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How do I turn off course recalculation prompts when I purposely go off of a course?

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over 3 years ago

I find EXTREMEMLY annoying when I deliberately choose to go off course where there's construction, or if I just want to take a different street for a few km's before going back onto the course. I constantly get voice instructions and alerts to make a U-turn or to turn down streets that I do no want to take. Can't I just pause guidance for a while and then turn it back on when I'm nearing the course again? There should be a one touch on-screen solution for this, is there? If not, why? It would be a simple software update. This is the one thing that drives me crazy about the Edge. I can't find a solution to it in the manual. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Page 33 of the PDF manual available on the Garmin Website.

    Activity Profile (Road, Mountain, etc)-> Navigation -> Routing.  There you can turn off recalculation.  It is best to leave it turned off.

    Web manual version:

    https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/edge830/EN-US/GUID-75D72D8E-4D22-41E2-A11A-15250A9CC91D.html

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Wongataa

    That's sad that the best course of action is to turn off re-calculation for a device that is sold as a navigator.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to raiderma

    It navigates perfectly well along pre planned routes or to a destination.  It is just deviating from pre planned routes that causes issues because it doesn't do what people expect  It doesn't take you back to your planned route and carry on navigating you around it, it creates a new route to your planned destination point which is unlikely to match what you had planned.  This has been Garmin behaviour since the beginning of these devices.

    This routing recalculation has been improved in the 1030+ and presumably any future units.  The 1030+ can route you back to planned route, if you go off it, and then carry on navigating you along your planned route.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Wongataa

    thanks for explaining

    it seems the only feasible option to follow a course is to completely disable recalculation and use your phone to check the map if any roads blocked along the way

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 8636325

    Yep.  Recalculation has never done what I would want it to do.  Even with it off, if you deviated from a course that's being navigated,  it doesn't give useful instructions on getting back on it.  What I do is look at the map on the device and decide how to best rejoin the course.  Once on it again, the Edge picks up navigation as if you hadn't left it.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to looigi

    I agree.  Have the Edge 1030.  If I go off course because of construction, etc., I will figure my way back using Google Maps on my cellphone rather than this stupid GPS device that constantly beeps/chirps/warns.  Have had numerous time where I'm about to chunk it across the road as it is quite annoying.