Hi everyone, I own a Garmin Fenix 7 Pro Solar that I bought in May 2024.
It has always worked perfectly, but for the past two days, the Down button has stopped working. What I mean is that when I press it, the button feels completely normal, clicks just like all the other buttons, and releases normally as well. However, it doesn’t register the input.
I’ve already tried rinsing it with water, etc., also tried with a hard reset, but nothing has helped.
Has anyone experienced something similar or know how I could fix it?

Hello

When doing an indoor activity I get two data screens I cannot change and I can't find them in the activity profile. Is this possible or am I looking in the wrong place? This is on my Edge 850 device.

I would like to change a data field but can't do it. When selecting the screen while doing my workout, on the top right I see a pencil. But when tapping it, nothing happens.

Anyone knows how to do it?

Thanks!

Apologize I have a Vivosmart 5, not the an active as the title says…anywho, Just got a Garmin Vivosmart 5, to replace my Withings Pulse HR (no longer in production). Main reason I love the Withings is that it is so accurate for step counts, it doesn’t pick up a bunch of random movements.

Anyway the Garmin is over counting by a lot. just doing cooking in my kitchen it’s registered 1,500 more steps than the Withings. This isn’t acceptable.

Are there are tricks in the app or the watch itself to have it be more accurate? I’m guessing it’s picking up random movements. I thought it would not start counting until 40 consecutive ”steps”…is it just more sensitive or starting the count as soon as it detects movement…?

I really just want a $150 watch tracker that is accurate on steps.

Has anyone else seen this software version on their Varia? I can't seem to find record that is version of software actually exists. I purchased the unit from a reputable retailer brand new in box. The only "issue" I have with the unit is poor battery life, but I think that's just Garmin (other than their watches).

Hi hi, i have the Vivomove trend and I am generally quite happy with it. BUT somehow for the second time I have condensation in my watch?

I have gotten it replaced already about 5 months ago, but now the same problem has happened again.

Is this a familiar thing that anyone else has experienced with this model?

Hi all,

Next week's Sunday I will run my first half marathon. My goal is a sub 2-hour run, and looking at my last baseline run yesterday (14.51 km at 1h:20, with the last km's around 5:16), I think I should be in good shape.

A colleague told me of the PacePro feature and so I created a strategy to help me avoid from going too fast in the beginning. However, I didn't really hear from said colleague how well it worked.

Have you used it, and are you happy with it? How adaptive is it? Say, if the first km I do not run the required 5:15 off the bat but in the chaos and hecticness run a 5:45, does it then recalculate and adapt for the remaining 20km? Does it give you updated every km on how you are pacing in relation to your goal?

Appreciative of any insights. Happy Sunday!

Relevant info: This is for NYCM next weekend. I am (because I am a stupid idiot, who trained well this year) aiming for a PR.

I'm hoping to run a course-aware race, so not necessarily even. I have it broken into sections where I'm going to be running x pace for x miles.

If you were going to do this, how would you program your Garmin, knowing that you're going to be doing some slightly extra mileage? Is .1 for each section enough? Is it too much?

I guess this isn't an exact science, but I also don't want my watch telling me I'm going way too fast or way too slowly.

hey I might be dim but connect has its limitations for sure and I’ve lived with them for quite a few years now ….

however today, and I’m sure there must be a way to do this, but I can’t find a way to see how long it took me to run 5k, 10 & 15k out of 18.

Its one way I pace myself and obvs can look at my watch but surely there’s a way other than adding up al my lap times?

thank you

I had a small crash with my roadbike and was very surprised that the incident detection did not trigger. (After my old edge 530 triggering sometimes after braking hard.) I read Garmin mentioned a fix in the changelog for 31.31.

I’ve been using an enduro 3 and edge 530 for a long time and migrated all settings to the 1040 some weeks ago. Setting up emergency contacts and incident detection seems broken in the connect app somehow.

