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Does Navigation work?

I've used the watch to follow courses before which works ok. This morning I thought I'd see how the Navigation function worked by asking it to guide me to my work location. Interestingly the watch was able to find the building I work in as it's a POI on the map so I selected 'Go' and started the ~1k walk to get there. Maybe 12 mins later I arrived at work & the watch was still displaying the 'Calculating Route' spinning circle!

So my question does Navigation work & if it does how long might I have had to wait for it to come up with a 1k route?

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0 1328264 over 2 years ago

Mine has taken several minutes to calculate the route even when loading a gpx route, it's so strange how the performance of this is absolute trash, no indication how long things will take and if you back out of something you have to start the whole loading process again.

0 Oli over 2 years ago

I've reported the issue, so you are free to vote up....

forums.garmin.com/.../route-calculation-very-very-slow

0 jkissane_ over 2 years ago in reply to Oli

Done!

0 CHP10 over 2 years ago

I am facing similar problems and i think the problem only occurs if you create a route with enabled "Turn Notifications". Interestingly, if i stop the watch, select continue activity later, switch off the watch, switch it on again and select the route in the same activity again, it is working immediately.

0 Elbo over 2 years ago

Calculating a route that is any longer than 200 meter takes longer than it takes to reach the destination.

It’s so f. slow that it is fair to say navigation doesn’t work.

0 1328264 over 2 years ago in reply to Elbo

It's so slow and flakey I'm considering returning mine and getting a Fenix or Epix as they seem much more stable and mature software stabilty-wise. Garmin seriously need to stop adding features and fix the absolute pile of bugs and do some opmimisation of this software-crippled device. It's got so much potential let down by bug after bug

0 Oli over 2 years ago in reply to 1328264

Yeah, really a pitty, since i like the design and comfort much more than the epix. For me the sw of the fr 965 is like in a alpha stage. They should use the same sw base of the epix/fenix instead of two different development teams. I think thats the only way, even when it would be a lot of work.