Garmin Edge 850 isn't reliable
Is it just me or is the Garmin Edge 850 not reliable at all?
I've bought the Garmin Edge 850 a few weeks ago, it's my first bike computer and I was expecting a lot from it, especially given the price. However, everything is soo frustrating and not reliable.
The French translation is just terrible, I had to switch to English because everything just reads auto-translated.
The ui of the bike computer itself is ok-ish, but the app, the desktop site as well as the laptop app are just terrible, especially in 2026.
Sometimes, navigation doesn't start, I have to click "Pause navigation" and resume again to have the directions. And sometimes, "Pause navigation" doesn't work and navigation keeps going, which is annoying.
There's the possibility to control the phone's music.. great but if I try to pause or skip to the next song, nothing happens (it only works sometimes, and in the rare case it happens there's a huge delay)
ClimbPro? I was exited about it and it was on of the main reasons for me to buy a bike computer, but the elevation curve is difficult to read and often doesn't match the road. Sometimes I see a negative slope on the bike computer while I'm clearly climbing, sometimes it's just varying when the slope is constant, etc. So not useable to adapt my effort.
The physical buttons don't always match what's displayed on the screen. When I'm displaying the full screen map, there's a button to go back on the bottom left corner, but if I click on the bottom left button, it's changing the zoom level.
I get useless notifications to remind me to eat / drink all the time even if I disable it in the settings (maybe I've found a solution for this actually, but as usual not intuitive at all).
And I could continue the list for a long time :/ For a device this expensive, this is really terrible.
Now I'm wondering if getting the garmin was the right choice at all. Is there any hope this will get fixed at some point? Would it have been better with other devices such as the wahoo? I don't have any other garmin device expect the radar so I'm not locked into the ecosystem.