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How to get more than 50 waypoints for a course

Former Member
Former Member over 5 years ago

I have a fenix 5x and have a custom course that has 60 waypoints but get the error that only 50 will be used and the rest won't be.

How can I get turn by turn navigation for longer routes?  50 waypoints is massively limiting and would really reduce the value of the product if this is a hard limit.

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    It is hopelesly limitted. I own a forerunner 935, which is advertised as triatlon watch but I run into this limit very easy.

    An other thing is, I cannot find any information about this limit on garmins site, so I have no idea upgrading to a newer watch will “solve” the problem.

    It seems garmin doesn’t use it’s own products otherwise they would have realized it is way to limitted.

    I think Suunto has better navigation options, but for me the suunto 9 is to big (but you have a 5x, so size would not be a problem) and the suunto 7 uses google wear, which is unusable for various reasons.

  • 0 over 5 years ago
    fenix 5 series (Limitation)
    • 1,000 waypoints
    • 50 routes, 250 points per route
    • 100 saved tracks
    • 10,000 points per track
    • Unlimited points per fit file (limited only by storage space available on device)
    • Connect IQ supported (watch faces, data fields, widgets and apps); Connect IQ apps may fill available internal memory before file limitations are met
    • 5x: 500 custom map tiles
    Why are you not using a track for navigation? In a track you could use 10000 points per track!
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to JM_Zogg

    What's the difference between a track and a route/course?

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

    A track has more points and a route assumes you have a map and follow roads, so you don’t need a lot of points in between.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to JM_Zogg

    nice list, but it does not contain the limit of 50 where my watch is complaining about.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Has the Garmin Fenix 5 the options to make tracks because i cant find them?

    PLease inform.

    Paul

  • +1 over 4 years ago in reply to 1114773

    A track is only generated when you record an outdoor activity using GPS. You can create a course and sync it to your watch using either Basecamp on a Windows OS or Mac OS computer or when using the Explore webpage or the Explore APP on an Android or iPhone.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

    @garmin chris. So you couldn’t be bothered to react on the real problem of the navigation limits, but you did up vote yourself.  How sad.

  • +1 over 4 years ago in reply to Elbo

    @Elbo

    When an answer is posted by official Forum Moderators, our forums always add a +1 to it. 

    If you are going to post in our forums, please be respectful. We are all here to help each other. Personal attacks are not warranted and should not take place towards anyone at any time.