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Course not sending to garmin edge 800 device

Former Member over 11 years ago

Hello everyone!
This is my first time using the Connect forum. I have recently bought an Edge 800 device and have successfully created courses in Garmin Connect and sent them to the device via the USB cable. The courses have then been available in the Courses menu of the device once unplugged (as one would expect). Once selected the course could then be followed. However, today I have tried to do exactly the same thing but it does not work. The computer has detected the device, I have hit the 'Send to Device' button, the message 'Course successfully sent to device' has appeared but when I unplug and turn on the device and go to the Course menu, the Course is not there. I have re-attempted several times but have not managed to get the Course to appear on the device.

I am a bit gutted because I was planning on going on my first 'proper' ride of the year today!

Has anyone had this problem? and does anyone know how I can fix it?

Thank you all!

Michael

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Same problem since ~ yesterday with the Fenix.
It seems that Garmin connect suddenly writes a .fit file in the gpx folder of the fenix, instead of a gpx file.

What I've been doing: use this URL to download a gpx (replace {{course ID}} with the actual number):
connect.garmin.com/.../{{course ID}}

Rename the file to foo.gpx, and copy it to the fenix GPX folder.

That worked fine for now...

It works, thank you very much ! Can ride today :-)

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Same problem here i can send course to device from GC and see it in new folder as .fit, then unplug from pc restart 810 and low and behold courses folder on device empty, i have a 1008 mile European trip planned split into 14 days but cannot load any, worked flawlessly 3 weeks ago but not now when i try sending the course again it says course sent in about 1 second tried changing title same thing, master reset no difference.
Ive updated firmware to 2.9 still the same thing

What if anything am i missing

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Try again. Appears they put a fix up on the server a few minutes ago. Still buggy however as I sent 7 courses to my Garmin 810 and only got 2. An hour ago, that "FIT" file put on your device was not a real FIT file. Summary time is still garbage however.

0 Former Member over 11 years ago

Import file to your activity page. Once there, send activity from pc to device from activities page, not from course page. Once file is in activities of device, within the device, create a course from activity. This worked for me.