Garmin Connect Mobile Android - Recent Threads

Sync sunk, recovery or not.

gtsmith — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:06:43 GMT

The sync problems are making me crazy!!!

And the treatment. Sometimes it doesn't work or only works temporarily or it might last for months but NEVER forever. So anyway I think this is the treatment but I might be slightly wrong or are there additional things I could do?

Turn the phone off and on.

If that doesn't work:

A) Clear the cache in Connect IQ and Garmin Connect. Maybe also the data??

B) Unpair watch bluetooth connection and make sure it's not in available devices.

C) Cycle the phone off and on.

D) Reconnect the watch.

Audio prompts still not working in background — Garmin Connect 5.29 Android (Forerunner 265S)

WWGarmin — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:45:11 GMT

Can anyone confirm that audio prompts work reliably with Garmin Connect in the background and the phone screen locked on 5.29?

Please include your watch, phone, Android version, and Garmin Connect version.

Cheers

Trail run will not sync to Garmin Connect

4647193 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:36:32 GMT

Dear All,

I have an issue since yesterday and was wondering whether anyone has encountered something similar or knows a solution.

I had entered a race into the calendar, a trail run event, and synced it to my watch, a Fenix 8. At the gun, I started the race from the trail run menu (without navigation) and the race was recorded properly. I saved it at the end.

Since then, I can see the race on my watch in the "last 7 days" and "history" widgets, select it and check the stats. It will however not sync to my phone´s (Android) Connect App.

I tried the usual workarounds, restarting the devices,, disconnecting the watch and reestablishing the Bluetooth connection. Nothing seems to help. Grateful for any ideas.

Thanks

what about my data in Garmin Connect if I get a new smarphone ?

1383587 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:45:16 GMT

Hello
I have a Vivosmart 5 watch and I use garmin connect app on my smartphone.
I’m planning to change my smartphone.
What do I need to do to access my activity history (steps, runs, sleeps etc.) on the Garmin Connect app on my new smartphone?
Will everything be automatically accessible (as the data is stored in Garmin cloud ?!), or will data remain on my old smartphone and be lost?

Thank you

Olena

Heart rate bug - Connect

9269325 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:59:13 GMT

Hello,

I have just logged a cardio workout with my Cirqa band, showing an average heart rate of 144 bpm in the cardio activity. The heart rate graph in the Connect app now shows a very low heart rate during the past two hours, with even 39 as lowest heart rate during the workout. Very strange. Is this a known software bug?

See attached pictures.

Wrong average night stress?

5786689 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:52:05 GMT

Hi everyone,

I’ve noticed a strange issue with the “Stress and Sleep” data on my Garmin (vivoactive 6, latest software via automatic update), and it has happened several times now.

The stress graph during the night is almost entirely blue and mostly seems to be somewhere around 10–20, with only a single, very short orange spike. However, Garmin rates the night as “Poor” and gives me an average stress level of 30.

I don’t understand how an average of 30 could possibly result from the values. Visually, the data looks much lower than that for almost the entire night.

This isn’t a one-off issue either, I’ve had this happen repeatedly, at least once a week, where the reported average sleep stress doesn’t seem to match the graph at all.

Has anyone else noticed this? Is this a known bug, or is Garmin calculating the average using some additional data that isn’t shown in the graph?

Thanks!

problem message in Live Track mail to defined recipients: "No position data. The page will update automatically when position data becomes available."

PROFGRUEN — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:30:32 GMT

Dear forum members,

I have a new Etrex Touch 2025.

1. The device is successfully connected via Bluetooth to my cell phone (S24 Ultra) and Garmin Connect—Garmin Connect shows the Touch as “connected”—the top right corner of the home screen displays a green dot and the text “connected.”

2. App permissions: Location access is always allowed, and no battery restrictions are set.

3. The Touch has excellent satellite reception.

4. In the Live Track menu in Garmin Connect, 3 recipients are listed, and Live Track notifications are enabled.

5. I start an activity on the Touch; both the Touch and Garmin Connect indicate that a Live Track session has started. I receive an email with a link to

6. BUT: 1. Immediately after Live Track starts, I receive a banner in Garmin Connect telling me to start the activity (which has already been started, thereby

activating Live Track...)

2. When I click the “View Activity in LiveTrack” button in the info email stating that Live Track has started, the map appears, but without a location and with the message:

"No location data. The page will refresh automatically when location data is available.”

But on the map on the Touch, I see the blue arrow even though satellite reception is excellent. Bluetooth is enabled, and the Touch and my phone are right next to each other.

3. By the way, Garmin Connect Live Track doesn’t stop automatically after I end the activity on the Touch.

So: On the device, you can see the exact location, and the device is connected to the Garmin Connect app via Bluetooth without any issues.

So why can’t I see the location on the map or the Live Track button in the app?

