what happens when the 200 hour activity limit is reached?

jgforrest
3 days ago

Friend of mine lost his Liege-Bastogne-Liege activity from this weekend when he tried to save it. Trying to work out if its because he hit the 200 hour limit for activities listed in the 1040 specifications. There's nothing in the manual about the need to delete activities Does anyone know what happens when this 200 hour limit is reached? Does the device automatically delete older activities or does it just fail to save new ones?

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  • 0 3 days ago

    200 activities and not hours. The unit should just automatically start deleting older activities to make room for newer activities.

    I would recommend clearing older rides out of the Garmin\Activities folder rather than have 200 hundred sitting there.

  • 0 3 days ago in reply to aweatherall

    Thanks, but the specifications say 200 hours for history, is it definitely activities? Trying to work out how I can test it, guess I need to try adding a bunch of old rides back in and see what happens. 

    I verified yesterday that there's no warning on my 1050 when the 100 course limit is reached, it just doesn't sync any until some are deleted, unlike my Garmin watch (Epix Gen2) that pops up a warning that no more routes can be synced until some are removed.

    I also looked through the 1040 manual, there's no mention of the limits or advice on how to manage them.

  • 0 3 days ago in reply to jgforrest

    The longest regular Audax rides are 2,100 kms and have a time limit of 210 hours, eg Netherlands ran the Hanze 6-9-6 last year and Sweden the “Length of Sweden”. Many riders will record these as one activity and the world hasn’t imploded. 

  • 0 3 days ago in reply to L.Rouge

    Fair point. I have a mate who does these kind of rides, will ask his experience. Goal is just to understand what the 200 activities/hours limit actually means. Have you done these yourself?

  • 0 2 days ago in reply to jgforrest
    jgforrest said:
    Have you done these yourself?

    No, I dream about being good enough to just finish the qualifying rides, realistically improbable (at my age) but I can dream. The most impressive are the riders who don't have the genetic predisposition to blitz the ride finishing in half the allowed time but who plod along, always pushing the time limit but who finish via shear determination , they are described as being "full value".

    The "HISTORY: Up to 200 hours"  in Garmin specs, (I had a look at both 1040 & 1050 on garmin site), has been there for devices as long as I can remember certainly back to 510s maybe 200/500, devices with far far less capacity than current,  perhaps it just gets copied for each new device as garmin doesn't remember what it means either, a single activity or all activities (many riders would have over 200 hours in their saved activities)?