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my longest 'ride' was 36h and 400miles. One single file. I've not had a single issue with crashing with longer rides.
I did normally split stuff after 12h when I remembered.That's weird about the screen, not sure.
Yes my city nav maps work better than OSM for navigation prompts when I create routes on rwgps.com
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I've got longer out of the 800 but not while using navigation. I think it's the combination of using navigation and doing 3-400k+ that kills the older Garmins. So far the 1000 has been much more stable than the 800/810s but the nav is shit and the screen is annoying when wearing gloves. Oh and battery life sucks.
hippy
Yeah, no matter what setting I was using, it wouldn't go fully dark. When I first used it and the battery was dying I made it basically black out and was only readable when I passed under a street light but yesterday it wouldn't dim no matter what I did.
Do I need to return yet another shitty Garmin product?
I've used it with my old Tuff gloves and that basically doesn't work at all. My Spesh semi-lobster gloves don't have special touchscreen stuff I don't think. I guess if I treat it more like a mobile phone it'll be ok and as for the shitty navigation, I'll load it with the Garmin City Navigator maps I own and try it again.
It hasn't crashed yet but I've not ridden 400k+ with it yet so I'll reserve judgement.