Based on my experience with previous devices, new Garmin devices usually have a few bugs that are gradually fixed over the following months.

But the eTrex Touch came out in 2025, right? By now, these issues should have been resolved.

Unfortunately, I had to switch because the Bluetooth transmitter/receiver on my old Edge 1030 was apparently broken and could no longer pair with my phone (meaning Live Track was no longer possible).

Garmin Connect 5.28.1

eTrex Touch 2025 12.08 (cc43ff6), GPS 11.02, Serial No. 8G6006989

I’d really appreciate some help. Without Live Track, the new Garmin device is useless to me—I might as well have stuck with my old Edge 1030 Plus without Bluetooth if I’d known that :-(. It’s very frustrating.

Thanks in advance to everyone

ProfGruen

Automatic Interval Categorization not working?

2891466 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:08:20 GMT

Hello,

For my last two runs the Automatic Interval Categorization has stopped working, and I can only see my laps in the app (and on the web app).

Is this due to or a update? My interval runs are quite similar, usually 6-10min with a 1min standing lap.

Garmin Connect not Available in Lesotho

5812711 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:05:43 GMT

I have just bought the watch and I am not able to connect to my phone. Garmin Connect is not available in playstore Lesotho

Can I share menstrual cycle data with a Garmin Connection?

7766449 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:34:18 GMT

My partner and I both use Garmin Connect. Is there a way to share my current cycle phase and period predictions with him without using a second app?

Downloaded data

3667512 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:34:52 GMT

I have recently downloaded all the my data from Garmin, receiving a zip file containing all the information. I have tried to read the data by opening the files but it appears not to be in a readable format.

Can anyone else advise how I can view the information?

Good evening. On my fenix 9 51mm pro, when I get a notification, the watch does not vibrate. The notification appears on the watch screen, but there is no vibration. I have granted all the necessary permissions on both my phone and the watch, and while hap

3851884 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:47:36 GMT

Good evening. On my fenix 9 51mm pro, when I get a notification, the watch does not vibrate. The notification appears on the watch screen, but there is no vibration. I have granted all the necessary permissions on both my phone and the watch, and while haptic vibration works on touch, it does not work for notifications.

App settings interface needs a color picker UI control

trudelta — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:11:07 GMT

Garmin Connect IQ app needs a color picker UI control in the app settings screen. Asking users to enter color settings by hex code is just ridiculous in 2026.

Warm-up laps missing

Nick — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:15:09 GMT

For the last week, any structured workout I have done is missing the warm-up related laps under "intervals". The data is still there but if I look at intervals (on android or web), the warm-up laps are missing.

For example, in the workout below, there should be 4 warm-up laps. Instead they are simply missing...

Exercises details missing in run plan

2259196 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:51:00 GMT

I have a plan for a run and all the part for running is fine but the explanation about the physical exercises are not explained or shown.

I can find some on the net but one was called "challenge" and it was a complete mystery for me. Is it a feature or a bug ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Garmin Coach plan disappears

Eddie.The.Man — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:52:53 GMT

I started a Garmin Coach Plan but i had to pause it after a couple of weeks, because I just got a big flu...and it vanished, along with my racing events and my training status. I have to restart a new plan.

Is this a common bug?

I'm using Venu 4 (18.30).

Daily tips go off at the same time every single day

7208830 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:51:04 GMT

Every night at 10:40 p.m. Eastern, my Garmin Instinct 3 gives me some sort of useless tip that I don't want to read. Not only do I not want to read it, but by then I'm in bed trying to sleep and the watch buzzes to tell me some garbage I don't need to know.

I know the tips can't be disabled, you have to go through each one, but this has been going on since I got a new phone. The watch wasn't reset, but the connection was. I shouldn't have to suffer through these tips again.

So for the love of the baby Jesus, Mr. Garmin people, please come up with a way to disable them or at the very least just click through all of them in one shot. Otherwise this watch is going in the garbage and I'm buying a different brand.

Garmin Coach daily workout is different on GCM than on watch

rocjard — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:49:05 GMT

I have a Venu 4 45mm with SW 16.28, and GCM Android 5.29. I've been following a Garmin Coach 5k plan for 10 weeks. Up until this point my watch and GCM were in sync with the daily workout recommendations.

Yesterday I noticed that the Garmin Coach workout on my phone was different from the Coach workout on my Venu 4. The watch recommended a strength workout and GCM recommended a Base run. I did the base run, and while the run is included in my training load it is not included in GCM Garmin Coach's workout schedule. Today I'm seeing the same problem. My watch is recommending a 25 minute strength workout by itself while GCM is recommending a 20 minute Pre-Run strength workout and a 32 minute base.

It isn't clear to me how to get these two devices back in sync. I'm seeing other data coming to and from the Venu such as steps and notifications so there is a connection and that data is correct.

