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ClimbPro showing up on flat route - and with incorrect values

Jeff S
over 1 year ago

Firmware 21.17

Went on a ride over the weekend and ClimbPro screen showed up multiple times while I was on a flat bike trail. It also showed seemingly nonsensical values, like a 5% grade and a 50-ft climb. While annoying, I feel like it’s also throwing off my stats since they’ll no be based on these crazy climbs that never happened.

Seems like yet another bug in this latest release. Is there a way to downgrade to buy time for Garmin to fix these issues?

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Jeff S

    No, it doesn't solve the problem. I figured out changing it to uncheck the "Uncategorized" section. Now I don't get Climb Pro for legit climbs that I used to. It only comes on for a faction of the legitimate climbs that it used to. I suppose if you are in the mountains it works fine, but I'm in a river valley with lots of shorter punchy climbs (10%+), and no mountains. Climb Pro used to work great for that. Now it's essentially a non-feature.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to aweatherall

    This will show you another example
    Green line with arrows - my daily route, flat terrain, roadway
    Red line - the roadway whose highest point is at the junction with my route - an elevation of 113m, while its end in the lower right corner is 89m above sea level.
    What does the Edge 1040 do when I approach the point marked with a blue circle - it informs me of the approaching climb.... (sic! )
    Even if I turned right into the route marked in red I would be at the top of that hill.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Ch4rvel

    Hello I think I know places like that here, but ClimbPro doesn't register them. In the situation you describe, are all three requirements for a climb met?

    • length minimum 500 meters
    • average gradient minimum of 3%

    • climb score minimum 1,500

    support.garmin.com/.../

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to peggatsch

    At the time, I had settings that took into account the smallest hills - nevertheless, a prompt about an upcoming hill and a countdown of the distance to it displayed to me several times on this route. The last firmware update changed a bit the way they were defined, and I set myself to take into account greater differences in elevation - but the mechanism for detecting climbs was ( I don't know if it still is, I would have to set the categories again to the smallest possible) flawed.
    What you're showing is an old description - I remember it from the days when I was using Edge 530, which also had ClimbPro ( it may have had a slightly different name ) but on it never displayed any prompt on routes in my city.



  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Ch4rvel

    I'm sorry that this was the wrong advice. Maybe it would help if you delete your maps and reinstall them? Then the ClimbPro databases will be rebuilt at the address
    \Garmin\SQL\internals
    D*.db and MapRegionGrouping.db

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Ch4rvel

    I checked again. I also have sections that are not climbs, but were counted as such. I didn't notice during the ride because a training session was running and ClimbPro is not displayed dynamically during a training session.
    I can't insert a screen at the moment, so here is the description:

    • average climbing 0,37 %
    • maximal climbing 1,83 %
    • rise height 2 m
    • distance 0,52 km

    Not a single criterion is met here

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to peggatsch

    It is possible that you started a climb and then turned off it? If you are willing to share the activity I can take a look. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to DeanWette

    Having this exact same problem and it's super annoying in the East of UK, which is mostly rolling countryside. The reason being there's way too big of a gap in climb scores between uncategorized (greater than 1,500) and the next option of cat 4 (greater than 8,000) compared to the old climb detection options which allowed you to select 1,500 or greater, 3,500 or greater or 8,000 or greater. Under the old settings I had mine set to medium to large climbs (3,500 or greater) which worked perfectly for the terrain I'm riding in but now I either get bombarded with alerts for practically every bump in the road or nothing at all. As you say, great if you live in the mountains but no good for anywhere else it seems.

    Garmin, if you're listening, please bring back the option to detect climb scores from 3,500!