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Garmin Connect Badges Not Being Awarded

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Thank you for the ongoing discussion regarding the new badges. We have been following these discussions and are investigating why some badges have not been awarded as expected.

We have created this thread to track reports of badges not displaying in accounts. Please post here if you did not receive a badge as expected, and provide:

  • Badge Type
  • Link to the activity (Privacy set to Everyone)
  • Any other details (such as social media platform you shared an activity to or linked your account with)
  • Do we have permission to view your account data while investigating this issue through our Administrative Tools (Yes/No)?

If you have previously posted about a badge not being awarded, thank you for doing so and there is no need to post again about that specific badge. We are investigating each of those reports and will reach out with any new information individually. We request that posts in this thread be saved for NEW reports of badges not being awarded to aid us in tracking these appropriately.

Thank you for the continued discussion and your cooperation is greatly appreciated.

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06/19/2018: A new update has been posted here.

  • Walking only counts for walking challenges and Hiking only counts for hiking challenges.

    If hiking is walking then why don't you log your hiking as walking?

    Have you recently changed the activity type for some of your activities? The distance is not recalculated until you log another activity of the correct type.

  • Hi, there's a whole bunch of Badges I didn't receive, and it's really frustrating!

    1 -  I completed 5.5 hours of Strength Training for July. Only 4 hours were required for the July Gains Badge. I got NO Badge!

    2 - I completed 11.29 Miles of Hiking on July 10. Only 3 Miles was required for the July Weekend Walking Badge (July 8 - 10). I got NO Badge!

    3 - I signed up for the 2022 Walking - Stage 3, which is from July 1 - Sept 30. Only 91 Miles is required, and I've logged over 100 Miles already, it shows that only 8.0 miles has been added towards the Badge.

    4 - I signed up for the August Walking Badge which is from Aug 1 - Aug 31, 2022. Only 30 Miles is required, and I've logged 32.31 Miles already, yet it only shows 8.0 Miles added towards the Badge.

    5 - I signed up for the August Gains Badge which requires 4 Hours of Strength Training. I've completed 3 Hours, 20 minutes of Strength Training, but NO Progress has been noted on my Badge yet, which means I won't earn this Badge either.

    6 - I signed up for the Active August Badge and you're supposed to Record 20 activities of at least 20 minutes each. It has only recorded 4 of the 7 activities I have completed since August 1.

  • One of the most common reasons to why people don't get badges is because they log activities manually or import from 3rd party services. Neither count for badges. All must be logged with a Garmin device.

    Another reason to not get a badge is that the activities are not logged with the correct activity type.

    Could you post links to a few activities that should count for the badges listed but didn't count? 

    There has also been some issue with really old devices that don't log activities with FIT files. I haven't heard about it for a long time, but it still might be an issue.

  • August Weekend 40K
    Join this challenge and record a 40-kilometer cycling activity from August 19-21.

    https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/9444806311 

    https://strava.app.link/5AyqUBlRHsb 

    yes you have permission

  • You didn't record your ride with a Garmin device.

    Rule #2: "A Garmin device must be used when recording an activity or completing a challenge."

    https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=6pECo6UIFn7ergw8kNmfu9

  • Treadmill 50
    Nothing else involved, just my watch and Garmin Connect Web
    Yes to Admin access
    I was just browsing through the badges and saw there is one for logging 50 activities on a treadmill. I'm up to 65 runs on a treadmill but haven't been awarded this badge and none of my treadmill runs have been clocked up to it at all Cry
  • I was just browsing through the badges and saw there is one for logging 50 activities on a treadmill. I'm up to 65 runs on a treadmill but haven't been awarded this badge and none of my treadmill runs have been clocked up to it at all

    The treadmill badges do not show the progress, so you won't know how many of the activities were counted or not, until you receive the badge. The three activities you posted are all right, but I guess that some of your older treadmill runs were perhaps not recorded with a Garmin watch, and rather created manually or imported (those do not count). Could it be the case? 

  • Use the Progress Summary report to check the current count: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/progress-summary

    Set custom dates from 2020-04-28 (starting date for those badges) and to 2022-08-26 (today's date) and select Treadmill Running as activity type.

    Note that it will also count manually created and imported activities that do not count for badges.

  • No, no manual additions, all have been recorded on the watch only and synced with Connect web. I get it doesn't show progress (altho not sure why as Connect happily counts activities for other badges and shows progress). But ... See below DOH!

  • No, no manual additions,

    Another reason for not getting the badge may be the date - only activities newer than 2020 Apr 28 count. That's the date of the introduction of the badge.