Garmin Auto Pause Issue

[Wez-O]

Hey Guys,

 

Not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but as of this week my Garmin Edge 500 (with cadence/speed sensor) continually auto pauses and resumes during my ride. The speed drops to 0km/h during this period of about 3 seconds then resumes as per normal. There was no cloud cover and this was out on the open road where there would have been no GPS interference.

After reading about this same issue affecting other Edge users, it appears this may have something to do with a fault on the cadence/speed sensor on the rear wheel rather than the Edge unit.

 

Secondly, I understand that with the cadence/speed sensor, the Garmin user the wheel speed instead of the GPS speed, perhaps I should remove the speed sensor off the wheel, but will this affect the cadence setup?

 

Has anyone else experienced this or perhaps have any resolutions for such an issue?

 

Thanks

[Guest Smimby]

You are right, if you have a speed sensor on the wheel the unit does not GPS to calculate speed but rather the wheel magnet.

 

I ride without the magnet and ONLY use it when on the IDT indoors. It can be that your battery in the Cadence sensor it going flat or the magnet on the wheel is not close enough to the sensor.

 

Take the wheel magnet off and set the garnin, in bike settings wheel size to AUTO and it should solve your issue

[JA-Q001]

You can switch the device to either work with gps, the sensor or both. Maybe just switch it to only use the gps, this uses a bit more battery though. You will not need to remove the sensor, but for interest, you could only remove the magnet on the wheel.

['Dale]

For my Edge 800, the auto-pause and auto-resume is a function.

Maybe switch it off.

Then you can manually control it.

Edited September 25, 2013 by ' Dale

[dyls]

I had the same problem with my edge 500, it just decided to stop working 20k's into the ride, I kind of came to the conclusion that it was the rear wheel I was using (I swapped it for the ride while I was getting my new hub put on my original wheel) when I put my original wheel back on it worked fine again - pretty weird!

[Guest Smimby]

You can switch the device to either work with gps, the sensor or both. Maybe just switch it to only use the gps, this uses a bit more battery though. You will not need to remove the sensor, but for interest, you could only remove the magnet on the wheel.

How do you set it to GPS and sensor?

 

As far as I can understand the moment you have a magnet on the wheel, the garmin will use IT for distance and speed and NOT the GPS. If you remove the magnet then it uses GPS.

[dyls]

For my Edge 800, the auto-pause and auto-resume is a function.

Maybe switch it off.

Then you can manually control it.

I tried switching off the auto pause on mine during the ride - still didnt help, it just read zero speed and stopped mapping the ride.

[Hennie VR]

Just for interest sake. If you use the speed/cadence sensor to determine speed, does the unit still plot your route and give you info like meters climbed etc?

[dracs]

You can switch the device to either work with gps, the sensor or both. Maybe just switch it to only use the gps, this uses a bit more battery though. You will not need to remove the sensor, but for interest, you could only remove the magnet on the wheel.

Ja I think you can set it up to use GPS first and only sensor if no signal. What I do is leave a magnet on the wheel I use for the trainer only, road wheels have no magnet - so I get cadence info but speed only from GPS.

[Blackadder]

Garmin should use GPS measurements to automatically calibrate wheel size. My Edge did this, not sure how or whether I ever set it to use both the magnet and the GPS, but it obviously did.

[Wez-O]

Thanks guys, I will try go with the option of using "GPS only" for speed and hopefully this will resolve it.

The joys of technology hey... I never had such problems back in the day when I used one of those manual speedometers that calculated speed and distance based on clicks on a cable

[Guest Smimby]

Just for interest sake. If you use the speed/cadence sensor to determine speed, does the unit still plot your route and give you info like meters climbed etc?

 

Yes it does....

[Guest Smimby]

I tried switching off the auto pause on mine during the ride - still didnt help, it just read zero speed and stopped mapping the ride.

 

The autopause is not the problem

It is the speed sensor that "looses the plot" then the garmin "thinks" the speed is zero and will autopause...when it detects movement again from the speed sensor it will un-pausse....

 

If you disable the auto-pause you will still see a ZERO speed when the speed sensor looses the plot...but it will not go into paused mode.

 

Remove the wheel magnet and ride on GPS only.

 

When you install the speed and cadence sensor you set the WHEEL size to auto, this will then use GPS to calculate your wheel size and after that it uses the magnet ONLY