Today I'm looking at firmware 8.0 which has just been released this week for the Garmin Edge 1030. The most significant update and feature set
Edition added to this unit since release
earlier in 2019 with the release of the 830 and the 530 Garmin promised that the
1030 which is two years old now would receive a lot of those updates and features that come with those newer units such as climb
pro mountain bike metrics and a tonne of other stuff
Well that firmware has been in test for a long time in beta and it's finally here in public
Let's go through the feature set.
Over here on the Garmin website it does say September 11th was the release date for this public firmware
So if you've checked lately, and it's not there
That's probably because you were caught up in the slow roll out of this. I waited all weekend
I didn't get it - had to grab the firmware from somewhere else, but it is now at 100% roll out as of September 17th 2019
and the other thing to note with this change log is it's all additional features or updates.
It's not fixed, fix, fixes, fixes, fixes, which is typically what we see with Garmin firmwares.
But these are all new features - stacked to the brim! Let's have a quick scan of what's new.
We can see here. This pretty much does bring it up to the 830/530 level of features
So, training load focus. Two way setting syncs, Acclamations is in there. Climb Pro is now added to the public release
We had a quick look at that with the beta release the other day
But climb Pro is now public in this release
Nutrition and hydration tracking, workout comparison, widget management, bike theft alarm, find my edge, grit/flow and jump metrics for the mountain bikers
(Skim, skim, skim) and jumping down to the bottom there
They reorder the settings to match the edge 830
Splitting the growing number of settings into safety tracking, incident detection, get assistance, connected features, etc
I think what they're doing there is they're trying to unify the user experience or the UI interface with the
530/830 and now the 1030
So if you're familiar with configuring this and you move to one of these - happy days, easy done or vice versa
So just unifying that user experience which I think is important in these days, especially how complex these things are getting. Ok
There's a details I'll link below to that full list, but let's get it installed on this unit here
I have two of these in the lama lab and I've been out testing with this one. This one hasn't been updated
Let's get to it now
Ok, the edge 1030 that doesn't have
The new firmware you can see it has my little startup logo we put on there the other day
It should request to install so I've had 787 beta firmware on there. Now I want to install version 8.00 public
Estimated install time two minutes. Let's get that done on this unit
That's suboptimal
(laughs)
Okay, it was transferring data, so I think that's what took place there
it was syncing data from the cloud from Garmin Connect but...
Well such is not live television
Okay, the download fail up there was the syncing of data so
This should be fine. It didn't happen on this other unit. I think that's okay. Okay, that should now boot up and install
There we go preparing update
Loading software
Update complete. happy days. Loading courses and workouts
Opens the maps. Easy as that! We are done. We will just go and verify that on the menus system
about
No software update but if we do go to copyright info you should tell us everything here. So software version 8.0
GPS version 0? Err?
Ok
Everything else looks ok. The GPS version concerns me
We might do a final reboot just to be sure it's doing a transfer of something
It is on my Wi-Fi. We'll wait for the transfer to finish
Just in case is pulling down a GPS chipset update
While that takes place I will show you the climb Pro stuff on here which I've been using
This is my wife's unit. That's why I have two.
Hang on. Let me just (check).
Yep
We have it right.
That should read "property of Mrs llama" too!
Your the naughty corner. download complete. so it's done something over there
So navigation, courses, saved courses, and today I did a Buninyong climb using climb Pro and
You've got Summary, map, elevation, now we have climbs listed on here
You can see that there's two climbs that meet the Climb Pro criteria
Which there is three of those. We'll do climb pro in another video, but just as a quick summary
I'll show you what that's about so you can see the one main climb there from outside of Buninyong up to the top
With average grading to 4%. The second climb there is in town average grade of 8% 513 meters
And they're the two climbs. Let's have a look at that in action out on the road
Okay, a few kilometers down the road on my ride 12.14 kilometers to be precise now scrolling through the screens here with the D-Fly
buttons
That i have set up on my Di2 - next next. There we go
Now the screen here you can see i'm 2.11 kilometers away from the climb number one
average gradient of 4%
Climb number two which is still 30 kilometers down the road. Back to climb number one
Okay, so you can see it counting down to the start of the climb there
And just about the start of the climb
Well 83 meters from the start of the climb there
It tells you that it's coming up and it pops up on the screen there
with all the details
9.02 kilometers to go to the top of that climb I think and it detected the car with my radar
Okay, halfway up the climb here. It's hard to hang on to the camera and ride with it
So I've got a still shot here. You can see halfway up the climb
It's reading 0% grade because I am stopped, but it gives you some running
Information and it's been give running information or riding information
Here's my attempt at trying to show you the steepest part of the climb with a glossy screen
now the gloss screen doesn't work too well here but I am including this in the video to prove that I did ride up the
Steepest part of this climb you can just see the information pop, but no, I'm just gonna give up
Let's just ride the climb and get it done
So there's a quick overview of what that looks like out on the road when you hit go and navigate
It's not too bad at all, but we will cover climb Pro in another video
But now back from the naughty corner this one here with the GPS firmware set to 0.0
let's try and troubleshoot that so I'm gonna do a hard off.
My go-to method to make sure everything's properly synced is to use Garmin Express with the USB cable
So I'll do that later on if this doesn't work, but I'll just go through this as a bit of troubleshooting
Didn't seem to do anything there.
system
About
copyright info
Okay, that's for later on
Okay, that one aside I'll look into that later we've seen climb pro at work on this unit out on the road just briefly
Let's have a look at the bike alarm setting that now comes with this new firmware
so the setting of bike alarm is within safety and tracking and
Bike alarm down here now. I've already set a passcode.
I think I know what the passcode is
Let's have a look at setting that off
So let's just say you're doing it indoors while no one's going to steal your bike indoors (you'd hope) if you're out on the road
But the way to get that straight down from the top over to the side here and set bike alarm
Activating in five, four, three, two, one, go
Alrighty so that's now alarmed.
And you can see on my watch, bike alarm is now on
And may also bike alarm on my phone
- there we go. Your bike has been armed now. Let's just say someone steals your bike. WOW LOOKOUT!
Bang the alarm is being triggered over here too.
Your phone's notified that's chipping away like a bird on acid. To turn alarm off
Put in my secret code
The GPS firmware has updated successfully. Well, I'd like to thank the bicycle alarm for updating my GPS firmware!
Nothing ever goes to plan
Look at that!
Happy days. There we go
So if your GPS version is set to 0.0 set up a bike alarm! (joke) That's not really what happens
that's just
Also my watch had notified me that the bike alarm had gone off
So if you don't get the alert to your phone and your watch is in range this goes off everything within the Garmin ecosystem
Chirps away cool cool. Okay, we'll leave it there. There's a quick look at some of the new features
So there we are firmware 8.0 for the
Edge 1030 which really does bring it up to almost this level with all those additional features now it is a two-year old device
You're not going to get the same kind of menu speeds and things out of it
But they've done pretty well Jam packing all those new features into an older unit. Not bad at all
I always say units and
Devices are only ever one firmware update away from being a better experience and that was out in the road today good stuff
Alright links below to all this information. Do your updates. Enjoy the ride. Thanks for watching