Your Garmin help, please

They really shouldn't call it "Battery Save" when their own specs actually call it "Ultra Trac" mode.

The savings aren't just from disabling the screen when there isn't a waypoint, etc... but it also will only poll GPS periodically and then use an accelerometer to determine speed and location inbetween the GPS polls.

It should be fine if you're travelling at a consistent speed and direction, but will be less accurate and lossy if the movement is less predictable.

The battery life doesn't come for free, and if you care about the tracking accuracy then you'd probably not want to use it.

Has any Edge 1000 owner been able to get turn by turn directions while following a track/route? My dead 810 did it, but with this one maybe I haven't found the correct setting, or just the map doesn't support the feature... did the 1000km brevet without it because I knew the roads by hand from months of studying it, but it would be great to get that feature working again

Ooooo, new Edge 820 released. Looks good. Probably very buggy. Will wait.

Yup, Evans are showing it already:

Edge 820 Road Performance Bundle £390
https://www.evanscycles.com/garmin-edge-820-road-performance-bundle-EV282961

Edge 820 £330
https://www.evanscycles.com/garmin-edge-820-EV282962

Edge 820 Explore £280
https://www.evanscycles.com/garmin-edge-820-explore-EV282963

So my 1000 is dead.
Well dead to me, not it's begun playing up.

In courses, bottom right corner, press the more option button. Then the menu pops up with turn by turn.
Or maybe it's on each route. It's there.

Thanks! That burger menu on the course list got it! And sorry for your loss, now you can become a 820 "beta tester" 😇.
As always DCRainMaker has an article for it and a video

Yeah it's in a weird place. I remember becasue I couldn't find it.

Whats the 820 do the 1000 doesn't? Nothing I bet. Maybe crash more too.

Yup, judging by the video it's shit. And slow.

He says something about stalking other garmin connect friends live, and a auto-crash-alert to your contacts with sms... and smaller screen

I had crash detection on a tail light I bought (see.sense)... the most dumb thing ever.

It triggered far too frequently.

I figure that these things expect really sedate riders and smooth roads. A crash could just be bunny-hopping a drain, mounting a kerb, or hitting a pothole.

No-one has time for the stress that creates.

Everyone will disable it, it's just a gimmick.

Yes, I have it on the fly6 rear light but it just counts as a crash when it detects the bike is on the floor or close to its angle, and doesn't erase that part of the video recording.

Any recommendations for a cheap ANT+ Speed/Cadence sensor? The wiring to the speed arm on my GS10 seems to have failed, as its only transmitting intermittently

I use a B'TWIN ANT+ on my commuter, cheapest one I could find about a year ago.

My Garmin is set to avoid unpaved roads, today I had to abandon my planned ride as I got to a point where the Garmin would only send me into a field, where presumably it thought the barely visible foot path was a paved road. How do I fix this behaviour? It meant I had to go to Woking. Woking!

Yes, you enabled it with the little hamburger menu for all routes in the bottom right, as opposed to doing each route individually on the 800s.

Same!

Literally started being a dick on the 600 last weekend. I reckon it's since I've installed the EU maps on an SD card. It just turns off when I search for something.

People have similar issue..
https://forums.garmin.com/archive/index.php/t-345934.html

I'm updating from v6 to 8.3 and see what happens.
http://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=6735

You ignore it and get it to recalculate once around the unpaved road.

Routing is fucked with my Garmin. For a year it worked fine and then it went nuts and kept crashing before suffering death and being replaced.

Replacement's routing is sometimes fine and other times useless and it sends me on the things I have told it to avoid.

Tried that, went 10km away, still would not either calculate a new route or re-calculate the existing one - had to send me through that field. It would send me down bridal ways even when normal roads where available, which was also annoying.

Do you have recalc set to Auto, Prompted or Off?

Stopping and reloading the course can also fix dodgy routing once you've traveled past the glitch.

Anyone used https://www.velomap.org/ ?

I want to try something different to see if it's any less flakey than Garmin's own maps on the Edge 1000 SD card.

I used them for a while. No problems that I remember (although not used for massive rides) but the same issue as the OSM maps in that search is a bit flaky with no postcode search.

The road priorities are set up differently so routing will give you different routes, somewhere in the FAQ it tells you what the different settings do (seem to remember you should set it to car for road cycling) but it would still give overly long routes.

I'm not too bothered about the routing because I'm used to it being shit and either know where I am or I'm following a course (or I don't care). It's the crashing I can't be dealing with. Shit needs to be stable.

Anyway gave it a quick test, installed all the velomaps and turned back on the course Basemap and updated the built-in EU Cycle map and it seems to have stopped the crashing. Time will tell.

Is there a way to take a route and then get the OSM map 'tiles' for the places it goes through? It's a ballache having to click each section of a country on http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/

My 1000 is good again.

I also made a change. I only use the EU maps on SD card, so I deleted the 7gb of garmin maps off the garmin internal HD. Seems to have made it faster to work.
Been rock solid for 3 days now, since it's hissy fit the other day. But turning it on and off solved that.