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Is this fixable?
sizbut:
My 800 has lived in a protective rubber case for most of its life and from a quick squint online you can still get them. Won't fix the switch but will protect it from further wear.
Kim:
Someone recently mentioned that you can get new cases for the eTrex10/20/30 for worth-a-try prices on AliExpress. Might be worth looking if they have one for the Edge 800...
yoav:
Unfortunately, this happened in the middle of a European cycle tour, with another 10 days to go. I think I’ve managed to bodge it for now with a bit of rubber and some electrical tape I have with me, as per one of the Google links. Video of replacing the back of the unit with one from Ali Express doesn’t look too hard but that will wait till I get home. Still, maybe time for a 830, or a 1030, or a Wahoo or a Hammerhead Karoo …. Choices, choices ….
Edit: a couple of questions re the latest Garmin (and other bike GPS) units:
1. Do they still use microUSB or have they moved to USB C?
2. Do Garmins (or any of the others) still have the annoying habit that if you connect them to a dynamo USB and you stop pedalling, the unit wants to turn itself off, and there is no way to override this setting?
Answers to the above may well affect my buying decisions. Thanks
chrisbainbridge:
The very new 1040 is usb c. Nobody knows if it stills turns off. The 1030 I have intermittently turned off so I charged it from a better pack charged by the dynamo. The 1030 now seems to do something really weird and scary if charged from a dynamo.
Kim:
Staying on is an eTrex HCx feature. The rotters removed it (along with the eminently useful write-a-copy-of-the-track-directly-to-the-SD-card-in-a-way-that's-tricky-to-accidentally-delete feature) in everything that came later, so I can't imagine them being in a hurry to put it back.
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