This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

I thought the 830 was a bit smarter than this..

Marco P
over 2 years ago

Hi all,

I really love the 830 but sometimes I truly don't understand the weird choices it makes while navigating a route.

Have a look at the figure, typical situation we all run into:

1. Original planning, straight ahead.
2. You take an unplanned detour, for a couple of hundred meters, because of construction to the road.
3. The 830 sends you back to the point where you left the original planned route.

So instead of saying that it found the planned route again and you just continue, it wants you to go back? I don't understand this.

Of course this is a very simple example which can be ignored while riding but situations can be far more complex so I get confused by the 830 suggestions.

Can this behaviour be changed in the settings or is the 830 just not that smart?
I would think that the navigation shouldn't be so stubborn if you're at least going into the right direction of the planned route.

Thanks

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Michael Jac

    It has been fixed by Garmin (it has been an issue since the beginning of Gamin's Edge units with mapping).  The fix is to buy a 1030+ or newer unit which has sensible re routing that works as people expect it to.  Garmin has never said it will be ported to any other unit.  It would be great if they did but I wouldn't hold out any hope. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Wongataa

    You should have started this message with "It has not been fixed by Garmin" Buying a 1030+ (or a 1040) is not a fix.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    So this behaviour is there on all Edge 8xx and 10xx versions and changed from the 1030 up? Could it be that the 830 still has a poor performing processor like the 820 had? (Re)calculating routes on the 820 was not even a serious feature because of the long waiting times. That's why I immediately bought a 830 when released. So if the processor on the 830 is still not capable of handling these processes we might have to wait for the 840 to see this 'fixed'.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Marco P

    The 830/530 have the updated processor.  They have the same processor as the 1030+ and are much faster than the 820.  It is just that when Garmin introduced the 1030+ they elected to not back port the improved route recalculation to the 530/830. They did pack port some other features introduced in the 1030+.  I guess it is down to product differentiation reasons but only Garmin know for sure.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Wongataa

    So if it's not the processor then what? A choice I assume. If it's product differentiation then they're silent about it because it's not in the marketing blurp of the 1030+. Let's hope we'll see it appear in a firmware update one day.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    I also find it slow to notify when I have eventually rejoined the course.  "Course Found" seems to stay there for longer than necessary when I want to look at the map.  I have to press the notification to hide it.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Wongataa

    Was the sensor disconnect issue back ported from the 1030+?