No, its pretty much stock only using the devices defaulted screens as they seem fairly good
Here’s the ride if it is of interest
The full quote is:
Besides the addition of solar charging, the USB-C charging port and GNSS-compatibility, a spokesperson for Garmin confirmed to BikeRadar that the hardware used in the new Edge 1040 is the same as the outgoing 1030 Plus.
But like what gplama said to my analysis of the benchmark run, maybe they are only looking at the parts people see like the screen and physical size, not the cpu inside. Or hopefully that is true
Anyone else not able to change the fields on the default workout screen? It gives me the option to change to a different field, but when I try to do so it reverts back to Distance and Timer. Not sure what they were thinking with the workout screen tbh. Who needs Step Distance, Distance and Timer when doing a workout??
I believe you cannot change the default workout screen at all. I think it is fixed. I have setup the screen that TR has in the video. If you do that I think you can turn off the default screen. But I have not tried it yet.
I’ve not tried it yet, but a post earlier in this thread says you can add fields to the workout screen
When I get my 1040 solar on hand Sunday will let you know even though I am mainly indoor workout person.
But have you tried changing these two data fields? I get these two data fields too, but when I try to change them, it reverts back to the defaults.
Strange, I did change those fields and they’ve stayed to what I changed them to,
Heads up for early adopters of the 1040. Garmin have a new beta fw out that apparently addresses a few things:
Changes made from version 12.11 to 12.14:
- Fixed sensor dropouts when using Connect IQ data fields
- Fixed Power Guide not working for users with high FTP
- Fixed workout page being removed from the timer loop
- Fixed segment data screen data fields
- Improved product stability
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Must be why it didn’t seem useful for me 
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I did a 10 hour, 133mile gravel race (Funk Bottoms) with the 1040 Solar yesterday. I used Live Track, a Varia Rear Light/Radar, a HR monitor, PM, and wheel sensor. I had it in multiband-GPS mode and was following the GPS map of the course. Despite all of this, I had 78% battery remaining after 10 hours. I gained about 1hour 45min run time from solar charging.
Otherwise everything else seemed to work really well. The Stamina meter hit 0% around the 8 hour mark. I was definitely able to continue past this point, but similar to what DCRainmaker review said, at this point I had lost my top end and pretty much had to Z2 it to the finish. Impressive how closely the Stamina meter represented how I was feeling.
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Just having the regular (non-solar) model.
Experiencing very high battery drain - even when in sleep mode. From the looks of it, the sensor search keeps on going all the time.
I have only connected a Polar H10 HR strap, a P2M Powermeter and and Garmin Varia.
Does anyone have similar experience or any idea what is going on?
I’d like the Garmin 1040 owners’ opinion if the navigation has improved in regards to the following issues I have had with my 1030.
Issue One.
When navigating a route and/or the route is incorrect and/or a road ends that the route wants me to continue on, I usually go to “browse map.” To figure things out and find the fastest way back to the route. That feature usually will load very slowly, keep blinking and when trying to zoom out never loads the big picture. Also it’s 50/50 the the route actually shows up in browse map mode. If I ride with the browse map on it does not update position nearly as well as keeping the route running, stopping scroll and keeping the map on the screen. Figured this is an “acquire satellite” thing but it happens in wide open spaces.
Issue Two.
Again getting lost or missing a turn, I would try “back to start along the same route” Even if I’m only a few miles to the finish , The Garmin always wants to have me do the entire route again. Dumb but the “most direct route” feature seems to work OK. For a company that does so well in aviation and marine navigation it’s disappointing that my phone seem to do a lot better. Thanks for your input.
Your issue two sounds like the correct intention of the return to start using the same route (but backwards), could you elaborate on what yourexpect the route to be otherwise?
I’ve tried the alarms a few times. It’s kind of a faff to set up, but once engaged, it’s super sensitive and goes off if the bike moves even slightly.
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Sure if I’m 26 miles into a 28 mile loop and I get lost I would expect the return to start along the same route to guide me back to the route to complete the route for the final 2 miles not start me over. After all it say return to start not redo the route?
“Return to Start” “Along Same Route” doesn’t mean complete your route, it means reverse your entire route so far (like if you did a long out and then wanted to know how to get back.
In your case, you could follow it until it rejoins your loop and then resume following the original route (would require changing courses on Nav) or just let Garmin’s reroute do it’s thing when you get off track and bring you back onto your loop.
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That’s my understanding of that feature as well.
Does anyone have access to a very tree covered twisty climb? If so, will you check GPS track accuracy? There is a famous Bay Area climb - Alpine Dam climb (link is to the Strava segment) - which is completely tree covered, and the GPS accuracy on my Edge 820 is pretty bad. So bad that sometimes Strava won’t even recognize my ride on the segment.
I know @dcrainmaker does GPS accuracy tests, and most devices test pretty well these days, but I think this is a corner case - total tree cover & twisty climb- that doesn’t get tested for but should, as at least in the Bay Area, climbs like this aren’t uncommon