Your Garmin help, please

If you're just selling it on, get the one that you will make the most money on. If you are going to use it definitely get a 1000.

I think @Yusuf987 was after a 8## or 1000

Was just finding out which people are more likely to get, look like the 1000 as 820 appear to have teething problem in Garmin forum!

I'm trying to download a route via gpx file from strava (on a mac) and it's really not playing, it was quite a while ago but I'm sure when I did it before it was one of those exec files (like if you do a manual upload) but it seems to download as an xml?

When I drop it in the folder (have tried garmin>new files. Garmin>courses. And on the sd card garmin>courses, gpx and new files) it doesn't even take any time to download, which is making me think it's not formatted right?

Anyway, any help would be appreciated

A gpx file is a type of lightweight xml file and your mac is very helpfully renaming it for you.

Gpx files are very small files therefore you are probably getting it onto your garmin but as a *.xml file which the garmin will ignore.

Rename the file in finder if you can. If not try this "Right click your file in the Finder and select 'Get Info'. Now change the file name and extension in the info window (i.e. remove the .xml).

Alternatively upload the file here and i will convert it to a fit file to place directly in the courses folder. Hopefully your mac will not "help" you with the resultant file.

Thanks! Sorted it, I actually tried to change the file extension in finder but it didn't work. The other way you mentioned did the trick though.

Fuck Garmin.
Absolute refusal to sync with garmin connect over bluetooth tonight, nothing has changed since this morning, when it synchronised fine. Plugged it into PC to do manual upload to strava and got a notification that the ride had appeared on strava. Will be buying a wahoo asap.
Edit: not the most annoying of troubles, but straw + donkeys back or something

Yep, I'm in the same boat. Getting a wahoo bolt as soon as they're back in stock. Garmin can do one.

Get the normal one, it's plentiful and battery life is good.

Ok, I just received my new etrex 20x. It comes with Garmin TopoActive Europe West + Global maps, and I opened basecamp for the first time to check out how it'd be to plan a route. Is it me or it's just AWFUL? I'm used to connect, where tracing a route is much more user friendly.

On my Mac basecamp is slow, laggy, and you can't even see the small roads unless you zoom like a million percent. Will I get used? Does downloading other maps help? Should I just plan my routes elsewhere? Lupus? Is it lupus?

The transfer rate between a garmin and a pc or mac is abysmal. Much better to download and use openstreetmap to your mac and use that map to plan routes.

Here is a link for you. the map selected is the uk. You will need " Map installer for BaseCamp / Mac OSX platform."
http://osm.pleiades.uni-wuppertal.de/garmin/generic/21-03-2017/32246a81e063585ce20369f059ed8c0f/

thanks for this. You mention download, but if I google download opestreetmap for Mac there's no indication of an application. I'm fine using it on http://www.openstreetmap.org, by the way.

your suggested way of working is drawing a route on osm, export a gpx, add is as a track on etrex/basecamp. Right?

The etrex can diferentiate between gpx tracks and gpx routes unlike the edge series.
Generally for on road you are probably better with a gpx route. Basecamp can produce both.

oh, interesting. I'll read about the differences between route and track. Thanks!

Here is a text file as that is what gpx files are showing the same " path" one as a track and one as a route.

1 Attachment

• gpx route v gpx track.txt

Thanks again. It's like having to learn it all again, wasn't expecting that. I see that it's not possible to trace a route on osm, but there are plenty of other websites that let you do that based on their maps. Would you have a recommendation of which one is best for cycling here in the UK? One that makes good visual suggestions of what's a nice country lane and what's a terribly busy local road?

Ride with gps has what I and many others think is just about the best routing algorithm for road cycling.
https://ridewithgps.com/

https://ridewithgps.com/help/garmin-etrex

The only change I would make on the last page is track up as opposed to North up. Track up means the map rotates to your direction of travel, like most car sat navs.

thank you so much. I've come across people mentioning ridewithgps plenty of times, feeling a bit of a muppet now. I can probably find my way from here (ba-dim-tush)

thanks!

I deleted some activities from my Garmin's sd card whilst it was plugged into my pc that I didn't mean to. Is there any way to recover them? Nothing in the recycle bin.

Nvm, answered my own question with a bit of googling for the terms "sd card deleted files recover".

Yes.
Awful.

Welcome to Garmin.

Try "Recuva" app.

Don't write anything else to the card.

On my Mac basecamp is slow, laggy, and you can't even see the small roads unless you zoom like a million percent. Will I get used? Does downloading other maps help? Should I just plan my routes elsewhere?

Try changing the detail level as opposed to the zoom level.

On my Mac basecamp is slow, laggy, and you can't even see the small roads unless you zoom like a million percent. Will I get used? Does downloading other maps help? Should I just plan my routes elsewhere?
Try changing the detail level as opposed to the zoom level.

£50 more expensive too...