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Have you used the 1040 yet? What’s been your actual experience bug wise?
All the stuff reported on the forum is pretty off putting.
I was looking at ordering the 1040 but wondering if it’s better to hold off for a while longer.
I guess the question is how long until the major bugs have been sorted? Or is that a bit like asking how long is a piece of string?
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Have you used the 1040 yet? What’s been your actual experience bug wise?
Got few stitches for 8 more days, so won't be able to test it soon I'm afraid. I just pulled the trigger when I saw stock on Merlincycles and I was able to use my points for a bit of a discount. (also it was a good time to sell the 1030+, already sold for £60 less than my OG purchase price)
The UI is not great, few bugs, floating button to access settings is an abomination, they probably developed it on top of the 1030 codebase rather than 1030+'s.
Snags I've noticed so far:
- Takes a while to get used to the UI, tapping the title bar to go into an activity profile and tapping the left arrow to go to a profile is easily confused/mistapped, I briefly considered downgrading to a single profile to avoid this (my other profile is "indoor", meh)
- It didn't come with any UK maps so I had to sit on the computer to download and install some
startup.txt doesn't work (yet, they say) so you can't have your name/contact on the boot screen
Custom widgets can't be installed (probably a bug on the firmware, the functionality is not removed)
Tapping on a custom data field won't pass the click onto the device, so to access the home button you need to tap on a Garmin-supplied data field. (If you have a page full of custom data fields -or a single big field- I'm not sure how you would get on)
Some data fields don't come with Edge 1040 support yet ("HR + Zones" is one) but luckily it's open source so I was able to build and push it to the device manually
VIRB widget is removed (I was using it to trigger other things using a custom device) and "VIRB Record" on the controls widget is still there but just doesn't do anything.
Things other people reported on the Garmin forums, I didn't test/verify any of this:
- Apparently the "Emergency contacts" page doesn't have a back button so if you go there you'll need to turn the device off
- Di2 buttons won't close all open menus on click, you need to do multiple back button taps
- Di2 buttons won't work if the ride is paused?
I doubt it will go on discount anytime soon, at least this year, and I wanted to see/test the new stuff with glances and power etc.
- Takes a while to get used to the UI, tapping the title bar to go into an activity profile and tapping the left arrow to go to a profile is easily confused/mistapped, I briefly considered downgrading to a single profile to avoid this (my other profile is "indoor", meh)
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Just got the new Edge 1040. Appalled at bugs being reported on the forum. Garmin at its finest.
I guess I was fooled by the 10 months of smooth operation on the 1030+.