Garmin 800 turning off or freezing.

[Andrew Br]

Well that wasn't easy; I've just spent several hours getting tomorrow's audax route onto the unit. For some reason it would only accept two of the legs initially and it took me a while to get the other legs loaded. I'm sure it was much easier on the original.
I shall have a map with me tomorrow as well.......

On a more positive note, the Garmin worked OK on today's ride although the built-in mapping only thinks there is one road in Cheshire.
More news; Evans have found my map card.

[Ningishzidda]

Well that wasn't easy; I've just spent several hours getting tomorrow's audax route onto the unit. For some reason it would only accept two of the legs initially and it took me a while to get the other legs loaded. I'm sure it was much easier on the original.
I shall have a map with me tomorrow as well.......

On a more positive note, the Garmin worked OK on today's ride although the built-in mapping only thinks there is one road in Cheshire.
More news; Evans have found my map card.

Andrew, you have to tell it you are riding a tandem, and then it accepts four legs. 

[frankly frankie]

I think they get deleted from Newfiles once the GPS has booted up and moved them into the Courses memory??
Stick them in some other folder (as well) - then they might be retrievable in case of need.

A good point for LEL controllers might be for control PCs to have some Garmin software installed - at least the USB Driver and Garmin Connect, and a card reader/mSD adapter.

[oldbatonabike]

My Garmin Edge worked well for about 8 months. Then I increased the length of rides and it clearly took exception to this and the data was corrupted and it developed the switching of/freezing/not turning back on issues.  After reading about the problems you guys have had here I knew I was not alone and was confident in contacting Garmin customer service.

I got my returns number on  monday, and sent it back to Southampton, and had a new device on wednesday.  I tried a 200k on it yesterday and it recorded perfectly AND the battery lasted for 13 hours.

Read all about it here:  http://oldbatonabike.wordpress.com/2013/08/02/garmin-edge-800-gps/

[Andrew Br]

So far my replacement unit has worked perfectly, including on a 150 mile ride during the week,
Fingers crossed it stays like this.

[Andrew Br]

It's still working perfectly.
After this length of time, the original unit had started giving problems.

[Andrew Br]

I now appear to have a different problem.
I've started a new thread about the issues.