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New Garmin Fenix 3 and Epix

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mbln Aug 2016 4:30pm, 22 Aug 2016 818 posts	Quote Pin mbln Does everyone elses fenix freeze and eventually reboot, then freeze again when you send it a gpx file, or am I just extra lucky today?
Badger Aug 2016 4:33pm, 22 Aug 2016 7,612 posts	Quote Pin Badger I never send mine a gpx file in the first place. Is it a course? Is it a very long one? I vaguely recall that they trim long courses down, and can reboot while doing that. I do use courses, but I use sites that generate tcx files, and use either my own software or javawartw to convert them to fit files which the watch eats happily.
mbln Aug 2016 4:39pm, 22 Aug 2016 819 posts	Quote Pin mbln just to make it extra confusing I sent a tcx (generated on fetch) and a gpx route from a race website. GPX was around 6 Mb. Watch has become responsive again, and what I'm assuming is the GPX (it's been renamed??) is listed as a course, but the tcx isn't shown.
mbln Aug 2016 4:52pm, 22 Aug 2016 820 posts	Quote Pin mbln The tcx stayed in the newfiles folder, so I'm going to assume it didn't want to eat that. Converted both to FIT files and they uploaded in seconds and map out nicely and the watch doesn't freeze Thanks for the tip.
Badger Aug 2016 5:01pm, 22 Aug 2016 7,613 posts	Quote Pin Badger Yup, the F3 can't interpret tcx files. (Rant begins). It's got a perfectly good XML parser, or it wouldn't be able to read gpx files; gpx courses don't support course points to signal turns, and virtually none of the course building websites will generate FIT files; it wouldn't have been that challenging for it to interpret tcx files as well as gpx. (Rant ends). What did you use for the conversion, btw?
mbln Aug 2016 8:03pm, 22 Aug 2016 821 posts	Quote Pin mbln I'm going to guess file size is a big consideration. tcx was 900k, fit was 75, and gpx was 5.7 M, fit 230k.... GPSies
flanker Aug 2016 5:20pm, 24 Aug 2016 16,598 posts	Quote Pin flanker Gpsies for generating basic GPX and FIT can't be beaten IMO, however I found that BRT was the best option if I wanted turn indicators. (And after the experiment I've never wanted them since!)
Badger Aug 2016 10:16pm, 24 Aug 2016 7,619 posts	Quote Pin Badger Gpsies does put turn indicators into FIT files, but they don't work (the timestamping is wrong - I have talked to the site author about this but last I heard he didn't have time to do anything about it). Working with plotaroute to sort them out with a FIT file output which will have turn indicators, too crucified by new role at work to finish the job.
Badger Aug 2016 1:57pm, 25 Aug 2016 7,621 posts	Quote Pin Badger Upgrade, anyone? dcrainmaker.com
flanker Aug 2016 5:54pm, 27 Aug 2016 16,601 posts	Quote Pin flanker Somehow I think not. Metal or leather straps aren't exactly practical for serious sports use. I changed my metal one after one run and it's never been back on since.