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new Edge 1030 Plus - my experience - far awy from top model!

PROFGRUEN
over 4 years ago

Got my new Edge 1030 Plus in order to replacce my old Garmin Edge 1000. Read a lot of finde things in Garmin product presentations but I have to state that Garmin did not a good job up to now:

1. display: compared with my old Garmin Edge 1000 or even the cheap Edge Explore model the display of the Edge 1030 Plus is an embarassement:
    first I thought the display is in a kind of stand by modus (one knows from mobile phones when they dims the display when not used) - however even when Display is
    set to 100% it is much darker, colours are pale and weak - both menues and cards, week contrast.
 
    One has to say it is better in direct sunlight, but this is not sufficient for a n outdoor gear! I thought at first that I got a defective Edge 1030 plus but we checked
    at the bike shop with 4 other new Edge 1030 plus - alls devices had the same weak display.

    Dont know what Garmin devekopers thought when implementing this bad display quality to their new Edge top model ...


2. Basecamp 4.7.2 - so the actual version - does not recognize the Edge 1030 Plus and is therefore only usable iwth lmited functions - distressing


3. Garmin Birds Eye maps: I was not able to chose the "Birds Eye" map download-function with the new Edge 1030 Plus - wherea no problem with the old Edge 1000 this function is not possible for the new top model - so one has no other choice than to upload custom maps - which often does not work properly with garmin devices (my old Garmin Edge 1000 often often crash/freezed during bike/mountain hiking tours when using kmz-maps.

This is really akward for such an expensive device: Garmin seems to sell their new Edge 1030 Plus without updating their own planning and map-loading software!
maybe Garmin can issue a statement to this point and a timeline when this issue will be fixed.

Without this feature and therefore solid maps usable the new Edge 1030 plus device is worthless for  long bike tours and especially hiking tours as one can see no paths/trails (forget the new trailfork maps - I checked them for some of the bike locations throughout Euroe where I have biked in the past - not usable).

Anyway I have to say: IF the mentioned 3 issues can be solved by Garmin (dont know how they will do this with the weak display built in)  the Edge 1030 Plus could be an excellent device:for the first time the built-in processor has a fine speed eg allowing card moving at amazing speed.The black colour looks great.


So hopefully Garmin reacts very quickly and change a current unsatisfactory device to a successful one. I use garmin Edge devices since  a lot of years and dont want to change the brand.

Greetings


ProfGruen

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to cheracogoff

    No it is ecactly as he says, I discussed this today in the forum with mcinner1. Look at the pic below - comparison old edge 1000 and edge1030 plus - guess which one is the Edge without the colours .. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to PROFGRUEN

    and yes with full brightness ...

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to mcinner1

    @mcinner1 please look at this postin another part of the 1030 Plus forum; do you think this can be an approach for Garmin to find a solution for the color problem ?

     20 minutes ago in reply to PROFGRUEN

    I am thinking of a bug in the card or the software (2.3) of the 1030plus.
    I have the same thing the card without color or very pale especially in MTB profile.
    To find the colors is to recreate a profile and we find the colors. but as it’s a bug it can come back pale at any time.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 7374682
    7374682 said:
    I am thinking of a bug in the card or the software (2.3) of the 1030plus.
    I have the same thing the card without color or very pale especially in MTB profile.
    To find the colors is to recreate a profile and we find the colors. but as it’s a bug it can come back pale at any time.

    Your completely right!

    I use OpenMTBMap (Alps) and this map is displayed not correctly. Some colors are false and many are missing. No buildings anymore - only white.
    Now, I followed your suggestion, deleted the profile transferred automatically from 1030 and rebuilt it from the scratch.
    And - hey - OpenMTBMap ist displayed correctly! All colors ok!
    But - as you said - the joy lasted not long. Some setup-steps later the map went buggy again.

    I now have tried 3 times to delete and built the profile new - but the map does not come right anymore...

    Yes - there must be a bug in displaying maps.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to mcinner1

    May I take your fotos for a report to [email protected] ?
    (since I'm not able to reproduce the "well done map" anymore - but I have seen it!!)

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to mcinner1

    Yes no problem.

    I have the impression that it is a bizarre mapping profile that persists on MTB profile.
    But it is not beautiful, lack of info.

    so yes i hope garmin software correction soon.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 7374682

    I was able to reproduce the issue.
    It affects all profiles - also road bike.
    (already wrote an email to [email protected])

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to mcinner1

    So glad both of you recognized the issue I tried to explain that my garmin cycle cards have no or only very pale colours on my 1030 plus.

    Cheracogoff this is exactly what I meant and what I learned during the discussions here: the 1030 plus is ok, just a bit less brighter than former displays.The problem are the cards. @mcinner1 - a pity that we cannot compare the BirdsEye raster maps on the 1030 Plus too.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to PROFGRUEN

    Replaced my 820 with the 1030plus. am very happy. no problem setting up and the battery consumption is awesome. yesterday's five hour ride (with Varia and H.R. monitor) used just 20%. Couldn't be happier. No proof, but sometimes I think complaints are because of some kind of operator error. i know i've been guilty of that in the past. I do have one complaint. Please do something about that weather report-small craft warnings? This is a bicycle not a sailboat.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to PROFGRUEN

    Hi, it has do to with the pre installed map themes under \MapThemes you can rename the file "Mountain.kmf" in eg. "x-Mountain.kmf" and the card will show up with it's default theme.