How to customise the start up messages on your Garmin Edge unit to ensure a lost unit has the best chance of finding its way home, or if you just want to make your Edge more personalised.
Details:
– Connect your Edge via USB.
– Open the GARMIN folder on the USB drive.
– Open the startup.txt
– Edit and save.
Further digging into this startup.txt I’ve found the following:
– Limited to 7-Bit ASCII characters…. so only the basics. (No mad Extended ASCII character art)
– Center aligns the text.
– Garmin EDGE 520/820: 5 Lines
– Garmin EDGE 530/830/1030: 6 Lines
– Garmin EDGE 800: 7 Lines
– Characters on each line depends on the character used. It varies.
– There’s more than enough room for your name / phone number / email address.
– You can extend the time the message is shown.
– It survives device reset.
GPLama startup.txt Template:
.—————-.
: Property of :
: GPLama :
‘—————-‘
Links:
Garmin Edge 530 (Amazon US): https://amzn.to/349yWUG
Garmin Edge 830 (Amazon US): https://amzn.to/2Xjp6zO
Garmin Edge 1030 (Amazon US): https://amzn.to/2Xbv71e
Garmin Edge 1030 Plus (Amazon US): https://amzn.to/3pXzc5b
Garmin Edge 1040 (Amazon US): https://amzn.to/3H0oD9Q
Garmin Edge 130 Plus (Amazon US): https://amzn.to/3cHj4yI
I would love to find the file that has the garmin logo embedded 🙂
Hi Shane, the startup.txt is not present on new edge 1040 device. Is there a trick to have this nice feature enabled? Thanks! Luca
Same with the 1040 solar. Shane, any ideas?
I just uploaded the same file that I had on my 530. Only issue is that they are using a different (non-proportional) font so the box around the info isn’t quite right. could fix by trial and error if I could be bothered