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Ride timer skips 2 seconds – It used to be rare but now is common

For at least as long as I’ve been using the Edge 1030, which is about 2 1/2 years, I’ve occasionally (but infrequently) noticed the ride timer jump by two seconds, rather than one. I don’think I rarely saw it more than once in a ride.

But of late, I’m seeing this far more frequently. Several times in a single ride of 1:30 to 2:00 hours or so.

Has anyone else observed this? Does anyone know the reason?

My best guess is that it reflects a correction to the internal clock based on the received GPS time.

Any information or observations would be welcome.

0 mcinner1 over 5 years ago

This usually happens when the processing performance of the device is overloaded. What is running on your device during a recording?

0 VeloManR over 5 years ago in reply to mcinner1

I don’t really know how to answer that. Apart from variety of mundane data displays, I have one Garmin IQ App: “SPH Graph.”

0 Former Member over 4 years ago

Hey, just called Garmin about this today. My Edge 820 skips two second on the 29 and 59 second marks only i.e. adding 2 seconds to every minute I ride. Their rep asked me to send a video of this which i will do tomorrow. Garmin rep stated it really shouldn't be impacting the overall time of the ride, but Im still a little leary. Let you know when i hear more

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

Unfortunately I had a recent ride where the Garmin skipped 6 seconds over a one minute period. It occurred at 6 different times skipping one second each time. Garmin has been made aware....

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

Well it skipped 3 seconds over a 30-second period. Called Garmin they stated it is a known problem with the 820 edge that they are not going to fix. The representative assured me it wasn't adding additional time to the overall ride timer. I'm not sure how that is possible, but what choice do i have.

0 mcinner1 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

It‘s easy to check:
start an activity on your Edge and simultanously on any stopwatch (phone) and check if there is a difference in time coming up.

0 VeloManR over 4 years ago

I think I’ve noticed something else about this…

And by the way, for me it’s always a 2-second skip.

What I think I might have noticed is that it happens more on a hard / fast ride than an easy one. But that’s just a notion I came up with today when I did a fairly hard ride and saw several of them but yesterday’s easy ride had few–I’m not sure I saw any.

A possible factor in the symptom is the number of paired devices I have:

Vector 3 (dual-sided) pedals
Garmin speed sensor (the geomagnetic model)
Garmin cadence sensor (bought in a pair with the speed sensor)
Varia Vision
Shimano D-Fly (integrages the DI2 shifting system with ANT+)
Garmin ANT+ heart rate monitor (with R-R interval recording)