Your Garmin help, please

Maybe they don't like strong gravitational fields?

Double post

When using my Garmin 810 to navigate a pre-loaded course it flashes up a close-up of the junction which you are approaching, time to turn etc, but this has the effect of removing the little arrow that is you, and when the time to turn is as accurate as it's been for me for the past few days it means an annoying number of wrong turns.

Is there anyway of disabling this specific feature - the zoom-in on junction thing?

Note, if you use TCX files, you’ll also get little arrows on the map, as well as the pop up warnings. Here’s some more screenshots showing the difference between navigating with a GPX track, and a TCX file.

From here: http://www.scarletfire.co.uk/foolproof-course-navigation-on-the-garmin-edge-800/

It's the GPX and/or TCX Pop Alert that I'd like to disable.

To stop annoying pop ups I switched off turn by turn navigation, but means you won't get warned of approaching turns

no more reliable than my 1000.

Hard to believe unless your 1000 is reliable.

Was skinner and more tanned than I was. Hero.

#lifegoal

#tillskinnywentandbroughtamotorcycle

To stop annoying pop ups I switched off turn by turn navigation, but means you won't get warned of approaching turns

Does it still show the course on the map when you do that?

Yep, it will still show the map and the line for the route, and give you warnings if you miss a turn.

Only had 2 issues.

1. When it rains and the screen is wet it says touchscreen locked. But keeps working fine. Just needs drying.

2. During TCR is went crazy and deleted loads of my saved courses! No worry, just took the SD card out and put in my spare SD card. As I was prepared.

Disabling the auto-zoom function is covered in this video, in the navigation > map options...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BGyHQOEsYc

However, in my experience, disabling this for the 800 doesn't actually do anything - it still zooms for me. Not sure about the 810 though...

Don't trust my Garmin with long distances, so I tend to record rides in multiple chunks then merge when I'm home.

Have four files. Three upload to Strava with the correct distances, however one, which the Garmin states is a 36.1k long segment, is uploading as 17.8k. The same problem occurs when I upload to Ridewithgps. Any ideas? Haven't seen this on a Garmin before, only other GPS devices...

Garmin Connect picks up the correct distance, but doesn't map it correctly...

After @hippy and @JB's praise of the Garmin 810, I went and got myself one.

Upload the files directly from the Garmin to strava?

Na. Sorted it out in the end. Was long.

Can you use any mini usb lead to connect computer to garmin 800? It's not showing up. I'm only new to it but I have a few rides I want to upload. They are on the internal memory.

Need to be one that also charge, so any that's powerful enough to run it will do.

At least that what I think

Well when I plug it in it does charge but I cant find it on my computer.

some cables only charge, you need one which also transfer data

#2 is kind of serious! Why should people have to carry spare SD cards? You sure it wasn't just your fat fingers? My 800 fucked up again and left me stranded again. Garmin are fucked.

Garmin Edge > British Leyland.

Try this. Switch off the Edge 800. Connect the cable into the Edge. Before you connect the USB cable into the computer, hold down the lap/reset button. Keep it held down until the Edge reads 'transferring to mass storage'. This way you can force it into mass storage transfer mode, when it can't detect that it's connected to a computer. Seems that the USB ports on the Garmin are prone to corrosion, which somehow prevents it from sensing its connected to a computer, but not transferring data. Stupid things.

Have held down button for a few minutes and never went into mass storage transfer mode.