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Open water swimming distances inaccurate

My new Fenix 5 Plus doesn’t seem to work in openwater. The GPS seems fine when I walk, but is up to 90% inaccurate in the water. I’ve tried all 3 GPS settings as well as sticking my hand up at all of the turns but nothing works. Last 5km swim gave me a distance of 249m.

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am7357 over 3 years ago +1

Resolution tips can be found here: support.garmin.com/.../

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0 tmk2 over 5 years ago

What is your swimming style?

0 mbiton over 5 years ago

I have the same issue, have you found the solution?

0 Fricantalla over 5 years ago

It happens the same to me. Does Garmin has any solution for this problem?

0 am7357 over 3 years ago

Resolution tips can be found here: support.garmin.com/.../

0 2168583 over 2 years ago

I have the same issue with my Epix2. Last weekend I swam 3km race in the lake (freestyle- front crawl) an my record shows just 2238m. The record in the map however seems to be roughly correct.

0 trux over 2 years ago in reply to 2168583

2168583 said:
I have the same issue with my Epix2. Last weekend I swam 3km race in the lake (freestyle- front crawl) an my record shows just 2238m. The record in the map however seems to be roughly correct.

If the race track was officially measured, then you can edit the activity, adjusting the distance manually.

0 2168583 over 2 years ago in reply to trux

Well, you ale right, I can edit, but I was hoping to get at least roughly accurate results from my watch. 25% deviation is too much for me, so I wanted to see, if other EPIC user are facing the same issue.

0 trux over 2 years ago in reply to 2168583

2168583 said:
so I wanted to see, if other EPIC user are facing the same issue

Ask rather on the Epix 2 Forum - more Epix users there, than here.