How do you do save and resume on the 1040? I was looking for it today on my 1040 solar and not sure how it works on this unit. Have my 530 still but prefer the 1040 even though the solar for me is hit and miss.
I loaded the same course every day. The first day I just loaded it and rode. I stopped and saved at the end of the day. Day 2 I loaded the same course. The 1040 asked if I wanted to navigate to the start. I said no and it continued on the course from where I was at. I saved at the end of day 2 and then rinsed and repeated for 6 more days.
I was using the course for navigation. I saved the progress day by day.
When I tired this with the wahoo it puked at the end of day 3. It would only let me go back to the start or reverse the route and start returing from the end of the route.
Well, just as long as it is not the computer directing YOU off a cliff. 
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I found that you can pause the activity and just power down or sleep. Next day you power up and go to the activity in progress and press run to continue in same activity.
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I wanted separate day reporting. But that is good to know. Thanks.
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is Navigation (following a Route) with the Komoot App on Edge better then the onboard thing, mean more likely HH or is it still the same?
This totally
Do you really need to spend that much time staring at the map? I rarely look at the map at all. I am on the main screen with 10 fields. I have dist to next as a field so I know how far I am from the next turn! When its getting close to turn the 1040 gives me a heads up, switches screens and tells me the direction and counts down to the turn. I am more concerned about power, heart rate and cadence.
Why so concerned and why are you glued to the map? Do you find it safe to be cycling outside and have your eyes glued to the map?
FYI. I just finished a 1600 km trip just over a couple weeks ago. Had no issues with navigation and I was definitely not glued to a map. I didnt get lost either using my methods.
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Totally agree with you. I use navigation at times but it only comes up when the next turn is coming. For free rides without the cues I just glance at it but I do have it customized to my liking.
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Yes it is a weird reply to a weird problem. If you need the best map in the world I would suggest a garmin etrex or something. My point is if your spending all day staring at your map what ARE YOU NOT LOOKING AT?
I see you replied to me by name and even searched up an old nameā¦ Why is that? Fatboyslim not good enough? Why did you feel the need to research me and look up an old name and add it to your response? Are you putting my old name up in some way to intimidate me? I feel like I am being cyber stalked for some offence I committed!
On another weird note would you care to explain your board handle to me Chief Hiawatha?
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lol. Not bragging about the ride. It was not special in any way! Pointing out that the navigation works over a 1600 km ride. The same ride that a wahoo epically failed on and I had to use my phone for over 1000 km of the ride.
But I understand. You are moaning about the same problem on 2 different sites. The garmin site was not good enough to whine on. I wont bother to go look up your name on the garmin forums.
Good job bringing your grudge here from another forum.
Thank you for answering the reason for your board handle. I am quite amazed that after black lives matter and this cultural awakening in the cycling industry that board names such as yours are allowed on this forum. No cultural group comes even close to how indigenous people have been left out of cycling culture and society in general. I did notice it earlier and left it alone even though I was offended. I find it disrespectful and another example of cultural appropriation. If it was a reference to black culture it would not be allowed.
Good luck to you in your adventures.
I said IFā¦ I did not say you are.
Youāre approaching it from the wrong angle. Its not safe to be looking at anything on the computer while riding, which makes it really important that things are laid out and designed in a way that allows me to glance at it, to get the basic idea of the information presented.
In this case, since the arrow is so small, low contrast, and that there is a second arrow, makes glancing impossible. Especially for a unit that is being sold as the king of navigationā¦
I donāt know how your rides look, but here in Sweden we can have turns every 200m when riding gravelā¦
For example, this rideā¦ there are lots of parts where I need to be able to listen to the computer, look down quickly to gauge a turn, and then focus on riding.
If we were to put car speedometers by the hand brake in between the seats, and then people would say that its not good/safe design, no one would say āmaybe you should be looking at the road instead of the dialsā.
Rule number one with UX and user interaction is to never blame the user. If something is badly designed, fix it. Its not that hard most of the time. 
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I appreciate your explanation. This explains different users needs in a way I have not experienced or even thought about. I can easily ride from a few km to over 100s of km with never needing to turn at an intersection.
On the 1600 km trip I just completed I had the option to do the route using 2 different roads in total. I went a shorter and much more confusing route that used many roads
On a recent gravel race here that was 118 km long I believe their was about 9 turns (turning onto different roads. There were many more turns while staying on the same road).
Again thanks for the explanation. With context I now understand your issue.
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I totally agree with the top statement. I just disagree with the conclusion that you canāt do that with the Garmin. I look at your picture above of the Garmin and Wahoo and say I could glance down quickly with either and get all the info I need. Iāve never felt that I canāt get important info quickly with the Garmin. And thatās on bumpy gravel rides or 50mph road descents. And this is where it comes to the question of what you want or need. If you canāt get that with the Garmin and donāt feel safe with it, thatās 100% fine. Itās not going to work for everybody. I just disagree with your statement that itās badly designed and needs to be fixed, because itās working for me and many others. And like I said earlier, given the map design of the Wahoo and the Garmin, Iād pick the Garmin every time. It has the info and detail I want, whereas the Wahoo I find too basic and think the chevrons take up too much room .
Edit: I guess what Iām getting at is that I think youāre generalizing your preferences to everybody. You donāt like it and then think itās a bad UI and needs to be fixed. When itās just your preference. Just because you donāt like it doesnāt mean itās bad. In that sense, Iād look at Wahoo and say itās a bad UI and needs to be fixed. At the end of the day, itās not only you who gets to decide what is a good or bad UI, itās the masses. And a lot of people like Garmin. Just like lots of people like Wahoo. Itās dumb to argue which is better when itās just a preference. We might as well argue whatās the best drivetrain. And I donāt want to go down that rabbit hole.
I think changing your map detail and default zoom MAY fix the problem. Not 100% sure but I played with mine and set the map level to most detail.
That was my first guess as well, but I tried all the map details, popular routes settings, everything that was available under the map configurations.
And sure, there were ones that were a bit better, but the fundamentals of the arrow being too small with bad contrast, and the mixing of different coloured lines on the map at the same time made it hard to follow still.
Here is an example from yesterdays ride, just to show how damn easy it is to follow the Wahoo. Look down, see next turn is left turn, look up and see the road in real life - done.
And just to compareā¦ you can barely find the turn arrow. Plus the screen is insanely much more reflective on the 1040.
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Of course, there are some things that are preference, but then again, some things are also just bad user interaction with the product.
In the same way that its bad with touch screens in cars, its horrible to have the zoom functions on the Garmin 1040 to be 1x1cm large touch buttons that I need to find and try to press while riding at speedā¦
Just small things like that, that mightāve been a good idea when sitting at the computer designing it, but horrible in real life applications.
The rest I can agree is personal preference, while I still feel that some things should have more contrast and be larger, such as the arrow showing current position. Just from an accessibility perspective of making sure that a wider variety of people can comfortably use the product (lots of people canāt see baby blue color on a background like that).
Strange, my 530 highlights the next turn in a bold white arrow that follows the turnā¦
