Monday, March 5, 2012

Mondays on Notice: Garmin FAIL

You guys know I love some Garmin. We've been through so much together. The triumph of Lewis & Clark, the disaster that was Cleveland. We've spent many, many hours together smiling in the sunshine and celebrating new interval paces and long runs. But a little over a year ago she stopped recording map data. Last spring I spent several hours on the phone with Garmin support, eventually arriving at the decision that they should just send me a replacement. The replacement was a refurbished unit which for the most part has been fine.

So what's the issue? Every now and then right after I download data or come in from a run, it just freezes. Like this. No amount of button mashing will make the screen change.

It's looked like this since last night. And the worst part is that I have to let the battery die completely before it will reset itself. That's gonna take a few days. Has anyone else ever had this problem? Any ideas what I should do about it? 



4 comments:

Christy @ My Dirt Road Anthem: A Runner's Blog said...

oh no! that sucks, so far I haven't had any issues with my garmin but it is on older model. Hope you get it figured out!

Black Knight said...

Terrible! Sorry for your problems. I have never had problems with my Garmin: this is my 3rd.
Good luck.

Marlene said...

Ack, I am hopeless when my Garmin acts up! I have a different model and I haven't seen that one. I hope it fixes itself up quick!

TNTcoach Ken said...

There's got to be a way to reset the unit manaully.....