Your Garmin help, please

Was this on the 800? At the risk of sounding like a broken record, had you recorded all of the 410k as one track?

Hmmm, it had been, although dry by the evening. I guess that there might have been moisture about. It was driving me potty by the end

Yeah, I was following the course which was based on one track and I left my own track running so it is also one track.

I've had an 800 die on a ride twice in >3 years. I cover many thousands of miles each year with quite a few of these done in single large rides (where this issue apparently crops up). Given it's a piece of electronics that cops a hell of a lot of abuse outdoors, the 800 is actually pretty damn good.

On an 800? It's a known bug if so, they can mostly only get to about 300km max without crashing, I've mentioned it in this thread before after it happened to me on an audax last summer. The (rubbish) solution is to reset it and record a new track every 250km or so, then join them together afterwards.

YACF link:
https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=80544.0

See, that's what everyone says. I've heard about this 'known bug' and as I said mine has only crashed once at ~410k mark and turned on but quickly turned off again. The other time an 800 died I think it was was someone else's unit and I'd done 30 hours straight on a TT bike, WITH navigation on before it died. This thing about ~300k crashing doesn't apply to mine - if it did I'd have binned it for a different unit ages ago. Search this thread for my comments about the same issue.

I don't think it's just a function of distance. I've recorded tracks of 1,000s of miles on my 800 without an issue (going 500mph though so that probably cuts down on the number of points).

You think this thread is an unfair sample then? I'll admit I have yet to have a problem with my 200.

Collate the reported issues?

The 200 doesn't work with power so is essentially useless to me.

What data do you have displayed, mine is a little cluttered? Thing I just have speed, distance, time ....anything else?

Bought an 810. Will see what it's like as a backup for the 600k this weekend.
Looks like I have to learn yet another Garmin interface :(

Probably need to shove some maps onto it too - should I just use OSM this time?

Just use open source maps, they are working fine on my 1000

Mine too.

Don't update

My 800 has stopped communicating with the computer. It charges but doesn't show in the finder. Have tried different leads and computer so definitely the device. Have done a hard reset and a boot block, but no joy. Any other ideas before I pay Garmin £75 for a replacement?

Could be dampness/corrosion in the USB port.
A work round would be to set the garmin to save data to the micro sd card, you can then load gpx files or upload fit files from the card using either a microsd card to sd card adaptor or if you do not have a reader one of these.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/200898266968?limghlpsr=true&hlpv=2&ops=true&viphx=1&hlpht=true&lpid=108&chn=ps&device=c&rlsatarget=&adtype=pla&crdt=0&ff3=1&ff11=ICEP3.0.0-L&ff12=67&ff13=80&ff14=108&ff19=0

I had a similar problem, replacing my cheap ebay micro-SD card with a Kingston one seemed to resolve it. Do you have an SD card installed ? If so, try connecting it to the computer with the card removed.

Why pay £75? I find it a joke that they sell a product and it does not last. My first one was two years old and they replaced it for free, and the next one died a similar death to yours after 9 months. When I hit them up, they told me that the devices that they send out are in fact new and not refurbished, it was after we discussed that a device should last longer that they relented and gave me another for free. I did explain that my GF has had an 800 for over 3 years and never had a problem. I think it is hit/miss with these !!!

Every time I ride in SW from Wimbledon to or from Clapham, the garmin (800) routes me up to putney/battersea rather than going straight through Balham. Any ideas how I can tell it to stop being an idiot?

Try telling it to navigate for car not bike

Don't update what? I have a shiny new 810 sitting on my desk. Might need to get another memory card for it.

you should have regressed to a 705, everyone loves the joystick for navigating menus.

will give a go thanks.

i got really frustrated with the 800 telling me to ride across parks that had no cycling restrictions, and taking long convoluted routes, navigating for car reduced a lot of this

If I remember correctly, each form of road/path has a different number from a "busyness scale" assigned to it. If you choose bike routing it will actively route onto the less busy roads even with diversions.

It also depends which maps you're using, Garmin, OSM, velomap, etc.

I seem to remember the velomap routes were the best blend of quietness without massively random routes.