Your Garmin help, please

the one time I called Garmin I also got put on hold for 25 minutes but I received a brand new 800 as replacement for my 1 year and 359 days old one, thumbs up indeed.

920XT looks perfect... apart from the actual aesthetics.

My Garmin Forerunner 405 is now picking up random HRM signals.

Cycling in this morning and I have a heart rate for big chunks of the ride despite not wearing the HR strap. I wasn't being shadowed by another rider, there are parts of my commute where there's no-one else visible for 50 yards in any direction ("They're all over us Vasquez").

The start/stop button is a bit dodgy and I FUCKING HATE THE WHOLE TOUCH BEZEL THING that simply stops working the minute there's any moisture (sweat or rain) on it; but I've put up with these things annoyances for ages.

Might be time to order a Forerunner 110.

Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Oh yeah - the 405 is a fucking horrible piece of kit. The 410 fixed the worst of the bezel shenanigans, but even that was a pile of shite.

It's no surprise they were discontinued.

You can turn off HRM pairing though.

Forerunner 110 ordered (£78 or so from Amazon, don't need another HRM strap).

Did look at the 910XT (and the Fenix 2) and I might get one in a year's time if I'm still serious about Triathlon. Right now I can get by with Swimtag, Forerunner 110 and Edge 705.

Garmin 800, latest update (2.7) - went to look for a location and it's frozen. This a common problem and will it play out? Or is there something specific i need to do?

Protip: If your GS10 isn't responding after you've changed the battery, make sure you put it in the right way round before posting on the internet asking for help.

What's the going rate for a second hand Garmin 800 these days?

I've got an 810 now, so this is surplus to requirements:

Never used this lot:

Now the bad news - there are some scuffs on a couple of the corners:

What say you, Garmin experts?

Would've been interested but think its gone?

And sold.

The battery life on my wife's 800 has rapidly diminished after a couple of years of decent usage and charging cycles.

Looking to replace the battery, which seems simple enough, but would be interested if anyone on here has experience of the batteries on the market and whether any are to be avoided?

After defending the 800 for a couple of years now, the little cnut of a thing stopped on me at around the 23hr mark of a ride. It's now stuck in some weird boot loop. I've held power down for 10s at which point the screen fades and it reboots but doesn't get any further than loading maps.
Any ideas on how to fix this/recover ride data?>

This has probably been resolved in some way by now, I'm currently catching up on this thread, but how far had you gone at the time? Specifically how far in the track you were recording at the time?

Very poor form of Handtec to try and fob you off by sending you to Garmin, did you get that sorted @hippy? It's simple, under the Sale of Goods Act your contract is with the seller - whoever you bought the thing from. Manufacturers warranties are meaningless.

So as I've just read that Garmin sent you a new one make Handtec give you a refund, get free Garmin ;)

http://www.lfgss.com/comments/11839030/

Maybe 600k?

I pushed Handtec and they gave me a return code so I've sent them back. Now waiting for them to 'test' them..

Perfect, thanks!

Does anyone make a 'left of the stem' out front mount for an 800?

RaceWare

RaceWare Direct is a small UK company and they make use of state-of-the-art 3D printing to produce a range of Garmin mounts. They produce an Edge 200/500 mount plus a slightly longer 800 mount, and they fit all handlebar sizes including 35mm. Uniquely, they also do left and right side mounts so you can pick the more suitable. They cost from £24.99 and they're available in a range of colours.

http://road.cc/content/news/70078-alternative-garmin-mounts

Thanks! Not sure if I can justify £50 on mounts just to quiet my symmetrical bar-attachement neurosis.

I wouldn't. Stem mount? Symmetry

Non-symmetrical bar attachement arrangement = leaning.

Never lean.

Stem mounts are so ugly though. The obvious answer to my problem would be a Morten Tillquist stem-bolt Garmin mount with an underslung Exposure light bracket.

I could just fit my Light bracket on the left hand side, but for some reason this is completely antithetical to me.

Unless you have cranksets on both sides of your bike, it's not symmetrical anyway. Hope I didn't just throw you into OCD overdrive? :P

The stem-bolt mount was what I meant but yeah the standard mount where it sits ON the stem would work too in terms of symmetry. I don't find them ugly. It's just a little box on a stem. But then I don't give a shit about most of it, it's for ridin' not staring at.

I swapped my light mid-ride last Sunday (because it was jammed in the aerobars the beam was shining too far left) - it would've blown your mind

That's not very symmetrical.. .

@Matt101

All dissembled ok, but struggling with reconnecting the new battery. Attached is how the circuit board and battery wires look - was this the same on yours? Am I missing something obvious?

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