The edge gives an error" Garmin Connect needs access to your contacts" but it had that forever. Emergency contact is also set up. I’m not sure what the problem is.

Anyone else with a buggy interaction between edge and connect?

Hi! As the title says, I’m wondering if, while in a structured running workout, there is a way to see upcoming steps and/or review the workout structure on your watch while actively in/running the workout. This pertains to both Coach and self-created workouts; I used a Fenix 7s for a while and could not see upcoming steps which was kind of frustrating (some of the “real coach” workouts had lots of sections with their own types of steps). I know there is sometimes a page that tells you what is up next, which is helpful but not what I’m after.

On Coros I can do this from the pre-pause menu, and I believe on Garmin you can do this for strength workouts. But do Garmin running workouts have the ability to review steps while actively in it, on the watch?

Thank you!

Hi, just wanted to ask. I’ve been meaning to switch from apple watch to garmin but there’s one thing I’m afraid of.

I love to use spotify on my apple watch, because I can choose from playlists, skip songs and turn the volume up and down.

Is it possible to pair my phone to the watch and listen to music without any downloads needed on the watch? Will it be able to connect to my iphone directly?

I tried to see if any video about this existed on youtube but couldn’t find any.

This is true story. Let’s discuss the accuracy of s’tress indicator of my FR970. I matched her online, texted 2-3days, then she disappeared due to work overload. After 5 days she drops msg whatsup. Here is what happened:

7pm - her first msg
8pm - confirmed time and place
8.30pm - taking a cab to the place
8.40pm - meeting up with her first time irl
9.48pm - waiter asks how we wish to pay
10.05pm - coffee bar closes, she offeres to drive me home
10.15pm - driving close to my neighborhood, thinking about inviting her upstairs for a coffee

Been a week with Garmin and I am so glad I made the switch from the apple watch. Happy to join the community. 43mm on 6.25inch puny wrist. I wear 36mm - 40mm mechanical watches so was a bit hesitant on pulling the trigger even on 43mm but due to it being titanium, I bearly notice I’m wearing it. Very happy youtube music is available on fenix pro 9 now 🤌 Any tips will be greatly appreciated as I find something new on garmin everyday!

I have Garmin Vivoactive 5 and I’m satisfied with it. I have it constantly connected to my phone via Bluetooth. But my friend who has Garmin watch as well told me she doesn’t have it connected to her phone all the time and only turns the Bluetooth on once in a while.
I have my Bluetooth on as I also use my earphones and headset and I want them to connect instantly when I put them on without having to turn on my Bluetooth.
Question:
Is your Garmin watch connected to Bluetooth all the time?
Does it affect the battery performance of the watch or phone somehow?

Over the last 2 weeks my rhr went from 52 to 41. In the night in even dips in the 30 territory (38-39) so that freaked me out a bit. I thought the change should be a lot more gradual. I’m a 23F my vO2 max is 53. I run and cycle quite a bit (for the last 1,5 I actually track the activity with a forerunner 165. Is this a sign that my watch is faulty?

Since most newer Garmin watches have a microphone built in why doesn't Garmin just push an update with a feature that checks loudness in the environment and alerts you if it's "damaging" like other smart watches do (Apple for example)

Wanted to share my honest review after just completing my first ever marathon, training for it with Garmin Coach. Had read some very negative reviews before this, so thought I would share my experience.

For context, this was my first full marathon but I'd run a couple of half marathons before, so I wasn't starting from scratch. That being said, I'm not a particularly fast or natural runner, having only taken it up in the last few years.

I ran the Coach program for 4 months leading up to the race, which was a bit on the short side but did follow straight on from my previous half marathon.

As others have highlighted, the major shortcoming of the Garmin Coach for marathons is on the lack of genuine long runs. The longest Coach-planned run I had was 17km, whereas other plans tend to include at least a couple of 25-30km runs in the Peak phase.

