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Edge 530 - GPS update during activity !

Edge 530, firmware: 7.10
GPS software update screen pops up during activity (sic!). After a few seconds, a successful update prompt pops up. Then every few tens of seconds this message repeats itself repeatedly. On the map screen, the position locked on some random unknown region.
This is the second time something like this has happened to me - earlier, a few months ago, the Edge stopped counting the distance traveled during activity.
Garmin - what the *** must be so important that during activity your software spontaneously, WITHOUT ANY REQUEST, WITHOUT ANY CONFIRMATION starts software updates! For ***'s sake

Get over it - it's not the first time this has happened to me and I'm not the only one who has written to you about it

P.S. I skip the fact that no GPS firmware update has actually taken place, because the GPS module has the same version as it had before the activity started. Because of this dumb behavior of Edge I had to end the activity and restart the device.

  • Blocking Connect from accessing mobile data (phone settings) will prevent any downloads and uploads occurring during a ride. Note that livetrack and grouptrack etc will stop working too, but all and text notifications will still work.

    Unblocking will be needed in order to upload your ride if you do it via mobile data.

    Regular syncing using Garmin Express is wise too.