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My Edge 1030 is suddenly REALLY slow, especially navigating

This started on Sunday, April 7th. After I've loaded a route, the navigation screen behavior is unbearably slow. It takes forever to update my position, and it sometimes missed turns completely. I have at least 10,000 miles on the Edge 1030, usually with a route loaded, and this never happened before. I haven't made any settings changes of any kind (no new sensors, no extensions). I power it down completely (Hold power button + Power Off), and I've tried rebooting it (Hold power button for 15 seconds).

It seems to be recording activities and sensor data OK, but it's basically unusable for navigation, and I am super frustrated.

Any suggestions for fixing or diagnosing this problem?

I am running the latest firmware (7.30).

Thanks,
Shaun

0 mcinner1 over 6 years ago

How many courses and how many activities are stored on your device?

0 hotdogpartysausage over 6 years ago

Do you have any custom maps in addition to the standard garmin maps?
If so try disabling the maps you are not using.
Quite often following a FW update all the maps on the device are enabled even if they were previously disabled

0 TrippyZ over 6 years ago

Clear all history.
Clear all courses except the one you need.
Turn off bluetooth.

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

The exact same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. The solution for me was to remove the SD card I was using to store routes on - my intention had been to keep the device free from all external data to avoid precisely this type of situation.
It was completely reproducible i.e. card out, fine, card in slow and affected the map screen update even when not navigating??
Note: deleting files and reformatting the card had no effect.
I'm not sure if there was a fault with the card (doubt it somehow) but it had all been working fine until it started misbehaving, apparently out of the blue...

0 ShaunIvory over 6 years ago

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. I think I am going to try tg59's suggestion!

How many courses and how many activities are stored on your device?...

A couple dozen courses, and I have no idea how many activities. I delete courses I only plan to ride once, but I never delete activities, since the device is supposed to treat this as a queue and make room for new ones by deleting old ones.

Do you have any custom maps in addition to the standard garmin maps?

Nope.

Clear all history.
Clear all courses except the one you need.
Turn off bluetooth.

That seems excessively draconian, unless you are suggesting I try that to rule out a problem.

...The solution for me was to remove the SD card I was using to store routes on...

I like this suggestion, because I noticed the last few routes I loaded were on the microsd card. Usually, I put them on the device, so I am hopeful this is the problem!

Thanks,
Shaun

0 ShaunIvory over 6 years ago

I discovered my problem: Storing routes on the MicroSD card causes navigation performance issues if you also store activities on the card. In my case, also, I have the "Recording Interval" interval set to 1 second, not smart, and I suspect this is causing an I/O bottleneck for the card.

I won't store routes on the card anymore, but I also upgraded to a really fast MicroSD card.

Thanks everyone, especially tg59!