@@adam-oz1jo I don’t. I’ve never had an issue with it messing up the transducer. It is easy to turn them off from the power menu though if you were worried about it. I just never do
@@NickUebelhorFishing i went back and went through the prosses again and encrypted it not it says its updating software but it seems like its frozen its not flashing from leave power on to updating software hopefully its not stuck smh im scared to try to turn it off or unplug it buts its been about 40 min and i dont know what to do
@@NickUebelhorFishing I tried but they sent me a older version of software that come out after the on that's in the unit and before the 2.280. But it's not taking it ether honestly I think it has a power issue cause I noticed the voltage shows 0.0v on the status screen and I even hooked it to a different battery and it did the same thing I'm thinking maybe it recognizes the voltage is low and won't allow me to update the software but idk what it is tbh
Man thank you for this video. This is the only video that worked for me.
Glad it worked for you!! It can be finicky sometimes!
Great job thanks very helpful and informative
Thanks!! Glad it was helpful!
Big thank you from Germany.
I buyed a used Helix 8 and couldn't update. The other tutorials did not told me to put the empty card in first.
Glad it helped!! Thanks for watching!
Well Done Many Thanks Best update session I have ever done
Glad it helped!! Thanks for watching!!
Got 2 new (2024) Helix 9's...and they take 2 small SD cards. 👍🏼
Good to know!! Yeah my Solix 10s took micro SDs too
do you turn off sonars on graph or unplug transducer to minimize risk of hurting the transducer running out of water?
@@adam-oz1jo I don’t. I’ve never had an issue with it messing up the transducer. It is easy to turn them off from the power menu though if you were worried about it. I just never do
So you have to format the card@ computer and then encrypt it will it not work if you don't encrypt it
@@nickburns9125 you might get lucky and get it to work, but typically it needs to be formatted and encrypted to work
@@NickUebelhorFishing i went back and went through the prosses again and encrypted it not it says its updating software but it seems like its frozen its not flashing from leave power on to updating software hopefully its not stuck smh im scared to try to turn it off or unplug it buts its been about 40 min and i dont know what to do
@@nickburns9125 hopefully you got it figured out! Might need to call Humminbird. They can walk you through some tricks if it didn’t work
@@NickUebelhorFishing I tried but they sent me a older version of software that come out after the on that's in the unit and before the 2.280. But it's not taking it ether honestly I think it has a power issue cause I noticed the voltage shows 0.0v on the status screen and I even hooked it to a different battery and it did the same thing I'm thinking maybe it recognizes the voltage is low and won't allow me to update the software but idk what it is tbh
@@nickburns9125 that’s weird? I’m surprised it even lets you turn it on?