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Comment on Dummies Guide to the Garmin Edge 800 by GRAHAM KEW

GRAHAM KEW — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:50:22 +0000

Hi, My Edge 8 seems to have lost the ability to search via postcode. This was a handy extra when using the Edge for car journeys. Used to be able to search for shops and POI but these seem to have disappeared as well. No problems locating satellites – so not a GPS satellite problem, just looks like some of the menu under ‘Where To’ have vanished! Any help gratefully appreciated. Graham

Comment on Dummies Guide to the Garmin Edge 800 by Rich

Rich — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:42:18 +0000

Hi, whenever i approach a change in direction on my route the garmin changes the display view to a more zoomed out view and gives me excess directions that i dont need and says i need to tap the screen to go back, do you know how to switch this off? its really annoying.

Cheers

Comment on Dummies Guide to the Garmin Edge 800 by frankkinlan

frankkinlan — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:21:06 +0000

Hi Philippe,
as far as I know there are No waypoints on a Garmin Edge 800, I don’t know why as they date back to the earliest devices.
Coursepoints which should be unlimited seem to get truncated and screw up with turn directions on the long ride.
.TCX format is not the be and endall of Garmin formats. It is an unresolved matter, until we complain nothing will be done.

Comment on Dummies Guide to the Garmin Edge 800 by Philippe

Philippe — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:02:43 +0000

Hi Frank,
Same problem here.
I have a file with courses and waypoints.
I can see the courses on the EDGE, but no waypoints, although these waypoints are loaded onto the EDGE 800 as they are shown one by one when selected in the locations list.

Comment on Garmin Edge 800 by David

David — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:21:14 +0000

Hi Frank, nice helpful site that I’ve looked at from time to time. Just upgraded to 800 from 705 – what a mistake. I’ve been struggling ever since I bought the 800 to use routes created on BRT, RWGPS or whatever. Fine the routes are there on the 800 and the turns are shown on the Map Page but no Turn Guides show up on the Data pages. Just seen on Bike Radar that the 800 only does turn by turn guidance when a destination is chosen. Bit odd that Garmin have removed one of the important 705 features. Anyone want to buy an 800?

Comment on Weekending 30 Jan 2012 by frankkinlan

frankkinlan — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:06:58 +0000

Hi Dave, no chance, the event will be in full flow by then with rider practise before hand. It will be Policed by the Tunnel Police. Don’t know about after the event. Limited spectating should be possible at the Liverpool end but the crucial turn happens before the roundabout. It is going to be fast with the possibility of a speedtrap at the midpoint

Comment on Weekending 30 Jan 2012 by Dave

Dave — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:06:05 +0000

Hi Frank,

I’ll be riding over the Runcorn bridge after a spin through Delamere, getting to the tunnel before 12 midday. Will I be ok to ride through seeing as 1. I’m on a bike 2. the tunnel is closed?

Comment on Dummies Guide to the Garmin Edge 800 by Grant

Grant — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:20:36 +0000

Hi Frank,
I have been creating waypoints in basecamp with a proximity alert on them and then copied them into the route i have made in basecamp as well. After selecting “send to” I have sent it to my edge 800 unit. The course is listed on the unit and navigates well with the turn points etc but none of the custom waypoints display and none of the proximity alerts work. Any ideas.
By the way, great site with heaps of useful info. Cheers Grant

Comment on Dummies Guide to the Garmin Edge 800 by mendip5000

mendip5000 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:44:53 +0000

Frank – great work here; thanks on behalf of all of us.

I’m able to get my Edge 800 to most of what I want it to. I have quite a few activities stored. I notice that they are on the device, not on the 4Gbcard. Do you know when the device will chose to use the card?

I ask because it takes a long time for me to use the “Upload new activities” option on Garmin Connect – I assume this is because there are lots to look at now. Is the easy answer just to take the old ones off and store them on a PC for archive purposes?

Jim – just been on a 70 mile road rise with turn by turn Nav from the device – I used Courses part of Carmin Connect – worked a treat.

Comment on Dummies Guide to the Garmin Edge 800 by Jim

Jim — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:38:17 +0000

This unit is driving me to distraction. I have drawn out a dozen or so routes in Garmin connect, RWGPS & Map my ride, and sometimes – and it doesn’t matter which site, nor type of file – only sometimes do I get clear turn instructions on the unit. The rest of the time it just shows where I am, and that’s about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. I’ve also tried all the solutions on this most useful site, set turn guidance to on, off course warnings on, and even spoken to Garmin support. Apparently though I have a cadence rate of 177, which isn’t bad for a 56 year old, although I suspect there’s something wrong there too, because I only do about 12mph!
My advice it to avoid this unit until Garmin sort themselves out with some proper instructions.