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Navigation keeps indicating U-turn

This weekend I was navigating a course, which I shared with my wife. She loaded the gpx on her Wahoo, I had it loaded on my 530. We took a shortcut and after 500 m we were back on track. After this, my wifes Wahoo was fine, but my 530 kept indicating a U-turn for more than 5 km. Every 500 m the track was found again, and after recalculating a U-turn was indicating while the map was clearly indicating to go straigth on.

  • There is no way to change the re routing behaviour on any Garmin bike computer apart from the 1030 plus.  All Garmin bike computers until the 1030 plus have had the same re routing behaviour.  Yes it would be great if Garmin updated the 530/830 to have the same re routing as the 1030 plus but they have never said they will do that.  At least all future units should work like people expect them to.

    All you an do is get yourself back on route yourself by using local knowledge and/or the map screen.

  • Thanks for the quick reply @Wongataa

    I find it strange that all devices behave like this. The only useable way would be the one from the 1030 plus. That being said, the only 'solution' to this problem would be to turn off the re-routing and find your own way back to the route. 
    As I have found many users on the forums here who do this. 

    The exact reason I switched from Wahoo Bolt v1 to Garmin 530, was for the re-routing. Shame... 1030 plus would be to expensive for me, and the Karoo 2 is a bit bulky ( also prefer buttons over touch ). 

    Anyway, now I know for sure what happened on my last two rides :D Thanks for sharing the knowledge

  • I would hazard a guess the navigation behaviour was taken from Garmin's car sat navs.  With a car sat nav you tend to just  tell it to navigate to a destination and not specify a particular route so if a recalculated route was different from the initial one you probably wouldn't notice or really care if you did.  Eventually Garmin have realised that if you plan routes you want to keep following them if you have made a detour for some reason and the re routing changes were implemented on the 1030 plus.  Maybe earlier devices didn't have the processing power (though the 530/830/1030 plus should all be pretty similar in that regard)?

  • It would look like that..
    I guess if the Edge 1030 can do it, the 530 and 830 should too. It's only a software issue...

    Fingers crossed for an update

  • Maybe earlier devices didn't have the processing power (though the 530/830/1030 plus should all be pretty similar in that regard)?

    I believe the 530/830/1030+ all use the same CPU (at the same speed). The 1030 is a bit slower.

  • So frustrating all the navi issues in this thread still exist, my 530 is up to date firmware wise. I feel foolish on group rides with other riders with navigation that works as it should. My 530 is newish so I won't change it out soon, but this will weigh heavily when I do purchase my next device. 

  • I'm with and others, its ok to rely on local knowledge etc if you have it, but on a few occasions when i've set courses into the unknown and gone "off route" my edge has sent me into a loop of "make U turn" until I had to ask my girlfriend to find us on her large screen android phone so I could work out where we were.   I've taken the advice of and turned off the route recalculation and I'll see how this goes when I next go off piste. Ive only had my 530 for less than year and while its great in some ways I'm seriously considering selling something from my garage and buying a 1030 plus !