Fix a Garmin 510 touchscreen by, say, 8pm tonight

[Tania]

Mine has been doing the same thing for a few months now – usually when I’m on longer rides or started and stopped the timer a few times. It will eventually register my touch correctly after turning it on a off several times over several hours. Following…

[Brett L.]

@jrenaut 179933 wrote:

Sort of urgent – the touchscreen on my Garmin 510 is completely non-functional. Every once in a while it registers that you’ve touched it, but it always thinks you touched the bottom right. I know the long term solution is to send it back to Garmin, but let’s say I’m leaving at 4am tomorrow morning for a week of bikes and beers in Michigan and don’t want to have to make the entire week a continuous ride that I hope to upload later.

Any advice?

Short term solution – use your cell phone to track Strava? Borrow a device from a friend?

Less ethical (non)advise: Buy a garmin or similar tracking device from Costco/REI/somewhere and return it after you return? (Don’t actually do this)

[jrenaut]

Doesn’t seem to have much to do with longer rides. I do a lot of short 1-3 mile things for work/errands/etc and it often is a problem then. The time it just recently bonked was 12 miles, which is longer than my average but not what I’d call long.

I can use my phone but we’re going to be traveling so I want to make sure i have phone battery for emergencies/maps/etc.

[bentbike33]

@jrenaut 179937 wrote:

I can use my phone but we’re going to be traveling so I want to make sure i have phone battery for emergencies/maps/etc.

Get some USB rechargeable battery packs.

[MFC]

If you’ve had for under a year, you may be able to return it to the store if you bought it locally.

[jrenaut]

@MFC 179944 wrote:

If you’ve had for under a year, you may be able to return it to the store if you bought it locally.

Purchased April 2015 from Amazon, unfortunately.

[hozn]

I have a 510 in my drawer I’ll sell you for $40 … But I will warn you that Steve O had an issue with it when he borrowed it (last year?). I did a full factory reset and used it for a few rides without issue, but it is only my backup device so it does not get regular use.

[Emm]

It’s not helpful short term, but after I tweeted in sadness about my 2 year old vivoactive watch malfunctioning, Garmin replaced it for free with a refurbished one, even though it was well outside of the warranty period.

Oh, and I’m in Michigan too right now

[jrenaut]

@hozn 179946 wrote:

I have a 510 in my drawer I’ll sell you for $40 … But I will warn you that Steve O had an issue with it when he borrowed it (last year?). I did a full factory reset and used it for a few rides without issue, but it is only my backup device so it does not get regular use.

If I’m getting another GPS, I’m going to shoot for turn-by-turn. And I’m not getting out your way tonight. But thanks for the offer.

[jrenaut]

@Emm 179953 wrote:

It’s not helpful short term, but after I tweeted in sadness about my 2 year old vivoactive watch malfunctioning, Garmin replaced it for free with a refurbished one, even though it was well outside of the warranty period.

Oh, and I’m in Michigan too right now

I will try tweeting at them. And if you go anywhere near any breweries in the northern part of the lower peninsula we might run into you…

[LhasaCM]

@jrenaut 179954 wrote:

If I’m getting another GPS, I’m going to shoot for turn-by-turn. And I’m not getting out your way tonight. But thanks for the offer.

You know…the Wahoo Elemnt does turn-by-turn directions (through the phone app)…

[hozn]

Yeah, the Garmin 510 does turn-by-turn too (if using a TCX file with street names like from RWGPS), though it isn’t a nice as a unit that has maps knowledge built in.

I’d get a Wahoo.

[dbb]

While I got nothing for jrenaut, in a few weeks I may be able to recommend a place to get a Garmin fixed. Just sent my 800 to FixYourGPS to repair (for $58) the rubber back and power switch. He apparently runs a Garmin boneyard and uses those parts for repairs.

I tried to send it to Garmin for repair but after playing 20 questions on their website, their computer said it wasn’t interested in fixing my Garmin.

Would have purchased a new 820 but it seems I would have had to buy new speed and cadence sensors as well. Tonight’s task is to install the app on my phone.

[jrenaut]

@LhasaCM 179956 wrote:

You know…the Wahoo Elemnt does turn-by-turn directions (through the phone app)…

So LhasaCM, who is a glorious human being, dropped off his Wahoo Elemnt that he’s not using. In two minutes of pairing it with my phone, I want to find whoever writes Garmin’s software and throttle them. I haven’t used it on a ride yet, but if pairing my phone is any indication, I’m probably a convert. I’ll check back in Friday after we toodle around Mackinaw Island in preparation for our (relatively) big Saturday and Sunday rides.

[Judd]

@jrenaut 179965 wrote:

So LhasaCM, who is a glorious human being, dropped off his Wahoo Elemnt that he’s not using. In two minutes of pairing it with my phone, I want to find whoever writes Garmin’s software and throttle them. I haven’t used it on a ride yet, but if pairing my phone is any indication, I’m probably a convert. I’ll check back in Friday after we toodle around Mackinaw Island in preparation for our (relatively) big Saturday and Sunday rides.

I can +1 that LhasaCM is a glorious human being.

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