Don't panic! Just reset your Garmin Edge 305.
Today I changed to go out for a lunch time ride. The plan was to do a muscle tension workout. What this is is that you ride in an impossibly big gear for the ride. This, according to Joe Friels Training Bible, is supposed to simulate climbing.
So I get outside, and attempt to power my Garmin Edge unit on and ... nothing. I press the powerbutton a couple more times. Nothing ... hmmm ... Then I press and hold the powerbutton in for a bunch of seconds. Nada. Enter button? Nope. Reset/Lap button? Still nada.
The unit was just working in my office a few minutes ago. I turned it on, set the bike profile to what I was riding today and shut it off. It was fine. I didn't drop it or throw it or step on it or anything? Errr!?!
At this point I'm thinking I'll have to send it back for warranty. The problem with that is that any rides I do during the time it's gone will not get recorded for my performance manager. See, since getting the unit, I think I've become addicted to tracking my training and performance and stuff, using it in combo with SportTracks and a custom Performance Manager (Using TrImp scores). The very idea of not being able to make pretty charts and stuff was making me upset. My eyes started watering, and I think my lower lip began quivering. I called my wife to give her the bad news (and also to let her know where I was headed for my ride). I think I sensed her sadness at the situation, though she kept a pretty strong facade for me. She agreed that it was a crappy situation to have to send it back for warranty, it's only six months old.
I went on my ride, not knowing what my heartrate was, what my cadence was or how fast I was going. At times I was pedaling while crying looking at the blank screen fcing back at me hoping that maybe if I press the button now it'll magically turn on. It never did.
My mind kept going to envisioning the black hole that will be the middle of June on my Performance Manager. I couldn't help but think how it'll look for my CTL to drop, knowing that I was still riding. How am I gonna go for a ride not knowing what my TSB was prior to, or will be after my ride?
I got back to my office, showered and got back to work. After a bit I went to the Garmin site to attempt to contact support to start the ball rolling about the warranty situation. I looked through the owners manual and saw the instructions on resetting the unit.
Press the Reset/Lap and Start/Stop button at the same time.So I Pressed and held the Reset/Lap and Start/Stop button at the same time for a second. I didn't think it did anything. I continued surfing their site for contacting support. I hit Power, Reset/Lap and Start/Stop. Still nothing. Put it down. Then I picked up the unit a little later and hit the power button... and ... "blip" it comes on.
Oh happy day! I checked all the settings, still all the same... Resetting it must have worked. Yea! So next time before getting all upset, I'll just press both bottons at the same time, and then try to turn it on again. That should do it.
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Monday 06/16/2008 | 03:22 pm
Thom Brooks on Tuesday 08/26/2008 | 09:16 am
That's weird. I just had mine lock up on me and the solution that tech support gave me was to hold 'mode' (lower button on the left side) and 'reset' (aka 'lap', the left button on the lower face of the unit) for about ten seconds, then hit the power button. And sure enough, it turned on.
HTH
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