Your Garmin help, please

Anyone have any experience with the Garmin Edge Touring?

I've currently got a Edge 200 and 500, using (sometimes simultaneously) the 500 for training and heart rate data and the 200 for basic, breadcrumb trail navigation, as Garmin can't seem to produce a unit that can process that much information at once and remain usable.

Essentially I'd like the Edge Touring to replace the 200's role, but I'd have (almost) proper maps. It'll see a fair amount of offroad useage too, so it'd be nice to be able to upload OSM maps.

I and my girlfriend have one as well as her mum.

Very reliable and simple, reckon the dumbed down user interface helped.

Standard maps was fine, work for everything (especially in Spain), I just upgraded the girlfriend's garmin with their own maps for postcode search.

Some says its finding satellite quicker thus less time searching, others adamant that it drain battery more having two system running.

The latter. More satellite signals mean more computation required which means more battery drain.

The time to initial lock of modern GPSes has been improved in lots of other ways (especially with the bluetooth/WiFi GPSes that download up-to-date ephemeris/almanac data rather than waiting to get it from the satellites themselves).

#csb

GPS chips require power, so if you've got both running you'll obviously drain the battery quicker than if you just have one.

Does the eTrex battery last significantly longer when the GLONASS is turned off?

Your Garmin and my Cannondale F-SI should get together.

Except the world would probably be destroyed by clusterfuck critical mass

First Ride with Edge 1000:

Pros
It didn't crash
You don't need to set turn by turn for every course individually (once I found it)

Cons
It's heavy and long so rotates on my TT mount.
It's slow calculating and recalculating, actually seems slower than 800 but maybe that's because I used the recalculate on route option?
When it's calculating or telling you you're off course it doesn't redraw the screen, so it looks like you're still on the course - cue extra mile detour to get to next RAB for a uturn.
The screen didn't respond well to my gloves - lucky they're full of holes so finger tip works better.
Probably more but I'll get used to it I guess.

Oh battery life down to 60% after a couple of hours. I'm going to disable Glonass to see if it's any better. Nothing else like WiFi or Bluetooth is on.

Second Ride:
Got 180k out of it today. Found a few more annoying things, like it tells you about a turn that's 2k away and then stops drawing your position while it shows this junction that's 2k down the road.

Recalculation of an as hoc route is actually faster than 800s. Maybe yesterday was slow because I'd selected recalc of a planned route.

Battery life bit worrying. 3.5hr then slept it a few hours then it gave me low battery warning at 5hr mark. I turned backlight off and stopped navigation and it lasted the 7hrs I needed.

Even though it's set to auto, it didn't go to night mode after dark. Odd.

Oh, had to set it to Car mode because it kept sending me down cycle paths.

Also recalc doesn't chose optional route. It would go from 20k to go, I'd ignore it and then it would go to 9k to go. Stupidb thing trying v to get me doing extra miles!

Oh, those awards at the end are funny. Instead of saying You went further than before it should self congratulate and say 'Wow, this Garmin lasted longer than ever without crashing' :)

Your first point is a good one- this behaviour drives me nuts, only way round it is not to use navigation, just follow the course on the map which is annoying

How do you do that - set the course to Always Display?

Problem with this is, I want to have the data screen showing (less power use right) and then only be told about a turn with 200m to go. I don't want to have to keep checking that there's a turn coming up and I don't want to be told at random distances there's a turn coming up. What was wrong with the 200m warning + the 50m warning the 800s used?

Garmin run HRM belt.

I was on the turbo using trainerroad a while back, and at the end of an interval I ramped my HR up to 95%max. But then as I started recovery, my HR figure just continued to Climb. To a few BPM above max. After that I felt it continually displayed 5 - 10 bpm too high.

I had hoped it was just a Ant+ stick /trainerroad issue. But then on my NeXT ride my Garmin wouldnt find it.

