Garmin Touring Plus midroute

jim97219

I have a Garmin Touring Plus and rode a route I downloaded from Ride With GPS. We got off track a bit and the unit shut down. Once we got back onto the route, I turned the unit on but it wouldn't give me any turn-by-turn directions. The map was there, the arrow and the blue line was there and were working properly so it wasn't a complete disaster.

At the top of the screen where the next turn should be, it said what the first turn of the ride was. If I tap on it, the cue sheet was there and I could arrow down to where I was but they would not sync with the map and give me the turn-by-turn directions I wanted, and the reason I got it in the first place.

I've done a reset on it and have the settings set up per https://ridewithgps.com/help/garmin-edge-touring.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance

Jim

willnewtonclare

Similar has happened to me. Basically stop when it switches off, restart it and redo the whole selecting your route. Wait for it to get GPS signal again and go, you will have 2+ ride files can be combined with gpsies.com
My Touring+ has stopped misbehaving since I looked at an Element Bolt....

roger_merriman

The only times my Touring has misbehaved is trying to follow a 3rd party downloaded GPX file, though to be fair at worse it’s just given up giving prompts and what not, but you could still follow the line on map view.

jim97219

willnewtonclare wrote:

Similar has happened to me. Basically stop when it switches off, restart it and redo the whole selecting your route. Wait for it to get GPS signal again and go, you will have 2+ ride files can be combined with gpsies.com

I'm not looking to keep track of the rides I do but rather just have the ETP give me turn-by-turn directions per the route I've loaded and have it do it from wherever on the route I start unti the end or until I turn it off.

willnewtonclare wrote:

My Touring+ has stopped misbehaving since I looked at an Element Bolt....

Perhaps it will be my Christmas present...

jim97219

roger merriman wrote:

The only times my Touring has misbehaved is trying to follow a 3rd party downloaded GPX file, though to be fair at worse it’s just given up giving prompts and what not, but you could still follow the line on map view.

Agreed, the map is still there and I can follow it but that's half of why I got it. The other half is for it to beep at me when it's time to turn.

durhamwasp

One of our group has a Garmin Touring, never used it for following a route, but just simply going out and riding and its constantly losing signal or pausing. We'll have all done 50k and his Garmin Touring will be on like 42.

Once uploaded to strava its correct, but so frustrating to be out and not have the correct distance on your computer.

roger_merriman

jim97219 wrote:

roger merriman wrote:

The only times my Touring has misbehaved is trying to follow a 3rd party downloaded GPX file, though to be fair at worse it’s just given up giving prompts and what not, but you could still follow the line on map view.

Agreed, the map is still there and I can follow it but that's half of why I got it. The other half is for it to beep at me when it's time to turn.

I've most of the time not had a problem but the only few times I've had been 3rd party fairly poorly done, ie funny direct lines etc, and the Touring has given up at some point navigating.

I use the strava route builder, with the Touring, as i like trying new routes, be that uk, europe and beyond i'm not wild on the touch screen, which doesn't like wet/MTB/gravel rides. and the fact it can't auto upload etc, like the 520 but it does do what I bought it for, ie to navigate routes, doesn't mind if i cut bits off etc.

keef66

I've found I can only use mine by uploading routes carefully created in RWGPS. If, or rather when, it randomly shuts down I just restart it, load the course again and say no when it asks if I want to navigate to the start. So far it's seemed to work out where I am on the course and continued to give me TBT directions / beeps.

Once I ask it to do anything other than follow a course, it goes mental and I invariably end up on a footpath or in a farmyard. I just checked one of my recently recorded rides where in unfamiliar surroundings I'd asked the Garmin to route me home. Looking at the route on RWGPS and choosing the OSM cycling map I can see the point I ended up in a farmyard, and where I think it was trying to send me, and neither are designated as roads or cycle routes.

roger_merriman

keef66 wrote:

I've found I can only use mine by uploading routes carefully created in RWGPS. If, or rather when, it randomly shuts down I just restart it, load the course again and say no when it asks if I want to navigate to the start. So far it's seemed to work out where I am on the course and continued to give me TBT directions / beeps.

Once I ask it to do anything other than follow a course, it goes mental and I invariably end up on a footpath or in a farmyard. I just checked one of my recently recorded rides where in unfamiliar surroundings I'd asked the Garmin to route me home. Looking at the route on RWGPS and choosing the OSM cycling map I can see the point I ended up in a farmyard, and where I think it was trying to send me, and neither are designated as roads or cycle routes.

Sounds like you have a Friday night special, I’ve had mine for quite a few years now, at worse it’s stopped navigating as it didn’t like a GPS file, though this has only happened to memory once though may have happened before, I navigate my self back or modify if it’s not on the ground what the map might say, since I MTB/Gravel the detail of mapping is varied.

Bike tracks aren’t like roads you can be reasonably sure, where as some bike tracks may be frankly unpassable on some bikes ie TT bike on a DH track etc.

keef66

I'll install the latest map updates tonight and double check the settings are still those suggested on the RWGPS site, then give it one last chance.

Seriously considering an Elemnt or Elemnt Bolt...