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Why did garmin rename all my 'walk' activities to 'run' and remove the walk option entirely?

JORRITVM
over 3 years ago

In garmin connect on the activity type dropdown (in the top left corner) activities are listed in 2 levels.

For walking this used to makes sense. It used to be

  • walk
    • leisure walk
    • speed walk

And it got renamed

  • run
    • leisure walk
    • speed walk

Many of my walking acitivites are now re-categorized to 'run'.

Can this behaviour be explained or reverted?

I am using the dutch version of garmin connect.

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  • 0 over 3 years ago

    My English version still says Casual and Speed

    If yours changed for some reason, suggest reporting this to Garmin Support for your location.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 10110011

    Thanks for your quick reply. That narrows it down to a translation error in the dutch version. I reported the bug to support using their online form. The form required me to provide a serial number for garmin connect, but it stopped complaining once i entered the SN from one of my gps units.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    It is likely just a translation issue. If I switch language to Nederlands I see "Lopen" as the type for all my walking activities. My running activities is called "Hardlopen".

    When I check the translations with Google Translate I get this:

    Lopen - Walk

    Hardlopen - To run

    According to that it looks ok, but I don't speak Dutch so native speakers might use the words differently.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I also noticed this translation issue since about a month.
    First i was thinking i just started a running activity instead of walking activity but then saw the icon was correct.

    To me this is a translation issue.

    Wakling => Wandelen
    Running => Lopen

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 7916542

    I contacted garmin support team for the product 'garmin connect' to notify them of this. On 16/02 they informed my translation error report is 'an interesting idea' and I should report it to the head office in the USA where they keep track of this sort of feedback....

    Unclear to me why they still have a product support team anyway, but I followed their instruction and guess what? Nothing has happened in over a month. So don't get your hopes up!

    For anyone interested, their literal phrasing was: 

    "

    Garmin is altijd op zoek naar nieuw ideeën/commentaren/feedback en er is een specifieke website  voor dit. Kunt u graag uw idee/feedback hier zetten een misschien zijn er meerdere mensen die interesse heeft in uw idee/feedback.

     

    Met de onderstaande link kunt u uw idee/feedback (in het Nederlands) bij onze hoofdkantoor in Verenigde Staten melden:

     

    https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/ 

    "