Brexiting Edge 1000

asprilla
asprilla Posts: 8,440
edited October 2017 in Commuting chat
My Edge 1000 has joined UKIP and is taking back control by refusing to measure distance in KM.

I can go into settings and change to metric and it's fine for that ride, but every time I turn it off it returns to imperial. Just for distance, everything else stays as metric.

Anyone elses Garmin voting Leave, or just mine?
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Race - Fuji Norcom Straight
Sun - Cervelo R3
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  • chris_bass
    chris_bass Posts: 4,913
    edited September 2017
    you can get a data field that displays speed/distance etc in the opposite units, so if it was defaulting to miles it would show KMs

    Not really an answer to your question or problem but maybe a workaround?
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  • slowbike
    slowbike Posts: 8,498
    Just send it to me - I like everything in a proper measurement ... ;)
  • My Edge 25 decided to stop communicating with my phone a couple of days ago. It won, I lost and apparently I have to get over it. :(
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Slowbike wrote:
    Just send it to me - I like everything in a proper measurement ... ;)

    ditto

    OP what are our road speed signs in? embrace the truth MPH rule :wink:

    Brexit mind you is just plain stupid
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    "We've always done it that way" is the worst excuse ever.
    Mud - Genesis Vapour CCX
    Race - Fuji Norcom Straight
    Sun - Cervelo R3
    Winter / Commute - Dolan ADX
  • itboffin wrote:
    Slowbike wrote:
    Just send it to me - I like everything in a proper measurement ... ;)

    ditto

    OP what are our road speed signs in? embrace the truth MPH rule :wink:

    Brexit mind you is just plain stupid

    Likewise I've never seen the point in using two different measurements for speed just because it's a different vehicle?
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,817
    Asprilla wrote:
    "We've always done it that way" is the worst excuse ever.
    You're getting old now, you need to be more curmudgeonly and against change so we've always done it that way should be your mantra.
  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    Asprilla wrote:
    My Edge 1000 has joined UKIP and is taking back control by refusing to measure distance in KM.

    I can go into settings and change to metric and it's fine for that ride, but every time I turn it off it returns to imperial. Just for distance, everything else stays as metric.

    Anyone elses Garmin voting Leave, or just mine?

    Hey, I am having the exactly same problem on my Garmin 520, I did try and change the settings but as you say it reverts back to UK settings after turning it off. I have also noticed that the clock has changed from a 24hr one to a 12hr one... again I can't seem to change that either.

    Did you manage to fix it? It is incredibly annoying.
    x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
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  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Nope, not fixed it. I'm guessing it's the result of a recent update.
    Mud - Genesis Vapour CCX
    Race - Fuji Norcom Straight
    Sun - Cervelo R3
    Winter / Commute - Dolan ADX
  • dyrlac
    dyrlac Posts: 751
    Same here. No apparent workaround (tried all proffered solutions re: logging into the car crash that is Garmin Connect, using their awful app, trying all possible combinations of logging off, logging on, switching off, clearing caches etc). Recall this happened sometime in 2016 after a software update. Had to wait for the next one. Clear rule 24 violation and unacceptable: need to amend my aesthetic preferences to stomach the Wahoo Bolt; but chances are that would f&*k up in a different way, because everything electronical is shite (YMMV).
  • Sync your device.
    In GarminConnect (web version) set the units etc in "My device" to whatever you want. (If already set as you want, set to something else, save, set them back as you want them, save)
    Sync your device.

    Why does it happen? Sometimes when updates are made to GarminConnect backend & for whatever reason they revert to the defaults - which are aimed at the US market.
  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    Sync your device.
    In GarminConnect (web version) set the units etc in "My device" to whatever you want. (If already set as you want, set to something else, save, set them back as you want them, save)
    Sync your device.

    Why does it happen? Sometimes when updates are made to GarminConnect backend & for whatever reason they revert to the defaults - which are aimed at the US market.

    Thank you! That fixed mine!
    x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
    Commuting / Winter rides - Jamis Renegade Expert
    Pootling / Offroad - All-City Macho Man Disc
    Fast rides Cannondale SuperSix Ultegra
  • asprilla
    asprilla Posts: 8,440
    Ah, cool. I assume it has to be the web version and not the mobile app?
    Mud - Genesis Vapour CCX
    Race - Fuji Norcom Straight
    Sun - Cervelo R3
    Winter / Commute - Dolan ADX
  • gabriel959
    gabriel959 Posts: 4,227
    Asprilla wrote:
    Ah, cool. I assume it has to be the web version and not the mobile app?

    Not sure, I did it on the web version.
    x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
    Commuting / Winter rides - Jamis Renegade Expert
    Pootling / Offroad - All-City Macho Man Disc
    Fast rides Cannondale SuperSix Ultegra
  • Asprilla wrote:
    Ah, cool. I assume it has to be the web version and not the mobile app?
    Unless the mobile app allows you to manage each device individually now (it never used to) then it has to be the web.
  • dyrlac
    dyrlac Posts: 751
    gabriel959 wrote:
    Sync your device.
    In GarminConnect (web version) set the units etc in "My device" to whatever you want. (If already set as you want, set to something else, save, set them back as you want them, save)
    Sync your device.

    Why does it happen? Sometimes when updates are made to GarminConnect backend & for whatever reason they revert to the defaults - which are aimed at the US market.

    Thank you! That fixed mine!

    And mine. You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.