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Sleep no longer showing in Garmin Connect

Former Member
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I went a week without using my watch - a Forerunner 235 - as I was away, and had left it at home.

When I got home, I routinely recharged it, and I think it had a software update, but I may be wrong. I mention that because it might be relevant .

The problem is that it is no longer recording sleep properly.

It used to be that the watch would frequently pick the wrong time period, and decide I was sleeping when I was just watching TV. This even though I have my "normal" sleep period set as 0:00 to 08:00. However, I would simply go into and change the sleep and wake time to approximately what they should be, see my movement appear on the chart, and then readjust accordingly. I found this annoying, but after a little fiddle, I would have my total sleep, light sleep, deep sleep, wake visible and recorded.

Now, this is what happens. The watch shows my "sleep period" as (for example) 4pm to 10pm , with no graph. I go in and edit the sleep and wake times as before, and it accepts it. But it shows nothing on the graph except a flat line and "Sleep Time Manually Entered".

So it seems I now have a choice - I can either have a completely incorrect period recorded as sleep, or I can correct it and have no detail. As someone with sleep apneoa, I rely on my watch as an easy way to monitor my sleep day to day, and I'm rather annoyed that it has changed how it works.

Anyone else see this? Any suggestions? ciq.forums.garmin.com/.../1273818.png
  • Former Member
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    Some pictures to illustrate. My sleep dashboard normally shows two sleep panels - one shows movement and the other sleep levels. Neither show anything useful now. This was working find up to two weeks ago.ciq.forums.garmin.com/.../1274112.png
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    I did also report this to Garmin Support, but have had absolutely no response, apart from the automated acknowledgement.

    But after a week and a half of the above behaviour, suddenly my sleep is being recorded again.

    Not only is it getting the sleep time right immediately and without problems, but if I manually change the time, the data is still graphed.
  • My sleep data disappeared again this morning after yesterday's update. Garmin Tech is great at unimprovements. Their fixes break something else. Sleep data is one of the two big reasons I bought the HR+, and the data is so irregular these days that I regret not buying a Fitbit instead.

    GARMIN: FIX THIS!!!
  • Former Member
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    I've been having this problem for quite a while myself and by sheer accident, I found a workaround. As long as I confirm my sleep time before uploading the data, my sleep details will show up. i.e. before plugging my watch in in the morning, I visit Connect and just confirm whatever my pre-set sleep hours are. I hope this helps you as well.