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Just not sure I want to buy a Garmin again - I'd prefer to give my money to a company who can do decent software with their products.
Just replaced my 800 with an 810 (broke the 800 in a fall - no other reason) but thought the bluetooth connectivity was a useful feature as I often don't sync rides for weeks with USB on the 800.
But the key upgrade on the 810, bluetooth uploads via my phone, is totally broken. It hasn't worked once! I've found a thread on the Garmin site with people complaining about this for about a year with no fix provided. Then a fix arrived, thread closed by Garmin but it doesn't look like it fixed anything! From what I can see having checked I'm on the latest software it's still just as broken.
Another thing I noticed is that the Calendar functionality on the garmin connect website is broken, doesn't show the days where I've done a ride the way it used to.
The 810 does what I need but I totally agree with this sentiment. I'll think long and hard before buying another Garmin in a few years when this one gives up the ghost. Selling a device to the consumer market based on features which don't work is not the way to retain their market position.
With the new software is it worth the upgrade from an Edge 800 to the 1000?
Dunno, never had an 800. I always thought the 1000 was a worthwhile upgrade over the 705 it replaced, but this is very good indeed, and (IMO) significantly better than with the 810/510 where you're relying on the flakey Bluetooth connection to get it to work.
Jmckee what's happening? Not connecting, or what? There are two 'levels' of connectivity to get the full functionality, the BLE to get call alerts and stuff is a bit ropey and always has been.
My 1000 automatically updated and appears to have bricked itself on the installation. Gets to "78" and then stalls. Hard resetting doesn't seem to help as it just automatically restarts the installation. Any ideas before I take it back to the shop?
njee20 - the auto upload didn't seem to be working from the app. I read somewhere that this causes problems so I turned it off but even manually selecting the ride on the device, clicking the upload I was getting failures uploading the ride from my 810 to my phone when I clicked save.
Need to play with this a bit more and see what works and what doesn't but it hasn't been seamless so far.
And looking at Garmin connect, I'm not sure the new layout is an improvement but breaking the calendar really frustrates me when reviewing rides and when I switch to classic view it's broken there as well.
Thread resurrected !!
I know we had a thread about the software update to 4.2 on the 810 and we all pilled in there too, however this thread is a bit bigger and I've some more news.
So, upgraded to 4.20 on my Edge 810. Went fine for a few rides and then crashed on a long distance one when coming to the end of the ride to save it. Not normally an issue, happened a couple of times and honestly never been bothered about it, just shrugged. This time though it was a particular ride I do when in Harrogateshire/North Dales and I wanted to record my effort to see/gauge fitness etc.
So, so I took the decision to upgrade to an Edge 1000 and bought it the other day. Upgraded the software to 5.00 last night and look forward to riding this weekend with it, fingers crossed it'll go well and I expect it too to. Setup my profiles and will tonight set the home screen with my mobile number on it in case I loose it.
Just thought I'd share that.
Never has replacing one Garmin with another been a solution to any of life's problems 😉
So, upgraded to 4.20 on my Edge 810. Went fine for a few rides and then crashed on a long distance one when coming to the end of the ride to save it. Not normally an issue, happened a couple of times and honestly never been bothered about it, just shrugged. This time though it was a particular ride I do when in Harrogateshire/North Dales and I wanted to record my effort to see/gauge fitness etc.
So, so I took the decision to upgrade to an Edge 1000 and bought it the other day. Upgraded the software to 5.00 last night and look forward to riding this weekend with it, fingers crossed it'll go well and I expect it too to. Setup my profiles and will tonight set the home screen with my mobile number on it in case I loose it.Just thought I'd share that.
ah all that effort for the same dodgy software to fail in the same way, still nice screen though
Never has replacing one Garmin with another been a solution to any of life's problems
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