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Virtual Partner

snelle60
over 4 years ago

How to turn of Virtual Partner ???

This is such an annoying and useles function for me, I am not racing 100% of the time, rather call it excercising !

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to AdKo

    guys I called Garmin agin today and i told them about the forum but hopefully more people can give their feedback to Garmin so that we can get that option enabled! Honestly nobody needs two arrows to follow a course!

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Oliver
    Oliver said:
    Honestly nobody needs two arrows to follow a course!

    Agreed but then Garmin gives us the new useless arrows, I count 15 of them in the first screen shot and in the second by the time you include a "me" & a "VP" there isn't much route actually showing! Some people like both these so all I ask for is a switch to disable each, please

     

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to L.Rouge

    It's really not that difficult to allow users to customize to their liking with ON-OFF tick boxes. Better yet - make these "features" (VP, Climb Pro, MTB gimmick metrics, etc) IQ apps that users can add as they see fit.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to L.Rouge

    I have twice been following a route when I get an alert saying that VP has stopped. The navigation prompts then stop, or start popping up with directions I know are wrong. This has recently left me lost and having to phone for help. Is that because VP has finished and it thinks I no longer need navigation? If I can’t trust my Garmin to get me safely round a long ride ….. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to CambridgeMinor

    VP is separate from navigation. There's something else going on here. How did you plan the route? Through Garmin Connect?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to raiderma

    Interesting I only see two arrows my gps arrow and the big white  useless vp arrow. I’m using fenix 5x. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to cheracogoff

    Yes, that's what I'd always understood. It's happened twice. Once on a 17 mile route generated by Garmin Connect (when I got lost), and the second time this weekend on a long route I'd created myself using Garmin Connect. That was about 80 miles into a 100 mile route; fortunately I knew where I was at that stage. I don't have the map view showing all the time, so I don't see any VP arrows. I just get the turn prompts and the map view just of that small section. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to CambridgeMinor

    I just did a course last week on fenix 5x and it finished first than me as well and it didn’t stop course. I imported a gpx file into Garmin connect and  watch just alerted me when I finished the course. U might want to contact Garmin! Don’t forget to mention the disable option for virtual partner arrow! Lol!!!

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Oliver

    I found a good way to use Virtual Partner:

    I am choosing Trainig/Race an Activity... choose a track you did recently and the Virtual Partner will indicate your time you have needed last time.

    Alternative:

    Training/Set a Target and choose a Distance and Time (or Speed) you want to accomplish in your upcoming ride. The Virtual Partner will show you where you are at.

    You can also choose a superlong distance/time and superslow Speed.... then the VP will stay behind and the arrow wont bother you.

    Using these alternatives VP can be quite useful. Still I would welcome an option to just turn of the VP 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to rentagreement

    Yes I actually set the pace faster on the time stamps of gpx file  to get rid of it but I like using virtual partner as a data screen and don’t care to c it on the map as it takes too much space and is actually bigger arrow than gps arrow I’ve just relied on creating a data field when navigating that shows my average speed and average pace to help guide me when training! I just never understood the need for it as none of the maps I’ve used on other devices don’t have two arrows!