Your Garmin help, please

I had a look on another cycling forum and apparently 800's basically get to 300km then crash, so you should reset before that then stitch them together later. FFS.

I did 350-odd yesterday on someone else's 800 with the latest firmware (2.70). It hung once but power off and on fixed it. Recorded everything.

My device use older firmware (2.50) and also sometimes gets stuck when asked to recalculate lots but hasn't thus far caned any long rides.

My standard procedure upon arriving at home is to Stop, Lap/Reset for 5s and then power it off until I'm ready to download data.

What's the biggest (successfully recorded) .fit file anyone has?

I reckon my 518 mile 24hr has to be up there - otherwise you get into multi-day touring realm where people are probably turning the unit off, logging the files or putting the unit on external chargers for the night?

You're only looking at 1-2mb though for that and it's tiny compared to the capacity of memory cards or even internal storage.

have you got something set up in here... ?

That speed zones thing is for personal zones, like climbing at 10kph or some such. I've been through that - I guess it's possible but none of the speeds set in there matched the warnings - it only ever says 30kph zone or 40kph zone, like it thinks I can't crack 40 pfft! ;)

This is an alert that warns about the road's speed limit (which is wrong).

It's a 2008 City Navigator - did they have speed warnings back then?

You probably do 500 miles quicker than we can do 200 though...

How big is the .fit file for your longest rides?

I think maybe 2mb? I'd have to check though.

http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=124028

I'm guessing this Speed Limit shit is map-specific and with the firmware update it now displays the alerts? Anyway, it's not happening on mine so I'm not that bothered. (Mine has 2011 maps)

Why not stop the file, and start a new one and then use * to merge them?

http://www.fitfiletools.com/

That's what most people having the issue seem to have resorted to - but I gather the stats get a bit messed up doing that (there are some odd examples on Strava where the merging of two files has been blamed for weird data).

Also, when to stop the file is a bit questionable. In my case 200 miles would probably have prevented my two crashes - but also have caused me to split two other rides that didn't go on to crash. In Fox's case splitting at 200 miles would have been 40 too late... :S

I should probably add for balance - my garmin has 23,000 miles on it. In all that time it's maybe crashed 5 times - the two long ones mentioned above, plus two corrupt commutes on the original firmware that I had to delete manually, and a 30 mile 'dead zone' on the middle of a 120 mile ride a few years ago.

All in all, it's been pretty good...

Went for a ride on saturday and paused in manhattan. Then started again but the my edge 500 did not seem to pick up my location for the next 30 miles or so - only locating me again in jersey and drawing a straight line across the hudson to where it realised I was. I have lost the data from some good climbs and in strava my average speed has taken a serious hit...

It didnt tell me it had lost satellite reception, but I cant see any other reason it might do the below:

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/550662508

Something weird going on with the time in this file:

http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/555384565

Anyone know how to correct it?

I'd forgotten about this - when we aborted the SDW the other weekend we were fairly near Chichester.

I put "Chicherter" into the Garmin auto-route function, it whirred away and came back with a route calculated.

We followed said route, until it became painfully clear that it was navigating us away from Chichester.

We tried this a few times, and every time it came up with a bonkers route to nowhere.

Needless to say, this was sub-optimal.

Any ideas on why it did this, and how to make it not do it again?
perhaps your spelling was sub optimal

I've never really paid attention to my recorded routes. Having a look at a ride i did yesterday the trackign seems to be a bit rubbish. I've attached some examples:

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Is this normal or is there something wrong? Is this going to mess the milage up or is that separate?

If you use the "smart" data point spacing this tends to happen when you go fast as it is simply doing a join the dots with straight lines. To avoid this I set my GPS data point interval to 1s.

Its on a garmin edge 200. I don't think i have any options regarding tracking intervals.

Something weird going on with the time in this file:

http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/555384565

Anyone know how to correct it?

Anyone?

My Garmin has added 1714 days of stopped time to this file - anyone know how I can remove this?

The answer is: open the file in TopoFusion and cut out the part of the track where the 1714 days are.

The answer is: open the file in TopoFusion and cut out the part of the track where the 1714 days are.

days or hours?

did you not 'finish' the previous ride before starting the next one?

I use SportsTracks so it is simple to split the file into the parts, and keep what I want

Days, which the garmin added whilst having a coffee

I used a 510 to log some runs while on holiday. Unfortunately due to a lack of network connection these runs got weren't uploaded to Garmin Connect and don't appear to have been stored on my phone.

When I got back the device halted at loading profiles as I set off on my first ride. I tried restarting several times but ended up doing a factory reset (lap, start/stop and power buttons).

Is there any way to recover the data for these activities?

Cheers

I used a 510 to log some runs while on holiday. Unfortunately due to a lack of network connection these runs got weren't uploaded to Garmin Connect and don't appear to have been stored on my phone.

When I got back the device halted at loading profiles as I set off on my first ride. I tried restarting several times but ended up doing a factory reset (lap, start/stop and power buttons).

Is there any way to recover the data for these activities?

Cheers

Is your device set to record to the garmins own internal memory or the micro sd card? If the latter your activities will be on the card in the actvities folder. If not they are almost certainly lost.
Depending upon your orientation either use some sort of file manager to explore your device whilst plugged into a pc/mac and look in the actvities folder for files with extension .fit. These are your runs.

I am trying to load the Exmouth Exodus route from their website onto a Garmin and am stuck as it only appears to save in text format (when I 'save as' ), can someone help with what I need to do to convert this to a GPX file that I can load onto the Garmin

Essentially a gpx file is a text file.
Just ensure that when you put the file on your garmin it has the extension gpx and not txt.
The reason your system is doing this is due to your file and folder options, you can change this behaviour.

Just rename the file to .gpx when it is on your garmin.

Has anyone successfully used a course with way-points on an edge 200? I tied creating a track on gpsies and uploading it to the Garmin but it was missing the way-points. Luckily I was testing it out on a route I knew but I'd ideally like to use this method of navigating for an upcoming ride.

Also is it possible to change the display so that it doesn't show the useless one with the two bikes on it?

Tracks do not contain waypoints, routes do.
Did you download a gpx track or a gpx route file? they are not the same thing. Most route creation websites create gpx tracks.