Garmin Edge Touring problem

[Geoff Crowther]

Hi all
Recently purchased a Garmin Edge Touring and I'm slowly working through teething problems, mostly caused by the operator.
Today I rode a familiar route which I created using Garmin Connect. I deliberately went off route to see how it recalculated. It works ok BUT it then seems to "forget" the original route I put in. If I continue along my preferred route i can see it as a faint pink line ahead (so the unit's obviously "remembered") but it still wanted me to go a different way.
Me and the missus have experienced the same problem in our motorhome using our Garmin Zumo, so to get around it we set the unit to ask if we want to recalculate, then say "no". For example, if we pull on to a motorway services, we don't need it to navigate us back to the road.
I guess I'll try telling it to ask me if I want to recalculate but just wonder if anyone's found another way round this.
In short, once it recalculates, you might as well not have chosen your own route at all.
Also, if in an unfamiliar area you might need the recalculation feature. I really can't understand why it doesn't recalculate back to your chosen route .

 

[morrisman]

For this very reason I have turned Recalculate off and rely on the 'Off Course' alert to let me know I've erred and the map display to get me back to my course. On a Garmin 800, not sure if it's different on a Touring??

 

[Geoff Crowther]

For this very reason I have turned Recalculate off and rely on the 'Off Course' alert to let me know I've erred and the map display to get me back to my course. On a Garmin 800, not sure if it's different on a Touring??

Yeah, thanks for that. It does make sense I know but, like you, not sure if it's different on a Touring.

 

[Kestevan]

nope just the same on a touring. Turn off recalculate to be safe.
Other way is to use recalc to return you to the route yor want, then stop navigation, reload the pre-selected route and restart navigation from current point on route.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

I've set mine (Touring+) to ask. But it can be weird. I've heard that it makes up its own waypoints based vaguely on your route (especially if the route you put in didn't have many waypoints to begin with) so my guess is that it is working out an adhoc route to get from where you are now to the next specific place you've asked to be. My oddest one was doing the same route twice, with the same off course (first time I didn't feel up to everything I'd planned, second time I wanted to repeat what I'd done first time for comparison) and being given two radically different alternate routes.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I had an issue with the 705 yesterday saying course error, though this might have been the map I was using, I reset the course to find home and it wanted to take me some really odd directions.

 

[Geoff Crowther]

Thanks for all those useful comments folks. Nice to know it's not just me then. I went for a quite short ride just now with recalc turned off. Again, I deliberately took a slight detour and found this much better. Once I'd returned to the route, and even as I was approaching it, the turn instructions were correct for my original course. I admit, I wouldn't have thought of just turning the recalc off if morrisman (and others) hadn't suggested it.
It still gives a beep to tell me I'm "off course" anyway so, as has been said, it's easy enough to use the map screen to find your way back to the route.
Overall, I'm very pleased with the unit. Have seen posted elsewhere that the minimalist instructions really do the machine's abilities a disservice.
Many thanks.
Might also try this strategy on my Garmin Zumo when we head off to Austria in the motorhome in a few weeks.

 

[G3CWI]

Nice to know it's not just me then.

I have had mine for a while now and it does do strange things. Overall it's great but sometimes frustrating. Mine has crashed occasionally and the inability to restart a route somewhere along the route is very annoying.

 

[Geoff Crowther]

I have had mine for a while now and it does do strange things. Overall it's great but sometimes frustrating. Mine has crashed occasionally and the inability to restart a route somewhere along the route is very annoying.

Thanks for looking and thanks for your informative thread, which I saw.
Interesting though that on a long rode t'other day, in my frustration with its idiosyncrasies, I did stop the course I was on, then reselected it and started it again and it did pick up that i was part way along the route,
It was a course i'd made in Garmin Connect. If I understand you correctly, this is what you've been unable to do.
BTW my route was over your neck o' the woods, from home, down the Middlewood Way to Bollington, then across to Alderley Edge for lunch.