Varia Error 0:9 and Error F:C on v11.24 and latest Varia Firmware

hoyhoy 11 days ago

Four errors on a 90 minute ride yesterday. Any hope for a fix for this? Maybe just say "RECONNECTING" rather than a modal error box. Seems kinda dangerous to keep having to take my hands off the bars to manually clear this error.

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hoyhoy 5 days ago in reply to donnay.jf +2

It's definitely to do with RF interference which is fine, what's not fine is a modal error box that forces me to manually touch the device while I'm riding. It happens in San Francisco every…
Pdlpsher 7 days ago in reply to hoyhoy +1

In the past I've had the F:C error and Garmin indicated to me that it's a fault in the Varia and they replaced it for me. After that I haven't gotten the same error even once. If you get multiple…
donnay.jf 5 days ago in reply to hoyhoy +1

I've got error 0:9 alway at the same location and on the same direction, no problem when I'm back, so I'm on the other side of the road.

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0 hoyhoy 3 days ago in reply to Dave

Thanks, Dave. I just informed all nine pages of people who have been experiencing the same problem for the past THREE YEARS that they're all wrong for expecting their $200 radar to NOT error every ten minutes. "Y U MAD?" is an acceptable resolution.

0 Rob H 3 days ago in reply to hoyhoy

Couldn't agree more. It's totally ridiculous that this stays on screen beyond the point the radar is working fine again.

I don't get it every 10 minutes though, cars with radar (there are quite a lot of them around here now) don't seem to trigger it, only traffic lights.

0 hoyhoy 3 days ago in reply to Rob H

In the SF city limits, it's absolutely RIDICULOUS. Once I cross the bridge into Marin, it's fine(ish), but still I'll get disconnects when late-model SUVs rage-pass me. I think maybe that's why some people are commenting, "WORKS ON MY EDGE 1050!". I'm not disagreeing, IT WORKS! But it's the worst, Windows Vista-style design decision in the universe to force users to MANUALLY clear this (NON)-error out. 99.9999% of these don't even need to be a notification. The sensitivity for what's considered to be a disconnection needs to be dialed-back by a factor of 1000. The error needs to be a slight notification up until probably 2-3 seconds of continuous disconnection.