Your Garmin help, please

I'm going to try and sort my 810

Take it outside, shoot it, then set its shattered corpse on fire? Good.

I really want a Fenix III, too.

But it's going to be crap, isn't it?

Fuck.

Something like that.

So my 800 has decided to have a mind of it's own.

Downloaded a gpx from ridewithgps. Started from a different point, so joined the course part way through. It found the course but started taking me in completely different directions from what I plotted. How is that possible?

Thankfully was in the same general direction until I knew where I was, after which it started going in the completely wrong direction so I ignored it.

So essentially it was following a course, but not what I had uploaded...how can that be?

Are you sure it was following a course and not navigating to a point? Perhaps you loaded the wrong course? I've not had this kind of thing happen but I guess with Garmin anything is possible.

Seemed to be on the course. Found where I was (top of Box Hill) and is def the same name as the course I downloaded. Checked on ridewithgps when I got back and the route goes nowhere near Epsom racecourse, though I did.

As you say hippy - anything seems to be possible with garmin.

It was navigating you to the start of the course, when it initially found the course it probably asked you if you wanted to go to the start of the course you may have inadvertently said yes. Which is the wrong answer.

Ah, that could be it. If you are in a Course you should just ride to the course and let it ping when it has found the course. I never let it navigate to start, instead, I will set the course to bright green colour and Always show on map and then I'll find the nearest point to join myself.

@hippy if you've not found maps by first week in June I'm back and you can borrow my official garmin ones on the micro ad.

However I do know that they're mostly all on torrent sites too. If you do that.

If I have maps on an SD for the 800, will they work if I put them in the 810? Aren't they locked to a device or some bullshit?

make sure all your previous routes in that area are switched off in map display

Nah don't believe so. Never had that issues myself.

I guess that could be it - I'm pretty sure I didn't, but that makes some sense (although it really wasn't taking me a very good route to the start).

ta

I might just rip the SD out of the 800 and try them.

No, they're locked to the card (you can't just read the card and copy the files onto another card) but the card can be moved from device to device.

Am working on it.

Yeah, so I can use my legit 800 maps in the 810 to see if it's the maps that are causing issues? Shit. If I knew that I could've saved a lot of stress during the 600. I thought they were only operable in one unit. They said I couldn't use my etrex maps in my 800 for example. Maybe I was asking for something different, I can't recall now.

Working on a good unit for cycling?
Serious?

@hippy they were bullshitting you. It works fine. As Dan said locked to card not decive. Though can still be ripped off card.

Serious. You'd be surprised at the complexity any kind of navigation requires.

Problems >>>

Get back to work and just fucking deliver it already!

:-*

In honesty I get its complex. But doesn't mean you can release a product you know isn't working fully.

Let me know when yours needs product testing, I'll put it through every pace there is.

Garmin should pay me for all the flaws I'm going to point out to them when I send them a serious email. It's a joke their product.

For navigation on your race get an Etrex 30 as well. Sub 50h PBP rider tells me you might not be the first to have 800 etc units fail in wet weather.

The dude I was speaking to last night raced RAAM and rides 1000s of kms. He said his etrex30 still gives him issues.

In honesty I think they're all as bad. And just someone's give you trouble. But yes, it might be worth having a backup. Though at worst I can buy a new one on route if shot happens.

Having said that, my 1000 gives me trouble. But in 3500 miles or 1500 so far this trip, it worked. It's stopped doing turn by turn and done the screen lock when it's wet. But it's not failed or crashed.

All fine but he was referring to cables failing in wet, you are charging on the go from dynamo I assume?

Yes. I've got to rig something up to cover the port. I was going to put some duck tape between the awrobars. But you make a very good point. Road spray off the front wheel would destroy it very quick. An etrex would be good from that point as its battery and not port.

Point taken!