I noticed sometime around last Nov, 2024, that I was no longer getting navigation prompts on my Garmin Epix Pro (Gen 2) when a course I’d laid out involved walking into and back out of a cul-de-sac.
This worked flawlessly for the year starting in Nov '23 when I got the watch.
For example, each of these arrowed turns went by unprompted–by either the watch nor an auditory prompt on my phone:
The major street left-or-rights are still working properly–but there’s something about these short in-and-outs that is confusing the watch.
I’m working with Garmin support to try and figure out what changed 5 months ago, but they seem to be struggling…
Are there any citizen citystridin’ scientists out there (ideally with the same or very similar watch) that might be willing to test this function? I want to try and determine if perhaps “…it’s not you, Garmin, it’s me” or not.
Ideally you’d plan a course with two or three short cul-de-sacs here in CS, export it into Garmin Connect, then transfer it to your watch and run or walk the resulting course–noting if the nav prompts are working properly.
For example, I have a dead-end alley half a block from me that I often test with. It doesn’t have to be as elaborate as the course I posted above.
Thanks in advance, striders!
[edit] Garmin keeps asking me to check my GPS settings–thinking, I guess, that accuracy is the problem–but this watch will show which side of the street I’m on. You can even spot where I ducked into a construction port-a-pottys along the way (!), so it doesn’t make sense that that would be the issue.