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Originally Posted by
Iride01
Might be a bad battery. Could be corrosion from sweat on the contacts between the pod and the strap. However when my Garmin soft straps start doing this at about 5 years of age, I usually find nothing works but a new strap. Garmin sells the strap without the pod for quite a few bucks less. However when I got the strap, I found out it was actually the pod. Luckily I still had the pod from my first strap and it seems to be working fine with the new strap.
The plastic was peeling off the previous strap, so I put it in the trash and never checked to see if it had issues too.
I've seen some on the Garmin forums say that they washed their strap in the washing machine with a load of clothes and it magically started working again. And I believe Garmin actually recommends machine washing every so often. Without the pod of course. I've never machine washed mine. I just rinse it well after every use.
I'm reasonably sure it's not the battery because I've had the issue before and after changing batteries, but the strap thing is a possibility. I'll give mine a wash next time I'm washing my bike stuff and see if it does anything.
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