Navigation struggle

That's been my experience.  I either follow the instructions to go back to that point, or look at the map on the display and decide which is the most convenient and sensible way to rejoin the course.  Once I'm back on the course, navigation picks it up and continues normally from that point on.

thats the standard for 830 i believe.

new 1030 plus has better rerouting capabilities and i am hoping they will trickle down.

Same (annoying) behavior also for me. Could not find a setting to overcome this.

Hopefully this would be improved with an update sometimes in the future.

zooming out on the map and following to the next best thing is what I have been doing as well. I am coming from Wahoo Roam, Garmin re routing is actually pretty good :) 

Can you please elaborate more on Roam routing and rerouting?

Thanks

Navigation is a joke on the 830. I have "Distance to Next" and "Next Point Location" displayed and I frequently, as in many times during a ride, have the "Next Point Location" fails to update and the "Distance to Next" stays at zero."Distance to Next" usually remains at zero for a couple of miles and will even miss turns. Less frequently, as in once or twice during a ride, the "Distance to Next" will freeze (usually around 0.25 miles) prior to the "Next Point Location" and not update until sometime after I pass the turn point.

Also, if I ride on a parallel road, for instance on 1st St instead of Main St, the 830 will prompt me as if I am on Main St.

Re-routing is a joke on this device. Make a U-Turn is not a re-route. This device can't even figure out that the route I'm taking is more direct then the way it wants me to go.

I have the same issue.  Sometimes it will stay frozen on some distance to the next turn, such as 500ft., and I pedal along for looking for the next turn that never comes.

All of you have the wrong idea about route following on the Edge devices.  You plan a route, you download it, and then the Edge will tell you how to follow it.  It is not acting like a car/Waze/Google direction showing you the fastest route -- you said "I want to go THIS WAY" and it is just following your instructions.  When you decide to go off course (or make a mistake) it expects that you want to go the way you told it to go.  Most of us that plan routes go all kinds of crazy ways to go over hills or longer routes to avoid busy roads that a car nav system (or Waze or Google) would never plan.

The 1030 plus has some better options for routing back to your course (if you go off-course), but it isn't clear if those options will eventually be available on the 830 or other Edge devices.

The problems with turn notification might be due to where your route was planned, or your firmware version, but you didn't provide any of that detail.

Did you read the feature set before buying the device? Its never designed for how you intend to use. Its a navigation system based on the route you uploaded into its system. its YOUR route. All it does is show it on a map and tell you when to turn based on the data that's available. Coming to Main st issue you have, did you have good GPS signal? try the GPS + GLONASS or something which can improve the reception. et01267 has provided a good explanation...

Then why does the device offer to recalculate the route for me? The behavior is the same when I have my Edge 830 route me to a Saved Location.via a route that the Edge develops. That is just like car navigation.