I come from a Garmin 510 with it’s stone age but workable touch screen. I just picked up a 530 and I’m not finding the buttons intuitive at all. I often hit the lower right side button instead of the upper for a return. I’m also frequently hitting the power button instead of the scroll up button. When I hold the unit in my hand there seems no real intuitive way to hold it and select the right buttons.
I’m wishing I would have gotten the 830 now.
Have any of you gotten passed this hurdle? WTF am I not getting it? I’m an IT guy who has played his fair share of video games on multiple platforms. I’m usually really good at this kind of stuff.
I also found a bug in the 530. It keeps picking up the speed sensor from my Tacx trainer and there seems to be no way to delete it or not use it. I deleted the trainer from the 530 but if I use a Stages power meter it still seems to be picking up the Tacx speed sensor no matter what. It also doesn’t show up in sensors as something one can delete.
Have you paired the Tacx trainer as a trainer rather than as an external sensors. Have a look into the Training menu on the Edge, might be there instead?
I did pair it as a trainer but then I deleted the trainer. It still picks up the speed sensor to use with other power meters. It’s not a huge deal but it’s annoying that it just takes over.
Guess it’s muscle memory at this point? Top right is select/enter, and bottom right is back. Those are somewhat ingrained because I’ve played with page layouts during recovery intervals. Sometimes after a really hard interval I’ve gotten confused which is the lap button, and am thinking of using a red sharpie to make it easier when I’m interval dazed and confused.
If coming from a touch screen I probably would have gone straight to the 830 or 1030 But my first computer was a 520 and it has the same buttons.
I guess I’ll eventually get used to it. The 510 touch screen is annoying especially with swiping between screens while riding. I actually thought buttons might be better this time around.
I think a left handed person designed the layout. It’s so counter intuitive when using your right hand as the buttons you need to use are not easy to access as they are essentially against the base of your thumb.
To be frank, it’s the worst bike computer I have ever owned.
I have the 510, and was thinking of upgrading soon… So stick with Touch screen for me. I agree the slide swipe can be annoying when the screen gets a big splodge of sweat on it.
I’ve had everything in the series starting from the 500, so no issues remembering where the buttons are. My gripe is that the buttons on the 530 are unresponsive and stick at times. I had it exchanged straight out of the gate for that reason and the second one is only marginally better. I splurged on the 830 when I found it on sale and have been pretty happy with it so far. The touchscreen has been great (I was worried about this) and after a bit of learning curve since the UI is a little different, I will probably be getting rid of my 530.
The button layout is similar to the running watches, so I find it easy to remember and use. The only difference is the split of the enter/back functions out of the start/stop and lap buttons. Navigating the device is identical.
Garmin told you that or Bike Tires Direct told you that? It doesn’t seem like washing the buttons is going to do much unless you got them dirty and gritty.
