Garmin Nuvi 260w Password or Pin

Hello,
I just brought a Garmin Nuvi 260w from ebay but the only problem it has is
a broken screen and a password on it. I am not to worry about the broken
screen because I can replace it but I don't know that much about the
password on it? it looks like I have to put a pin on the gps to get it to
work? does anyone know how to bypass this or reset it? I try the reset
button on the back of the unit but it didn't work at all. Any ideas will
help!
Thank You

 

Ask the prior owner what the PIN is, and use it to set your own in the
Security settings. The unit is useless without that PIN, and Garmin will
NOT tell you how to reset it, as it's the major poison pill against
resale of stolen units.

 

I rang Garmin UK to try and track down the original owner of a Nüvi 1370
with an unknown PIN. They said they couldn't possibly give me that
information, but for £30, they would unlock it for me!. I actually managed
to unlock it without Garmin's help - the original owner had set the pin to
"1" "3" "7" "0"... (this being the 1371st combination I tried ;-)

I wouldn't have bought it had I known it had a PIN set; but eBay don't
appear to share my view that such items should be assumed stolen, until
proven otherwise :-(

 

This raises the question: would you have persisted to success if the seller
had set the PIN to 9371? (Just for laughs, I chose a prime number.)

Don't take that as a criticism - I might have done just what you did

 

Oh yes (I had already tried all the 'magic' numbers I could think of
(1,2,3,4 etc etc)

The version of the firmware that the unit was running, didn't implement any
kind of a lock out (they may have changed it by now), so I reckoned it would
take just over an hour to try all 10,000 combinations - I just had to hope
it wasn't just going to "play dead" and silently ignore everything I
entered... (Nothing that clever, as it turned out).

I was greatly assisted by the fact that the Nuvi 1370 displays the digits
you've entered (instead of "*", like most of the others) and is quite snappy
in its response. (Compare and contrast with the Nuvi 765, which often won't
acknowledge even the *correct * PIN ;-)

 

I have always assumed that slow responses in the typical dialogs for failed
password/pin codes were intentional, and were meant as a security measure.
And since I'm not a great typist, I'm afraid I'll someday find that I'm
facing a lockout on some important site...

But £30 to unlock it? Too much.

If I were doing such a task as you chose, I'd probably put on some
Macedonian folk music or some Mozart to ease the pain

 

Off-topic for a bit...during Desert Storm our unit back in Germany
sent a large container of supplies to us in Saudi Arabia, secured with
a combination lock, but no combo. Calling back to Germany was a dead
end, so I whiled away the hours by trying each 4-digit number in
sequence. IIRC, it opened at 9941.

 

Bolt cutter? 45 ACP? M-16?

 

my thoughts exactly

 

Most sidearms are 9mm Berettas these days. Some special units have .45's

 

careful wrapping of detcord?