Current Problems with the Edge 1050

(1) Corrupting FIT files, losing data.  Pretty much the only reason I've stayed on team Garmin for twenty years is that I never, ever lose data.

(2) The Edge 1050 doesn't detect that the unit is fully charged, and leaves the screen powered on FOREVER while charging.  I assume this is going to cause burn-in at some point.

(3) no way to write to the storage on MacOS.  So, I can't create a startup.txt or add routes.  I couldn't get MTP to work with a Windows 11 VMWare virtual machine on MacOS either.

(4) The firmware is fairly unstable.  I had it enter a crash loop the other day and needed to fully reset it.  The unit kept cycling between day and night mode and all of the sensors kept all disconnecting and reconnecting.

(5) Still no QWERTY keyboard even with the new high resolution screen.  How am I supposed to use navigation?  Nobody in the US learned to type on a ABCDEF keyboard.

(6) ConnectIQ store is busted.  Doesn't work at all.  Even on Wifi.  There's no way to search.  I had to install the TyreWiz data field app from my phone.

(7) Still no native TyreWiz support.  ConnectIQ is terrible.  It takes up to five minutes for the TyreWiz sensors to connect when I power the unit up.  If the TyreWiz sensors aren't awake when the 1050 powers on, the ConnectIQ data field still crashes.

(8) ClimbPro is busted on navigation.  I rerouted back to start last week and the climbs from the previous course were still showing up.

(9) The Varia RTL-515 errors out whenever cars approach (possibly due to vehicle lane assist).  Constant Error 0:9s and Error 0:FCs...

(10) Road hazards are inaccurate.  I get random "UNPAVED ROAD" warnings when that's not the case.  I also get "POTHOLE" warnings, when that's not the case.  The 1050 flags nearly 90% false-positives in San Francisco.

(11) Deleted all ConnectIQ fields from stored 1040 profiles.

(12) Did not add my radar as a sensor from my existing profile.

(13) Crashes on start-up most of the time.

(14) Screenshots stopped working.

  • I had to disable sleep mode because if the unit goes to sleep during a ride, it 100% will lose data.  I was seeing the same thing -- only the part of the ride after you restarted would be tracked.  The totals on the device were right though.  It appeared all the 1s data points were wrong though.  Strava only tracked the last part for me as well.

  • Same here.  Charging is completely busted.  It turns on when charging.  These screens are going to fail fast because they just stay on entirely when charging.  You can turn the unit off and charge it, but you have plug it in, then turn it off.  Sometimes it just turns off entirely.

  • Why doesn't Garmin just put a red alert box and display "Varia Reconnecting" similar to the road hazard warning?  And then it auto-clears after reconnecting.  What's really dangerous is to have to take my hand off the bars and clear the modal 0:9 and 0:FC warnings every twenty minutes.

  • The 1030 Plus and 1040 disabled the screen after charging reached 100%.

  • just saw this, realize i'm responding to an old post.  but out of the box, the 1050's firmware has a bug.  updating to whatever newest firmware enables windfield to work

  • Thtat’s not the case. The annoying power-on when attaching a charger was there on my G-1000. I was amazed when it was still there on the 1050. However, I always leave mine on after a ride then attach the charger and then power-off. Of course the G-1050 still charges to 100% (although often staying on 99% for ages).

    It does not have to be on for it to charge, this was also the case with the 1000. If it’s not charging in power-off mode then the must be a fault.