Your Garmin help, please

Yeah, wait until you get back.

the only reason i cycle is for strava kudos so this is a suboptimal solution

http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/06/garmin-ipad-android-surface.html

Confirmation that I cannae do it. Thanks for the link!

It didn't work for me when I was in a somewhat remote area of Scotland with poor/no phone signal.

I didn't bother in the end.

Good update by Wahoo for tun by tun nav: http://www.bikerumor.com/2016/06/16/wahoo-signals-turn-turn-update-elemnt-gps/

800 now working again.

On the rollers while Birmingham was getting flooded this week. Ended up buying the new sensors with the accelerometers which are working fine so far.

Can you get the old ones swapped under warranty?

Another 'long ride' crash today resulting in a 25% data loss (it has the mileage total in Garmin Connect but has lost the location data so Strava doesn't recognise it) - I was planning to save it at 200 miles if I exceeded that, but it wimped out at 183 before I got chance.

Anyone done any long rides on the 520?

Have you tried looking at the underlying file. Getting the mileage total suggests that there's a complete file somewhere, maybe just a little corrupted

hmm, well it's pretty clear something funky happened when I stopped for breakfast as there are a couple of weird entries that look like duplicates with erroneous timestamps at that point. The distance jumps from 226km to 552km - the next valid entry is three hours later with a correct total of 295km (which is what it displayed at the point it borked and appeared to be running fine throughout until then). There are no positional update records during those three hours unfortunately so it seems pretty terminal.

The behaviour is pretty much identical to three other 300km ish rides I've done. I think how much data is retained depends on how medieval you are in trying to fix the unit (which won't power on afterwards) or which point you last switched it off (varying from most of it to none of it!). In this case starting it up without the memory card, then saving the ride immediately, worked in terms of getting it running and retaining 75% of the ride.

Hmm..

https://the5krunner.com/2016/06/13/garmin-edge-820-video-fake-or-fab/

Has anyone had any experience of these? I want to take the plunge... Turn by turn might have just swung it.

a mate of mine has it and he is super happy with his, he even used it for touring in France .. pre-loaded course/routes of course. And that was pre-update.

Grandddd I think it's worth a try if they've managed to iron out any initial hiccups. Plus it has lots of lights.

Buy it straight from them and you can return in 30 days even if you use it. I have confirmed this over email with them but you should too. You just have to bare the cost of shipping it back (somewhere in western EU), its about £7-ish.

Worth a look here too: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wahoo-elemnt-users

Thanks - I've ordered direct from them. I'll put a few words on here with how I get on!

I've just been given lezyne mini gps, but I'd also just bought a Garmin 200. Which is best for commutes and weekend blasts. Can't make my mind up...

You can load routes on Garmin 200 turn-by-turn

Is that function any good. I've used an edge tourer once, but this is bread crumb trail?

Very good, beeps when you are approaching a turn - navigated from Cph to Warsaw with routes split into 120km bits.

Disposable battery powered garmins;
Is the Etrex 30x the best shout?

Depends if it meets your needs, the etrex 20 is more cost effective if you do not need such things as barometric altimeter, 3 axis compass and wireless sharing.
The 20 and 30 are identical in all other respects. I have an etrex 30 but only by default as i managed to pick one up very cheaply second hand . For my usage, mountain biking and hiking the etrex 20 would have been perfectly satisfacory.

Depending on your needs and proposed usage do not rule out one of the older etrex units such as the vista or legend HCX. You may be able to pick one up fairly cheaply.