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Audio notification of upcoming turn and off route

On my new Edge Explore 2  I am struggling to get it to work as I want as a basic no frills sat nav. My use case is creating a route in Cycle Travel, transferring it to the Garmin, then riding it. Simple. So I am mainly disabling stuff I do not want and 90% of the User Manual is useless to me.

However there is one thing that I do want and I think should work, but I cannot enable it and can find no guidance in the manual i.e. some audio beep of upcoming turn, and another sound to indicate off route.

If I am out on my bike I do not want to be looking at my Garmin screen all the time, NO. However I do want an audio notification of upcoming turn and more importantly a sound to indicate that I have departed from the course. However there are no audio warnings, just stuff on the screen

I have  Tones ON, and Navigation Alerts ON  I have turn guidance ON and off course Warnings ON, but these just seem to be visual on the screen, no audio beeps/tones.

I see this as just basic functionality that all Sat Navs should be capable of, indeed everything I have used in the past does this. When researching my purchase a review that I read indicated that it should do this.

However it is completely mute, even if I cycle for a km after a turning before I notice my mistake on the display.

Surely this must be possible, how do I get it to do this?

  • Go to Courses/3 dots/ and turn on "Turn guidance" or something like that

  • Sounds like you have a faulty device. I suggest calling Garmin tech support.

    Have you tried setting a alert such as for heart rate or cadence maximum to see if there is a alert? 

  • Sounds like you may have a faulty device. Call Garmin tech support. Also, try to set another type of alert such as heart rate or cadence maximum to see if that produces a alert.

    Strange that I responded to this earlier but my response did not show up.

  • It's definetely supposed to make sounds for all these events with your settings. Tones -> ON with turn guidance -> ON should be enough to get sounds to warn you about upcoming turns. Not sure what "Navigation Alerts" is

    When you say the device is completely mute, can you precise if at least does sounds when starting an activity with the activity button / powering off / putting into sleep mode ? All those actions should make sound with Tones -> ON.

  • That's really strange as I do get beeps about sharp turns even when only recording a ride, without following a course 

  • Sorry, I have an issue with the forum on this specific post and I cannot see any replies (even on different devices / browsers). My previous reply was made thinking there was no answer to the post for that reason.

    I just see a non-zero amount of answers on the forum main page for this post and receive email notifications for new answers, but can't actually see them.

  • I have the same problem apart from mine did work initially but now it's stopped.  Was hoping someone might have responded with the answer!