Originally Posted by
Steve B.
What you describe is what should happen. It takes both devices, the phone as well as the 1040 to be actively searching for BT. When the 1040 starts up it will do a BT search. If it's already on it's not searching for a connection though it will use BT if there is a connection. You can go to the main menu, disable the phone connection and re-enable, it will then search for BT.
With the 1030, at the end of a ride, I will (i) swipe down, (ii) select the Phone menu, and (iii) Enable, and it'll find my phone and start synching with Garmin Connect. After the ride data has synched, I would then turn that setting Off and it will remain that way until the end of my next ride.
If I try to do that with the 1040, often it will not be able to find my phone until after I restart the device.
Anyway, looks like Garmin Connect is sending the software update to the 1040, so we'll see if it still behaves this way over the weekend.