Despite having changed the battery only a couple months previously. I put a New one in. Which fixed it. Must have been a shite battery I figured.

But now the same thing is happening again. Last night it spent a period showing 10bpm too much, and then 10 bpm too little.

The New battery is from the same cheapo EBay batch as the last. So its possible its that. But I do suspect the HRM now.

Anyone else had this issue?

Best Budget ant+ HRM?

This has been very reliable for me.
http://www.dx.com/p/ant-wireless-heart-rate-monitor-strap-for-smart-phones-computer-black-256722

Cheers. Might go the cheap route if I can get one in time. Off to mallorca in 4 weeks.

Just did 3 X 20 . HR was all over the place. Feck.

Gonna save for a HR - tri belt.

There may be an option to buy from their EU warehouse which may speed up delivery.

My edge 25 won't sync with Garmin express either. Bluetooth to Garmin connect works. Anyone found a solution to the sync to express issue?

Not had that issue but Garmin will ask - Have you uninstalled and reinstalled the latest Express?

Anyone got a dead Edge 500? I need a replacement screen. Looks pretty simple to switch over if I can find the part.

Has anyone got the adhoc navigation to work decently on an Edge 1000 with its built it maps?

I tried it on Road Cycling and that was shit because it kept sending my down bike paths not roads.

I had more luck with it set to Automobile but then as I rode down the A40 today it kept trying make me do u-turns even though I was heading in the right direction home and I didn't fancy adding another 100k!!! to my ride (that's some fucking detour!).

I think I'm going to go back to my City Navigator and see if those maps are any better. Anyone else have some decent settings that make the stupid Garmin useful without

My garmin 1000 keeps giving me screen locked error.
Been fine for a year and doing it every day now.

Piece of shit.

Returned one before that did this.

Another annoyance is the Edge 1000 is way less responsive to gloved fingers than the 800. Bashing the screen 20 times to try and bring up the settings page is a ballache.

Also, the screen doesn't seem to be able to dim properly. On the lowest brightness it should be almost invisible right? So why doesn't the backlight turn off on mine? All day yesterday it was lit up and I worried about battery life then as soon as I plug it into USB the screen goes fully bright and then goes into it's low light mode. Stupid fucking thing.

If it rains even slightly, my mate is Reliant on his extra Di2 buttons to switch screen on his 1000.

So fecking glitchy.

Yeah as @Smallfurry says its water, or in my case condensation on the turbo and the screen just throws a shit fit.

I've not had an issue with brightness, if I dim mine manually its pretty much invisible and the battery lasts ages.
With the routing, I've never used garmin routing because its about as good as a blind man with a map givjg directions in another language.

I'm using some assos gloves right now and theyre fine. Do you have touch screen gloves or just normal ones? Try some touch screen gloves. As it is a touch screen, not a push screen.

Beyond the screen shitfit when we, mine is really okay.

It was damp (thawed snowed falling and rainy/damp roads) but still... the 800 seems far better at responding to my frantic stabs. Recalculate motherfucker!

Yeah, no matter what setting I was using, it wouldn't go fully dark. When I first used it and the battery was dying I made it basically black out and was only readable when I passed under a street light but yesterday it wouldn't dim no matter what I did.

Do I need to return yet another shitty Garmin product?

I've used it with my old Tuff gloves and that basically doesn't work at all. My Spesh semi-lobster gloves don't have special touchscreen stuff I don't think. I guess if I treat it more like a mobile phone it'll be ok and as for the shitty navigation, I'll load it with the Garmin City Navigator maps I own and try it again.

It hasn't crashed yet but I've not ridden 400k+ with it yet so I'll reserve judgement.

my longest 'ride' was 36h and 400miles. One single file. I've not had a single issue with crashing with longer rides.
I did normally split stuff after 12h when I remembered.

That's weird about the screen, not sure.

Yes my city nav maps work better than OSM for navigation prompts when I create routes on rwgps.com