Is there a way to make turn-by-turn navigation not navigate back to start when you make a wrong turn?

I've had a continuous problem when I turn on "turn-by-turn" navigation. If I'm using it and make a wrong turn, it tries to "renavigate" me, which is fine, but I have a LOT of round-trip routes. So, if I make a wrong turn a mile into a 20 mile bike ride, the remainder of the directions all take me back to start... Similarly, if I've carefully chosen my route based on personal experience, and I miss a turn, it just creates an entirely new route for me rather than trying to get me generally back to my first route.

Is the only workaround to have a one-way route? Or maybe to turn off turn-by-turn and just use the on-course/off-course?

0 mcalista over 4 years ago

[Activity] Settings> Courses> Follow Course (rather than Use Map)

0 silentvoyager over 4 years ago in reply to mcalista

However Follow Course mode would not help navigating back on Course. And in general turn-by-turn directions in Follow Course mode are fake - they are based on the shape of the track rather than actual turns. I know that because when following a course on a trail I see a lot of redundant TBT notifications where there are no actual turns, often for every sharp bend of a course, but at the same time it misses some actual turns if they aren't sharp turns.

0 eezytiger over 4 years ago

This is not just a Fenix 6 problem. It's how it's always been, right from my first Garmin device - an Edge Touring Plus bike computer bought in 2014. Advice back then was to disable automatic route recalculation and to use manual recalculation only with great caution and understanding of the limitations.

If you let the device recalculate your route it only cares about getting you to the end point. It does not care at all about your original plan. The best thing to do is to manually find your way back into the correct route and hope it can continue navigating from where you left off. For a return route it definitely helps to split the outbound and return legs, because if you leave the planned route it cannot keep track of whether you were still heading out or returning, so again it just tries to get you to the finish. No coffee stop for you. :-)