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GPS + Galileo Satellite Lost

ANT1
over 5 years ago

I'm using a Garmin 530 with 3.20 firmware version in Spain. During the ride I have received multiple times a warning advertising me of Satellite Lost. Reviewing the route I found some strange peaks probably caused by these GPS lost.

Is a common issue with Galileo? Or is a generalized problem?

I thought that having more satellites was good for accuracy...

Thanks!

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to aweatherall

    And now 2 months later no real improvement , how can one release a series of products with a major bug, witch must have been apperant for any Garmin test ride ?

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    This is the joke of the week : adviced to use the russians because they are more reliable. Does Europe have a problem,or does Garmin have a bug in their system?

    Brand new Edge 530 (v5.20,indicating no updates available) and the issue remains the same: did yesterday my first ride with this device on "gps+galileo", and it was a hugh disappointment. At least lost 5x the gps signal,continuous recalculations,and getting the request at least 20x to take a U turn. Is Garmin aware that when you select road/race profile,you do not make a Uturn at 30km/h ?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 9244308

    Hi, yes, Garmin is aware, that you can't make a uturn at 30 km/h. You can influence this behaviour. Please have a look at this (it is written for 1030, but the same applies to the 530).

    https://ridewithgps.com/help/garmin-edge-1030

    I'm only using GPS and have never had any issues with loosing signals.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 9244308

    5.50 is the current firmware. You should update via Garmin Express. Apparently the unit itself won't notice new firmware versions and will always report that it's up to date - at least it did for me - probably until it receives the firmware file via Garmin Express.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 7225836

    I have upgraded to 5.50 via Garmin Express, and followed the suggestions of <schmjoe> : indeed , if you disable <recalculate route> setting and so on, the ride is much more practical. (so far the selling point of this device "fast in recalculating the routes w.r.t. previous devices": if you disable the feature, then the feature works perfect ???)

    But upgrading to 5.50 is for me not an improvement:

    today i did a course, and my device rebooted 2x during the ride. If i look at the buglist of 5.50 and before, i would say this software has still serious issues.

    Since they added lines in the code to analyse that problem: can we upload rides  in which such reboots happens somewhere on a developer server, so that they can analyse it? Or is this data by default uploaded when you post your ride to Garmin Connect?