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Why is autosave happening during a break? This is awful.

Hace
over 1 year ago

During a long walk, we took a break.

Therefore I pauzed via the pauze button on my Garmin vivoactive 4.

All of a sudden, the activity was saved! This is awful, because I can't continue recording the rest of the walk. The only thing I could do is start a new walk.

After some more walking, we found a nice cafe. You guessed it: we took another break.

So I paused the walk.

Again, I missed the 30 second "auto save" warning and BOOM, again a small part of our day walk was saved! 

What is this? Why autosave is the default at all? Let me just take a nice break during a walk and continue when I press the button on the garmin watch again.

Can the sofwtare quickly be updated to fix this?

Of course, after having three walks I wanted to combine these 3 activities into one. Unfortunately, nor the app, nor the garmin website have clear options to merge activities. What is this?

Please provide this information to the developers and fix it ASAP. Thank you,

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    It is in order to save the battery, since during the standard pause the GPS chip is active and continues to consume a lot of energy. Use the option "Resume Later" if you plan stopping for longer than a few minutes (on my watch the timeout is 2 minutes when set to "normal"). You can then pause as long as you want, without the risk of auto-save, and without unnecessarily consuming power.

    You can also change the parameter "Power Save Timeout" from Normal to Extended, if you want a bit longer timeout in the standard pause.

    It is all explained in more details in the article How Do I Pause a Recorded Activity? | Garmin Customer Support

    Edit: I just see in that very document, that Vivoactive 4 probably does not have the option Resume Later, so that excludes this solution for you. I recommend suggesting a change to Garmin through the form at Share Ideas | Garmin, but I would not expect any quick reaction in your place.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to trux

    Thanks for your quick answer.

    However on my Garmin vivoactive 4 not having the option to extend or choose extended pause.

    Remember, this is about a walk that took us over three hours so then a pause of two for autosave or even ten should not matter should it?

    Example: we put our shoes off for a bare footbath in a spring.. yeah it took longer than two minutes and missed the bzzzzt for the 30 sec warning but still.. why? Why?

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    ... another possibility might be using the function "Auto-Pause" (if your watch supports that feature), instead of pausing the activity manually. On my watch, I never saw an attempt to save the activity while paused with the auto-pause, so it could be a solution too.

  • 0 over 1 year ago
    Hace said:
    Example: we put our shoes off for a bare footbath in a spring.. yeah it took longer than two minutes and missed the bzzzzt for the 30 sec warning but still.. why? Why?

    As I wrote, in order to save energy, in case you simply forget to stop the activity. Try the Auto-Pause. Also check the settings of the activity whether it offers an "extended" "Power Save Timeout" (my watch does).

    And if nothing of it helps, then use the Idea form, or contact directly the Support. However a quick change of the software is highly unlikely, so do not have high expectations for a quick fix.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to trux

    Thanks.

    Will investigate the Autopause. Maybe when not moving and that is available that will safe the recording next walk 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Hace

    ... or even simpler solution - avoid using the Pause function. Just let the activity running even if you do not walk.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to trux

    I am so used to press pause, as I want to safe the battery as it is obvious gps drains it.

    But indeed found the autopause on the watch, in the settings of the walk activity. Saw two options there even. One was on tempo, but have chosen the "when stopped"

    Curious.. thanks again for your quick replies!

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Hace
    Hace said:
    I am so used to press pause, as I want to safe the battery as it is obvious gps drains it.

    You do not save any battery if you use the standard pause. The GPS continues to work in that mode. It only stops if you use the option Resume Later (that your watch does not have). So whether you pause or not, won't make any difference on the energy consumption. That's the exact reason of the auto save, as I am trying to explain since the beginning.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to trux

    Was not clear the manual pause was not stopping the gps. Must have missed that when you replied but thanks for notifying!

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Also very annoying on Venu SQ. None of the mentioned solutions are valid. There is no "resume later" option, and not using a pause will cause  GPS tracking so if you walk within a cafe it will be strange. Idealy what you want is to pause before entering a cafe, and resume upon leaving. The "auto pause" also is not a solution since it works either with when being stopped, or slower than XYZ pace, none of which is desirable when you're in the cafe, you might move around a bit.