Your Garmin help, please

Make sure the cable and the socket on the Garmin are both bone dry- no use drying the Garmin if the cable is still damp.

cheers, thought as much. I was on cable #4 when I wrote my post ;-) tomorrow I'll try again

any of you Garmin masochists recognise this problem, and could maybe point me toward a solution?

Mine does this sometimes, I can often make it work by applying gentle pressure to the side of the USB cable where it enters the garmin.

FYI I have to manually mount mine every time now. They're fucked, since getting 'wet'. I'd warranty if it were mine.

cheers, have tried that every single way it budges, to no avail.

@skinny mount manually? is that something I can stil try? I got it wet many times before, will probably return it to Garmin because it doesn't look like I can solve this myself.

I think Skinny's referring to the 'install cable while holding lap/reset button' option. Forces the Garmin into mass media mode.

Yes. @peter_v as dan says

^This is why I wear my Fenix 2 and use it to record alongside whatever is on the bars (800/Cervo/PC-7).

Frustratingly my SRM won't speak to a Garmin, but the PC-7 is the most reliable head-unit I've ever used, so I am fairly confident that I won't lose that data.

ah, yes tried that before/while/after plugging in, several times, apparently my Garmin does not feel like letting itself be forced into mass media mode at all.

EDIT: tried again, and again, it did show the computer icon for a brief moment, synchronised with connect, then it disappeared again. at least now I have the data... I think the usb connection has a screw loose someweher, will send the 800 back to Garmin.

thanks for your help & support

http://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/573408901

Been trying all morning to get my Garmin Fenix II to sync - total failure.

The Bluetooth sync function is incredibly shit - anything I can do to make it better?

iPhone btw - tried it on Android and it was significantly worse, if such a concept is possible.

Remote Control! :)

Maybe I should go for a 1000 + external battery pack.

@Dammit, from your posts I'm thinking you're not a huge fan of the Fenix2?

Was thinking about getting one when my Forerunner packs up, but you seem to be having a fair few issues.

Issue from this morning turned out to be that the Garmin Connect service was borked - but Garmin hadn't told anyone (Twitter, email, note on the site- none of these things), so no-one could upload.

The Fenix II is frustrating because it's so close to being great, but isn't - for example the GPS chip is not as good as the one in the iPhone, so the tracks are quite vague.

I don't know about you, but I'd quite like a bit of specialist sports kit to outperform a telephone.

In it's role as backup recording device it's fine, and for running it's very good (route accuracy aside).

Ok thanks. I'm a big Garmin fan but with the recent change to GC and the associated problems I'm seriously considering a Suunto instead.

Garmin Connect is a fucking joke. That is all.

"virtually everything and anything to do with the Edge 1000 and mobile phone connectivity seems broken (at best)."

This would've been good during supported races where I could at least view texts from my team on the Garmin.

How many courses can you have on a Garmin 800?

I deleted about 200 from it last week. probably way more than that.

just got off the phone with Garmin, I told them about the problems and they said to return it, it's 2 years minus 1 week old and still within warranty so I'll get a replacement (probably refurb'd) item. happy with that.

Garmins are wicked, but never trust them. Ever.

Non-cycling one work a treat I found.

Is anyone struggling to sync their 200 with Garmin connect since they changed it all? It all seems cack to me, can't sync the system update or add course onto it.... I swear they real ease new software and let the consumers do the testing these days

My Garmin Connect keeps trying to reinstall itself randomly since the last update.

@chris_tim Have you tried dropping courses into the NewFiles folder on your device? I make tcx files using Strava or similar and drop then in manually like this and it works. I'm using as little Garmin software as possible.

^this is what I do.

I've never used Garmin Connect. I havent even got it installed.

I haven't yet, I will give that a go. Thanks! Mine also keeps trying to reinstall the software since the last update

Cheers, it must've just been a bit funny when I added some so I assumed i'd reached a limit or something. I only had 10 though.

Just to clarify, this is Courses I'm talking about not Activities?