Wahoo Elemnt ...

[madmacca]

I saw this complaint on one if my Facebook groups just yesterday. Wondering if it was caused by the last firmware update. Did you install it?

I did yes, so hopefully this can be fixed again in the next update.

Just checked the ride on Strava again and looking more closely, there are big chunks of the ride missing where the GPS dropped out. It appears to have filled in the elevation on the ride - presumably from the route - but speed, hr, power and cadence are missing. This is annoying since at least HR and Power were displaying ok, it would be good if it recorded those even if it can't get position from GPS.

Steve

Depending on your autopause settings, speed, hr, etc were probably missing because with the GPS dropout, the unit assumed you were stopped.

[determinator]

I saw this complaint on one if my Facebook groups just yesterday. Wondering if it was caused by the last firmware update. Did you install it?

I did yes, so hopefully this can be fixed again in the next update.

Just checked the ride on Strava again and looking more closely, there are big chunks of the ride missing where the GPS dropped out. It appears to have filled in the elevation on the ride - presumably from the route - but speed, hr, power and cadence are missing. This is annoying since at least HR and Power were displaying ok, it would be good if it recorded those even if it can't get position from GPS.

Steve

I have exactly this issue with my Bolt. It occurred at Gears and Beers dirty 130 and Peaks Challenge Cradle mountain yesterday. You have to zoom in to see it but there are some crazy straight lines where GPS dropped and speed didn't show. At times power would also be dropped (from Garmin Vector pedals). I was in open countryside where GPS reception issues should not occur. BTW it has NEVER shown text messages from my iPhone despite "forgetting this device" reconnecting and selecting all the correct menu options. Its being exchanged - I will try one more and cross my fingers...
Colin
https://www.strava.com/activities/1261707607/overview

[Aushiker]

[sir_camel]

Recently acquired an Elemnt. Been loving it so far but I have one question that maybe users have wisdom on.

In all their promo shots they have the speed in the top box on their display with reversed colours (i.e. black background and white text). Is there somewhere you can change this in settings? I know it's purely aesthetic but hey, sometimes it's nice to have them the way you'd like them.

[Aushiker]

Recently acquired an Elemnt. Been loving it so far but I have one question that maybe users have wisdom on.

In all their promo shots they have the speed in the top box on their display with reversed colours (i.e. black background and white text). Is there somewhere you can change this in settings? I know it's purely aesthetic but hey, sometimes it's nice to have them the way you'd like them.

If you can change this it will be in your phone app. Most likely only an IOS feature. Wahoo's Android app is seriously lacking in comparison IMO.

[sir_camel]

Recently acquired an Elemnt. Been loving it so far but I have one question that maybe users have wisdom on.

In all their promo shots they have the speed in the top box on their display with reversed colours (i.e. black background and white text). Is there somewhere you can change this in settings? I know it's purely aesthetic but hey, sometimes it's nice to have them the way you'd like them.

If you can change this it will be in your phone app. Most likely only an IOS feature. Wahoo's Android app is seriously lacking in comparison IMO.

I am using the iOS app which is very nice but can't find anything as yet.

[Aushiker]

I am using the iOS app which is very nice but can't find anything as yet.

If you don't get an answer here, I suggest trying the Google group for the Wahoo.

[MichaelB]

This is covered in this WW Forum post

[sir_camel]

Great success!

Thanks team.

[biker jk]

There's still a bug that doesn't allow you to invert the power display (my LED's are linked to 3 sec avg power).

[Aushiker]

Great success!

Nice work.

[RonK]

There is a firmware update available if you haven't already noticed. Details here:

27 Nov 2017 ELEMNT WF42-1815

[MichaelB]

OK, have an issue with my Bolt and wondering how to get around it.

With my Garmin 520, when I did a 'split' ride (ride to work in the morning and ride home at end of day), I could stop the ride at work, power down the unit, restart at home time and restart the ride and at the end, it's all saved as one ride.

With the Bolt though, if I try the same process, it seems to 'forget' that I have either a paused ride or unsaved ride, and doesn't give me an option to continue it ?

Is this just a quirk of Wahoo and something Garmin did right or ....

Am I doing it wrong ?

PS - I tried the stop a ride, turn off the unit and then restarted it 30 sec later, and it allowed me to continue the same ride, but it doesn't seem to after a longer (6+ hr) pause ?

Thanks

Michael

[Ignoto]

So I was lucky enough to score a Bolt for Christmas, set it all up, upgraded to the latest firmware, however it appears to be plagued by the over reading in the TSS/IF score. This mornings ride was just under 130km and the Bolt reckons I hit 600tss at an IF of 1.23

Once the file is imported into TrainingPeaks, an appropriate IF/TSS is shown. I have also double checked I have set up the correct FTP, updated to the latest firmware and double checked that my P1's weren't over reading.

It seems to be an issue that others have encountered, but reading through the patch notes, I can see Wahoo specifically released a version that 'fixes' this issue for the Elemnt back in March 2016, but nothing mentioned for the Bolts (I guess their firmware post-dates this fix).

Any ideas on what I could try (I have written to Wahoo Support, but given the holidays I'm not expecting a speedy reply).

[jimsheedy]

My ELEMNT was great for about 3 months then after a reasonably wet 200km ride where it dropped out continually in the last 50km, it's gone downhill steadily. To the point on a ride today about 150km it had no GPS reception from Hornsby to the Anzac bridge. I have numerous chat and email sessions with wahoo support logged as that issue and others have been escalating for months. Good to hear they're ok to deal with re warranty, I guess that's my next option