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Got a brand new 830 but it's not better than my 810. What am I overseeiing?

Danny_Gijbels
over 5 years ago

Hello there,

Having an Edge 810 since 2014 I recently bought a brand new 830.  I had high hopes after reading lots of positive reviews on the net.

But I have to admit that I have had some mindboggling issues that I'm not sure if it is me misconfiguring the unit, the migration of gpsies.com to garminconnect or just a faulty device?

The unit is equiped with OS versie 5.10.

A heart rate belt is the only sensor that is paired.

Backight is configured for 10% and staying active for 1 minute.

Now the following issues appear:

1. Battery charge

When I charge the battery completely via PC it reaches 100%. But after turning the Edge off an on again it drops immediately to 99%.  Using an USB-adapter and AC it lasts a bit longer at 100% after turning the unit on but no longer than about 20 seconds.  After that it drops to 99% too. 

After that everything seems okay.  After a one hour ride the percentage dropped to 97% which is a rather good result.  Also when the unit is turned off I don't have any powerloss neither so that seems fine too. Has this something to do with the software that indicates battery capacity or could there be a problem with hte battery it self?

2. Time to calculate a route

This is the most annoying.  I test the TBT navigation by means of a GPX course created in Garmin Connect or in RWGPS.  In both cases i takes the 830 between 1,5 and 2 minutes for a 17 km ride.  My 810 was way faster in calculating and that seems very odd given the fact that the faster new processer realy should perform very good.

I also experimented with an export to the FIT-format but that doesn't seem to make much difference.

3 Display and gloves

Well ... this hardly seems to work at all.  Sweeping is working though I have to make an effort.  But tapping the fields or software buttons on the display is just impossible.  Without gloves it works fine.

I'm also experiencing issues with courses and turns that aren't created in GC or RWGPS but that can be caused by my knowledge of those websites.  I used to work with GPSIES which was totally reliable. GPSIES was also the only site of dozens that workes well on my 810. So it might be related to the site rather than de GPS unit.

For the moment I'm a bit disappointed in the 830 though I expected a major leap in respect to the old 810.  Maybe I'm doing stuff wrong (though I'd customized the 810 to be 99,99% reliable in all circumstances).  But maybe the software of the 830 is more difficult to tame.

Or maybe it's a defective unit and I should go back to the shop where I bought it.

I'm looking forward to your advice/answers.

Kind regards and keep everything healthy.

Danny

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to dpawlyk

    I know that GC kan work with HERE-maps, OSM and Google. I've tried them all and some of them give better results than others (Google being the worst).

    RWGPS I tried OSM and their correctness is better than any sort of GC though it won't give me the same reliability of the old GPSIES OSM maps (strange because I thought that OSM is OSM … case closed … but it doesn't seem that way).

    Anyhow I'm going to experiment further with different maps, sites etc. 

    Cheers,

    Danny

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Danny_Gijbels

    When creating digital maps, one can select different features. So, maps based on the same source might not be the same.

    Also, keep in mind that the maps on the sites might be more up-to-date.

    There can also be "resolution" differences that can cause road positions to be slightly different even with the same source.

    Google being the "worse" is completely expected because the location of roads is often different.

    RWGPS and Gpsies are using maps that are very close (likely, even the same). There's no reason one would work better than the other when comparing the same route created with OSM maps.

    If your route is in an area with sparse roads, things will tend to work better. In places with alternative roads/paths right next to each other, things can get messy.

    The idea behind the route planners is to draw a line that exactly traces the roads/paths on the device. There are a bunch of things that makes that hard to do perfectly.

    The units can also do things incorrectly for no real reason (sometimes, they take inexplicable shortcuts). There isn't any way to create the route to avoid these problems.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Wongataa

    :)