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Edgeless

Monday, Apr 19, 2010

@ Adrian Tritschler

Another wonderful example of built-in obsolescence. My current GPS, a Garmin Edge 705 bought in January 2009 stopped working last Friday. As with most consumer electronics, it came with a 12 month warranty. As with a suspiciously large number of consumer electronics, it failed shortly after the warranty had expired. Product name: Edge® 705 Registration date: Jan 20, 2009 Serial number: ######### Unit Id: ########## The power switch had been getting more and more indeterminate over the last few months — but never enough to make me realise and send it off to Garmin for repair while it still had a warranty.

Ride report for March 2010

Thursday, Apr 1, 2010

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According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for March: March 2010 Count 26 Activities Distance 361.81 km Time 20:10:40 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,211 m Avg Speed 17.9 km/h Avg HR 138 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 12,593 C The total so far for 2010 is: 2010 Count 82 Activities Distance 986.59 km Time 54:33:42 h:m:s Elevation Gain 9,477 m Avg Speed 18.1 km/h Avg HR 145 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 35,524 C

Ride report for February 2010

Monday, Mar 1, 2010

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According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for February: February 2010 Count 36 Activities Distance 364.36 km Time 20:53:04 h:m:s Elevation Gain 3,442 m Avg Speed 17.4 km/h Avg HR – Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 13,567 C The total so far for 2010 is: 2010 Count 56 Activities Distance 624.78 km Time 34:23:01 h:m:s Elevation Gain 6,266 m Avg Speed 18.2 km/h Avg HR 150 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 22,931 C

Ride report for January 2010

Monday, Feb 1, 2010

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According to my GPS, here’s my ride report for January: January 2010 Count 20 Activities Distance 260.43 km Time 13:29:56 h:m:s Elevation Gain 2,825 m Avg Speed 19.3 km/h Avg HR 150 bpm Avg Run Cadence – Avg Bike Cadence – Calories 9,365 C

My GPS is lost!

Friday, Oct 24, 2008

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Sadly, although a GPS can tell where it is, it can’t tell you where it is if you haven’t got it… Stupidly I think I left mine lying on the ground next to the bike when I was leaving work one day this week. The usual routine is to walk outside, turn on the Edge, place the Edge on the top of the sign next to the bike, unlock the bike, put on my helmet and gloves, pick up the Edge and ride off.

A second broken Garmin Edge GPS, no repair, no warranty

Thursday, Mar 20, 2008

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Now that definitely leaves a bad taste in the mouth Mr Garmin. You purchase a GPS in good faith, one that comes with a 12 month warranty and so when it breaks you send it back to be repaired. You can’t send it to Garmin since they don’t have a presence in Australia, instead you have to send it to GME, who are the “sole repair and distribution centre.” When it comes back you assume that the replacement one has a warranty, then nine or ten months later that one breaks too… that’s when you discover that according to GME “they’re not real reliable,” but since its a repair unit it only has a 3 month warranty and it’ll cost you $209 to have your unrepairable GPS replaced!

Entropy eaten Edge

Thursday, Feb 21, 2008

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I’d love to believe that Garmin’s Edge 305 is a great piece of equipment, but unfortunately my experiences with the device — two so far — have left me unconvinced. From day one it has been subject to battery draining hangs if you don’t switch it off and disconnect it from the PC in precisely the right order, and even then sometimes it’ll just hang. You get into the habit of switching off, unplugging, then switching it back on briefly just to check.

Famousness!

Monday, May 14, 2007

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Seems that May is bike month in America, not only that, but in Motionbased’s blog I get a mention as one of the two runners up for logging the most number of “commute” bike rides for the year. Hardly record breaking distances with my 5km ride, but there would have been another month’s worth of entries if the Edge 305 hadn’t been off being repaired for all of January! Interesting that the second, wamble, and third, ajft (me), are both Australian, while number one, mallfellow is in the US.

Regaining my Edge

Wednesday, Feb 7, 2007

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A courier arrived this morning and brought me a shiny new replacement Edge 305 GPS to replace the one that broke back in January. At one month and one day Garmin are twice as responsive as Canon for repairs — last year’s warranty headache — but I’m still not really impressed that it takes that long for them to send a replacement unit, I would have thought they would keep them in stock.

