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Total time and moving time stats are swapped?

So I've had my Forerunner 945 for about a month now. Two days ago I got the weird stats computed on the stats details page. I did a scramble climb up a mountain. Nothing on the stats page makes sense. I was out all day and spent about an hour on the summit. It is as if the Garmin got the moving time and the stopped time swapped. Not sure what to do, whether I should open a ticket with Garmin.

0 trux over 5 years ago

AngelaFrench said:
It is as if the Garmin got the moving time and the stopped time swapped.

Perhaps you pace was simply too low for the majority of the time. Post the screenshot of the Pace graph of the hike.

0 AngelaFrench over 5 years ago in reply to trux

Is this what you mean? This trip had climbing up near vertical walls here and there so it does not surprise me that Garmin would think I'm not moving. But to have only a little over an hour of "moving" time is way off base. The main approach to the climb was 2.25 miles done in just under 2 hours. That same descent was done in a little over an hour.

0 trux over 5 years ago in reply to AngelaFrench

From the pace graph it is apparent that you were moving forward with the pace greater than an hour per mile (the white horizontal line in the graph), only a smal fraction of the total time. 1 hour moving seems to be rather accurate to me.

0 AngelaFrench over 5 years ago in reply to trux

The first 2 miles in were done in 1:50 (1 hour 50 minutes), the last 2 on the out and back trail were done in a little over 1 hour. That's almost 3 hours right there of definite moving. Bushwacking and rock climbing might have been slow, but the hiking in and out part was not. It said my max speed was 78.9 mph. I didn't even drive to the trailhead that fast!

0 trux over 5 years ago in reply to AngelaFrench

AngelaFrench said:
It said my max speed was 78.9 mph

The stats simply show the track the GPS records. If you are moving in strongly accidental terrain, under dense vegetation, or near steep slopes or walls, the GPS signal may be blocked, and the accuracy very limited, with many drop outs. There is not much to do about it, apart from using a combined mode GPS+Glonass, or GPS+Galileo, which considerably increases the number of visible satellites, and hence improves the chance to calculate the position more accurately. Alterntaively you could use an indoor mode without GPS, to track the distance by steps only, when you see the GPS signal is not sufficient.