The screenshot button sat once on the powerbutton but they moved that to the lap button which has a double function when the screenshot option i set to ON (after every boot). It takes a shot and starts a lap. Just another "bright" idea without thinking it through decently. This is just how the bright heads at Garmin work...
The screenshot button sat once on the powerbutton but they moved that to the lap button which has a double function when the screenshot option i set to ON (after every boot). It takes a shot and starts a lap.
Just another "bright" idea without thinking it through decently. This is just how the bright heads at Garmin work...
I cannot believe the stupidity. I though I was missing something obvious. So, now, every time I start a lap, it takes a screenshot also?
No, normally not. On other devices you have to activate the screenshot option after "every reboot of the device". I think this will be the same on the 520. But for the time it's activated, every time you press the lap button, a screenshot is taken, or every time you take a screenshot, a lap is started.
As I've got my 520 set to auto-lap every mile, this is quite likely one of the most annoying design 'features' to me. You need to hold down the lap button for 5 seconds until it takes the screenshot. If you have tones on you'll get a quick beep when it does. If not then you get to count slowly to five (or more to be safe).. If you do this it won't set a lap when you take a screenshot, only when pressed for less than 5 seconds.
The problem of course is while you're riding you get sweaty. You hit bumps. You have to turn. You have to watch out for traffic. Whoever thought it was a good idea to require you to hold onto the unit for 5 seconds obviously isn't a cyclist. If your sweaty fingers happen to slip off, poof you get a lap instead of a screenshot. If you have auto-laps turned on, congrats your laps are now all thrown off for the rest of the ride. And we all know how easy it is to edit the FIT data to correct your laps..
Why not set the function on something that doesn't modify your data in any way, say by pressing both the power and enter buttons at the same time? There should be NO use for the start/pause or lap buttons except for what they are for.
In short I've turned this feature off because it's not worth the trouble of messing up my laps just to have a screenshot of something I wanted to share.
As I've got my 520 set to auto-lap every mile, this is quite likely one of the most annoying design 'features' to me. You need to hold down the lap button for 5 seconds until it takes the screenshot. If you have tones on you'll get a quick beep when it does. If not then you get to count slowly to five (or more to be safe).. If you do this it won't set a lap when you take a screenshot, only when pressed for less than 5 seconds.
The problem of course is while you're riding you get sweaty. You hit bumps. You have to turn. You have to watch out for traffic. Whoever thought it was a good idea to require you to hold onto the unit for 5 seconds obviously isn't a cyclist. If your sweaty fingers happen to slip off, poof you get a lap instead of a screenshot. If you have auto-laps turned on, congrats your laps are now all thrown off for the rest of the ride. And we all know how easy it is to edit the FIT data to correct your laps..
Why not set the function on something that doesn't modify your data in any way, say by pressing both the power and enter buttons at the same time? There should be NO use for the start/pause or lap buttons except for what they are for.
In short I've turned this feature off because it's not worth the trouble of messing up my laps just to have a screenshot of something I wanted to share.
Dunno, I need to re check, but I don't need to hold for 5 seconds. A quick press also takes a screenshot. Are you saying that if you hold for 5 seconds, it will take a screenshot WITHOUT starting a new lap?
Are you saying that if you hold for 5 seconds, it will take a screenshot WITHOUT starting a new lap?
On mine (updated to whatever latest f/w is) yes, if I hold the button for 5 seconds it will take a screenshot without starting a new lap (and if tones are on, it will beep after those 5 seconds). A quick press on mine starts a new lap every time.
