Your Garmin help, please

In other news, will a Powermonkey Extreme work with the Garmin Edge 800? It's half the price of the Garmin-specific External Power Supply.

I gave up on using routes with Garmins years ago.

I just plot the route as a GPX and display it on the map as a light blue line.

Ride with the GPS on the map page and make sure you're not off the blue line. Also stops me looking at the numbers page which only leads to madness.

The Edge 705 can be made to do routing well as you can upload a route (with the GPXX extensions) with thousands+ of points in it so the GPS has no option but to send you exactly the way you want as there's never any choice of the route between points that are 10 or 20 yards apart. Initial route calculations take ages though, which is a pain.

In other news, will a Powermonkey Extreme work with the Garmin Edge 800? It's half the price of the Garmin-specific External Power Supply.

I think you have to make sure the output is the same V/A as your GPS device requires. My powerbank f*cked up the 800 I think because it turns out to have 2 outputs: 1x 5V/2A & 1x 5V/1A. Sorry I can't remember what output I used the 1st time I charged it during the ride (charged fast, no problems) or the 2nd time (no charging, lots of problems) and I don't want to repeat the experiment

I just plot the route as a GPX and display it on the map as a light blue line.

Ride with the GPS on the map page and make sure you're not off the blue line. Also stops me looking at the numbers page which only leads to madness.

The Edge 705 can be made to do routing well as you can upload a route (with the GPXX extensions) with thousands+ of points in it so the GPS has no option but to send you exactly the way you want as there's never any choice of the route between points that are 10 or 20 yards apart. Initial route calculations take ages though, which is a pain.

I have the route as a GPX track. I load it on the Garmin 800. The Garmin then decides it's not happy with my route and fucks it up, so the map uses some other roads. I presume you're using an etrex or something that doesn't do turn-by-turn? Is there a way to stop the 800 doing turn by turn if it fucks up the carefully planned route I've created?

How do I get my paid-for maps from Garmin 800 into Basecamp? I seem to have a map set from one etrex device but not the 800.

How do I get my paid-for maps from Garmin 800 into Basecamp? I seem to have a map set from one etrex device but not the 800.

Can you not use the install map option under the "map" menu.

I tried that initially and it didn't show anything different but I've double-clicked the map in the GPS device and now it apears in the dropdown

On mine, you plug the GPS in, and there's a thin green progress line, which creeps its way towards 100% complete. After about half an hour, the map's loaded. That's after Basecamp has taken quarter of an hour to load. Garmin's software engineers really should be shot, for the good of humanity.

On mine, you plug the GPS in, and there's a thin green progress line, which creeps its way towards 100% complete. After about half an hour, the map's loaded. That's after Basecamp has taken quarter of an hour to load. Garmin's software engineers really should be shot, for the good of humanity.

We are talking about two slightly different processes here.
As you say your maps are available to basecamp when your garmin is plugged in. The install maps option makes the maps available when your garmin is not plugged in.

I've unplugged the Edge and now the maps are gone. Install Maps appears to be for putting maps on the device, not the other way around. You sure?

I've never found a way of keeping the maps available when the Garmin's not plugged in, and given the way Garmin's DRM works, I'd be extremely surprised if it was possible. But every day's a school day...

https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?26622-Transferring-Maps-from-Garmin-SD-Card-to-BaseCamp

I have a ride that seems to have lost the gps data for the mid section but has still recorded the distance and cadence/speed/heartrate/etc for the time... Is there any way to salvage the missing gps part?

I've got a Forerunner 210, which I bought just before xmas. On friday I ran home from work, but when I plugged the garmin in to my computer it made some extravagant beeping noises and deleted all the history and all the settings. Really annoying. I went for another run today and when I finished I checked that it was saved in the watch history, but when I plugged it in, again no sodding history.

Any suggestions on what I could try? Other than calling Garmin?

Not sure I should ask this with all of the crap being endured above but want a Garmin (or something similar) to stop me getting lost on long rides as I keep rinsing my phone battery. Needs maps to give me directions and also basic info like speed, distance traveled etc. What model can people recommend?

I've got a Forerunner 210, which I bought just before xmas. On friday I ran home from work, but when I plugged the garmin in to my computer it made some extravagant beeping noises and deleted all the history and all the settings. Really annoying. I went for another run today and when I finished I checked that it was saved in the watch history, but when I plugged it in, again no sodding history.

Any suggestions on what I could try? Other than calling Garmin?

Update: after the piece of shit deleted yet another activity today I called Garmin and they said if I send this one back they'll send me a new one.

Anyone want to lend me a running watch for the next fortnight? I've got a race that I would actually like to know my pace for.

Not sure I should ask this with all of the crap being endured above but want a Garmin (or something similar) to stop me getting lost on long rides as I keep rinsing my phone battery. Needs maps to give me directions and also basic info like speed, distance traveled etc. What model can people recommend?

800 ftw

They have lots of little annoyances but they are fucking great little devices. (clearly I've not tried to use Garmin software in the last few days otherwise stabby stabby)

Too pricey for me. What's the cheapo version of the 800?

Too pricey for me. What's the cheapo version of the 800?

What do you want or need?.

Mapping and navigation only Etrex 20. £120, no HRM or cadence.

I have an etrex (think it was around £130 years ago) and the 800 is far better for cough only twice the price at about 200 squids.

Copenhagen - Warsaw on Garmin500 loaded with tcx file, such a joyful experience and low battery use.

What do you want or need?.

Mapping and navigation only Etrex 20. £120, no HRM or cadence.

Yes, mainly the mapping/navigation. Cadence would be nice but would just be a toy really. I have a HRM already so don't need that.

I have an etrex (think it was around £130 years ago) and the 800 is far better for cough only twice the price at about 200 squids.

Yes, fair comment. Will do some sales watching I guess.

Biggest disadvantage of the eTrex 20 - doesn't have the nice quarter turn mount.

Biggest advantage - battery last for eons if you stick with AA.

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Touchscreen, uses OSM maps, can do turn by turn, uses AA batteries, etc. I used one to navigate to Brighton on a backroads route with no probs

Downsides, the mount isn't as nice as the 800, no Ant+ for cadence/HRM, doesn't automatically upload to Strava (although you can get the file off it and upload).

I may also have one to sell with a couple of bike mounts if you're interested.

If Garmin did one with AA batteries and ANT+ (HRM, Cadence and Power) then I'd snap it up.

For Audaxing I need something to last 20+ hours (and up to 80 hours on some rides).

Right now I get by with my Edge 705 and external USB power packs (the Edge 705 is happy to run whilst being charged/powered) but it's a bit of a faff.