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Garmin slow to engage

Old 09-24-22, 02:11 PM
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Garmin slow to engage

My Garmin sometimes doesn't begin measuring average speed and grade of hill until I'm about a half mile into the ride. Elapsed time and time of day still show.

I replaced the battery on the part that attaches to the wheel, but I'm not certain it was a brand new batter (it was out of the package) so it might not be a new one. But seems that if it were the battery that nothing would show.
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Originally Posted by CoogansBluff
My Garmin sometimes doesn't begin measuring average speed and grade of hill until I'm about a half mile into the ride. Elapsed time and time of day still show.

I replaced the battery on the part that attaches to the wheel, but I'm not certain it was a brand new batter (it was out of the package) so it might not be a new one. But seems that if it were the battery that nothing would show.
I would do a reset on the device.

The 2032 button batteries start to run down the second they are out of the package, thus I would buy a new battery and put that in.
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My Garmin would always be slow to show an increase in my average speed but was always fast at showing a decrease.
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Originally Posted by Steve B.
I would do a reset on the device.

The 2032 button batteries start to run down the second they are out of the package, thus I would buy a new battery and put that in.
Good advice. Will try that.
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Originally Posted by CoogansBluff
My Garmin sometimes doesn't begin measuring average speed and grade of hill until I'm about a half mile into the ride. Elapsed time and time of day still show.

I replaced the battery on the part that attaches to the wheel, but I'm not certain it was a brand new batter (it was out of the package) so it might not be a new one. But seems that if it were the battery that nothing would show.
​​​​​​Without knowing which Garmin you have this can't be 100% but in general if a Garmin can't talk to the speed sensor that should be there, it will just use GPS instead. If the battery is completely dead, it would still give you a speed based on satellites.

I'd probably change the battery just to see if that's it. If not, check if the magnet and sensor are aligned, maybe something moved a little.
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Old 09-24-22, 10:04 PM
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I find that when I have questions about my Garmin, doing an interweb search will pull up the user manual for my model and 99% of the time can find the answer there. Good luck
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Be wary of the 2023 batteries you may buy from one of the large online sellers. I've purchased 10 packs of them before, and they were very, very old evidently. Good for an hour, then died. I replaced them with a fresh battery from a smaller pack (cost about as much, though) from a local hardware store and they are all fresh.
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