Owners--would you buy an 830 again?

Best Garmin Edge I ever owned. Fast and reliable. No issues at all.

The 830 is a fine device BUT I must admit this is the baddest release of a device, software, of Garmin device I have purchased.

GPS is not very reliable, I do not use sensors what I did also did with the 1030, 520Plus and 1000, but with the 830 it works much more less. 

In rain the elevation meters are totally not correct.

BT works fine for me, as mentioned before check your Phone first. Powermeters and HRM is connected well and reliable. 

I think some software quirks have to be fixed fast!!!

Would I buy it again, yes I would because competition is nothing better or worse......

I love my 830, and would buy again. For me, it's the 520 on steroids with better screen, navigation, and analysis.

Of course people on this board complain. Who ever goes to a manufacturer board to post "my product worked as promised all week again!"?

I appreciate all the replies.  I decided to worry less and give it a go.  Unboxed and set it  up.  Will try it out on the bike tomorrow.

I would totally buy the 830 again.  I am coming from the 520 and this is vastly improved in every way.  Battery life is amazing, the screen is excellent and it just works works works. I was nervous giving up my 520, but one ride on the 830 and I was sold on it.

I would be interested in hearing your impressions / conclusion once you are at that point, cheers! 

I hat the Elemnt BOLT for approximately two years or so. Well, it is a well done bike computer. However, I disliked the physical buttons on it, because they had a pressure point that was way too hard for me, if you know what I mean. In addition, many information of the map where hardly to recognize due to the mere black and white appearance of the display. Since I often only have my Apple Watch Cellular with me when biking, I was not able to change anything on the BOLT. An advantage of the Edge 830 is it's better independence upon smart phones. On the other hand, it is somehow more complicated to handle.

Although, the ROAM has a colour display, Wahoo decided to only show a few information of the map in colour. With the Edge 830 you can get much more information that will not only help for cycling but also for hiking and other activities. However, with the ROAM you will be able to distinguish between country lanes and dirt tracks, which is not possible with the Edge 830.

You can tell the difference between country lanes and dirt tracks on an Edge device.  You just need a map with a map style scheme that differentiates between them.

I used an Edge 800 for quite a while.  The 830 is an improvement for me with respect to the battery capacity.  And although it was a bit buggy at first, the BT phone connection to save rides and the ability to download rides from RideWithGPS remotely are useful features.

Though the 830 is smaller than the 800, the resolution is better so I can put more fields on my screens and still use them.

All in all, I would say that I'm happy with the purchase.

I've read through most of these responses and I have a tough time believing some of these users claiming "no issues at all" and "it just works works works."  My experience has been the opposite.  Are they using autozoom while navigating?  Are they using autopause while following a workout?  Are they using the 830 for mountain biking, creating routes in Trailforks, and making any sense of what the navigation is doing?  Have they been able to get Forksight to do anything?  Do they understand how Climbpro works?  Are they using the 830 for longer rides and not experiencing any lockups?  Does the map not zoom out to some random, inexplicable level and change the orientation to north up?  Do they really find the Virtual Partner to be a useful feature and not an annoying distraction?  Does LiveTrack work reliably, every time?

I've had a lot of struggles with the 830.  Perhaps I'm just an anomaly, or maybe I had higher expectations.  Granted, the stream of issues has slowed down as software updates have been released and as I've become more familiar with its quirks.  But for a long while, there was something on nearly every single ride that left me either scratching my head or wanting to rip it off my handlebar and chuck it in the woods. 

My guess is that the users leaving the strongly positive responses are either not using all the functionality of the 830, or are tolerant of the bugs and quirks.  (Maybe previous Edge versions were even more buggy?)  I bought the 830 primarily for the navigation and the mountain bike features, but it really is not good for mountain bike navigation.  It ruins my flow and I end up stopping the nav and just riding without it.

As I've said, it has a lot of potential to be a really great device.  It's just frustrating that it was released for sale with so many bugs.  Garmin needs to get the bugs worked out and better educate users on how all these features are intended to work.  I may have a lot of complaints, but these forums have also been helpful in clearing up some of the confusion and reporting the bugs.