PERSONALISE YOUR GARMIN 1040 & OTHER HEAD UNITS

We spend a lot of our hard earned cash on bike computers and often don't get round to using them to their full extent to benefit ourselves and make our cycling experience a better one.
I have friends who don't use Activity profiles and personalised Data screens and data fields on their Garmin Head units , partly because they find it too complicated to dive into so I've put together this detailed run through to help you get the most from your 1040 or other Garmin heads units.
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[@mikeenglish1492]

Interesting 👍

[@OrdinaryBlokeOnABike]

Hope it helped in some way 👍

[@ZotmundSzele]

How do you find navigation with Edge devices? I have a few concerns compared to phones. 1) maps are not detailed and colourful. When you zoom out you don't see what's around, whats a path or a hill as opposed to phone apps. 2) you cannot add a via point. You can click a point and make it a destination, fine but when you want to add a detour via another point, you have to finish that route and start a new one. I don't think it's that complicated. 3) having to fiddle with the orientation is also clumsy. It's wither North up or direction up. sure you can pinch and rotate but the whole thing is super slow. I have a Fenix 7 and i very badly want a dedicated head unit but I always end up using my phone. (yeah, it drains faster, less robust and weather proof)

[@OrdinaryBlokeOnABike]

Hi, I guess on your first point , Garmin are balancing map detail against battery life, which is what people seem to want. more colourful detailed maps constantly being redrawn on a ride would deplete the battery quick like with your phone.
Point 2 - you certainly can't add anything to a route once you've started it but if it helps, I explain how you can add via points galore when planning a route at 6.10 on this video
th-cam.com/video/wTOONQ7PzkU/w-d-xo.html
Point 3 , I cant see any way round that but to be honest it's horses for courses and not something I've even thought about myself. You do refer to "Edge Devices" in general and i will say that the processor upgrade on the 1040 is huge and redrawing when you rotate isn't slow like on earlier edge devices
I hope some of this is helpful 👍😁

[@ZotmundSzele]

@@OrdinaryBlokeOnABike Yeah, it kinda makes sense. I hardly ever follow a course. I often improvise. Adding a point as "via" shouldn't be a big deal for a mapping and navigation company. The other points are valid, detailed maps and tiles would indeed be more storage, battery and even CPU.