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Two issues: battery draining overnight and freezing up after ride

I use my 1030 on my commutes (3 days a week). I have it paired with my S7E and I have GC open. Twice now when I go to leave for my next ride my 1030 battery is completely or almost completely drained. The unit seems to do everything correctly (ride uploads, livetrack says it ends, I can use the touchscreen to move through the screens, etc). I turn the unit off with the power button which seems fine but the two days later when I go for my next commute the battery (which was at 90%) is drained. I have not had the issue of battery drainage during the day while at work (no battery loss during the day). This has not happened every time.

Not sure if this is related, but after each ride my livetrack says it has ended but when I go to look at the livetrack on the web I see the message "The activity is not yet complete, but the tracking session has ended". Is that normal? I am wondering if the 1030 is somehow leaving the GPS on or something and that is what is killing the battery.

The other issue I have had on a couple of rides is that after the ride is over and the ride is uploaded and the livetrack says it ended the unit will freeze up on the results page. I see messages on the top of the screen about deleting all segments and stuff but the screen is frozen and only a long press of the on/off button and reboot lets me access the unit again.

The latter issue is a mild annoyance but the first issue is really bizarre and quite annoying.

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  • To shutdown it is two-steps, to sleep a single press is enough

  • Did Garmin intentionally sabotage the 1030 model so that people would upgrade to the 1030 plus? 

  • Yes, for sure!

    Because those issues are reported by users in 9.48 beta

    If you shut down device the it will not boot

    If the device is in stand by then it will dry the battery down

    So is a little bit obvious...

  • What do you mean by this? It will not boot? 

    If you shut down device the it will not boot
  • Boot is a long used computer term which simply means start.

  • I have had 9.5 since it came out (3 weeks ago ?), and never had an issue until last night. I always power off my device (not sleep) after a ride, and last night I popped it into the mount and tried to power it up, and it seemed completely dead - I simply thought I had forgotten on the previous ride to turn it off.  I left it on charge whilst I resorted to my 810.

    After returning from my ride....it had not charged at all (no battery icon on the screen), so started to think something was "off".  Ended up doing a soft reset (power+Lap), and to my amazement it displayed a screen, showed battery was at 96%...but of course it had reset all of my settings.  Reconnected to garmin connect, and then simply powered the 1030 down again. Upon trying to power it up....I found it was completely "dead again".  So same routine...but this time instead of reconnecting to GC, went through the menu and did a "clear all data", and let it reboot. Then connected to my PC, went to the Garmin folder and deleted the garmindevice.xml file. Reboot....and then setup as a new device.  Now it seems "happy" re-powering.....just wonder how long for ?  

    In my experience this (powering up failure) did NOT happen after I charged it. I had simply powered it down after a ride, and then 24 hours later, tried to power it up. I must have done this 20 times since upgrading to 9.5, with no issues.

  • I've had a similar problem three times. I simply pressed the power button for ten seconds and it started. But one time I lost one of my profiles. This is the first time I have had any problems with the 1030.

  • I have had similar problems with the 520 Plus. I finish a short ride, upload data to Garmin Connect, turn off the Bluetooth on the Garmin, and battery is around 70%. I turn the Garmin off fully and the next day when I want to ride, battery is at 0% and the Garmin Bluetooth is enabled. The first few times, I figured I just was remembering wrong that I had turned off the Garmin Bluetooth and had actually left it on. But the last few times, I am sure I did turn it off. Could Garmin Connect somehow be turning on the Garmin Bluetooth from my iPhone even while the Garmin is completely turned off?

  • my status update - Haven't had a recurrence since 9 days ago, and keep putting it in sleep mode to see if it will happen again the last several days.  Still haven't a clue why I had what appeared to be a recurring problem, and then not be able to reproduce it....

  • After returning from my ride....it had not charged at all (no battery icon on the screen), so started to think something was "off".  Ended up doing a soft reset (power+Lap), and to my amazement it displayed a screen, showed battery was at 96%...but of course it had reset all of my settings. 

    I created a backup utility for saving the settings given the sheer number of people in the forums that have been doing hard resets lately.  (and I've been through it too on one of the earlier 9.5 betas):  

    https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/cycling/f/edge-1030/231117/i-ve-created-a-backup-utility-aimed-at-1030-s-in-particular---edgebackup---v0-90