no real cost to the manufacturer.

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"Pablo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Unfortunately, this sounds like the case. Flash quit part way through,
> unit's dead. There's usually no way to recover from a flash. Your best
bet
> is to keep hounding Magellan. Have you tried calling?
>
> One day, hardware manufacturers will put two copies of the firmware on
their
> board. One overwriteable, the other not. The 'backup' copy is the
original
> version. If a flash ever fails, you should be able to hit a hardware
reset
> button on the back and the 'original' firmware should be flash copied onto
> the 'normal' one. I'd pay an extra few dollars for the priveledge.
>
> Paul
>
> <JW> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > My son was trying to flash upgrade from version 1 to 1.1 I think and
> > his upgrade stopped and now the Companion does not work. It freezes
> > the Visor when he clips it on and Visor must be reset to start again.
> > He's tried everything, reset on Companion of course, and nothing will
> > bring it back to life. Magellan has not answered his correspondence
> > asking for an RMA. Any ideas. TIA
>
>