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Share your experiences, good or bad. Please.
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I'm not allowed to because apparently it was a completely ill informed rant but I'm on number 4 now. That's in less than a year.
Just read your thread Samuri, thanks. Can certainly understand your anger/disappointment.
I've just bought one, waiting for it to arrive. if I'm lucky enough to get a good one that works are they easy to use? I've had the site bikehike recommended for plotting routes to download to the unit. Is that the one most people use or are there others?
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I've had mine 3 years. No faults. Love it.
yeah. Doddle to use, really useful. I tend to use use tracklogs to create a map and download it from there but more often I'll read a route I've followed back into tracklogs and then follow it, I find it gives me a much better idea foir where I can go next time.
I'll add, as a postscript to my complaint, that since I've taken to carrying the device in my jacket pocket rather than on the bars of the bike, it seems to have stopped turning itself off, touch wood. So it could be that even on a road bike, the bumping it gets is too much for it.
Not read your original thread, samuri, but on my Garmin I have put very thin sticking plaster on the inside of the case (ie the back). Never have any problems with it switching off.
Yeah, I tried similar with no joy. I suspect they kept sending the original device back after not doing a very thorough test and not finding anything wrong with it despite me giving them specific details on when it failed. It would sit on a desk all day and stay on. Someone on here suggested it might be a loose battery connection so I tried some foam in there which didn't fix it. Then I carried it in my jacket pocket for a couple of rides and it seemed to be ok again. Must have done about ten rides with it now with it not turning off.
BB, I plot routes on Memory Map and download them to the Vista
I bought one of the old type Vista's back around 2000 and used to suffer from the intermittent turning off problem. I cut some small bit of rubber (from some old Manitou fork elastomers) and fitted them behind the battery contact springs, problem sorted. I still have the Vista, but my Edge 705 is way better.