Life on the Edge

Friday, Jan 5, 2007

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Bugger, bugger, bugger; an expensive speed hump Ouch! I’ve never felt really happy with the way that the Edge clipped into its mounting bracket, the bracket always seemed a little too flimsy and the unit a little too heavy…. Well today it proved me right, coming into the Uni. I hit the speedhump and it flew out of the bracket, hit the deck and shattered the display. Hunted around and found that GME Electrophone is the local agent for Garmin repairs, so gave them a call (+61.

Another Garmin update

Monday, Jul 3, 2006

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After only a week, another update from Garmin for the Edge305, Software Version: 2.70 and GPS: 2.60, up from 2.60 and 2.40 respectively. Fingers crossed, but I haven’t had the device hang or flatten the battery overnight since the last upgrade….

Update headache

Thursday, Jun 22, 2006

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Musing on the methods of software updates under Windows. Seems that the assorted linuxes are well ahead here; Debian’s apt-get upgrade, SuSE’s rug update, not just the operating system but application packages too. Windows has Windows Update, but every other application has its own mechanism — perhaps. Monitor the mailing lists, read the web page, click “check for update” in the application…. Today’s updates were for the Edge 305, GPS firmware update to 2.

Uninstall reinstall games

Saturday, Apr 22, 2006

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Since changing my ordinary account from being Administrator equivalent to power-user, the Garmin Training Centre software won’t run. Logged in as Administrator and uninstalled it, then logged out and logged in as the ordinary account. Training Centre gets all the way through its install and only then tells you that it can’t run. Logged back in as Administrator and uninstalled, then reinstalled it. Logged out and back in as ordinary account and try to run it, still fails on every attempt, a dialog box states:

Australian Garmin support

Monday, Apr 3, 2006

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After the problems I’ve had in the week I’ve so far owned my Edge 305 I hunted around and found who are the local (ie Australian) support. Telephoned GME and they didn’t sound at all helpful, “Its a new device and we’ve only had them for a while, send it in and we’ll have a look at it.” A few minutes later I found out that a newer release of the software is available, so I’ve updated it from version 2.

Garmin Edge headaches

Friday, Mar 31, 2006

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It hung again today. Once is annoying, twice a coincidence, three times… four times — product released before it is ready! 2006-03-24 13:00-16:00: on charger until it reported “fully charged” 2006-03-24 17:30-17:45: cycled home with it. 2006-03-25 10:00: plugged into the PC, downloaded data and restarted PC. Edge goes off and will no longer power on. Windows now reports “Replace device.” 2006-03-25 18:30: Edge finally turns on, but the battery is now flat and it turns itself off in under a second.

New toy redux

Tuesday, Mar 28, 2006

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Yesterday’s suspicions confirmed — at least partially. Browsing through the user forums for the Garmin Edge shows that quite a few people have managed to either permanently or temporarily kill their devices. Also found useful things such as how to perform a hard or soft reset — information that seems to be missing from the manual. In fact the manual contains no fault-finding information of any kind!

New toy

Monday, Mar 27, 2006

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Purchased Thursday, arrived Friday, broken Saturday! Saturday morning I plugged the Edge into the laptop and turned it on, it fired up the Garmin software, declared that there was no data to download (so I guess I didn’t record anything on the ride home yesterday) and then powered it off. After that I found I couldn’t switch it on at all, and plugging it in to the laptop results in a Windows message telling me that the device is faulty and needs to be either unplugged and plugged back in, or replaced.

hardware — Garmin Edge

Monday, Jan 1, 0001

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Garmin Edge 305, then 705, now 820 I had a Garmin Edge 305, but it fell off the bike and broke. Then I had a replacement Garmin Edge 305, but I managed to lose it or get it stolen. Then I replaced it with a Garmin Edge 705… until the buttons failed… but I found a FOAF to repair them and I still have it. Then the Edge 705 fell of the bike and was run over by four cars and broke… so I sent it to Garmin for an out-of-warranty repair.

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