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Navigation? deviate slightly "off course" takes ages to acknowledge when "course found"

giantrat
over 4 years ago

Garmin 530 latest 6.2 GPS 4.5 following a course I find that it will tell me "off course" when I get about 50m or so off but when I get back on course I have to ride the course for quite a few minutes before it says "on course". I'm riding trails that I know on a course I know and going off course on purpose to test, sometimes it will tell me up the top of screen the distance back to the course but then after that counts down to zero and I am obviously on course again it doesn't let me know "on course" for ages, about 500m or more on average.

The problem with that is if I get back on course for a couple of hundred meters and then go off course again I get no second warning as it still thinks I'm off course.
My old 520 used to tell me straight away when I was back on course, within about 10 - 20m not 500m or more and a few minutes of riding. In areas where trails are difficult to see this behavior is going to intolerable.

I have tried all the different GPS options and a few of the routing options, nothing has helped so far. Currently I have Popularity Routing OFF, Routing mode Mixed Terrain, Lock to road OFF, Avoidance ALL OFF, Recalculation OFF.




  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to tfidalgo

    Firmware version 8.2 tested today, same issue.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to tfidalgo

    The only way to resolve this is for Garmin to give us a 2 button press combo tat'll force the 530 to an instant recalculation from present position. It should take us back to the route - just like when the route is freshly loaded it asks if we want to to the start or join the route at closest point. The benefit of this is tat it's take u back to the route.

    Bear in mind if u did not have recalculation off - and when recalculation kicks in - the unit will delete your route and generate it's own route back to the destination. Tat could mean doing a another 20 km when your destination is only 3 km away - it happened to me. Tat's why i propose for it to reload the route and get the unit to GPS to the route.


    There's no point in waiting for the 530 to recalculate - 8/10 times it will prefer not to recalculate and want u to make a U turn - recalculation burns CPU cycles (battery and time). Too many recalculations will kill the battery fast and increase customer complaints so better to stave that off with no recalculation of the route. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Machoman

    Before firmware v7.0 that was working ok, so its a software issue... Don't think pressing buttons is a good solution on a riders navigation standing point.