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My battery was good. 7h with route navigation and backlight off.
I always make my own gpx routes. Never bothered with garmin nav (as it's crap as you know). But navigating my gpx route, it always was good.
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I use it to get to people's houses and stuff. I don't have time to preload routes - that's why it has ad hoc routing ability.
Also annoying that I either can't run the screen on and have it last a long while - I could get 13hrs training with the power visible throughout on the old unit OR I can't turn the stupid backlight off and it's at 45% after 4hrs.
hippy
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.