Your Garmin help, please

Turns out getting maps to work on a Garmin car sat nav is also a ballache. A mate is off to Africa and asked me to try and install a few maps. Appears arbitrary whether it recognises 1, 2 or 3 maps.

Cheers all. I'll be a cheapskate and try the free maps first.

Not sure whether this is true for cycling Garmins (it may be as some of the names look familiar) but found a useful site on naming conventions for maps (that actually works)
https://voyager8.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/adding-multiple-maps-in-garmin-nuvi.html

I think the later Edges can cope with various names but I remember others being pretty picky.

I've used OSM maps on a Nuvi successfully in the USA.

Yes, the trouble was that OSM maps had address search whereas the other maps he'd bought had notes on road conditions (lots of gravel roads in Africa it seems) but no address search so the hope was to get them all installed.

Worked in the end once I found out what they all had to be named.

TCX for Garmin 200/5xx and Wahoo

I use that Ride With GPS. You know how it has that 'find' bit and you can browse different cities and download other peoples routes.

Does anyone know of anything else, similar??

Strava?

Aldi appear to have Garmin 810s for £179.99, which seems like a great price.

Paging @hippy

Check their refund policy...

No SD card slot on the 820- just save the map file to the device?

Anyone using the live suffer score IQ App?

I've downloaded it and added it as a field into a data screen, and first ride i tried with it, it just stayed at nil all ride, and in the next it didn;t seem to register as downloaded at all.

What am i doing wrong? I use a 1000 and didn't have it bluetooth connected to my mobile, am i supposed to do that? And if so do i need to have data on?

Please help a luddite.

Yes, needs to go in the garmin folder, make sure it has a unique name to prevent over writing the basemap.

So, when one of them is corrupted you need to factory reset rather than just yank the card? Out.

What am i doing wrong?

Using a 'suffer score' field.

Been downloading topo maps onto my 820 from Garmin, failed three times so far...

Are you downloading while the card is in the garmin? Usually much more reliable and quicker to download straight to the card via a micro sd to sd card adaptor or a micro sd to usb thingy.

Edit, if the 820 had a card, getting confused in my dotage.

Garmin 820. No sd card.

Has anyone else had trouble uploading routes to their 820? Mine won't accept .gpx but will accept .tcx

Also has anyone used it for a FTP test yet?

So on the Ride of the Falling leaves today my Garmin froze - 73 miles and over 4 hours into the ride.

All that will synch is the first section up to Blackfriars where I met a mate and paused it.

Is there any fix available? - It wasn't a massively fast ride but would be nice to have a strava benchmark for future.

Is there any fix available?

Ride it again? - sorry there is not much I know you can do to recover the missing data

Ha - was a nice ride!

So odd as the Garmin history is reading 73 miles, 4hr 32 mins, (2 laps?), 5004 calories, and 1589m of climbing - but no maps or ascent graph. Bah.

You could try an online fit file repair here http://garmin.kiesewetter.nl/

Thanks - I started playing with that but don't have notepad on my Mac - then got distracted by kids/ life. Might try it on a PC.