I lost connection between my fenix 5 and my Pixel 2XL few days ago and haven't been able to reconnect since.. did reset the app, watch, removed device from Bluetooth etc.. any one else experiencing this?
I lost connection between my fenix 5 and my Pixel 2XL few days ago and haven't been able to reconnect since.. did reset the app, watch, removed device from Bluetooth etc.. any one else experiencing this?
Remove the watch from bluetooth devices on the phone and start sync over. That's helped me.
Eventually I managed to get it fixed:
- removed Garmin watch from Bluetooth
- disable Bluetooth on watch & phone
- shut watch phone
- shut down watch
- startup phone
- enable phone Bluetooth
- startup watch
- enable watch Bluetooth
- in Garmin Connect -> add new device
- on watch -> pair phone
- repeat until it works (for me, this was 3 or 4 times).
- follow connection procedure through the Garmin Connect app
Why it suddenly worked, I don't know, but it did. A had some variations with disabling Bluetooth before shutting down the phone/watch or just restarting the phone/watch directly. The version that eventually worked, is the process described above.
My Fenix 5 Plus suddenly didn't connect to my Android phone anymore. I removed the watch from my Garmin Connect app, and tried to add it again. But that kept failing, until I tried this:
- Remove the watch from the Connect app on my phone (as done above)
- Forced the Connect app to stop
- Rebooted my phone
- Rebooted my watch
- Added the watch (the normal way) in the Connect app
Before that, I tried several other ways/options, even the rebooting. I guess it now worked because of the 'forced stop' of the Connect ap on my phone.