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Units on watch changing back with sync

mbrittb00
over 8 years ago
So I've got an interesting problem. Let me start by saying I'm a little weird in that I am in the US so I mostly think in Imperial units, however seeing as how most races are measured in km, I want my distance to be in km rather than miles. I have a Forerunner 630 which allows me to set my distance and pace to 'km', but keep my elevation, weight, height, and temp in Imperial units. However Connect (website or app) only has an option for distance to be set to 'miles' or 'km'.

Here is where the weirdness begins. If I set all the units the way I want on my watch, then set Connect distance to 'km', when I sync my weight unit is changed to 'kg' and height to 'cm' while leaving the distance and pace in 'km', altitude in 'ft' and temp in 'F'. If I then switch Connect to 'miles' and re-sync I get everything in Imperial units including distance and pace. Fixing distance and pace back to the desired 'km' and re-syncing does not change anything.

While it would be nice to have my Connect data from my activities to be in 'km' rather than 'miles', I can deal with it.

Normally I wouldn't care seeing as how I can get to a point where nothing changes, but I ran into an issue a few days ago. When I woke up my watch had frozen up over night. Easily fixed by turning it off then back on. However when I went for a my run I had some anomalous readings in my datafield. I've got two data-fields I'm using / evaluating. One is Runners HUD and the other is Race Data. Both have been working great for a few weeks now, however in this recent run one was displaying my distance in miles while the other was displaying it in km. Both were supposedly reading the same distance data AND the same unit info. My units were set in km, and Runners HUD was the one displaying in miles. Consequently after initially installing Runners HUD a few weeks ago, it initially displayed my pace in min/mile (rather than min/km as my unit setting indicated), so it may be a bug in the Runners HUD. Its just strange that it would change overnight after working perfectly only two days earlier.
  • 0 over 8 years ago
    Connect (both app and website) only have a single setting. App is miles or km, I have it set to km. The website options are Metric or Imperial. I have those set to Imperial so I can enter my weight in lbs
  • 0 over 8 years ago
    If your settings are getting reset to Imperial, it's because that is what you have set them to on Garmin Connect. The mobile app takes the settings from Garmin Connect and subsequently, so does your device.

    You need to set the device settings on Garmin Connect to what you want and then sync.

    The website display settings (under the Head and Shoulders icon) appear to be independent of the device settings. Doing some experimenting, I noticed that this setting also affects the mobile app.
  • 0 over 8 years ago
    If your settings are getting reset to Imperial, it's because that is what you have set them to on Garmin Connect. The mobile app takes the settings from Garmin Connect and subsequently, so does your device.

    You need to set the device settings on Garmin Connect to what you want and then sync.

    The website display settings (under the Head and Shoulders icon) appear to be independent of the device settings. Doing some experimenting, I noticed that this setting also affects the mobile app.


    But here's the thing, they AREN'T being reset to Imperial / Statue. In Garmin Connect (online) the device settings has units set to kilometers and the user display settings set to "Statute". In Garmin Connect (app) the device settings has units set to 'kilometers'. In neither place is there an option for altitude, weight, height, or temperature. The watch itself has more granularity in setting the units having separate options for distance, pace, altitude, weight, height and temperature. Reguardless of what my Garmin Connect (online or app) settings are, I can set the distance, pace, altitude and temperature on the watch and they will remain as set. However weight and height seem to change based on if I've selected "miles" or "kilometers" as my distance unit on the app (or online). The online user display setting of "Metric" or "Statute" or "Statute UK" seems to have no effect on the watch.

    An aside that occurred to me when reading your post. If what you are saying is correct, then if for some reason I want to change my units from kilometers to miles (say right before a race) I need to change it on the watch, the app (not too difficult) and the website (could be extremely difficult if I'm already at the race site) in order for it all to work property?
  • 0 over 8 years ago
    What about your user settings in web Connect from the Head & Shoulders icon?
  • 0 over 8 years ago
    What about your user settings in web Connect from the Head & Shoulders icon?


    Unfortunatlly while I can get to the site, where I work has our network settings such that most of the icons are blocked out. Which icon (spatially) is the "Head & Shoulders" icon? Bottom of the far left column of 4 icons? If so under the settings there the "Measurment Unit" is set to Statute. Which by the way seems to have zero effect on the watch settings. It has been Statute this entire time, yet the watch weight and height appear to be getting to set to kg/cm when the app distance setting is set to "kilometers" and set to lbs/ft when the app distance setting is set to "miles".
  • 0 over 8 years ago
    Head and Shoulders is the fourth (bottom) icon on the left. The site display settings (Statute, Statute UK or Metric) are independent of the device settings.

    What I was saying was that the website settings are the overall master of what is set on the mobile app and your device. If you change the settings on the watch before a race, say, there would be no problems there. You might find that they are changed again when you sync the next time.

    There was a bug where settings were being changed on the website and subsequently on devices, but this was fixed some time ago. Changing settings on the app whilst out and about should be enough as I've experimented and found that changes made on the app (to Unit of Measure under User Settings) are reflected on the website immediately.

    Maybe there's something going on with the ConnectIQ app that is causing your problems. Try uninstalling it and see what happens.