Garmin edge touring problems

I bought a Garmin Edge

I bought a Garmin Edge Touring in April 2016. After a month of use, during which it said it couldn’t navigate the route a few times it simply froze. Sent it back to AS adventure (Belgium). 4 weeks after that they lent me another device while ‘Mr Garmin’ looked at the one they sold me. That one didn’t work properly either – didn’t display maps! 6 weeks later I finally got them to agree refund. So my conclusion is that the Garmin Edge Touring is not fit for purpose and I wouldn’t recommend buying from AS Adventure either. I’m gonna try using my iPhone with MapMyRide app as a far cheaper alternative.

abudhabiChris

abudhabiChris wrote:

abudhabiChris wrote:

But, halfway through the ride it decided the memory was full and stopped recording.

There is nothing in the user manual about memory shortages or anything that might help explain what’s going on. I can’t even download the firmware updates because it says the device is full.

Update on this, for posterity and in case anyone else with the same problem finds this thread.

I found on some user forums a suggestion that if using a Mac you have to empty your Trash file, WITH THE GARMIN CONNECTED.

Apparently Mac puts lots of ghost files onto the Garmin, or doesn’t delete them or something bloody stupid like that. But just emptying the Trash doesn’t help, unless the Garmin is plugged in.

So I did it – took hours – and it worked.

A Mac doesn’t do anything other than show you what Windows does not. When you put a gpx file in the NewFiles folder on your device, the Garmin device processes the file to make it available as a course. When it does this it renames the gpx file with a ‘.’ prefix. The Mac is more likely to show you this than Windows unless you turn on show hidden files. Windows or Mac the folder gets filled up with all the files that you put there.

Using ridewithgps you still
Using ridewithgps you still have to be very careful plotting a route- it too has a tendency to take you off road unless you plot the route in very short steps to make sure you stay on the black.

You’ve turned ‘Lock On Road’
You’ve turned ‘Lock On Road’ on in the settings?
It seems it’s always new users that have problems with the things. It was the same for me. I hated it for the first few months.
Garmin need to look at that, they won’t, they’ll just keep adding ‘cool’ new features that will just further complicate things.
Do not use the Garmin site for anything, it’s terrible!
I use strava route plan – download gpx – new files – eject properly and it’s really easy.
If I go off piste I tend to just drop a pin where I want to go and then navigate to that. Always works fine. Keep recalculate on but switch it prompt so that you can say yes or no.

Cheeky request: after 3 years of Garmin use, if you’re doing tight overlapping loops in the same area, how do you make sure you’re following the correct flow of the route from start to finish?
There must be a way I just haven’t ever looked into it.

wellcoordinated wrote:keef66

wellcoordinated wrote:

keef66 wrote:

Out of curiosity I’ve just been on ride with GPS and tried to make it route me down the various detours the Garmin has tried, but it stubbornly refuses to send me off road, whichever map I choose.

So why does the Garmin??

So there’s your solution. Plan the route on Ride with GPS and download it to our Garmin. You can do it for free. Just export a gpx file and the put the gpx in the New Files folder on the Garmin. This is what I do and providing I keep my eye on Ride with GPS when digitising the route everything is fine.

That’s exactly what I’ve resolved to do, but it still means that one of the Edge Touring functions, namely the ‘suggest a circular route of a certain length’ one, is essentially useless. Which is a pity because that’s generally what I wanted it to do, without having to faff with the pc.

I’d still be curious to know why it works on OSM / RWGPS but not on the Garmin…

keef66 wrote:Out of curiosity

keef66 wrote:

Out of curiosity I’ve just been on ride with GPS and tried to make it route me down the various detours the Garmin has tried, but it stubbornly refuses to send me off road, whichever map I choose.

So why does the Garmin??

So there’s your solution. Plan the route on Ride with GPS and download it to our Garmin. You can do it for free. Just export a gpx file and the put the gpx in the New Files folder on the Garmin. This is what I do and providing I keep my eye on Ride with GPS when digitising the route everything is fine.

wellcoordinated wrote:When a

wellcoordinated wrote:

When a Garmin device that includes mapping sends you down a track, the problem is nearly always with the map source and not the Garmin device. Garmin has no control over the map base and if a track is flagged as a road in the map base then it the device will think it is fair game, if you have set for roads only.

I use Ride With GPS, which is great but aslo not infallible. If you casually click points miles apart when digitising the route the software will work out a route between your points, but beware. Even with the RWGPS set to cycling it still uses some tracks to route between the two points – its the same with all applications using OSM maps. It’s up to you to check the route before you ride.

You could of course submit corrections to the OSM base, but that’s another story..

But that’s my point. There’s a footpath near Snailwell that the thing always wants to take if I’m in the area. It’s so overgrown you’d struggle to walk down there. I looked on OSM and it is tagged as a footpath. I pointed this out to the OSM mods and they replied quite tersely saying it was correctly flagged as unsuitable for cycling and that the problem must be with my Garmin. I keep the maps up to date but the issue persists.

As you suggest, in future I’m doing all my road route plans on the pc and scrutinising them closely for any non tarmac suggestions before uploading them to the Garmin.