The Garmin 1040 has 32GB RAM and several GB's free. Nonetheless, Garmin thinks it is wise to set hard limits.
There is a hard maximum of 100 routes and 200 activities. This leads to problems. I can't sync new routes unless I delete some other routes. But the number of routes in use is nowhere to be seen, neither is there a message when you try to sync a route when there are already 100 routes on the device. The sync just fails without explanation.
Same for the activities. Today my last activity could not be stored because I suspect I hit the limit of 200, so the ride was lost.
So, to overcome these limits, I must regularly manually remove old files from the device to keep the device functioning. Seen how modern the Garmin 1040 is, manual interaction is unacceptable.
I would like Garmin to fix a few things:
- Add an option in the menu to see how many routes and activities are on the device
- At 90% of the limit, please warn the user
- Make it easier to archive routes and activities to another device.
- And the most important: Set the limits much higher. We have GB's of free space. Routes and activities are only a few KB in size. Limits could easily be set to 1000 or more.
