Your Garmin help, please

I guess the activities are gone for good. Odd that there are still older ones there.

I upload anything important soon after the ride.

Garmins are wicked, but never trust them. Ever.

yes, got a good training ride i did with hackney cycle club on sunday uploaded so at least that was saved. weirdly it's still got a lot of the routes on there that i'm sure i've saved after February.
just means i have to re-create all my pages again etc etc. i wonder why it did that, how annoying!
i just hope when i sync it later it doesn't fuck up all my activities currently saved to my connect profile, that would be savage if i lost all of that.

No. It should only upload rides. It would not delete stuff.

I have a hard copy of everything on my HD. I save to my HD and upload.

oh right cool. can you tell me now (i'm an absolute numpty when it comes to stuff like this), how do i basically do what you do then? i.e. have a hard copy of everything on your HD then upload from there?

(btw i was the bloke who came up to you on the turbo and said hi during your warm up for the canary wharf tour series race)

Oh hi!

You can change in the setting on the garmin where it saves too. File menu > System > Data recording > Internal/external.

I then go into the activity file manually, mount 810 >go to the external memory card > activities > copy this to a file on my computer and then use strava to upload from the file location.

It's longer but I don't strava often and i then have my own copy of the file.

ok think i got that thanks mate.
i don't bother with strava and only use garmin connect but now after the refurb i don't like it at all and miss the simple 'upload' function which have annoyingly changed to 'garmin express'. oh well

Al, there's a couple of sneaky hidden options when the unit it booting up. Like if you hold the screen in one corner it will enter the initial startup or even offer to do a hard reset. I have triggered it accidentally whilst walking towards my bike holding it. It would be hard to lose any data though (even when I deliberately reset mine it didn't lose any!).

However your issue with the old rides showing sounds like you just have too many activities. I can't recall if the limit is 250 or 500 right now but when I went over that it suddenly looked like I had lost 2 months of activities and couldn't record any new ones. When I deleted all the oldest ones they all reappeared fine though...

Oh never heard of that.

Try that! Sounds the same! I'd delete them all and then save to external memory. Stop that from happening again.

Garmin course maker is naff.

Can you upload .gpx onto garmin connect courses?

Garmin 1000 looks cool @dancing james

If you've £130 then why not?!

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/04/garmin-edge-1000.html

Unless you've already got lots of mounts for the 800/810 which are incompatible with the 1000. That's what put me off the 1000 - that and the fact that I didn't particularly want any of the new functions the 1000 has.

I was under the impression that the 800 was the same as the 810 save for the bluetooth. Sure you don't mean the 710?

Battery life is worse due to the bigger screen. That's one big reason for me.

The OS is different. 810 is easier to navigate and better to use.

The 810 seems faster on maps too.

@root try bikeroutetoaster.

I have a 500 and have ended up with waypoints before (using other peoples files converted to .tcx with bikeroutetoaster).

They're no more useful than km markers written on paper (round your stem or taped to your top tube).

AFAIK you can't turn off 'virtual partner' on the 500. It just hangs around beeping at you like some kind of Tinder stalker.

...er well I guess you're sorted. See above if not.

#pagefail

That's good news - guess their software is better now.

How stable is the 810 compared to the 800? Any better?

Does the 810 have an option to disarm automatic zero-offset calibration?

Doesn't look like it.
Why would you want to?

I've never really paid attention to my recorded routes. Having a look
at a ride i did yesterday the trackign seems to be a bit rubbish. I've
attached some examples:

.

Is this normal or is there something wrong? Is this going to mess the
milage up or is that separate?

Root, if you are going to spend your time cycling around primary and junior schools, may I suggest that you don't record it.

Yes. For SRM. I believe for other devices too.

810 is pretty solid. Can't recall it being silly. Actually only once. But turned on with finger on top left screen and all was good. But mine has got VERY wet.

yep, i got it sorted. I found gpsies to be the easiest to use. My problem before was missing the radio button to make sure you downloaded the track and the points.

or at least stop posting it all over the internet?

hey skinny/rodmunch

the plot thickens....

i've now lost my maps i had on the device. previously i has the 'trail bundle' and that gave me really good OS detailed maps. but when i turned it on and used the 800 last night it just had a picture of europe and a pointer indicating that i was in london! any ideas what's happened now? if i could upload some pictures here i'd show you but i don't know how to upload photos.
i went into the mapping part of the options and 'enabled' the two options that were there. any ideas?
it's as if the memory card is no longer being recognised. any thoughts? cheers

Yes. For SRM. I believe for other devices too.

810 is pretty solid. Can't recall it being silly. Actually only once. But turned on with finger on top left screen and all was good. But mine has got VERY wet.

For definite? If so I'll pick one up, very frustrating to have to constantly roll the software release back to 2.4 on my 800 (last release that allowed you to remove auto-calibration).