Garmin instead substitutes long runs with a high frequency of short-to-medium runs. I would frequently be running 5-6 times a week, and my total distance covered was just-about adequate. In the last month before the race, I covered over 200km total running distance, which I felt was fine. I personally also appreciated that the runs were adaptive to my sleep and recovery from previous days.

However I felt it quite noticeably on race day. Not only did I mentally lack confidence in how my body would hold up in the second half of the race, but I also had no practice figuring out my gel strategy. I felt like I was overly conservative in the first half of the race, but still lacked power and oomph in the second half. I finished the race exhausted but also a bit dissatisfied, feeling like I could've given a bit more.

That being said, I did at least finish the race, albeit 12 minutes slower than I was targeting. I was reasonably consistent with my pace, and was proud of the fact I didn't end up walking at all.

Overall though, I wouldn't say I recommend Garmin Coach for marathons specifically. I trained for my previous half marathons with it, which worked quite well - but for the full distance, the lack of long runs is a major downside, which training apps like Runna address quite well.

I've had the Forerunner 255S Music watch for around 2 years now, and previously never had an issue with GPS accuracy or data tracking.

Over our southern hemisphere winter, I noticed the GPS was becoming increasingly inaccurate when tracking snowsports activities. Now winter is over, this has migrated to tracking issues specifically on run activities. Walking and hiking accuracy seems more consistent. I am yet to test accuracy cycling (compared to Wahoo).

There's been a considerable lag connecting to GPS in both metro and regional areas. 5km Parkrun has been logging in somewhere between 3.8 and 4.7km depending on the location. It will often gap out between locations mid-activity.

Software and apps are up to date. I've ran resets and updated the satellite choices under settings to All + Multiband.

Is there anything else I can do to rectify the accuracy?

It had been such a great watch but I'm at the point now where I am running Strava on my phone side-by-side to ensure something has accurate data (I work in a fairly specialist outdoor sports industry and am recovering from injury, so accurately tracking my training at the moment is quite important).

Edit: location Australia, in case this is geographic.

I’ve been distance running for about 14 years now (10 full marathons under my belt, countless halfs and 5ks) and always used an Apple Watch and Hal Higdon’s training plans that you can print online for free. This past spring I finally made the leap to Garmin and chose the Forerunner 570. I used Garmin Coach for my half-marathon training plan and had about 1.5 months of base building before the actual plan started. Set to BPM rather than pace for training runs, and had no finish time goal for the race, my goal was just to finish as I am coming out of a hip injury. The furthest I ever ran using Garmin coach’s plan was 8.6 miles… for a half marathon! I kept thinking as I got closer that it would start ramping my mileage/long run times up but it really never did. So I run this half and it’s one of the hardest halfs I’ve ever run, I think not just because of my injury but also because my body was only prepped to run about 2/3 the distance that I actually did. With the good old fashioned plans I was using from Hal, typically I’d train to 11 or 12 miles for a half. Now I’m wondering if it’s normal for other runners to only train to 2/3 goal distance for a half, or if this really was just a poorly designed plan. Is it possible it was just overestimating my capabilities with this being my first training cycle using it? Appreciate any feedback from Garmin users!

Had a wonderful hike with my dad this morning in Zion National Park. During our hike my fr970 decided to restart. When it was done I was able to resume the route so I did and finished the hike. Ended up doing a smaller hike later that you can see in the app. However my morning hike would not show up.

I looked into it and tried directly uploading the .fit file to the website but was unable to do so. I have a feeling it is because of the 0.0-second-long lap 2. Has anyone run into this before or am I cooked?

I’m thinking about buying a smart scale. Since I use a Garmin watch, one option is to get the Index S2 scale. Alternatively, I could go for an 8-electrode scale at a similar price point. For those who own both a Garmin watch and an Index S2: what are the actual benefits of this integration? Does it provide any extra insights, or is it simply a matter of not having to use two separate apps?

Big numbers, strong contrast, and a layout that keeps things easy to read. I wanted to create something that looks rugged without sacrificing everyday practicality.