Edge 1040 Solar with FW 21.18 crashing almost every other ride

Since the update to 21.18 I have not had problems with lost files, but quite a few crashes. In the last two weeks, it crashed 3 times during activities.

I'd be Just Riding Along, look down and see the Garmin logo flash up on the display. Sometimes the unit shuts down and I have to boot it up again, sometimes it reboots on its own. After the reboot I can resume the activity.

Has anyone else had this issue?

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KevDeGroof 3 months ago +1

Downgrade to previous firmware didn’t work for me. But deleting all my sensors And reconnect them solved the issue. Never had a crash since that day
mcinner1 1 month ago in reply to Erik +1

Erik said:
I put the device to sleep inbetween rides, no shut down.

I never do that. I always turn off my device completely to have a clean boot up the next ride. I have never experienced a reboot so far…

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0 pxl 30 days ago in reply to Erik

yes, it seems these crashes are related to a memory leak or memory allocation problems

beside crashes, the screen on my edge many times just goes nuts and shows all kinds of artifacts, sometimes to the extent that it is unusable

then (sometimes) it just goes away after a while, so if it does not affect important memory parts, it is resolved, if affects then it can crash even with some data loss

last time even after a short ride (2 hours) the training load was zero after a crash..

it is just a #JAGI, no worries (Just Another Garmin Issue)

0 steve_s_t 29 days ago in reply to Erik

FWIW my 1040 Solar has only ever crashed, mid ride, twice. Both times were after I'd when the unit for sleep having forgotten to fully shut it down after the previous ride, which I always do otherwise.