Fenix 6x Pro destined for landfill #Garmin E/waste

9396655 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:01:34 GMT

I bought Garmin’s flagship Fenix 6 watch expecting premium durability and longevity for my outdoor lifestyle. Instead, I have been left with expensive electronic waste.

The battery has suddenly suffered severe degradation. When I contacted Garmin, I was shocked to learn that they refuse to repair their own premium devices or offer battery replacements. Because the watch is a sealed unit, a third-party repair means the waterproofing can no longer be guaranteed—rendering the watch useless for my primary sport, swimming.

Garmin’s only solution is to force me into spending hundreds more pounds by offering a minor discount on an upgrade. They are essentially using planned obsolescence as a sales funnel. For a brand that markets itself to outdoor enthusiasts who value nature and sustainability, forcing a perfectly pristine piece of hardware into a landfill just because a consumable battery aged is utterly shameful and anti-consumer.

If you expect a premium sports watch to be supported or repairable, look elsewhere. Garmin treats their flagships as disposable.

How can you re-upload from Garmin connect to Strava after editing an activity?

bigbob75 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:31:30 GMT

Espacially on strength trainings it can be important because some editing almost always have to be done. The normal fit ex/import will not transfer the picture and the details, sets.

Manual activity gets assigned huge training load

3369624 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:26:11 GMT

I occationally use the „Add manual activity“ feature to loosely track short cycling commutes. I recently noticed that manual activities now get marked as „Benefit: VO2max“. That is obviously incorrect for a relaxed commute and I wouldn’t expect any benefit analysis anyway since there is no accurate HR data for that time frame. It used to just not show any „benefit“, that has only been added a few weeks ago.

For me it’s only mildly annoying, but the same happens for my partner – and he has a watch that supports the trainings load metric and that gets messed up massively by this bug. The supposedly huge training load from the manual activity gets added and even if one deletes the manual activity afterwards the load still stays high even though the activity is gone. Very, very annoying, it renders this feature useless for at least a week!

I maybe found a workaround by setting the duration to 1 second when first adding the manual actitivy and then editing it afterwards but that should not be necessary and I’m not sure it works every time or I was just lucky. Same behaviour if I use the browser instead of the Android app.

In my eyes this is clearly a bug. Please fix this.

While the Garmin Connect web page displays the lap pace for running activities, the mobile app lacks a lap tab to view this data.

7448571 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 09:59:23 GMT

While the Garmin Connect web page displays the lap pace for running activities, the mobile app lacks a lap tab to view this data.

I am merging Fitbit running dynamics data into Garmin .fit files. For these merged files, data such as lap pace is visible on the Garmin Connect web page. However, this information cannot be viewed on the Garmin Connect mobile app (the "Laps" tab is missing entirely).

Simplest way ti upload Google maps route to Garmin watch?

9765893 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:44:33 GMT

What is the simplest way to using only my Android phone upload a Google maps route to my watch? It seems google maps references are not plain GPX so some conversion is required.

I have seen some guides but they all seem to involve several steps not easy to do only on my Android phone.

How do others solve this with as few steps as possible?

I really wish Garmins software would directly support this use-case without the need for other tools...

Extremely high battery draw from Garmin connect.

9634179 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:30:49 GMT

There seems to be an intermittent bug in Garmin Connect that causes extremely high idle power draw. I am unsure what causes this, but the only resolution I found was to restart my phone. Closing the app doesnt resolve this issue.

This has happened on an Samsung S25 Ultra with a Garmin 265 as the only connected device. My partner with a similar setup has also had this happen once.

When this bug occurs, I noticed because it drains approximately 15-20% an hour and my phone becomes very warm despite being idle.

The normal Garmin connect consumption is typically less than 0.2% on most days which is more inline with what I expect.

The application and watch firmware is up to date, and this bug has been here for many months.

Garmin Connect causing bluetooth issues with other devices

1609835 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:44:33 GMT

A couple of days ago I installed Garmin Connect on my Google Pixel 9 phone. I'm looking to "de-google" my life and wanted to try out Garmin Pay before I take the plunge and buy a Garmin watch. I happened to be in the middle of a long bike ride at a cafe when I installed it.

When I resumed my bike ride my Wahoo cycling computer kept disconnecting and reconnecting. I also couldn't upload a route from my phone. I tried rebooting the Wahoo but the problems persisted. I then remembered that I had had similar problems in the past when I had an older Garmin watch. So I uninstalled Garmin Connect and the problem went away.

Has anybody else had similar problems with Garmin Connect causing bluetooth connection problems between their android phone and other devices? Any solutions / workarounds? My purchase of a Garmin watch is on hold until I'm confident I can install Garmin Connect and use Garmin Pay on my phone without impacting other devices.

Thanks