Be patient charging the battery-It takes time, and a lot of it.

Lots of features. I have used a Garmin GPS for many years of traveling. My old Garmin would charge in a couple hours connected to my computer via the USB port. When I got this one, I charged it for a couple hours and basically had no charge. Just enough to get the downloads from the Garmin website. Once unplugged, it would die within a minute. Contacted Amazon and was going to send it back, but decided to let it charge overnight. The next day I could see it had a 1/4 charge. Decided to just let it keep charging all day into the next day. BOTTOM LINE, THIS GARMIN WILL CHARGE, BUT VERY, VERY SLOWLY! GIVE IT UP TO TWO DAYS AND MAKE SURE YOUR COMPUTER STAYS ON OR PLUG IT INTO A CONSTANT POWER SOURCE AND IT SHOULD CHARGE. BE PATIENT OR BUY SOMETHING DIFFERENT. Hope this helps

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