Garmin lesson rant

[Milzy]

went for a short blast and knocked out 25 miles at 20mph. Returned home pressed pause on the edge but for some reason instead of holding in the lap reset button I pressed the power button. Ride lost. They shouldn't allow that to happen I'm fuming

 

[Welsh wheels]

I know the feeling, I forgot to start Strava before a ride the other day! Totally sucks.

 

[ColinJ]

Pah - you want to try doing 270 km with 4,738 metres of climbing in 8 hours and losing that!

(I did try, but stopped after 31 km and reset the Garmin! )

 

[Drago]

If it aint on Connect/Strava/Endomondo, then you never did it.

 

[fullcycle]

Would be good if they could apply a factory setting to the device to auto save any activity that you were only able to manually delete incase of scenarios like the above or a battery running flat

 

[HarryTheDog]

The garmin 1000 won't let you switch it off, it tells you to stop the event before switching it off, so take it that yours is not a 1000.

 

[Milzy]

The garmin 1000 won't let you switch it off, it tells you to stop the event before switching it off, so take it that yours is not a 1000.

520. Time to upgrade!!

 

[Pat "5mph"]

How come?
If I switch off without saving, on restart it says "ride-resume" or you can save it.
Edge 200, the basic one.

 

[Sunny Portrush]

How come?
If I switch off without saving, on restart it says "ride-resume" or you can save it.
Edge 200, the basic one.

Mine is only an Edge 25 - is that even less basicier??

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Mine is only an Edge 25 - is that even less basicier??

Dunno, but does it keep memory of the ride when turned off?

 

[the_mikey]

went for a short blast and knocked out 25 miles at 20mph. Returned home pressed pause on the edge but for some reason instead of holding in the lap reset button I pressed the power button. Ride lost. They shouldn't allow that to happen I'm fuming

In general, powering down the Garmin (In my experience with a 200, 500 and 800) won't lose the ride data, it's ready to resume the ride when you power it up again, until you hold down the lap/reset button which ends that particular session and starts to record a new session.

It stores the data in whatever flash memory the unit has available (approximately 50Mb on a garmin edge 500), and the files are stored on the unit in the Activities folder, if you sort by date you may find your ride data is still there.

A more common problem is rider error, a rider will stop for a break and stop the timer, then fail to resume the timer when they continue their ride.

 

[Sunny Portrush]

Dunno, but does it keep memory of the ride when turned off?

I`m not falling for that one lol

 

[Tommy2]

I've done a ride with my 910xt and switched it off when I switch it back on it prompts me to hold reset to save.
Not sure if I pressed pause or stop before switching off, maybe that makes a difference.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Shouldn't have done that, garmin devices are ok to power down without losing data

 

[fossyant]

Shouldn't have done that, garmin devices are ok to power down without losing data

Even my 705 will let you power down, then turn on and continue - like at a lunch stop. Might be a glitch on the firmware, as the last few updates to the 705 made a real mess until they fixed it, and then brought out new machines. My 200 will also resume where you switched off ?