oh, and 2 seconds might be enough to enter pairing mode. I’d turn it off, then hold the button down until the purple light comes on.
Yeah, pairing as radar isn’t working. I’m definitely following the manual.
I’m really hoping someone else has run into the issue and has a fix. I spent a lot of time customizing my screens, so a reset would suck.
After a pile of firmware updates, and not seeing BT PM serial number in FIT file, this past week I did a full back, delete from iPhone Bluetooth and delete from Connect app. Then on device on full reset/delete and after coming back up re-par with Connect and it offered to restore the pages/settings. Painless. The full back was not needed. Not counting the back to computer, took about 5 or 10 minutes. Connected PM via ANT+ this time and no dropouts on ANT+ (very minor but I was OCD about it, and the reason for switching to BLE which had zero PM dropouts).
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I’d first drill into the Radar sensor and tap connect or something.
That’s what you’re seeing above. The result is that it says “sensor found”, but there is no sensor listed.
delete the light sensor and the radar sensor, and try pairing again. Then full reset/delete. Something weird is going on.
Yeah. Just praying I don’t have to do the full reset. Let’s see if anyone else has solved it.
if you already haven’t, try the Garmin forums
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I put search all and the varianin apiring mode and didn’t had a any issues with the rapar, running latest fw on both
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Bit the bullet and did the reset. It worked, but the true good news is that while it deleted my activity profiles, the cloud remembered them and I reapplied, so the only device I had to add was the Varia, which worked! 
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yes, that is what I tried to say above. 5-10 minutes max. In my case I didn’t restore sensors, and manually added them.
Happy you got it resolved.
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Thanks for your suggestions!
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Is it the original Roval Rapide GPS mount….Looking sweet:pinched_fingers:
For anyone in the market this unit has a giant flaw which ultimately made me sell. The Garmin Varia, eat/drink, gear limit, and all system alerts are not loud enough at max volume. This has been discussed on the Garmin forum since a year ago without resolution, anything past about 15mph the wind noise just blocks out all of the sound and renders all of the alerts useless. The thing is at the same speed the bell is loud and crisp, so it’s just a programming issue that they seem to not care to resolve, rather than a hardware issue of the speaker being too quiet. I do have some hearing loss in my left ear but still with my 1030 I never missed a Varia alert (and everyone in the group ride could hear them too), I could even hear my gear limit beep past 35mph on a descent.
I came from a 1030+ and was so used to having the loud beep warn me about cars behind me that I came to rely on it rather than swiveling my head. With the 1050 I had so many close calls with cars passing me where I couldn’t hear the alerts at all. I know it’s ultimately my responsibility to be aware but this is a huge miss for a $700 flagship product. I made it through 4 rides and ended up ordering a 1040, the 1050 is super nice but definitely very much a nice to have that shouldn’t have this kind of flaw IMO
I’m not trying to invalidate other people’s experience, but for me personally, I can hear the alerts above 15mph and in wind, even though I don’t have great hearing. It could certainly be louder, but I can almost always hear it.
I do have an issue where occasionally the TP WOD doesn’t show up on the Home Screen and I have to dig and find it in the Training menu, which is a PITA if your coach’s naming scheme starts a bunch of workouts with the same first words.
Also, it occasionally detects my trainer PM before my crank one, even if I’m on the “Road” profile. It asks me if I want to switch to “Trainer”, I say no, but it does it anyway, and I have to wait until I’m far enough away for it to switch back to the bike’s PM.
Lastly, I don’t like the way the hazard reporting works. I love the idea, but when I click hazard, it pops up a couple icons for me to choose what the hazard is, and I can’t make out what the icons are. I kind of feel like it should just be “hazard”, full stop. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a pothole or a dead animal, all I need to know is “there’s something coming up that might be a problem, keep your eyes open”. I also don’t like how when someone reports a hazard, a small icon takes over the bottom left of the screen until I get far enough away from it.
Those are the only problems I can think of, for me.
Sorry it didn’t work out for you. That’s a big investment to end up disappointed. In general, I love mine and it’s a big step up from the 1030+ that I had before. The battery life is fantastic.
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I’m glad you’re able to use yours without issue, it really is a nice unit outside of my maybe isolated issue. My buddy has a 1050 and I had the same problem with his so def not a hardware defect in mine. I’d say I hear the alerts maybe 20% of the time, maybe I can place some blame on my Madone for making me ride too fast 
Of course I could have also tried to work with Garmin support for a few weeks, maybe get a replacement unit, but I feel like I’d end up in the same place but more annoyed and just put off from Garmin. I’m excited for my 1040 and learned my lesson not to buy new tech.
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I use a 1050. Have Varia alerts on and people in group rides comment and make jokes about it constantly chirping.
So no issues with sound or volume in my experience. Bell works great too.
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Eye watering cost is my personal issue with it however.
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Yeah to be honest I’m envious because I do really like the unit but it’s just a deal breaker. I had my last ride with it today and maybe 20% of the time I’d hear the alert, and the faster you go /windier it is, the worse the problem for me. I got mine for $525 so I didn’t even lose money selling but still a bummer since I was excited for a new shiny thing
Back to a 1040 with the 1050 software and trusty beeper for me